Our 2020 Season
~Seeing Through Different Eyes~
Our 2020 Season explores stories told by voices that are often misunderstood, marginalized, taken for granted, or ignored completely. We relish the opportunity to see through another’s eyes in the hopes that we begin to see the brighter colors and clearer picture of the larger community to which we all belong. We hope you will join the conversation.
We are so grateful to be your community theatre!
Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play.
Winner of the 2015 Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Drama League Award
15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. Now it is 7 minutes after midnight, and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
“…just terrific…a profoundly moving play about adolescence, fractured families, mathematics, colours and lights…dazzling.” —Independent (London)
“A beautiful, eloquent, dazzlingly inventive show about the wonders of life.” —Evening Standard (London)
Content Advisory: This play contains adult language and content and is recommended for ages 14+
Warning: This production employs the use of strobe lighting and other lighting and projection effects which may affect photosensitive viewers.
For a detailed list of content warnings for this production, please click here.
Check out our behind-the-scenes video about the production!
And then watch our promo video for the show!
Promo Visualized by @JoshCarples & @iBeTheSHOOTER #TMFCJSV www.JoshCarples.com www.cjson.com
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time production photos by Josh Carples
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Based on Louisa May Alcott’s early life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood and their experience growing up in Civil War America. Sarah Walker Thornton's “trunk show” adaptation brings a fresh take to a familiar and heart-warming story just in time for the holidays. Our filmed reading includes original music, holiday classics, and music from the Civil War era. We've included shadow plays and imagery from the 2017 premiere mainstage production and formed a cast composed of actors from the original workshop, the premiere production, and some new faces!
Winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
From award-winning writer Jane Anderson comes this “magnetic work of theater” filled with compassion, honesty and humor. Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter. Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Berkeley, California who are going through their own trials. Jeannette, an earthy, high-spirited woman, and her husband Neil have lost their home to a wildfire, and Neil is dying of cancer. The two couples – one solidly on the left, the other resolute in their conservative Christian beliefs – are made to confront their huge dissimilarities.
“Raw, vibrant and seemingly spontaneous, The Quality of Life radiates an unpolished veneer… And in the end we understand what the quality of life is: beautiful, heartbreaking, and temporary. It is a million acts of love and grace which put off, until the very last minute, the endless No.” – DC Theatre Scene
“Playwright Jane Anderson explores a myriad of ethical, religious, and moral beliefs, as well as (some would say) personal rights issues concerning life and death in her remarkable and completely engrossing new play, The Quality of Life.” – TheaterMania
Our production of The Quality of Life
has been postponed to later this year.
Whether to show will be performed live outside on our Courtyard Stage or filmed and made available online,
this show will go on!
Everything in Jonas’s world is under control and safe. There is no war or fear or pain. There are also no choices. But when Jonas turns 12, he is chosen for special training from the Giver—to receive and keep the memories of the community. The Giver is the only person who holds the memories of real pain and real joy. Now Jonas will learn the truth about life—and the hypocrisy of his utopian world- and try to take control of his own destiny. Playwright Eric Coble’s astonishing and moving adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning book The Giver has been produced Off-Broadway and had over 300 productions on three continents. Now it comes to our stage!
“Questions are imaginatively, sensitively, and deftly explored in a gorgeous tale.” –Lexington Herald-Leader
“There are lessons for those of every age in this compelling adaptation.” –Sarasota Magazine
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize
Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.
“Keenly observed and often surprisingly funny—but ultimately heartbreaking—the work traces the roots of a tragedy with both forensic psychological detail and embracing compassion. Ms. Nottage…is writing at the peak of her powers…” —The New York Times
“Sharp and threatening as a box cutter blade…ferociously engrossing… Sweat never feels less than authentic—and crucial.” —Deadline.com
Casey is young, broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make matters even more desperate, he is fired from his gig as an Elvis impersonator in a run-down, small-town Florida bar. When the bar owner brings in a B-level drag show to replace his act, Casey finds that he has a whole lot to learn about show business—and himself.
“Stitch-in-your-side funny…full of sass and good spirits.” —The New York Times
“…[an] irresistible crowd-pleaser…Chasing buzzy themes of identity and transformation, Georgia McBride is by turns sweet and salty and deceptively deep…” —NY Daily News
Single Tickets are $20 for general admission.
Student rate is $10 (ages 6+ are recommended)
Groups of 10 or more are invited to purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $12/person.
Performance times are Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm.
The lobby doors will open one hour before curtain.
Student Tickets and Group Rates are available!
Call the Box Office at (334) 262-1530 for more information.
PLEASE NOTE - When productions are sold out and there are waiting lists, please make every effort to be present at least 15 minutes before curtain to be sure we hold your seat.
Latecomers will be admitted into the theater at the Box Office staff's discretion
to ensure a safe and uninterrupted production.
