Naples, Fla. (Oct. 17) – Kick off holiday festivities this December with a performance of Home for the Holidays Dec.15-17, TheatreZone’s seventh annual production of its traditional season opener. The popular holiday musical is a feast for the senses with memorable songs, exuberant choreography and colorful costumes.

Home for the Holidays will be performed on Friday and Saturday, December 15 and 16, at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday, December 16 and 17, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $50 to $85, depending on seat selection.

The musical was created by TheatreZone’s founding artistic director, Mark Danni, in 2016. “I wanted to create a fun and festive show to get everyone in the holiday spirit,” Danni said. “It’s also our welcome to the seasonal residents of Southwest Florida returning for the winter and TheatreZone’s 19th season.”

 


Community School of Naples students.

The musical’s cast features 10 kids from ages five to 10 from Community School of Naples, which hosts TheatreZone on its campus in a dedicated building. Joining the adorable children are eight adult professional actors many of whom are members of the Actors’ Equity Association. Together, the cast performs holiday songs and lively dance routines choreographed by TheatreZone’s associate artistic director Karen Molnar Danni.

A seven-piece professional band is directed by Charles Fornara. “Every year, our song lineup changes to mix in modern songs with classics,” Danni said. “New songs this year include “Christmas Morning Feeling” from the movie Spirited, “Disco Santa” and a Blake Shelton-Gwen Steffani duet, “You Make it Feel Like Christmas.”

 


Seven-piece professional band directed by Charles Fornara.

Cast members include TheatreZone favorites Robert Koutras (Rock of Ages, Bright Star); Alex Jorth (Copacabana, 9 to 5); Steve Geyer (Aida, Copacabana); Luke Danni (Mystery of Edwin Drood, Gypsy); Erica Sample (Rock of Ages, Escape to Margaritaville); Maya Senecharles (Heathers); Lindsey Walsh (Home for the Holidays), and Corinne Holland, whom TheatreZone welcomes for her debut performance with the company.

Following each performance, Mark Danni guides a backstage tour for patrons to experience the inner world of theatre. Guests see where actors wait in the wings and the colorful costume areas where performers are transformed into their characters. A special sight is the orchestra area, which is on stage and can accommodate up to seven musicians performing the music for TheatreZone’s productions. Guests can bask in the limelight of center stage and vicariously feel a performer’s excitement.

To buy tickets for Home for Holidays and book a backstage tour, visit www.theatre.zone

Announcing Greater Boston Stage Company's 2023 - 2024 Season

 

WE HAD A GIRL BEFORE YOU

By Trevor Schmidt

U.S. Premiere * Don Fulton New Works Project

October 20 – November 5, 2023

Spine-Tingling Gothic Thriller


 

ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
Written by Peter Rothstein * Vocal Arr. by Erick Lichte & Timothy C. Takach 

December 8-23, 2023

Our 2022 Elliot Norton Award Winning Musical Returns!

 


 

TITANISH
By Jeff Schell & Ryan Dobosh * Music by Mark Siano

East Coast Premiere

March 1-17, 2024

A musical spoof of the movie Titanic. “Near, Far, Wherever You Are” you won’t want to miss it!

 


WHERE WE STAND
By Donetta Lavinia Grays

Foundation Trust Giving Voice Series

April 5-20, 2024

An intimate musical fable about a lonely soul tempted by the devil’s kindness.

 


 

DIAL M FOR MURDER
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Frederick Knott

May 3-19, 2024

A brand new version of the edge-of-your-seat classic celebrated murder mystery.

 


 

GUYS AND DOLLS
Book by Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling * Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser

June 7-30, 2024

Luck Be a Lady Tonight! Join us for Broadway’s greatest romantic musical comedy.

 

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Join The Speakeasy Stage Company for Season 33 (2023 - 2024)

POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE

BY SELINA FILLINGER
DIRECTED BY PAULA PLUM
SEP 15 – OCT 15, 2023

New England Premiere–Direct from Broadway! It’s The Women meets House of Cards in this riotously funny comedy that celebrates the women who keep things running behind the scenes both in — and out — of the Oval Office. Seven brilliant and beleaguered women in the president’s inner circle take increasingly desperate measures to save the country when his sexist and sex-related scandals spark a global crisis. 


 

THE BAND’S VISIT

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY
DAVID YAZBEK

BOOK BY
ITAMAR MOSES

DIRECTED BY
PAUL DAIGNEAULT

MUSIC DIRECTION BY
JOSÉ DELGADO

CHOREOGRAPHY BY
DANIEL PELZIG

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH
THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE

NOV 10 – DEC 10, 2023

Performing at:
The Huntington Theatre
265 Huntington Ave.

Winner! Ten Tony Awards including Best Musical! In this charming, delightfully off-beat musical based on the award-winning film of the same name, a transportation mix-up strands an Egyptian police orchestra overnight in a remote Israeli village. With no lodging available, the locals take the musicians into their homes for the night, where, under the spell of the desert sky, the two groups bond over shared humanity and a love of music. Featuring a transporting mix of musical styles, including jazz, klezmer and Middle Eastern melodies, The Band’s Visit is “one of the most ravishing musicals you’ll ever be seduced by.” (New York Times)


A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

BY SAMUEL D. HUNTER
DIRECTED BY MELINDA LOPEZ
WITH NAEL NACER &
DE’LON GRANT
JAN 26 – FEB 17, 2024

Winner!  Best Play – New York Drama Critics Circle Award!  Inside a cubicle in a bank in Twin Falls, Idaho, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds.  Ryan, who is white and divorced, wants to buy a plot of land that his family used to own in the hopes of making a better life for his daughter.  Keith, who is Black, gay, and also single, is looking to adopt his foster daughter Willa before her relatives can steal her away. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, playwright Samuel D. Hunter commingles these two lives in a story that is both small and big at the same time. 


 

COST OF LIVING

BY MARTYNA MAJOK
DIRECTED BY ALEX LONATI
MAR 8 – 30, 2024

Winner! 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!  In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other.  Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after she suffers a devastating accident. And John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation Princeton graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide. Together these powerful stories comment on the complexity of caring and being cared for, and “the various tendernesses of simply being human.” (The Daily Beast)

 


A STRANGE LOOP

BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY
MICHAEL R. JACKSON

DIRECTED BY
MAURICE EMMANUEL PARENT

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH
FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE

APR 26 – MAY 25, 2024

Winner! 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer.  Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) ANNOUNCES its 2023-2024 SEASON

GASLIGHT

Based on the play by Patrick Hamilton
A new version for the stage by Steven Dietz
Directed by Courtney Sale
Produced in partnership with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
October 18 - November 5

A psychological thriller adapted by Steven Dietz based on the 1939 play by Patrick Hamilton and the 1944 Ingrid Bergman film. Gaslight thrillingly delves into the horrors of psychological abuse, where the truth is fickle for characters and audience alike. With undertones of Sherlock Holmes and film noir, it’s a story replete with mystery, double-crosses, and at its core a statement on the injustice and impact of abuse.

 


A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By Charles Dickens
Written and directed by Courtney Sale
November 29 - December 24

Back by popular demand! Experience Charles Dickens’ timeless story of redemption with new songs, scenes, and surprises. With a nod to Dickens’ time in Lowell and featuring the extraordinary talent of local young artists, A Christmas Carol is the perfect way to capture the spirit of the season and make memories for the future.

 


DISHWASHER DREAMS

Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah
Directed by Chay Yew
February 28 - March 17, 2024

From Bangladesh to New York City, from graffiti crews to baseball games, courageous honesty to emotive humor, Dishwasher Dreams explores the complicated realities of dreams we make for ourselves. When Alaudin sets out to become a film actor in Los Angeles, his Bangladeshi family can’t understand. Driven by laugh out loud writing and accompanied by tablas percussion, Ullah’s edifying and dynamic tour-de-force explores the humor and complexity of the American Dream through a deeply personal story.

 


THE PORCH ON WINDY HILL

Written by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse and David M. Lutken
Conceived and Directed by Sherry Stregack Lutken
April 3 - 21, 2024

A bi-racial Korean classical violinist, Mira, and her music history grad-student boyfriend, Beck, escape months of Covid-isolation to the mountains of North Carolina. Their journey takes a surprising turn when they meet Edgar, and Mira faces a flood of memory, pain, hope, and discovery that follows. A moving, modern American play about family- with enough music for a real ‘hoot ‘n’ holler’ as the cast- Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, and David Lutken perform a dozen traditional and bluegrass gems. The quintessentially American melodies running through The Porch on Windy Hill illuminate a young woman’s complex, contemporary tale of healing.

 


SPIRITUS/VIRGIL'S DANCE

Written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by Neel Keller
May 8 - 26, 2024

In this exploration of the realities of death through the eyes of a watchful and troubled individual, we meet Virgil- a kid who used to hang out in cemeteries with friends. As an adult, Virgil wonders: what does it mean to live a fulfilled life? Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance is an extraordinary meditation on finding purpose in the midst of the ordinariness of daily life.

 

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

September 7 - October 8, 2023

Part 2: Perestroika
by Tony Kushner
directed by Eric Tucker
Co-produced with Bedlam

Director

Eric Tucker* Director

Writer

Tony Kushner Playwright

 


The Rocky Horror Show

October 26 - November 26, 2023

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Richard O’Brien
Directed by Jo Michael Rezes & Lee Mikeska Gardner

Director
Writer

Machine Learning

January 25 - February 25. 2024

by Francisco Mendoza
Directed by Gabriel Vega Weissman
Produced in partnership with Teatro Chelsea

 


Beyond Words

March 14 - April 14, 2024

by Laura Maria Censabella
directed by Cassie Chapados
The Brit d’Arbeloff Women in Science Production
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production

 


next to normal

May 30 - June 23, 2024

Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Co-produced with The Front Porch Arts Collective

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