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
A Christmas Carol
Nov 28 – Dec 14, 2025
A Christmas CarolBuy TicketsMusic by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Lynn Arhens, Book by Lynn Arhens and Mike OckrentNov. 28 – Dec. 14To celebrate the start...
Annie
Nov 8 – Nov 10, 2025
AnnieBuy TicketsMusic by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin, Book by Thomas MeehanNov. 8-10The Spotlight on Young Performers are at it again as they transform this perennial...
Reefer Madness
Oct 10 – Oct 31, 2025
Reefer MadnessBuy TicketsBook by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, Music by Dan Studney, Lyrics by Kevin MurphyOct. 10 – 31The greatest threat to the American...
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him AliveBuy
Sep 18 – Sep 28, 2025
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him AliveBuy TicketsBy Selina FillingerSept. 18 – 28One four-letter word is about to...
Hairspray
Jun 24 – Aug 30, 2025
HairsprayBuy TicketsJune 24 - August 30HairsprayMusic by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Book by Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan, Based on...
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jun 27 – Aug 28, 2025
Beautiful: The Carole King MusicalBuy TicketsJune 27 - August 28Beautiful: The Carole King MusicalWord & Music by Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, and Cynthia...
Rent
Jul 2 – Aug 26, 2025
RentBuy TicketsJuly 2 - August 26Book Music, & Lyrics by Jonathan LarsenIt was a moment when anything seemed possible in New York City: art, love,...
Buyer & Cellar
May 29 – Jun 1, 2025
Buyer & CellarBuy TicketsMay 29 - June 1 Buyer & CellarBy Jonathan TolinsMay 29 – June 1A tour-de-force one man play that took New York by...
Spring Awakening
May 2 – May 18, 2025
Spring AwakeningBuy TicketsMay 2 - May 18Spring AwakeningBook & Lyrics by Steven Slater, Music by Duncan SheikMay 2 – 18In every era, there comes a...
Beetlejuice, JR
Apr 11 – Apr 13, 2025
Beetlejuice, JRBuy TicketsApril 11 - April 13Beetlejuice, JRMusic & Lyrics by Eddie Perfect, Book by Scott Brown and Anthony KingApr. 11 – 13A Spotlight on...
Oklahoma!
Mar 7 – Mar 23, 2025
Oklahoma!Buy TicketsMarch 7 - March 23Oklahoma!Music by Richard Rogers, Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein IIBased on Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn RiggsMar. 7 – 23At...
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2025
Everybody’s Talking About JamieBook & Lyrics by Tom MacRae, Music by Dan Gillespie Sells, from an idea by Jonathan ButterallFeb. 27 – Mar. 2Inspired by...
ESTELLA SCROOGE
Nov 24 – Dec 10, 2023
We all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, but now imagine his great great grand-daughter reliving the same story in the world we live in...
GODSPELL
Nov 10 – Nov 12, 2023
Godspell was the first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden), and it took...
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Oct 13 – Oct 29, 2023
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film...
THE CEMETERY CLUB
Sep 21 – Oct 1, 2023
While the title may imply drama, this comedy is done very much in the style of a sitcom – think THE GOLDEN GIRLS. Three Jewish...
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Jun 27 – Sep 2, 2023
What’s the buzz? The first musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be produced for the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed...
KINKY BOOTS
Jun 30 – Aug 31, 2023
Kinky Boots is the big-hearted musical extravaganza that won six Tonys including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre album and London’s Olivier Award for Best...
THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL
Jul 5 – Aug 29, 2023
The stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea...
LUCY IN THE SEA WITH DARVON
Jun 2 – Jun 4, 2023
his June Wesley Cappiello, as most of you will remember from 2017 Summer Rep of A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, and The Little Mermaid, bring...
NEXT TO NORMAL
May 5 – May 21, 2023
Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental...
MATILDA
Apr 14 – Apr 16, 2023
Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company...
DAMN YANKEES
Mar 10 – Mar 26, 2023
ased on the novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop, Damn Yankees the Broadway mega-hit and winner of seven Tony Awards, including...
ELF
Nov 25 – Dec 11, 2022
Based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, ELF bring us Buddy, a young orphan, mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is...
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Nov 11 – Nov 13, 2022
Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated Disney film this musical is a hauntingly beautiful story of Ariel,...
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Oct 14 – Oct 30, 2022
The deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical has devoured the hearts of theatre-goers for over 30 years. The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn...
OTHER DESERT CITIES
Sep 15 – Sep 25, 2022
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that...
9TO5
Jun 24 – Aug 27, 2022
he hit 1980 film gets the musical treatment by one of its Grammy Award-winning original stars in this show with big heart and even bigger...
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Jul 1 – Aug 25, 2022
One of the most enduring shows of all time, this is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, eleven brothers and...
GREASE
Jun 28 – Aug 23, 2022
Dust off your leather jackets, pull on your bobby-socks and take a trip to a simpler time as bad boy Danny and the girl next...
THE SUBMISSION
Jun 3 – Jun 5, 2022
Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been...
THE LIGHTNING THIEF
May 6 – May 22, 2022
s the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can't control, a destiny he doesn't want, and a mythology textbook's...
EMMA!
Apr 8 – Apr 10, 2022
mma, a senior at Highbury Prep, is certain she knows whats best for her classmates love lives, and is determined to find the perfect boyfriend...
VICTOR/VICTORIA
Mar 11 – Mar 27, 2022
In jazz-age Paris, singer Victoria Grant struggles to make ends meet. With some help from her flamboyant friend Toddy, Victoria ultimately achieves stardom by masquerading...
SYLVIA
Feb 26 – Feb 27, 2022
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg brings home a dog he found in the parkor...
SCROOGE
Nov 25 – Dec 19, 2021
This timeless musical follows the plot of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, in which the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a profound experience of redemption over...
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Jun 2 – Jun 4, 2017
Featuring Elaine Faye, A one-woman show will take us on a whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering...
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
May 5 – May 21, 2017
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, based on the popular 1988 MGM film, takes us to the French Riviera for high jinks and hilarity. Sophisticated, suave with a...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Apr 7 – Apr 9, 2017
The musical story of the Princess and the Pea. If you thought you knew the story of 'The Princess and The Pea,' you may be...
GYPSY
Mar 10 – Mar 26, 2017
Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, GYPSY is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’...
Cardboard Stories
Mar 4 – Mar 5, 2017
In collaboration with the Immanuel Shelter in Rehoboth Beach, this play pulls homelessness to the forefront. An original piece created for the nonprofit Pinellas County...
Neil Simon's PLAZA SUITE
Jan 27 – Feb 12, 2017
Featuring Andrew Criss and Shannon Parks Hilarity abounds in Neil Simon’s portrait of three couples occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take...
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS
Nov 25 – Dec 11, 2016
Suddenly there's a blackout. Imagine yourself standing as the lights from the World's Fair fill the stage; you've never seen such a spectacular panorama in...
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Oct 21 – Oct 30, 2016
Erin Williams Bobby and David Button are featured in Jason Robert Brown's emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who...
Chesapeake
Jun 3 – Jun 5, 2016
An art-loving performer, an art-hating Senator, and a Chesapeake Bay Retriever all clash in this funny, touching, and surprising story, written by Lee Blessing (A...
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
May 6 – May 22, 2016
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life,...
Into the Woods Jr
Apr 15 – Apr 17, 2016
Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk), and the Witch—meet and interact in this whimsical original story. Presented by the Spotlight on Young...
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