Review: THE PRODUCERS - A MEL BROOKS MUSICAL at The Candlelight Theatre
by Rosanne DellAversano - January 20, 2026
What did our critic think of THE PRODUCERS - A MEL BROOKS MUSICAL at The Candlelight Theatre?...
Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID at Wilmington Drama League
by Rosanne DellAversano - December 18, 2025
Disney’s The Little Mermaid, loosely based on the fairytale of Hans Christian Andersen, tells the simple story of the beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, and her longing to leave her ocean home and live in the world above with humans....
Review: CHICAGO at The Contemporary
by Greer Firestone - December 15, 2025
City Theatre Company’s CHICAGO was met with a warm audience response on opening night—and deservedly so. Now celebrating its 32nd year, CTC has long occupied a vital place in Delaware’s theatrical landscape, with current Artistic Director Kerri Kristine McElrone integral to the company since i...
Past Shows
THANK YOU, MOTHER - A Celebration Cabaret
May 19
THANK YOU, MOTHERA cabaret dedicated to the Mothers of Stage, Screen, Music, Literature and More.Join us for a one night only special event where Bootless...
Evil Dead, The Musical
Jul 15 – Jul 23, 2022
EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL - The Deadites return for another Ash-kicking.Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing...
Every Time A Bell Rings...
Dec 9 – Dec 12, 2021
An original adaptation of the classic movie, Its A Wonderful Life, and the short story the movie was based upon, The Greatest Gift.George Pratt stands...
STELLA by Neil Bartlett
Jun 19 – Jun 27, 2020
Alone in a darkened room, a man waits for a knock on the door.A look back across a life filled with laughter, heartbreak and ragea...
GRINDR: The Opera
Feb 7 – Feb 15, 2020
GRINDR: The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop,...
Murderess by Anne Bertram
Sep 13 – Sep 14, 2019
Six notorious killers from American history reveal their secrets in a suite of monologues written and woven together by Anne Bertram. Each woman offers her...
Murderess by Anne Bertram
Sep 13 – Sep 14, 2019
Six notorious killers from American history reveal their secrets in a suite of monologues written and woven together by Anne Bertram. Each woman offers her...
Disenchanted: A Disney Princess Spoof-takular!
Mar 29 – Apr 6, 2019
DISENCHANTED! A Disney Spoof-tacular princess musical!Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs'em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in the hilarious hit musical...
STELLA - A Script Reading with Conversation
Dec 7 – Dec 8, 2018
Alone in a darkened room, a man waits for a knock on the door. As the minutes tick by he looks back across a life...
Oedipus for Kids!
Nov 15 – Nov 17, 2018
Your pal Oedipus – a kid a lot like you – takes an exciting journey across ancient Greece to become king. Warning: May contain manslaughter,...
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Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2018
Prepare for 90 minutes of musical theater brilliance filled with gorgeous harmonies and a witty, laugh out loud script. Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen...
EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL
Jul 13 – Jul 21, 2018
Bootless returns for another round of Ash-Kicking! Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing an evil terror....
tick,tick...BOOM!
Sep 29 – Oct 14, 2017
Before creating RENT, Jonathan Larson had another story to tell…his own. Jon is a soon-to-be 30 year old, rarely successful composer, on the brink of...
YOU'VE GOT RED ON YOU
Jul 14 – Jul 22, 2017
Shaun has coasted through life and still hasn’t gotten very far. Friday nights, he usually winds up at the local pub, the Winchester, for a...
ORANGE IS THE NEW MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY
May 5 – May 13, 2017
Direct from LA Fringe – making its East Coast premiere… Your favorite Netflix prison series, Orange Is The New Black, gets the full parody treatment,...
THE NEWLYWED GAME & MORE
Feb 10
So many Bootless Artists got hitched in 2016, we just had to put together a way for them to share their wedding bliss with all...
BODY & SOLD: TRUE STORIES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS
Jan 11 – Jan 14, 2017
In the documentary play, BODY & SOLD, winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Award, we hear the stories of eight teen survivors and the...
THE TRUMP CARD by Mike Daisey
Oct 28 – Oct 29, 2016
Does anyone really know Donald Trump? Through a monologue written by the incredible Mike Daisey, and as performed by local artist, Randall McCann, THE TRUMP...
SPRING AWAKENING
Oct 7 – Oct 22, 2016
Set in a small 19th century German town, Melchior, Wendla, Moritz, and their classmates begin to experience changes that confuse and fascinate them, but coming...
MUSICAL OF THE LIVING DEAD
Jul 15 – Jul 23, 2016
Musical of the Living Dead is a hysterical, hummable, 4D zombie doomsday adventure complete with Bootless’ infamous The Pit Splatter Zone ever. Musical of the...
Musical of the Living Dead
Jul 15 – Jul 23, 2016
Musical of the Living Dead takes audiences on a rip-roaring journey beyond the grave with its satirical send-ups of classic zombie films and musical theater....
IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)
May 6 – May 21, 2016
Off come the corsets. Up go the petticoats. A comedy about marriage and intimacy of electric proportions. Set in the 1880s, just after the advent...
BOOTLESS IN CONCERT - Elfman, Rosauro & More
Apr 9
Please join us for a one night only concert in support of our Artist Fund. This season, we’re going a bit off the track with...
Freud's Last Session
Feb 19 – Mar 5, 2016
reud’s Last Session centers on a hypothetical meeting between legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud and young, rising Oxford Don, C.S. Lewis, to his home in...
Star Wars: A New Musical Hope
Oct 9 – Oct 17, 2015
This semi-original work returns to Bootless in preparation for the new Star Wars movie, Episode VII: The Force Awakens. A musical parody of Episode IV:...
Evil Dead: The Musical
Jul 10 – Jul 18, 2015
Bootless returns for a fourth round of Ash-Kicking! Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing an evil...
An Evening of Disasterous One Acts
May 15
In honor of our 10th anniversary, Bootless returns to its roots with an evening of one act plays. TITANTIC by Christopher Durang A play with...
Chess - In Concert
Apr 17 – Apr 18, 2015
CHESS by Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus (Music) / Tim Rice (Lyrics) A romantic triangle between two top chess players, an American and a Russian,...
Bug
Feb 27 – Mar 14, 2015
Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and...
A Cabaret of Characters - Bootless Stageworks 10th Anniversary Celebration
Nov 14 – Nov 15, 2014
Join Bootless in celebrating ten terrific years in theater. Bootless Alumni return to act, sing and dance their way down memory lane with highlights from...
Musical of the Living Dead
Jul 11 – Jul 19, 2014
THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBRA! MOTLD - MasterNamed Chicago’s Best Musical, Best New Play and Funniest Show, Musical of the Living Dead makes it...
The 39 Steps
May 9 – May 17, 2014
Take four actors portraying over 150 characters (including inanimate objects), a melodrama adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan, a 1935 film by Alfred...
Venus in Fur
Mar 13 – Mar 22, 2014
VENUS IN FUR by David Ives STORY LINE: Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in...
The Texas Chainsaw Musical!
Jul 19 – Jul 27, 2013
The Texas Chainsaw Musical! comes to Delaware with tons more bloody fun and body parts too. Let the chainsaw roar again this summer. The Texas...
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