Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things follows the relationships between an anonymous advice columnist named Sugar and the many real-life readers who pour out their hearts to her.
Based on the true story of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, who became stars during the Great Depression. Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary connection brings them fame but denies them love. Told almost entirely in song, the show follows Violet and Daisy’s life from the sideshows of England to America, and from vaudeville to 1930’s Hollywood.
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Join us for a little “down home” laughter as we look back in history to a time when the tales were as big as the American imagination! This show features the tales of Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue, John Henry and Paul Bunyan and uses many volunteers from the audience to help tell these tall tales from our American heritage.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including In My Own Little Corner, Impossible/It’s Possible and Ten Minutes Ago, alongside an up-to-date, hilarious, and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane. This version features new characters, surprising twists, and new songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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As the sun rises on the Arable’s farm, Fern Arable discovers that her father is planning on killing the runt of the litter of pigs born during the night. She runs to save it and persuades her father to let her keep the pig, whom she names Wilbur. Wilbur is taken to the farm of her uncle, Homer Zuckerman, where he meets the other farmyard animals.
However, Wilbur is lonely without a special friend of his own...that is, until he meets Charlotte—a spider. Charlotte decides to save Wilbur from the fate of all other pigs, and she begins to spin the words “Some Pig” in her web. When her words are discovered, the Zuckermans realize the potential for publicity and financial reward.
This production features the student actors of The OSHKids Performance Company.
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One of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Macbeth is a swiftly moving nightmare, which follows the terrifying rise and fall of the Macbeths, a Scottish lord and lady, turned ruthless King and Queen.
Recommended for ages 12 and up, the production is extremely accessible, employing Gamut’s unique educational engagement style of combining Shakespeare’s original text with modern “narrations” to bridge the most famous scenes from the play together into an easy-to-understand story. One weekend only.
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Deep in the jungles of India, an infant “man cub” is adopted by a pack of wolves and raised as their own. The wolves name the child Mowgli, who grows under the watchful eyes of Bagheera the panther and Baloo the sloth bear, who must train the cub in the Laws of the Jungle. But not even their strict guidance can protect Mowgli from riotous monkeys, the vicious man-eating tiger Shere Khan, and the most fearsome animal of all - man.
This much-beloved classic by Rudyard Kipling shows us the importance of family, respect for nature, and what it means to be human.
An evening of improvisational comedy, featuring the area’s most beloved improv theatre troupes. Harrisburg Improv Theatre, The Oxymorons, and Gamut’s own TMI can be seen in one location at one event. Audience members choose from a menu of unique 20-minute performances throughout the evening. Don’t miss the Grand Finale - where we mix and match performers from all three troupes!
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During World War II, Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. As a result of a scandal involving defective parts that resulted in the deaths of a number of soldiers, Deever was sent to prison. His partner Keller went free and went on to make a lot of money. This catastrophe is compounded by the fact that the Keller’s young son was reported missing in action.
The love affair of Keller’s other son and Ann Deever, and the bitterness of George Deever, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father’s business partner free, all set the stage for a story of accountability, consequences, and unbearable guilt.
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Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred, connect in an imaginary encounter in a place called Memory, drawing startling similarities between their harrowing experiences at the hands of societies that couldn't protect them.
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, wanting to escape their day-to-day mundane lives, are drawn together by fate (an impromptu happy hour) and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
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Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great).
In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.
Open Stage presents its 23rd annual production of the highly acclaimed, award-winning play. One of the most famous and haunting stories to emerge from the 20th Century, the memoirs of a young Jewish girl, forced to hide for nearly two years to escape Nazi persecution, are an essential part of how we remember one of the darkest periods of our human history. Performances will be held at the Scottish Rite, 2701 N. 3rd Street, Harrisburg.
Poor Jack! He’s got to use his wits to save himself from the terrible Giant, but a host of familiar fairytale characters keep messing up his plans— and then there’s that annoying Stinky Cheese Man! The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, based on the beloved book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, deconstructs the tradition of the fairy tale. Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and Goldilocks meets the Three Elephants. Nothing is quite the same as you remember it!
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Thistle & Salt is a performance of 2 one-act plays (Riders to the Sea; In the Shadow of the Glen) by Irish playwright and essayist, John Millington Synge. Sometimes described as "poetic realism," Synge wrote about the reality of the Ireland that he knew, not a romanticized one. Presented by Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company.
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Scotland, 1616. A dark and stormy night brings a priest to the Fenton's door. He is not the first unwelcome visitor- darkness lurks within.
Coproduced by The Rock Ford Foundation, Pyre will be performed at Historic Rock Ford's barn location (located at 881 Rockford Rd, Lancaster, PA 17602).
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The outrageous, uproarious, and gloriously entertaining story of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake will delight audiences as they search for the Holy Grail and “always look on the bright side of life.”
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TMI, Gamut Theatre’s in-house improv team, returns to the stage for its first ever show of the new year! One night only!
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Join Open Stage for a gothic musical experience with the reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, accompanied by an original score by Tony Wayne. Part concert and part concept album, this new musical experience is a perfect winter chill and premieres at Open Stage.
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A powerful story about family, redemption, growth and loss, Sondheim and Lapine’s masterpiece shows us what happens after “happily ever after.” When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell. What follows is one of musical theatre’s most epic stories, featuring fairy tales’ most familiar faces. With a small cast, one piano and boundless imagination, Open Stage’s witty and wild reinvention is sure to be a magical trip “into the woods, and out of the woods, and home before dark!”
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