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Constellations
8/17
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...
Dancing at Lughnasa
8/17
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties ...
Constellations
8/17 - 10/6/2024
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...
Dancing at Lughnasa
8/17 - 10/6/2024
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties ...
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Past Shows
Proof
10/26
Winner of the 2001 Tony Award® for Best Play and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, ...
Mala
8/12
“'Mala’ means ‘bad.’ Not that you have done something bad, but that you are, in your core, bad.” Funny, brutally honest, and ultimately cathartic, Mala ...
The Liar (Ives)
6/16
David Ives, adapted from Le Menteur by Pierre Corneille Baylor University...
The Minotaur
4/5 - 4/9/2023
Anna Ziegler University of Southern California...
Dream On, Baransky!
3/22 - 4/8/2023
American Greed
3/30 - 4/2/2023
Sense and Sensibility
6/17 - 10/9/2022
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...
The Moors
8/13 - 10/9/2022
Every so often a new play arrives that we simply can’t ignore. And oh my, The Moors. There’s no genre big enough to contain it. ...
Hamlet
6/24 - 10/8/2022
The Brothers Size
6/28 - 10/8/2022
A Raisin in The Sun
8/5 - 10/7/2022
Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, ...
Love's Labour's Lost
8/12 - 10/2/2022
In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the comedy centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills. The men, one of them the king ...
The River Bride
6/17 - 9/30/2022
A mystery emerges from a river, and a fable takes flight. It’s unabashedly romantic; nestled in the everyday, and buoyed by magic. It slips seamlessly ...
The Rivals
6/11 - 9/17/2022
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in recent years, it’s the power of a good laugh. The kind that bubbles up from deep in the ...
A Phoenix Too Frequent
8/26 - 10/3/2021
In ancient Greece, Dynamene is prepared to die from grief over the death of her husband and has barricaded herself, fasting, in his tomb. She ...
Cymbeline
8/12 - 9/11/2021
When his daughter Imogen secretly marries Posthumus – a good man without much financial means – King Cymbeline banishes Posthumus in a fury. In Rome, ...
An Iliad
6/22 - 8/15/2021
Revisit Homer’s epic tale, distilled by one war-torn poet. Actor Jim DeVita takes us on a thrilling, wrenching tour of the Trojan War. The intimate ...
An Iliad
6/25 - 8/15/2021
Lisa Peterson and Denis O?Hare American Players Theatre...
Rough Crossing
7/1 - 8/7/2021
Two established playwrights hoping to refresh their careers take their show on the road. Or, rather, on the high seas, along with their two established ...
An Improbable Fiction
5/27 - 6/26/2021
The world-premiere staging of James DeVita's new play, told largely in Shakespeare's own words. It's plague time, and Shakespeare's characters are out of sorts (and ...
The Mountain Top
5/14 - 6/19/2021
The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. returns to the Lorraine Hotel after delivering his last impassioned speech, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop. ...
THE MOUNTAINTOP
5/14 - 6/19/2021
The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...
A Doll's House
8/10 - 10/6/2019
adapt: Simon Stephens from Henrik Ibsen; trans: Simon Stephens; music: Mikhail Fiksel; dir: Keira Fromm....
The Man of Destiny
6/8 - 10/6/2019
Emerson College Shakespeare Society...
Twelfth Night
6/8 - 10/6/2019
William Shakespeare; music: Josh Schmidt; dir: John Langs....
The Book of Will
8/9 - 10/5/2019
Allen Elizabethan Theatre: Lauren Gunderson; music: Paul James Prendergast; dir: Christopher Liam Moore....
Macbeth
6/21 - 10/4/2019
William Shakespeare; music: Josh Schmidt; dir: James DeVita....
Fences
8/2 - 9/28/2019
Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony® Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy ...
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
6/14 - 9/21/2019
Four women in Depression-era St. Louis live and work together in a valiant effort to stave off loneliness and despair. And, along the way, they ...
She Stoops to Conquer
6/14 - 9/20/2019
Oliver Goldsmith; music: Joe Cerqua; dir: Laura Gordon....
Engaging Shaw
10/25 - 11/18/2018
This unexpected new comedy follows the battle of wits and the real life romance between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw. When wealthy ...
As You Like It
6/9 - 10/7/2018
An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...
Our Country's Good
8/11 - 10/7/2018
Timberlake Wertenbaker; trans: Thomas Keneally....
Measure for Measure
8/10 - 10/6/2018
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” Shakespeare’s black comedy tingles with intrigue in this story of love, lust, and politics. A full ...
Heartbreak House
8/3 - 10/5/2018
Hill Theatre: adapt: Aaron Posner from George Bernard Shaw; dir: Aaron Posner....
The Recruiting Officer
6/22 - 9/29/2018
It’s with the promise of money, glory and adventure that Captain Plume is recruiting the men of Shrewsbury for the King’s army. He’s also determined ...
Blood Knot
6/9 - 9/28/2018
Touchstone Theatre: Athol Fugard; dir: Ron OJ Parson....
Exit the King
6/26 - 9/27/2018
Recently revived on Broadway (2009) this absurdist exploration of ego and mortality is set in the crumbling throne-room of a palace in an unnamed country ...
Born Yesterday
6/15 - 9/22/2018
Ex-show girl and mistress, Billie Dawn, gets a new lesson on life and love when her corrupt and uncouth junk czar boyfriend hires a newspaper ...
Creditors
11/2 - 11/19/2017
This fall, the Touchstone takes on a darker hue. A seemingly solid relationship suddenly teeters, attacked from without and within. Motes of mistrust, sown in ...
A View From The Bridge
8/12 - 10/22/2017
In a community entrenched in honor and iron wills, secrets have a way of exploding. It’s an uneasy venue for a patchwork family. For a ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6/10 - 10/8/2017
William Shakespeare; music: Josh Schmidt; dir: John Langs....
A Flea in Her Ear
6/16 - 10/7/2017
adapt: David Frank from Georges Feydeau; trans: Abbot Chrisman; music: John Tanner; dir: David Frank....
Cyrano de Bergerac
6/23 - 10/6/2017
adapt: James DeVita from Edmond Rostond; trans: Henderson Dangerfield Norman, Mary Guillemard, Gertrude Hall, Charles Rendauld, Gladys Thomas; music: Sarah Pickett; dir: James DeVita....
The Maids
6/27 - 10/5/2017
Loosely based on true events, THE MAIDS takes place in 1940s France where we find Solange and Claire two housemaids and sisters who construct secret, ...
The Unexpected Man
6/10 - 9/30/2017
Yasmina Reza; trans: Christopher Hampton; music: Joe Cerqua; dir: Laura Gordon....
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
8/11 - 9/29/2017
Here we have something of a rare delicacy. Funny and heartfelt, with a healthy dose of danger. Like the sea that serves as his path, ...
Three Sisters
8/4 - 9/24/2017
Discover the humor and heartbreak of one of the world’s greatest plays by Anton Chekhov, revealed through the lyricism of one of the leading voices ...
Mary's Wedding
6/6 - 10/17/2016
Directed by Wendy Wagner November 6-10 & 13-17, 2012 It is the eve of Mary’s wedding, a night filled with dreams: dreams of love, dreams ...
Endgame
8/6 - 10/16/2016
Samuel Beckett; dir: Aaron Posner....
Endgame
8/6 - 10/16/2016
Samuel Beckett; dir: Aaron Posner....
The African Company Presents Richard III
6/3 - 10/14/2016
It’s 1821 in New York, and two productions of Shakespeare’s Richard III are vying for audiences. One is presented by the African Company of New ...
Eurydice
6/21 - 10/8/2016
"Eurydice" reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus's infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bridge, but through the eyes of its heroine. ...
Comedy of Errors
6/6 - 10/3/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: David Frank....
The Comedy of Errors
6/4 - 10/2/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: David Frank....
Arcadia
7/29 - 10/1/2016
From the man who gifted us Travesties and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, we giddily present you with what may be his masterwork. This dazzling, ...
Arcadia
7/29 - 10/1/2016
ARCADIA is set in April 1809 in a stately home in Derbyshire. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around ...
King Lear
8/5 - 9/30/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: William Brown....
King Lear
8/5 - 9/30/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: William Brown....
Death of a Salesman
6/10 - 9/16/2016
The tragedy of a typical American - a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face: defeat and disillusionment. ...
An Ideal Husband
6/11 - 9/4/2016
Oscar Wilde; dir: TBA ....
The Game of Love and Chance
10/30 - 11/23/2015
This boy-meets-girl tale is a charming romp about mistaken identity, true love, and the business of marriage. Artistic & General Director Matthew Jocelyn brings a ...
An Iliad
6/23 - 10/18/2015
adapt: Denis O'Hare, Lisa Peterson from Denis O'Hare, Lisa Peterson; trans: Robert Fagles; dir: John Langs....
A Streetcar Named Desire
6/19 - 10/4/2015
After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
6/6 - 10/4/2015
William Shakespeare; dir: Tim Ocel....
Othello
8/7 - 10/3/2015
William Shakespeare; dir: John Langs....
Private Lives
7/31 - 10/2/2015
Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ...
The Island
6/6 - 9/30/2015
Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona; dir: Derrick Sanders....
Seascape
6/21 - 9/28/2015
On a deserted stretch of beach, a middle-aged couple relaxes after a picnic lunch and converse idly about home, family, and their life together. She ...
Pride and Prejudice
6/12 - 9/26/2015
Pride and Prejudice is a theatrical version of Jane Austen’s classic novel involving manners, courtship and relationships. Finding a husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet's most ...
Alcestis
10/10 - 11/9/2014
The last time APT took on a Greek, it was named Production of the Year by The Wall Street Journal. Alcestis revisits that extraordinary conflux ...
Touchstone Theatre:
6/7 - 11/9/2014
American Buffalo David Mamet; dir: Kenneth Albers....
Travesties
8/10 - 11/9/2014
Travesties is the funny, clever and generally mind-blowing proof of Tom Stoppard’s genius.Henry Carr weaves a tale of the famous people he knew in his ...
American Buffalo
6/7 - 10/18/2014
An astounding play from the master of American drama, three men struggle with poverty, friendship and trust while contemplating a robbery. Don, Teach and Bobby ...
Much Ado About Nothing
6/13 - 10/5/2014
Leonato’s house is a happy one, complete with beautiful daughter Hero and clever niece Beatrice, as well as Beatrice’s aging father Antonio. But when Leonato’s ...
Up the Hill:
6/7 - 10/5/2014
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare; dir: David Frank....
Romeo and Juliet
6/20 - 10/4/2014
Romeo is looking for some distraction when he and his friends decide to crash a Capulet ball. There he meets Juliet and the two instantly ...
The Year of Magical Thinking
6/24 - 10/4/2014
Based on the book by decorated literary journalist Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking recounts the twelve months following the unexpected death of her ...
The Doctor's Dilemma
8/8 - 10/3/2014
Dr. Ridgeon has developed a cure for tuberculosis. He’s at the very top of his game – and his patient load – when the charming ...
The Importance of Being Earnest
6/7 - 9/27/2014
Responsible, mild-mannered Jack Worthing is harboring a couple of secrets. First, he is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen. And second, they both ...
The Seagull
8/1 - 9/20/2014
It’s tough to live up to your parents’ expectations, and tougher when your mom is a famous – and very critical – actress. Such is ...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
11/1 - 11/24/2013
Where decadent wealth has bred soul-deep boredom, one needs something to pass the time. And with sex readily available, why not fill it with that? ...
Antony and Cleopatra
8/11 - 10/20/2013
Antony and Cleopatra is a love story with the power to shatter nations. (Sound hyperbolic? Trust us, it’s not.) But reality has a way of ...
Dickens in America
6/26 - 10/19/2013
You may know APT core company member James Ridge. Whether you recognize him is another matter. You see, he’s nothing if not adaptable. He transforms ...
Dickens in America: Adapted from his works and words
6/25 - 10/19/2013
The Touchstone Theatre: - James DeVita; dir: C. Michael Wright....
Dickens in America: Adapted from his works and words.
6/25 - 10/19/2013
James DeVita; dir: C. Michael Wright....
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
6/8 - 10/6/2013
Our two gentlemen seek travel, adventure and, yes, love too. But nothing complicates friendship like a little romantic competition, as the boys attempt to thrive ...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
8/2 - 10/5/2013
Tom Stoppard makes his debut on our Hill with the play that first put him on the map. Take a peek around the corners of ...
Hamlet
6/21 - 10/4/2013
Up the Hill Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: John Langs....
All My Sons
8/9 - 9/28/2013
The Keller family struggles with a real-life willing suspension of disbelief in a community rocked by war, scandal and one very specific combination of the ...
Molly Sweeney
6/8 - 9/21/2013
Molly is a new bride – happy, content. And blind. And now, she has a chance to see. For Molly’s husband, restoring her sight is ...
Too Many Husbands
6/14 - 9/14/2013
Up the Hill Theatre: - W. Somerset Maugham; dir: David Frank....
Too Many Husbands (AKA Home and Beauty)
6/14 - 9/14/2013
W. Somerset Maugham; music: John Tanner; dir: David Frank....
The Gift of the Magi
11/27 - 12/22/2012
Winter is special at APT. An experience not to be missed. As our iconic oak tree dons its snowy crown, The Touchstone Theatre breaks stage ...
Shakespeare's Will
8/16 - 10/21/2012
- Vern Thiessen; music: Marc Desmoreaux; dir: Miles Potter....
Skylight
6/23 - 10/21/2012
In Acting Shakespeare
8/17 - 10/7/2012
James DeVita....
Twelfth Night
6/9 - 10/7/2012
Heroes
7/1 - 10/6/2012
Three aging WWI French army veterans, a very different "band of brothers," muse on life, the past and what is over the next hill as ...
The Admirable Crichton
8/2 - 10/6/2012
Troilus and Cressida
8/10 - 10/5/2012
Richard III
6/21 - 9/29/2012
The Royal Family
6/15 - 9/22/2012
Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman; dir: Rachel Chavkin. McGuire Proscenium:...
The Gift of the Magi
11/25 - 12/18/2011
Crime and Punishment
6/23 - 10/16/2011
The Glass Menagerie
6/16 - 10/15/2011
The Taming of the Shrew
6/4 - 10/2/2011
Of Mice and Men
7/29 - 10/1/2011
Hitch a ride to 1930’s California for this journey through the heartland of America. The Fine Arts Center’s 75th anniversary celebration concludes with this production ...
The Tempest
8/5 - 9/30/2011
There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
8/11 - 9/25/2011
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