2026 Season
*titles subject to change
Ken Ludwig's Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Produced with special arrangements with Concord Theatricals
Produced with special arrangements with Concord Theatricals
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Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood is a story about fighting for what your conscience requires.
The story begins with a young man who believes in nothing but a good time, then comes face to face with the kind of greed and inhumanity that won’t let him sleep at night. Suddenly he’s an outlaw hiding in Sherwood Forest where he joins up with a band of followers including Little John, Friar Tuck, and a feisty adventuress, Maid Marian Fitzwalter, who steals his heart and won’t give it back. This classic story of courage is based on the English ballads of the 14th and 15th centuries and is filled, like its hero, with thrills, romance and a deep belief in social justice.
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All performances held at J. F. Hillyard Middle School Auditorium
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA
Once Upon A Mattress
By Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller
Composer Mary Rodgers
Produced with special arrangements with Concord Theatricals
By Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller
Composer Mary Rodgers
Produced with special arrangements with Concord Theatricals
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Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway. The play was written as a humorous adaptation of the 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
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All performances held at J. F. Hillyard Middle School Auditorium
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA
The Ransom of Red Chief
by O. Henry
Produced with special arrangements with Dramatic Publishing
by O. Henry
Produced with special arrangements with Dramatic Publishing
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Bill and Sam, two petty criminals looking for an easy two thousand dollars, hatch a plot to kidnap and hold for ransom Johnny, the 10-year-old son of Ebenezer Dorset, a wealthy pillar of the community. They pick up the boy and take him to a cave hideout, but there the tables are turned. Calling himself "Red Chief" in a fantasy game of cowboys and Indians, the boy drives both men crazy—but particularly Bill. With nonsensical prattle, childish demands and mild physical abuse, the boy demands they entertain him, refusing to return to his home even when they release him from his captivity out of desperation to be rid of his antics. Nonplussed by this unexpected reaction to their crime, the outlaws write a ransom letter to the boy's father, lowering the requested ransom from two thousand dollars to fifteen hundred. Unfortunately, old man Dorset, who knows that his boy is a terror, rejects their demand and instead offers to take the boy off their hands if they pay him $250. Bruised, disheartened, and their hopes reduced by the trials of parenting, Bill and Sam hand over the cash and trick the unhappy boy into returning to his wealthy father. The elder Dorset restrains his son long enough for the chastened duo to flee town, never to return.
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All performances held at J. F. Hillyard Middle School Auditorium
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA
226 Hawks Hill Drive, Broadway, VA