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CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE

24-26 Port Watson St.
Cortland , NY



First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards; BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Peninsula Players Theatre Closes 90th Season with STEEL MAGNOLIAS


by Emmy Rice - September 13, 2025

Peninsula Players Theatre will open the fifth and final show of their 90th season with Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. This beloved and moving comedy runs from September 3 through October 19....

STEEL MAGNOLIAS Opens Autumn Season at Peninsula Players Theatre


by Stephi Wild - September 02, 2025

 Peninsula Players Theatre will open the fifth and final show of its 90th season with Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias,” a hilarious celebration of friendship, heartaches, and hairdos!...

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and More Announced for SUNY Cortland Performing Arts Department 2025–26 Season


by A.A. Cristi - August 21, 2025

The SUNY Cortland Performing Arts Department will launch its 2025–26 season with a bold mix of comedy, rock musical spectacle, dark satire, and timeless family entertainment....

Review: MURDER FOR TWO at Portland Stage


by Steve Feeney - August 04, 2025

The scenes may seem a little frenzied in the 2025 late-summer show at Maine’s Portland Stage.  But that’s only if you don’t surrender your imagination to a pair of high-energy performers taking on thirteen roles in the madcap mystery/musical/comedy Murder for Two....

Photos: MURDER FOR TWO at Cortland Repertory Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - July 18, 2025

Cortland Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the zany musical comedy Murder for Two, now running through July 25 at the Little York Pavilion, located at 6799 Little York Lake Road in Preble, NY. See photos of the production....

Photos: THE WEDDING SINGER at Cortland Repertory Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - July 02, 2025

Cortland Repertory Theatre is currently presenting its summer production of THE WEDDING SINGER, running now through July 11 at the Little York Pavilion, located at 6799 Little York Lake Road, Preble, NY. See production photos below....

Photos: Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE at Cortland Repertory Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - June 18, 2025

Cortland Repertory Theatre kicks off its summer season with a laugh-out-loud production of Neil Simon’s beloved comedy The Odd Couple, running now through June 27 at the Little York Pavilion (6799 Little York Lake Road). Check out photos from the show....

HELLO, DOLLY! to Open Cortland Rep 54th Summer Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 27, 2025

Cortland Repertory Theatre will kick off its 54th annual summer season with its first-ever production of the beloved musical “Hello, Dolly!” Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

Cortland Rep Announces Hish School Recipients Of The 2024-25 Pavilion Awards


by A.A. Cristi - May 15, 2025

The winners for the 20th annual Cortland Repertory Theatre “Pavilion Awards” were announced on Wednesday, May 14 at CRT Downtown in the city of Cortland. ...

Past Shows

Jefferson McDonald’s GREAT JINGLE BALLS OF FIRE


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 ...


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 brings a lively concert featuring classic hits from artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and ...


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


“Be Our Guest” and join us in this enchanted “tale as old as time!”

Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
7/17 - 7/26/2024


A thrilling new adaptation of the Broadway classic that inspired the 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn!

Jimmy Buffet's Escape to Margaritaville


Escape to Margaritaville - Book by Emmy Award winner Greg Garcia and Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley, Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Buffett Slip on your parrot ...

The Last Romance
The Last Romance
6/19 - 6/28/2024


 A heartwarming comedy about the transformative power of love, no matter what age you are!  

Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady


My Fair Lady, running June 5 - 14 Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner       Music by Frederick Loewe  Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play ...

Hair
Hair
6/8 - 6/18/2022


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
A Midsummer Night's Dream
8/19 - 8/21/2021


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
Goin' to the Chapel
8/5 - 8/13/2021


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)


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
Honky Tonk Angels
7/15 - 7/23/2021


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!
Pirate Schmirate!
7/8 - 7/11/2021


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
The Rat Pack Lounge
8/29 - 9/8/2018


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!
Women in Jeopardy!
8/15 - 8/25/2018


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
Our Town
8/1 - 8/11/2018


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
Newsies
7/11 - 7/28/2018


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


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
Saturday Night Fever
6/20 - 7/7/2018


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
Rough Crossing
6/6 - 6/16/2018


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
Life Could Be a Dream
8/30 - 9/16/2017


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
Nana's Naughty Knickers
8/16 - 8/26/2017


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


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
Footloose
7/12 - 7/29/2017


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
La Cage aux Folles
6/21 - 7/8/2017


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
The 39 Steps
6/7 - 6/17/2017


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
The Marvelous Wonderettes
8/31 - 9/10/2016


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
The Kitchen Witches
8/17 - 8/27/2016


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


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
A Chorus Line
7/13 - 7/30/2016


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
West Side Story
6/22 - 7/9/2016


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


“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


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


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


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
The Addams Family
7/8 - 7/25/2015


“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
1776
6/17 - 7/4/2015


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
Always a Bridesmaid
6/3 - 6/13/2015


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
The Mystery of Irma Vep
8/29 - 9/8/2012


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
The Drawer Boy
8/15 - 8/25/2012


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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PHOTOS
House of Stars
House of Stars (9/8 - 12/12)
Archduke in Central New York Archduke
Capital Repertory Theatre (3/6 - 3/29)
Relentless in Central New York Relentless
Syracuse Stage (2/4 - 2/22)
Kinky Boots in Central New York Kinky Boots
Proctors (3/14 - 3/15)
A Christmas Story in Central New York A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage (11/25 - 12/28)
SU Drama's Picnic in Central New York SU Drama's Picnic
Syracuse Stage (2/20 - 3/1)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Lyric Theatre in Central New York Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Lyric Theatre
Lyric Theatre (11/11 - 1/30)
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