Bring your sheet music and sing your favorite songs on stage with a live accompanist! This time we want YOU to take the stage in the Court Street Cabaret. Sign up at the door and enjoy an entertaining evening of music and drinks!
Read MoreMAY we suggest a trip to Gamut Theatre to see TMI’s not-quite-summer improv comedy show!? MAY we!? (subtle, right?)
TMI specializes in character-driven improv, using both long- and short-form, where simple suggestions from the audience pave the way for improvised story-telling that range from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with Elvis Presley’s music. A fun show about repressed residents of a small 1950s American town experiencing an awakening within themselves when a roustabout with a guitar comes to town. Inspired by and featuring song of Elvis Presley, you’ll be tappin’ your feet to classics like Heartbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock, and Don’t Be Cruel.
Read MoreMad Hatter, Dormouse, and March Hare meet for a tea party to honor Time, who has forgiven the Hatter and set time right once again. When the Jabberwock comes and wreaks havoc, the tea party guests — including the Caterpillar, the Duchess, the Frog Footman, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum — decide that something MUST be done!
Read MoreThe Boys in the Band centers on a group of gay men who gather in an NYC apartment for a friend’s birthday party. After the drinks are poured and the music is turned up, the evening slowly exposes the fault lines beneath their friendships and the self-inflicted heartache that threatens their solidarity.
Both bitingly funny and emotionally raw, this landmark play is as powerful today as it was in 1968.
Read MoreWitness the tale of Sweeney Todd, an exiled barber, now returned and seeking revenge against the people – and the city – that wronged him, and the gruesome consequences that follow. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, proprietress of a failing pie shop. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd - and his razor - take up residence above her own store. With hauntingly beautiful music and a gripping storyline, Sweeney Todd is the ultimate macabre masterpiece.
A modern version of the Cinderella fable, set on Long Island in the 1950s, and deals with the involvement of a very rich family named Larrabee with Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of their family chauffeur. She is bright, well-educated, and has just returned from five years in Paris, where she has done a brilliant job as an executive in a U.S. government overseas office.
She has come home to find out if she is still in love with the younger Larrabee son, David. The elder son, Linus, a cynical, good-humored tycoon who has taken control of the family fortune, detects Sabrina's feeling for his brother, and for his own amusement lays a trap to bring them together.
Read MoreA delightful assortment of Aesop’s famous fables! From “The Cat Maiden” to “The Two Frogs” to “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, children will laugh at the antics of Aesop’s crazy characters and learn some valuable lessons along the way!
Read MoreThe time is 1971, and theatrical impresario, Dimitri Weissmann, hosts a reunion of ex-Follies performers in his crumbling theatre, setting the stage for a parade of brilliant pastiche numbers, including "Losing My Mind" and "I'm Still Here." Amid the reminiscing, two middle-aged couples confront some unpleasant truths about their past and present, coming face-to-face with the future.
Performed as a concert version, this production from Theatre Harrisburg and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra strips away the traditional heavy scenery to focus on the raw emotional power of the score and the storytelling.
Follies in Concert is part of Theatre Harrisburg’s centennial celebration.
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