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2018 Season Tickets go on Sale opening night of "The Crucible!" Sept 29th!
Save 20– 28% Pick any 6 out of 7 Shows! One Low Price!
Join us for our 14th season! All new shows! (Listed below)
Mysteries, Drama, Hysterical Comedy, Side-Splitting Farce! We have it ALL!
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Adults $58.00 (Save 20% One Ticket to any 6 Shows!)
Seniors (55+) &Students 43.00 (Save 28% One Ticket to any 6 Shows!)
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2018 Season! (Full descriptions below)
Feb 2 - Feb 25 Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Nile" (No show Super Bowl Sunday, Feb 4)
March 9- March 25 "Picasso at the Lapine Agile" A comedy by Steve Martin
April 20 - May 13 A Comedy of Tenors Ken Ludwig's hilarious sequel to "Lend Me A Tenor"
June 2-10 To Be Announced - Our 6th Annual All-student production!
Aug 17 - Sept 9 Run for Your Wife! The Hilarious Farce by Ray Cooney
Sept 28 -Oct 14 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Nov 2 - Nov 25 You Can't Take It With You! By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
*No show Black Friday Nov. 23
Feb 2 - Feb 25 - Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Nile"
(No show Super Bowl Sunday, Feb 4)
Directed by Larry Lewis
From the Mistress of Suspense!
Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth, and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile.
Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder.
Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare.
“As slick a vehicle as any theatre company could wish for.” - Leah D. Frank, The New York Times
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French library, Inc. New York, NY.
March 9- March 25 "Picasso at the Lapine Agile"
by Steve Martin
Winner! 1996 Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Off Broadway Play
This long running Off Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism.
These two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso’s agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendiman, and an idiot inventor introduce flourishes of humor.
The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark-haired singer time warped in from a later era.
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French library, Inc. New York, NY.
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April 20 - May 13 A Comedy of Tenors
Ken Ludwig's hilarious sequel to "Lend Me A Tenor"
Directed by David W. Mitchell
One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. What could possibly go wrong?
It's 1930s Paris and the stage is set for the concert of the century—as long as producer Henry Saunders can keep
Italian superstar Tito Merelli and his hot-blooded wife Maria from causing runaway chaos.
Prepare for an uproarious ride, full of mistaken identities, bedroom hijinks, and madcap delight.
"Ken Ludwig is a comedic genius...A Comedy of Tenors is full of non-stop hilarity." - Princeton Found
“From conception to execution, everything about A Comedy of Tenors hits on all comedic cylinders and, as advertised, is laugh-out-loud funny.” - The News-Herald
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French library, Inc. New York, NY.
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June 2-10 To Be Announced -
Our 6th Annual All-student production!
In an effort to further the acting experience of Erie’s talented youth, All An Act is pleased to present our 6th Annual Student production in partnership with The Footlights Theatre.
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Aug 17 - Sept 9 Run for Your Wife!
The Hilarious Farce by Ray Cooney
Directed by Larry Lewis
David W. Mitchell returns one last time as John Smith, a taxi driver that gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular working schedule.
After an unfortunate head injury, his schedule gets confused, his picture in the paper, and complication upon complication piles up as the cabby tries to keep his double life from exploding.
Virtually continuous laughter." - The New York Post
"Audiences will enjoy the show tremendously." - The New York Daily News
"A laugh a minute!" -WABC-Radio
"I was exhausted from laughing so hard." -WMCA-Radio
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French library, Inc. New York, NY.
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Sept 28 -Oct 14 Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by David W. Mitchell
One of William Shakespeare’s most produced plays!
William Shakespeare's Hamlet follows the young prince Hamlet home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral.
Hamlet is shocked to find his mother already remarried to his Uncle, the dead king's brother Claudius
Hamlet is even more surprised when his father's ghost appears and declares that he was murdered.
Many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's work, and the perfect play.
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Nov 2 - Nov 25 You Can't Take It With You!
By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Directed by KC McCloskey
*No show Black Friday Nov. 23
One of the most popular and successful plays of modern times!
The Sycamores seem mad, but we soon realize that the rest of the world is madder. Tony, the young son of the Kirby’s, is in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at her home on the wrong evening.
The shocked Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, tell Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores find it hard to realize Alice’s point of view.
Strange activities in the house include the manufacture of fireworks, and the grandfather who tells the tax collector he doesn’t believe in income tax.
**Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, New York, NY.