2024 Season
"Wait Until Dark (HATCHER)"
March 28 (senior), 29, 30, April 4 (pwyw), 5, 6, 7 (mat), 12, 13, 14 (mat)
Forty-seven years after WAIT UNTIL DARK premiered on Broadway, Jeffrey Hatcher has adapted Frederick Knott’s 1966 original, giving it a new setting. In 1944 Greenwich Village, Susan Hendrix, a blind yet capable woman, is imperiled by a trio of men in her own apartment. As the climax builds, Susan discovers that her blindness just might be the key to her escape, but she and her tormentors must wait until dark to play out this classic thriller’s chilling conclusion.
"Oat Squares"
June 20, 21, 22, 23 (mat), June 27 (PWYW), 28, 29, 30 (mat)
Oat Squares is the story of Mary and Ralph, a couple in their late fifties with issues. When their adult daughter Ashley moves back home with her boyfriend, Justin, who is the leader of a rock band, tensions rise. When they all must quarantine together after Covid breaks out, it will be a miracle if they don’t kill each other before the pandemic does in this fast paced, heartwarming comedy.
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"Tales from the Brookside (One Act Competition)"
August 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
TheatreWorks is pleased to announce the FINALISTS for our 2024 10 Minute Play Festival, "Tales from the Brookside." Congratulations to these fine playwrights!
Thank you to all who submitted, we had a blast reading ALL of them!
The festival will be held at TheatreWorks New Milford ( GPS address- 20 Elm Street Extension, New Milford, CT 06776) from Tuesday August 20th through Saturday August 24th, 2024.
The following twenty selected plays will be presented once on one of the first three performance dates (Tues. Aug 20th, Wed. 21st or Thurs. 22nd at 8:00 pm). Two plays from each night will move into the semi-finals on Friday August 23rd at 8:00 pm. Four plays will be chosen from the semi-final performances for the finals on Saturday August 24th at 8:00 pm.
"Goodwives and the Gallows: Tales from the Connecticut Witchcraft Panics"
October 4, 5, 6 (mat), 11, 12, 13 (mat)
Between 1642 and 1693, at least 40 people in the colony of Connecticut were tried as witches, and at least 10 of them were hanged. Most of them were women.
Who were these women? How did they come to be accused of witchcraft? What was life like for them? Did they truly practice witchcraft? Who were their accusers, and why. How and why did the accusing of witches finally end…or has it?
Many records are lost or non-existent, but we can learn enough to begin to understand what life was like back then, and why witchcraft was such an all encompassing subject. Travel back to the 17th century and hear what 5 women accused of witchcraft have to say. Actresses Debra Walsh and Virginia Wolf bring them to life, fully costumed, fully incensed, fully frightened. Painstakingly researched, “ Goodwives and the Gallows: Tales from the Connecticut Witchcraft Panics” sheds light on the puritan society that condemned so-called witches to their death thirty years before the hysterics of Salem, MA
"Jesus Christ Superstar"
Dec 5 (senior), 6, 7, 12 (pwyw), 13, 14, 15 (mat), 20, 21, 22 (mat), 27, 28
A timeless work, Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events but seen, unusually, through the eyes of Judas Iscariot. Loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Superstar follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life. The story, told entirely through song, explores the personal relationships and struggles between Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, his disciples, his followers and the Roman Empire.