Main Stage Productions run for three weekends with 8 PM evening shows Friday and Saturday nights and 2 PM Matinees each Sunday and the final Saturday as well.
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On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer are spending their 48th summer at their vacation home on Golden Pond, in the woods of Maine. Their delightful summer routine--fishing, picking strawberries, enjoying old mementoes, listening to the loons call--is given a bitterly comedic edge by Norman’s unreliable memory and cantankerously morbid statements. When their daughter Chelsea visits for Norman’s 80th birthday, bringing her boyfriend Bill and Bill’s teenage son, Billy Jr., the whole family must come to grips with Norman and Chelsea’s mutual bitterness, while Norman blossoms with his chance to mentor young Billy.
The turbulent relationship between father and daughter, the generation gap between young and old, and the difficulties of a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, all combine in a play that effortlessly illustrates the hilarious, heartbreaking, human moments of which life is made.
September 6th-22nd, 2024 Auditions June 30, July 1
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
Frederick Knott's thriller is the story of Susy Hendrix, a recently blinded housewife who unwittingly possesses a doll filled with illicit drugs.
Harry Roat, a brutal and sophisticated criminal, coerces two small-time thugs into helping him con Susy into giving up the doll. A battle of wits ensues as Susy and the young girl upstairs launch a counterplot against the thieves. The drama plays on the themes of darkness and light as Susy navigates through her sightless world, and the crooks signal each other with light through the Venetian blinds.
October 25th-Nov 10th, 2024 Auditions September 8, 9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman Adapted from the novel by ken Kesey
This stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's celebrated novel explores the brutality of life in a mental institution with humor, candor, and unforgettable characters. After being convicted of a petty crime, a charming, rebellious rogue named McMurphy contrives to serve his short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he soon learns, was a mistake.
McMurphy immediately clashes with the authoritarian head nurse, a fierce martinet named Nurse Ratched. Despite Ratched's strict reign, McMurphy quickly win over his fellow inmates and brings about humanity again. But McMurphy's brash insubordination has its consequences.
January 31st - Feb 16th, 2025 Auditions Nov 3 & 4
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare returns to the RCP Main Stage for the first time in over 25 years!
Four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia; she loves Lysander and her friend Helena loves Demetrius.
When the four venture into the Athenian woods to pursue their loves, they become the focus of Oberon, the King of the Fairies, and his impish servant, Puck. Join us for this tale of magic, mischief, and mayhem that is sure to entertain!
April 18th - May 4th, 2025 Auditions Feb 2 & 3
Man of La Mancha Book by Dale Wasserman Music and lyrics by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darian Man of La Mancha, based on Cervantes’ epic 17th-century novel, Don Quixote, is a remarkable, poignant, moving musical that was one of the first shows to musicalize a piece of historical literature.
Set in the context of the Spanish Inquisition, author Miguel de Cervantes enlists his fellow prisoners as characters in his play to tell the story of the aged Alonso Quijana. A man who believes himself to be a knight errant, names himself Don Quixote, and pursues an obsessive quest to attain an impossible dream. Against all odds, Quixote and his trusty squire Sancho Panza take to the road in a quest to chivalry, and seek out the good and innocent in a world filled with darkness and despair. T
June 20th-July 6th, 2025 Auditions April 20, 21, & 22