County Players at the Falls Theatre

Season 66

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ON GOLDEN POND
By ERNEST THOMPSON
Directed by BILL PECKHAM

JULY 2023
Fri & Sat 8pm | July 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22
Sun Matinee 2pm | July 16
Sat Matinee 2pm | July 22

On Golden Pond is a humorous and heartwarming play about love, reconnection, and family. After an unexpected relationship blooms, a family reunites during an unforgettable summer. Come back to the pond one more time and see this American classic.

On Golden Pond is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC,
servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

“. . . a work of rare simplicity and beauty . . .”
NY DAILY NEWS

“Why can’t you just pick berries and catch
fish and read books, and enjoy this sweet,
sweet time?”
ETHEL, ON GOLDEN POND

 

CALENDAR GIRLS
By TIM FIRTH
Based on the Miramax motion picture by
JULIETTE TOWHIDI and TIM FIRTH
Directed by JAMES STEINMEYER

SEPTEMBER 2023
Fri & Sat 8pm | Sept 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
Sun Matinee 2pm | Sept 17
Sat Matinee 2pm | Sept 23

Based on the true story of eleven older women who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest-selling play in British theatre history.

Calendar Girls presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com

“It makes you laugh; it makes you cry, and it leaves you feeling better about life than you did when you entered the theatre.”
THE TELEGRAPH

“One moment the dressing gown was on, the next it was just me and the hat.”
JESSIE, CALENDAR GIRLS

 

OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

THE CAKE
By BEKAH BRUNSTETTER
Directed by BRITTANY PROIA

A celebrated North Carolina baker is thrilled to finally design a wedding cake for her goddaughter. But when she learns the marriage is between two women, she begins to feel conflicted. A surprising and sweet take on a modern-day controversy, steeped in humor and warmth.

The Cake is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of  Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com

 

OCTOBER 14 & 15, 2023
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

THE NEW CENTURY
By PAUL RUDNICK
Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER

When the playwright is Paul Rudnick, expectations are geared for a play both hilarious and smart, and The New Century is no exception. It is a provocative and outrageous comedy, featuring a collection of hilarious characters.

The New Century is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

 

THE HUMANS
By STEPHEN KARAM
Directed by ANDREW KARL

NOVEMBER 2023
Fri & Sat 8pm | Nov 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18
Sun Matinee 2pm | Nov 12
Sat Matinee 2pm | Nov 18

It’s the small dinner party that made big waves on Broadway about a fractured family at its not-so-finest. A bold, bruised, and billowing comedy, The Humans layers the fabric of a family’s past as they gather at the New York Chinatown apartment of the youngest daughter and her boyfriend for a holiday meal.

The Humans is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

“Terrific . . . crackling with joy and sadness. It is an absolute triumph”
ASSOCIATED PRESS

“There’s enough going on in the real world to give me the creeps.”
DEIRDRE, THE HUMANS

 

DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2023
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

FREUD’S LAST SESSION
By MARK ST. GERMAIN
Directed by JAMES STEINMEYER

The first of September 1939. Sigmund Freud, the world-renowned psychoanalyst awaits the visit of soon to be legendary author C.S. Lewis on the day World War 2 is declared. The impending war and Freud’s failing health catalyzes a far deeper conversation as they clash about the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life.

 

 

Freud’s Last Session is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

 

DECEMBER 2 & 3, 2023
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER

In 1912, scientist Marie Curie spent two months on the British seaside at the home of Hertha Ayrton, an accomplished mathematician, inventor, and suffragette. At the time, Curie was in the throes of a scandal in France over her affair with Paul Langevin, which threatened to overshadow the accomplishment of her second Nobel Prize.

 

The Half-Life of Marie Curie is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

 

AN IDEAL HUSBAND
By OSCAR WILDE
Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER

FEBRUARY 2024
Fri & Sat 8pm | Feb 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
Sun Matinee 2pm | Feb 18
Sat Matinee 2pm | Feb 24

This witty and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. An ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured until Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery.

“Incredibly funny.”
THE TELEGRAPH

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons.”
CHILTERN, AN IDEAL HUSBAND

 

MARCH 8 & 9, 2024
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

PHOTOGRAPH 51
By ANNA ZIEGLER
Directed by KIT COLBOURN

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Crick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure, yet it was Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what’s called “the secret of life.”

 

Photograph 51 is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. dramatists.com

 

MARCH 9 & 10, 2024
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

SILENT SKY
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS

A decade before women gained the right to vote, Henrietta Leavitt and her fellow women “computers” transformed the science of astronomy. While at the Harvard Observatory, Leavitt found 2,400 new variable stars and made important discoveries about their fluctuating brightness, enabling fellow scientists to map the Milky Way and beyond.

 

Silent Sky is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. dramatists.com

 

RAGTIME, THE MUSICAL
Book by TERRENCE MCNALLY
Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS
Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Based on the novel, Ragtime by E.L. DOCTOROW
Directed by ANNA MARIE PAOLERCIO

MAY 2024
Fri & Sat 8pm | May 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18
Sun Matinee 2pm | May 12, 19
Sat Matinee 2pm | May 18

This musical tapestry depicts an African-American family, a Jewish immigrant family, and a wealthy white suburban family in turn-of-the-century America, who collide in pursuit of the American Dream. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards® including “Best Musical,” and winning for “Best Original Score” and “Best Book of a Musical,” Ragtime is a powerful portrait of life during the turn-of-thecentury, exploring America’s timeless contradictions of freedom and prejudice, wealth, and poverty, hope and despair.

Ragtime is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY. MTIShows.com

“A triumph for the stage.”
TIME MAGAZINE

“Nothing much happens in a year. The world will not
spin off its axis. Nothing will change, Mother. We will
miss each other but the world will stay the same.”
TERRENCE MCNALLY, RAGTIME