Past Shows
Jefferson McDonald’s GREAT JINGLE BALLS OF FIRE
Dec 6 – Dec 7, 2025
Actor and comedian Jefferson McDonald will be presenting a new holiday concert series, JEFFERSON MCDONALD’S GREAT JINGLE BALLS OF FIRE, at three theaters in New...
How Sweet It Is: Steve Leslie Sings James Taylor
Sep 25
Steve Leslie brings his talents to Cortland Repertory Theatre with a concert dedicated to the music of James Taylor. The award-winning Nashville-based singer/songwriter will perform...
Jefferson McDonald’s Great Balls of Fire
Sep 18
Jefferson McDonald’s Great Balls of Fire brings a lively concert featuring classic hits from artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and...
Tapestry Unraveled: The Music of Carole King
Sep 11
Cortland Repertory Theatre presents an engaging concert titled Tapestry Unraveled: The Music of Carole King, featuring lead singer Tina Naponelli. This tribute celebrates Carole King's...
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Jul 31 – Aug 17, 2024
“Be Our Guest” and join us in this enchanted “tale as old as time!”
Wait Until Dark
Jul 17 – Jul 26, 2024
A thrilling new adaptation of the Broadway classic that inspired the 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn!
Jimmy Buffet's "Escape to Margaritaville"
Jul 3 – Jul 12, 2024
Escape to Margaritaville - Book by Emmy Award winner Greg Garcia and Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley, Music and Lyrics by Jimmy BuffettSlip on your parrot shirt,...
The Last Romance
Jun 19 – Jun 28, 2024
A heartwarming comedy about the transformative power of love, no matter what age you are!
Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady
Jun 5 – Jun 14, 2024
My Fair Lady, running June 5 - 14Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and...
Hair
Jun 8 – Jun 18, 2022
Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado; Music by Galt MacDermotThe American tribal love-rock musical, for the first time on the CRT stage!...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aug 19 – Aug 21, 2021
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. CRT proudly presents our first ever (real, this...
Goin' to the Chapel
Aug 5 – Aug 13, 2021
Billboards hottest hits of the 50s bubble over in this fun and funny teen-story, filled with the spirit of Happy Days and American Bandstand! Its...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Jul 28 – Jul 31, 2021
Life is short. The complete works of Shakespeare are long. But wait! This 3-man comedy troupe shrinks the Bards outsized opuses into 90 minutes of...
Honky Tonk Angels
Jul 15 – Jul 23, 2021
A CRT revival that played to sold out audiences back in 2003! This funny and touching musical celebrates big American dreams, framed with songs by...
Pirate Schmirate!
Jul 8 – Jul 11, 2021
Hold on to your parrot for this wild two-act musical for kids of all ages! Our story begins when a soggy old sea hag curses...
The Rat Pack Lounge
Aug 29 – Sep 8, 2018
Wrapping up Cortland Repertory Theatre's summer season from August 29 – September 8 is the new musical THE RAT PACK LOUNGE, written by James Hindman...
Women in Jeopardy!
Aug 15 – Aug 25, 2018
It’s Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in the next hysterical comedy WOMEN IN JEOPARDY! by Wendy MacLeod, which runs from August 15...
Our Town
Aug 1 – Aug 11, 2018
From August 1 – 11, an American classic play makes its Cortland Repertory Theatre debut: Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winner OUR TOWN. Widely considered the...
Newsies
Jul 11 – Jul 28, 2018
One of Disney’s best loved films comes to Cortland Repertory Theatre when, from July 11 – 28, NEWSIES takes the stage, with music by Alan...
Dorothy Meets Alice, or "The Wizard of Wonderland"
Jul 14 – Jul 20, 2018
Performances are July 14, 19 and 20 at 10:00 AM. For the annual children’s show, Cortland Repertory Theatre presents DOROTHY MEETS ALICE; or THE WIZARD...
Saturday Night Fever
Jun 20 – Jul 7, 2018
From June 20 – July 7, Cortland Repertory Theatre presents the “live on stage” adaptation of the classic, Grammy award winning Paramount/RSO Film SATURDAY NIGHT...
Rough Crossing
Jun 6 – Jun 16, 2018
By Tom Stoppard Freely adapted from Ferenc Molnar’s "Play At The Castle" All is not smooth sailing in this hilarious shipboard farce! In the suites...
Life Could Be a Dream
Aug 30 – Sep 16, 2017
by Roger Bean, featuring the greatest “doo-wop” hits of the ‘60’s! Take another trip to Springfield (the home town of the Marvelous Wonderettes!) and meet...
Nana's Naughty Knickers
Aug 16 – Aug 26, 2017
by Katherine DiSavino REGIONAL PREMIERE! This Senior Citizen’s sexy sideline will leave you in stitches! Bridget and her Grandmother are about to become roommates. However,...
Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie
Aug 2 – Aug 12, 2017
adapted by Agatha Christie, from her novel. “You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?” While touring Jerusalem, an international group of travelers,...
Footloose
Jul 12 – Jul 29, 2017
Music by Tom Snow, Lyrics by Dean Pitchford, Book by Dean Pitchford & Walter Bobbie Additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and...
La Cage aux Folles
Jun 21 – Jul 8, 2017
Book by Harvey Fierstein, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman, based on the play by Jean Poiret “We Are What We Are!” This multiple Tony-Award...
The 39 Steps
Jun 7 – Jun 17, 2017
Adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan; From the movie of Alfred Hitchcock, Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited and an original...
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Aug 31 – Sep 10, 2016
Take a trip back in time to the 1958 Springfield High School prom and meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with...
The Kitchen Witches
Aug 17 – Aug 27, 2016
Imagine Martha Stewart and Rachel Ray in a knockdown, drag-out Battle of the Cooking Stars! Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two low-budget cable-access cooking...
Agatha Christie's "Cards on the Table"
Aug 3 – Aug 13, 2016
This rarely produced Christie classic is sure to please the mystery lover in all of us! Mr. Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of...
A Chorus Line
Jul 13 – Jul 30, 2016
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this dazzling musical tells the story of the unsung heroes of the Broadway...
West Side Story
Jun 22 – Jul 9, 2016
One of the greatest musicals of all time in its CRT debut! In this breathtaking musical, two rival gangs struggle for control of their west...
Ken Ludwig's "The Fox on the Fairway"
Jun 8 – Jun 18, 2016
“Golf and sex: Two things you can have fun doing without being good at!” Come join the “teed off” gang down at the Quail Valley...
Suds: The Rockin' '60's Musical Soap Opera
Aug 26 – Sep 5, 2015
Come visit a squeaky-clean “Laundromat of Love” bubbling over with the greatest hits of the 1960’s! This musical fantasy tells the delightful story of Cindy,...
Miracle on South Division Street
Aug 12 – Aug 22, 2015
Meet the Nowaks of Buffalo. Clara and her three grown children have always known they were special, ever since the miraculous night in 1942 when...
Sherlock Holmes &The West End Horror
Jul 29 – Aug 8, 2015
A despicable theatre critic has been murdered, and there’s no end to the list of suspects! Young aspiring Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw entices his...
The Addams Family
Jul 8 – Jul 25, 2015
“Ba-da-da-dum Snap! Snap!” Based on the iconic TV show and New Yorker cartoons, here’s the whole macabre family in a sparklingly funny new musical! Gomez...
1776
Jun 17 – Jul 4, 2015
The birth of our nation blazes to vivid life in this Tony Award winning musical about the creation of the Declaration of Independence. With a...
Always a Bridesmaid
Jun 3 – Jun 13, 2015
In this hysterical comedy, four high school friends made a vow to be in each other's weddings…no matter what. More than thirty years later, these...
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Aug 29 – Sep 8, 2012
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP - a penny dreadful August 29 - September 8 A comedy, farce, thriller...AND mystery by Charles Ludlam This outrageous comedy...
The Drawer Boy
Aug 15 – Aug 25, 2012
THE DRAWER BOY August 15 - 25 A comedy/drama by Michael Healy Surprisingly funny, tender but tough, this multi-award winning play tells the story of...
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