Our Exciting 50th Season!tickets
All shows are Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm.
Honky Tonk Angels
by Ted Swindley
June 10th - 13th, 17th - 20th
Featuring songs like "Stand by Your Man," "Coal Miner’s Daughter," "9 to 5," "I Will Always Love You," "Harper Valley PTA," and others made famous by country greats like Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette, Honky Tonk Angels is a tribute to the queens of country music that the whole family can enjoy. Sue Ellen is a twice-divorced blonde bombshell living in L.A. Angela is a housewife who longs for excitement. Darlene is just a young southern girl with stars in her eyes. What do these three have in common? Their big dreams of country music stardom! Laugh, sing, and dance along with the ladies as they hit the road to Nashville and transform from three separate dreamers in to the Honky Tonk Angels!
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
by Jeff Daniels
June 24th - 27th
Award winning actor Jeff Daniels pens a “buck story” you have to see to believe. The Soady Family, Albert and sons Remnar and Reuben, spend each and every opening day of each and every hunting season in their family deer camp just outside of Escanaba, Michigan. For as long as they've been going there, one thing has remained certain: Rebuen will come home empty handed. This year Reuben is determined to change his fate before he becomes the oldest Soady in the history of the family never to bag a buck! Can aliens, Native American spirits, or even God help Reuben end his life long curse? Find out in this wacky, can't-miss, hysterical comedy!
Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
July 1st - 4th
The action of Steel Magnolias is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Praised for its accurate depiction of the regulars who frequent the salon, the play draws on the underlying strength—and love— of its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. Truvy, M'Lynn, Clairee, Ouiser, Shelby, and Annelle will likely remind you of many of the women you know and love. Witty and touching, how the women lean on each other in times of triumph and tragedy make for a truly enchanting experience.
Curse of the Doom Mine, or Who Got the Shaft?
by Matt Graber and Adam Pockross
July 8th - 11th, 15th - 18th
The Melodrama returns to the Shawnee stage! Shawnee favorite Kevin Lee Guthridge returns to MC The Curse of the Doom Mine. A truly unique Shawnee theatergoing experience the Melodrama mixes all the fun of a Mel Brooks movie and with all the cheesy jokes your uncle may have told. An incredibly fun experience where the audience becomes part of the show as they boo the villain, cheer the hero and get to throw tomatoes at the actors…we mean plush tomatoes, don’t bring your own! Get ready to launch those tomatoes at the villainous Chase Morgan, an evil banker attempting to steal the great bounty the Doom Mine! Root on the handsome hero and the beautiful heroin as you go down into a mine filled with music, laughter and lots of puns! Prospectors, miners, heroes, and heroines make this Shawnee tradition a wonderful treat for parents and kids alike. It’s running for two weekends so you can come once, twice, or more!
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
by Steven Dietz
July 22nd - 25th
Sherlock Holmes, literature's greatest detective is near the end of his career, but one last case remains to be cracked. Holmes is determined to thwart and capture his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, for the final time. Joined by his loyal partner Dr. Watson, Holmes sets out on an adventure that leads him up and down the streets of London, the mountains of Europe and more. A modern re-telling of the classic by Arthur Conan Doyle this play is a mystery, a comedy, and an action thriller all in one! “The Games afoot Watson, and it’s a dangerous one!”
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
July 29th - August 1st
One of the most popular plays of the last century, The Man Who Came to Dinner is a zany, frenetic comedy by theatre's most famous play writing team. Outlandish Radio wit, Sheridan Whiteside is invited to dinner at the home of Ernest W. Stanley but before he can enter the house, slips on ice and injures his hip, forcing him to be bedridden in the home for weeks. Weeks turn into months as the radio host begins to take over the Stanleys' home, their staff and starts to meddle in the lives of all who surround him. Featuring a cast of wonderful characters, 10 actors will portray 36 different hilarious roles!