Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence.
Read MoreA noble king in ancient India has three big problems: his children, the reckless and lazy royal princes. Fearing for the future of his people, the king consults with a wise guru, who agrees to teach the young princes through a series of animal stories and folk tales.
These interwoven lessons form the basis of the Panchatantra ("Five Treatises"), one of the world's most popular collections of fables.
Panchatantra Tales is a Young Acting Company Partnership Production presented by Rasika School of Dance & Gamut Theatre
Read MoreWhat would you tell your younger self?
One night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, an anxious, last-minute customer offers him and his girlfriend Abby two thousand dollars to stay and have a drink with him. As the trio exchanges stories and Jamie considers the decisions he faces about his musical career, as well as he and Abby’s future, the young couple begins to realize that this older man is unusually invested in their choices... and the reason he gives them is completely unbelievable.
Read MoreOne night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, a desperate last-minute customer offers him and his girlfriend Abby two thousand dollars to sit and have a drink with him.
As the trio swaps stories, the young couple begins to realize that this older man is unusually invested in their choices… and the reason he gives them is completely unbelievable.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! Join the inquisitive, lovable little monkey Curious George, star of books, movies, and the award-winning PBS television show, in this delightful new musical.
Read MoreSusan Hendrix, a blind yet capable woman, is imperiled by strangers 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.
Read MoreGamut’s in-house improv team comes into it’s all-original March show like a lion and goes out like a slightly more sweaty lion!
Read MoreOne public performance only: Thursday, March 17 @ 8:00 pm
After two years of virtual and pre-recorded educational experiences, Open Stage brings the story of Anne Frank back to the stage with a one-night-only staged reading.
Experience the beautiful story, live on stage in our 22nd annual production. Set during one of history's most brutal periods, the Holocaust, the play is based on the actual diary of a young girl who comes of age while hiding from the Nazis in a tiny, overcrowded attic with her family for more than two years. During their confinement, Anne discovers herself as a beautiful, thoughtful, and extraordinary girl. Her story is a constant reminder to us all of the power of the human spirit.
Join us as The Heartbreak Cabaret brings the heat to Open Stage for this exclusive live show - a one-night-only spectacular showcase of drag, burlesque, and varietease!
Read MorePuffs—or—Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic is a tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world. This clever and inventive play gives you a new look at a familiar wizard-y adventure from the perspective of three potential heroes just trying to make it through a magic school that proves to be very dangerous for children. Alongside them are the Puffs, a group of well-meaning, loyal outsiders with a thing for badgers.
Read MoreOrphaned in India, 11-year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her reclusive uncle Archibald, whose invalid son Colin has had to bear the guilt of his mother Lily’s death. When Mary discovers her Aunt Lily’s hidden garden, locked shut and overgrown with vines, Mary is determined to revive the beauty that once was. Surrounded by spirits from the past, who both warn and welcome her, Mary begins to peel away the layers of sadness that cover the estate, showing us the power that a single individual can have to bring light into darkness.
Read MoreVoices of the Eighth connects two African American teens across time from the same Harrisburg neighborhood. This heartwarming story joins the young and old, past and present, and evokes the gone but not forgotten, to celebrate the history-making contributions of African Americans who lived in Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward.
The project is a partnership with Sankofa African American Theatre Company and Gamut Theatre Group.
Read More“Who’s that clomping on my bridge?!” Watch this not-so-scary bridge troll as he tries to file a police report against some very silly goats.
This “crime drama” is performed in the style of the classic TV show, Dragnet . Join Detective Saturday as he gathers the facts and solves the crime. He may be super serious, but you’ll be laughing from start to finish!
Read More18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
This contemporary musical is an exploration of loss, freedom, and what it truly means to live life to the fullest.
Read MoreDrop in and find yourself a seat in our newly reimagined cabaret. Grab a specialty cocktail, sit back, and relax as the Court Street Singers bring you a night of song from Broadway and beyond!
Read MoreThe Obstructed View was begun as an homage America's favorite talk show - and it’s become so much more.
Join hosts Matthew Golden, Stuart Landon, and America’s Sweetheart T. J. Creedon for A BRAND NEW YEAR of politics, hot gossip, special guests, and a whole lot of devastating one-liners.
The guys can't wait to spill some tea with you!
Read MoreSibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons: The Lion in Winter is a modern-day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom.
Read MorePresented by The Olive Branch and Laurel Crown Ensemble; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
This anthology tracks the collective experience of soldiers through the works of Shakespeare with acts focused on the precursors to war (Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida); battlefield conflicts (Henry IV, Cymbeline); alliances, betrayals, and desertions (Richard II, Henry V); the plight of prisoners of war (King Lear, Two Noble Kinsmen); and the adjustment back to civilian life (Richard III, Sonnets).
Part of Gamut Theatre’s Classics Fest
The African Company tells the story of the legendary African Grove Theatre as told from Vaughn Jefferson, a young theater educator living in Harlem. As Vaughn recounts to his partner the findings from his research, the true story of how the legendary African Grove Theater succumbed to the perils of racism during the 1800’s comes to life as the two learn about the cultural differences between white and black Theater Artists of the past and how their actions shaped theater today.
Part of Gamut Theatre’s Classics Fest
Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey is a 90-minute, 5-Act, living memoir about a young woman’s trials and triumphs with race and the classics, her memorable experiences growing up in East Harlem and her gender flipped journey on the road to becoming Shakespeare's noble, flawed general.
The solo show is complete with moving songs and lyrical language from Black women playwrights, William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the King James Bible.
Part of Gamut Theatre’s Classics Fest
