Shows at Central Hall

The Dance of Hands

The Dance of Hands

Lloyd is the cameraman at Channel 7 News in Northern Michigan. Debbie is the attractive new anchor. The only way to win her heart is through the age-old battle of Roshambo. An original story about the strange and seedy world of underground rock, paper, scissors tournaments that includes everything you’d expect from a comedy: romance, villainy, sports, dancing and competitive eating… 

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

The Addams Family. This Broadway smash-hit explodes on stage with dynamic dance numbers and memorable songs. In the Addams’ upside-down world, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams… 

ANTics

ANTics

Take a peek into the amusing world of ants. This show breaks the ant farm out of the jar and brings you face-to-face with the hubbub and humour of these capricious critters. Experience their silly escapades in a series of original vignettes presented through pantomime and music… 

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers For Algernon’s the compelling story of Charlie, an intellectually challenged man and the strange interweaving of his life with that of Algernon, a mouse. Experimental surgery has been performed on Algernon, increasing his intelligence fourfold… 

Tales of Neverland

Tales of Neverland

Make way for the Lost Boys! Join Wendy, Michael and John as they are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Watch as they tangle with vicious pirates and cheer for the boy who never grew up… 

Witches?! In Salem!?

Witches?! In Salem!?

A brand new play by off-Broadway’s Puffs playwright Matt Cox. Two very real witches find themselves living in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692. They are confused. Atrocities and hilarity ensue… 

Hamluke

Hamluke

‘A long time ago in a castle far, far away…’ The vision of Ghosty Wan Kenobi ignites young Hamluke and the audience onto an epic journey of betrayal, revenge and tragedy in this hilarious, high energy mash-up! Hamluke is the celebrated comedy that pulls the poetic language from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and mixes it with the beloved characters and exciting visuals from Star Wars to create a surprising realm filled with droids, alien creatures, lightsabre duels and theatre magic! Written by Brad Erickson and produced by the Stillwater Area High School theatre department. 

The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

In Shakespeare’s romance, led by women’s sagacity and the vitality of youth, we are guided out of the breach of things dying to a rebirth into the miracle of art and nature, love and redemption… 

The Misadventures of Martin Hathaway

The Misadventures of Martin Hathaway

This stage adaptation of Kathryn Clare Glen’s novel begins as a hapless, young history teacher on the verge of major life changes falls through space and time to land on Airship Captain Daisy McNamara Fitzgerald’s coffee table – the most self-assured female he’s ever met… 

Adventures of a Comic Book Artist

Adventures of a Comic Book Artist

Stanley ‘Leonardo’ Sappovitz wants to become a comic book artist. He gets a job as a janitor at Wonder Comics in hope of getting discovered by his boss, DC Wunderman. DC invests in magical pens guaranteed to bring comic book characters his artists create to life, hoping to revolutionise the comic book industry, but his plan turns sour when his artists unwittingly unleash the dreaded Dr Shock Clock who reeks mayhem in the city… 

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen’s classic tale of Peer Gynt and his journey through life as he struggles and experiences everything to find himself: trolls, power, love, death and a bargain with a Button Molder… 

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! 

The Giver

The Giver

In a dystopian society, a child is selected to meet with The Giver to learn about the undocumented memories of the past. What the child learns will ultimately change the course of this society… 

All in the Timing

All in the Timing

Get ready for word-bending, thought-provoking, side-splitting comedy. Whether exploring the minefields of modern relationships, looking at how a post-modern composer might go shopping, or wondering whether three chimps with typewriters really could write Hamlet, David Ives’ one-acts will keep you thinking – and laughing… 

Where Are the Walls

Where Are the Walls

It happened so slowly, nobody notices. Or, it happened so fast, it felt it had always been. They paid the unmentioned price. Victims of their own brilliance: the cliché epitaph that is, was… 

Boxed Out

Boxed Out

In response to the #MeToo movement, Boxed Out uses verbatim (or interview-based theatre) to explore how people of all ages are experiencing gender, gender norms and gender stereotypes in this current moment… 

The Battle of Kuamo'o

The Battle of Kuamo'o

Presented through Hawaiian hula, chant, and song, this opera dramatises the battle between the chief, Kekuaokalani, who wanted to hold onto the ancient Hawaiian religion, and Liholiho, the young king, who wanted to part from the old and lead his people into the modern world… 

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz. Soon he will be known around the world. 1947: Edinburgh Festival Fringe is born in the streets of Edinburgh… 

Urinetown: The Musical

Urinetown: The Musical

Scathing satire and winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown takes us to a time of permanent drought. It parodies traditional musicals – see how many you can identify – as the two young lovers struggle to overcome the tyrannical Urine Good Company, which makes citizens pay to pee… 

Ashes

Ashes

Floyd Central’s production of Ashes by Chris Bundy takes a post-mortem look at death and the life our remains might have in our absence. Irreverent and witty, this new play laughs in the face of death (and sneezes too)… 

Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age

Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age

Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age is a new work inspired by real-life occurrences in the life of Rowlett High School students. Our website has more information about our journey creating the show and the events inspiring its creation. 

Brollies and Bumbershoots

Brollies and Bumbershoots

Brollies and Bumbershoots. Where would Mary Poppins be without her umbrella as a means of transport? For that matter, the umbrella has proven a painter’s muse for centuries, not to mention a weapon adopted by the fair sex to defend themselves from ruffians and hooligans... 

Shadow Hour

Shadow Hour

In the creepy traditions of the classic American television shows The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery, this collection of medieval tales comes to bone-chilling life in a journey into the unknown... 

Intro to Chicano History: 101

Intro to Chicano History: 101

From the deep-rooted traditions of Chicano Teatro – a little Brechtian agitprop, Mexican vaudeville and social justice street theatre, we bring you this exploration and celebration of the history and culture of Mexican Americans, told through comedy, music, and drama... 

Big Love

Big Love

Big Love – Charles Mee's adaption of Aeschylus' The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality. Fifty women, arranged to be married, escape their bondage in search of independence... 

Romeo and/or Juliet

Romeo and/or Juliet

Ryan North’s hilarious choose-your-own-adventure-style version of Hamlet, To Be Or Not To Be, first published in 2013, proved so successful that in 2016 Romeo and/or Juliet followed... 

Outside the Box

Outside the Box

Portland, Maine. October 12th, 2010. The students of Williamson High are putting on Macbeth. They’ve been rehearsing for months, but were they working hard, or hardly working? When two castmates begin to realize their feelings for one another, all hell breaks loose... 

Bakkhai

Bakkhai

Alternating dialogue with Bakkhic women's odes of song and speak chorus, this new version of Euripides' text by Anne Carson brings Greek tragedy to life. Dionysos weaves his spell in the land of Thebes, seeking revenge on those who refuse to honor him... 

H2O: A Play About Water

H2O: A Play About Water

Water is the essence of life. 71% of our planet is covered in water. Our bodies are 70% water. The oceans are rising. Drought afflicts millions. Water heals and water soothes. Water kills and water revives... 

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

Join Meg and her band of misfits on a voyage through time and space. Strange creatures and magical lands unfold as our heroes bravely battle evil forces. Can they save the universe from darkness? The New Players Company from Ridgewood, NJ is back with a theatrical version of the classic novel (and blockbuster movie) A Wrinkle in Time... 

Peter and the Starcatcher

Peter and the Starcatcher

The boy who wouldn’t grow up. We know this boy. Pan. Peter Pan. But how did this nameless orphan get his name? How did Captain Hook lose his hand? How did Tinkerbell teach Pan to fly? Why does that pesky crock tick? Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the novel of the same name, answers all of these questions in an adventure tale full of fun, music, mischief, a dancing mermaid or two, love, loss and growing up... 

Get Off the Couch

Get Off the Couch

A story of love, self-discovery, mental illness and ultimately taking responsibility for your own life. We follow three teens through therapy sessions, school days and new relationships: Gwen Bradman, the seemingly perfect girl; Jackson Powell, the boy who is stuck; and Cameron Shaw, a boy struggling with autism and a family who doesn’t understand him... 

Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams is a performance art piece filled with intellectual, stimulating and surprising movement inspired by Alan Lightman's bestselling novel. At the beginning of the play, we discover young Einstein in 1905... 

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten shows you don't have to use a chalkboard to teach what we've known all along. Simple truths. Simple discoveries. Simply charming... 

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro

Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation that would later become known as the Czech Kindertransport. Chiaroscuro tells the story of both Winton’s remarkable and selfless act of heroism and the extraordinary journey of one particular group of children he saved. 

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses is a lyrical journey through Ovid’s classic tales, told through the fresh eyes of Mary Zimmerman. Using elements of physical theatre, the actors are able to transform the practical into the extraordinary... 

Seussical Jr

Seussical Jr

Following the plot of Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss, you will be transported to a truly "seussified" world where you will be confronted with the power of loyalty and friendship! The Cat in the Hat narrates the story of Horton the Elephant, who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny Whos... 

The Witches of Walderzeit

The Witches of Walderzeit

What makes a woman a witch? Who decides? Is it magical powers? Or are they simply women who dared to reject the status quo? In a forest where time moves as it wants, nine women, all accused of some form of defiance, come forward to tell their truths... 

This Is Me

This Is Me

Get to know us. Not the twelve teenagers you think you see, but twelve individuals, each with a unique point of view. We invite you to read our minds, to listen to our secrets, to watch us dance, hear our songs and our spoken word... 

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Can you spell H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S? The Tony Award-winning musical comedy, the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to town! Six awkward tweens vie for the coveted spelling championship in this fast-paced, musical comedy... 

Girls Like That

Girls Like That

Buzz. Click. Pop. Flash. An email. A message. When a naked photograph of Scarlett gets sent to everyone in her small school and goes viral, she becomes the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons... 

Mercy Me

Mercy Me

Mercy Me. In 1885, a special school was created in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Founded by women, for women, this all-girls school centered itself around four values: social justice, spirituality, community, and service... 

Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale

Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale

Detailed, charismatic and humorous, State High Thespian Troupe’s take on the classic Grimm’s fairy tale is an accessible musical for all the family. Though it is hampered by its length and some performances are stronger than others, jaunty songs and snappy choreography keep the show pacy and plot-driven... 

Avery Pierson

Avery Pierson

In this modern interpretation of the classic morality play Everyman, Avery Pierson discovers that she is to be taken away by death. This contemporary reworking tackles society's relationship with social media, family life, consumerism and much more. 

Medea

Medea

Medea by Euripides is a classic Greek tragedy that follows the myth of Jason and Medea. After Jason leaves Medea for a Greek princess, Medea plans to take vengeance on Jason by murdering his new wife and children. 

Reeling

Reeling

Reeling follows our plucky protagonist, Little Fellow, as he heads to the big city to make something of himself, and winds up in a motion picture studio where he is mistaken for the big-shot director... 

Alice and the Black Hole Blues

Alice and the Black Hole Blues

This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptions about women and science... 

Guys and Dolls Jr

Guys and Dolls Jr

Based on the legendary musical comedy classic about rolling the dice and falling in love under the lights of Broadway, this may be the perfect musical comedy! Set in Damon Runyon’s NYC in the 1940s... 

Deleted

Deleted

A veteran teacher, Edna Stubbs, stumbles across a device that allows her to alter her classroom based on a student's performance or life decisions. Feeling powerful, she keeps a notebook of her problem students and begins to justify each deletion... 

An Actor's Tribute

An Actor's Tribute

An Actor's Tribute combines new writing with devised content and improv to create a piece of theatre that explores the highs and lows of life from an actor’s point of view. It’s become a tradition for students at Oxbridge to perform variations on the theme of an actor’s tribute, and because the content is guided by the students, each year’s production is unique... 

The Addams Family: A New Musical

The Addams Family: A New Musical

The spooky and kooky Addams Family comes to life in this outrageous musical comedy. The father, Gomez, has to come to terms with daughter Wednesday falling in love with a "normal" boy Lucas Beineke... 

All the King's Women

All the King's Women

The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar, to President Richard Nixon‘s office, from Andy Warhol’s studio to a Graceland guard, this is a touching comedy with a heart, exposing some of the not so famous moments of an infamous life... 

Room

Room

Under the direction of Brian Feigenbaum, Lawrence Academy Dance returns for its fifth Fringe. Devised, contemporary modern dance at its core, LA Dance brings original, emotionally charged movement to the stage... 

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

One of the most beautiful and timeless shows ever written, Fiddler on the Roof is a wonderful tale of traditions, culture, displacement and loss. The villagers of Anarevka must face the ever changing world of family and politics while trying to keep their way of life together... 

Hamlettes

Hamlettes

Middle school Shakespeare enthusiasts Alexandra and Chloe decide to start a theatre club and Hamlet will be their first project. Bossy Alexandra will play Hamlet (obviously), which leaves aspiring actress Chloe with every other character... 

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum!

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum!

Sondheim’s fast-paced lyrics are hard to perform well, even for an experienced Broadway star, and it is rare that I have seen an amateur production that manages to do him justice... 

Volition

Volition

If you could change one decision from your past, would you do it? If your answer is yes, we at Volition Inc may be able to help. Volition, a new play, questions the place of regret in our lives. 

Pinkalicious the Musical

Pinkalicious the Musical

Based on the international bestseller, Pinkalicious the Musical is a delicious romp for children of all ages. Colourful, comedic and sweet, this show is sprinkled with valuable lessons about family, balance and friendships... 

The America Project

The America Project

As Americans, who have we been and who are we now? Through a collage of song, scene and verbatim text, we explore our identity as a nation and attempt to answer where do we go from here?  

An Extract from Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play

An Extract from Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play

A darkly comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In Victorian England, repressed impulses burst their corsets as Dr Jekyll's experiments in the nature of evil threaten to reveal the bloody hands beneath the gloves of the British Empire... 

War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast

War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast

Seven actors perform 40 roles in this radio show adaptation of HG Wells’s classic sci-fi thriller about a Martian invasion of Earth. In 1938, Orson Welles dramatised the story in an infamous broadcast that terrified Americans, who mistook the radio program for an actual news report... 

The Sneeze

The Sneeze

The Sneeze is a collection of hilarious short plays by the great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn. Among history’s most celebrated dramatists next to Shakespeare, Chekhov wrote plays that could expose our deepest fears and longings while leaving us laughing through the tears... 

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing... 

Somebody Catch My Homework

Somebody Catch My Homework

Samantha has just moved into town and is looking forward to her first day of fourth grade, when her cat, Corky, runs away from home. Glumly, Samantha makes her way to school, meeting her quirky and loveable classmates along the way... 

Play On!

Play On!

Play On! is the hilarious story of a theatre group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong, does... 

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing... 

The Tempest

The Tempest

From our metaphorical island on the landlocked, rolling plains of Montana, our players transport you to Shakespeare’s Elizabethan shore! Spirited, fun, and physical; this engaging comedy revels in some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and thoughtful language... 

The Marowitz Hamlet

The Marowitz Hamlet

To be or not to be? That is but one question of many explored in this exciting, visually stunning production. Think you know Hamlet? Experience Charles Marowitz's revolutionary Hamlet collage, a deep dive into one of the most debated brains in all of literature!  

Almost, Maine

Almost, Maine

A small northern Maine town. Nine interconnected scenes that delve into the powerful hold love has on us all. Almost, Maine is a play about love in all its intricacies. It is about holding on to love, letting go of love and discovering love in many different ways... 

A Picture's Worth Five Dollars

A Picture's Worth Five Dollars

Disturbing the peace. Assault. Police. Utility belts. Laser pointers. Liberty. A homeless ghost. A tutu-d fairy. This original satire from the Kansas City Fringe Festival promises to excite, humor, intrigue, question and entertain... 

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Exploring all of the potential love triangles the original story has to offer, the world's most beloved couple receives a fresh, re-imagined staging as told through the eyes of the teenagers surrounding the doomed love affair. 

For the Record

For the Record

It’s been 40 years since NASA sent the Voyager I and II and their Golden Records on their intergalactic journey. An opportunity to send a new spacecraft farther and faster has become a reality and NASA wants to hear from you... 

International Shalom Festival Gala Concert

International Shalom Festival Gala Concert

The International Shalom Festival is a celebration of the diverse culture, music, art, dance and food of Israel aiming to build cultural bridges and develop international friendship... 

Dreamkeepers

Dreamkeepers

It is not often that a show has me grinning even before it has begun. From the squeaky and adorable Tiffle greeting the audience at the entrance, to the quaint set design and Vivaldi’s charming Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings strumming in the background, Dreamkeepers seems to possess all the ingredients for a fun and friendly hour of children’s theatre... 

Simply Soweto Encha

Simply Soweto Encha

‘Ten-legged, ten-armed, five-headed creative beast’ (FringeReview.co.uk). ‘True sound sensation you don’t want to miss’ (ThePublicReviews.com). Simply Soweto Encha are a five-piece a cappella group combining gospel, soul, jazz, doo-wop, and r’n’b in both African and popular styles... 

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Magic is in the air and Geppeto's newest creation, a small wooden puppet, has more life in him than Geppeto bargained for! Full of mischief as well as life, Pinocchio gets himself into more and more trouble... 

Help Yourself

Help Yourself

With three successful Fringe shows under their belt, Edinburgh’s Foolproof Theatre is offering something bigger, louder, funnier and more thought-provoking than ever. Join them as they take a sideways look at injustice at home and abroad... 

Building Emily Warren: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge

Building Emily Warren: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge

Award-winning Thespian Troupe #7892 presents an original musical on the life and times of Emily Warren Roebling, the first woman field engineer. Website includes bios of the cast and crew, photos and videos from rehearsals, historical information, and song samples. 

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