The 2024 Season
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
by Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe
Directed and performed by Curtis Jackson, Assisted by Jennifer Norton
March 29 & 30, 7:00 PM at Homer Council On the Arts:
THE STORY: You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.
“EVERY BRILLIANT THING” is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
Luve’s Like a Melodie
A Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus Concert
Directed by Kyle Schneider
and Guest Director Mark Robinson
April 30, 7:00 PM at the Homer High School Mariner Theatre
P.C. Christopher Kincaid
HARVEY
by Mary Chase
Winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Directed by Val Sheppard
May 17 - June 1 at the Spit Theatre:
THE STORY: Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.
HARVEY is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
A Youth Theatre/Mud Bay Bards Production
Directed by Kathleen Gustafson
June 20-30 at the Spit Theatre:
THE STORY: The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet's opponent and Hamlet himself are all killed.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY - A NEW MUSICAL
Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice • Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Orchestrations by Larry Hochman • Based on the characters by Charles Addams
Directed by Jennifer Norton & Eric Simondsen
July 11-28 at the Spit Theatre:
THE STORY: A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
The Addams Family is presented through special arrangement with and all authorised performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas , suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com
FALSTAFF AND THE ENDLESS MACHINE
By Jared Michael Delaney
Directed by Brian Duffy
August 8-18 at the Spit Theatre:
THE STORY: A young Jack Falstaff wants nothing more than to be a knight in the king’s service, to prove his valor and worth to his fellows at the Boar’s Head Tavern and himself. But when enlisted in service, he is faced with hard choices between friendship and duty, love and the law, honor and orders. Cynics aren’t born, they’re made. A possible history of Shakespeare’s legendary creation.
Produced with permission from the playwright.
TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
A selection of new, unpublished works, on stage for the first time.
Produced by Christine Kulcheski and Rudy Multz
Writing workshop facilitated by Kate Rich
DETAILS TO COME.
August 19- September 1 at the Spit Theatre:
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Based on Sholem Aleichem Stories by special permission of Arnold Perl
Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Jennifer Norton & Mark Robinson
October 10-20 at the Homer High School Mariner Theatre
THE STORY: Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler on the Roof's universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.