Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026
Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...
Review: DAWN at the Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026
In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...
Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026
History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at Vagabond Players
by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026
This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....
Review: WICKED at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025
For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...
Review: DECEIVED at Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025
Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...
Past Shows
Bad Seed
Jun 13 – Jun 29, 2025
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre presents Bad SeedBy Maxwell Anderson, from the novel by William MarchDirected by TODD PEARTHREEStage Manager DAN MORELLICASTMcKenzie Nace | Rhoda...
Damn Yankees
Jun 13 – Jun 29, 2025
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre presents Damn YankeesWords and Music by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS, Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and DOUGLASS WALLOP. Based on...
A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol
Dec 13 – Dec 15, 2024
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre presentsA 1940s Radio Christmas CarolBy Walton Jones, David Wohl and Faye GreenbergPRODUCTION:Albert J. Boeren | DirectorLisa L. Boeren | Stage...
CiC 50th Celebration
Dec 17 – Dec 18, 2022
Cockpit 50th Anniversary CelebrationSaturday, December 17 - Sunday, December 18 | CCBC Essex Robert and Eleanor Romadka College Center (ROMA) | F. Scott Black TheatreCockpit...
Dot
Jul 23 – Aug 7, 2022
The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than...
Dot
Jul 23 – Aug 7, 2022
DotBy Colman DomingoJuly 23, 29, 30, Aug 5, 6 at 8p.m.July 24, 31, Aug 7 at 3 p.m.CCBC EssexRobert & Eleanor Romadka College CenterCabaret TheatreTickets:...
Sweet Charity
Jul 22 – Aug 7, 2022
Sweet CharityBook by Neil Simon / Music by Cy Coleman / Lyrics by Dorothy FieldsBased on an original screenplay by Frederico Fellini,Tullio Pinelle and Ennio...
Disney's High School Musical
Jul 8 – Jul 17, 2022
COURT JESTERS YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATREDisneys High School MusicalBook by David SimpaticoSongs by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil; Ray Cham, Greg Cham and Andrew Seeley; Randy...
Night Watch
Jun 11 – Jun 26, 2022
Night WatchBy Lucille Fletcher June 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 at 8 p.m.June 12, 19, 26 at 3 p.m.CCBC EssexRobert & Eleanor Romadka College CenterCabaret...
Once On This Island
Jun 10 – Jun 26, 2022
Celebrate storytelling with this rousing Calypso-flavored tale of one small girl who finds love in a world of prejudice. Through almost nonstop song and dance,...
Once On This Island
Jun 10 – Jun 26, 2022
Once On This IslandA MusicalBook and Lyrics By Lynn AhrensMusic By Stephen FlahertyBased Upon the novel "My Love, My Love" By Rosa GuyJune 10, 11,...
Disney's Moana, Jr.
Jul 30 – Aug 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa’I & Mark Mancina Book Adapted by Susan Soon He Stanton Music and Orchestrations Adapted and Arranged by...
And Then There Were None
Jul 9 – Jul 25, 2021
By Agatha Christie Directed by Linda Chambers Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked...
DISASTER!
Jun 14 – Jun 30, 2019
Disaster! is a new musical straight from Broadway, featuring some of the most unforgettable songs of the '70s. "Knock on Wood," "Hooked on a Feeling,"...
Sylvia
Jun 15 – Jun 30, 2019
Sylvia is a play by A. R. Gurney. It premiered in 1995 Off-Broadway. The subject is "Sylvia", a dog, the couple who adopts her, and...
SISTER ACT
Jul 21 – Aug 6, 2017
Friday, July 21 - Sunday, July 23 | CCBC Essex A woman hiding in a convent helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she...
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Jul 22 – Aug 6, 2017
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and...
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jun 9 – Jun 25, 2017
Arsenic and Old Lace revolves around Mortimer Brewster, his bride to be Elaine Harper and the twisted Brewster family. Mortimer returns to his family home...
Spamalot
Jul 15 – Jul 31, 2016
Film comedy MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, and retells the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, featuring a bevy...
The Gazebo
Jul 16 – Jul 31, 2016
A writer of TV whodunits and whyzits, always with an eye toward inventing the almost perfect crime, gets into a spot where he has to...
Disney's MULAN, jr.
Jul 8 – Jul 17, 2016
Based on Disney’s Oscar nominated film, Disney's Mulan JR., is a heartwarming celebration of culture, honor, and the fighting spirit. With hit songs and a...
Agatha Christie's Towards Zero
Jun 11 – Jun 26, 2016
What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a tennis player?...
GODSPELL
Jun 10 – Jun 26, 2016
A clever retelling of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, GODSPELL (2012) takes its audience on a high-energy romp through the Gospel of Saint...
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Feb 13
This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls...
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