Hairspray | Lancaster | October 4 - November 2, 2024
Hop back to 1962 Baltimore with Tracy Turnblad, a16-year-old who’s ready to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world? Come find out! Enjoy the upbeat music and charming storyline sure to be a season favorite.
The beloved score of hit songs includes Welcome to the ’60s, Good Morning Baltimore, and You Can’t Stop the Beat.
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The Butler Did It | Harrisburg | September 27-29, 2024
Jenkins, the very proper butler, and Sarah Jane, the fiery Cockney maid, are preparing the Covington household for a visit from Edwina Corry, the world’s greatest mystery author and friend to the Covingtons. Other dinner guests soon arrive, but things soon come unraveled when one of the guests is found stabbed to death in the kitchen. Unfortunately, the evidence is stacked against poor Jenkins from the start, and when the bloody knife is found in his pocket, the guests tie him to a chair and call the police. The only problem? He didn’t do it.
Now he’s got just half an hour to figure out who the real murderer is — all while tied to the chair. Join the HCPAC adult cast and volunteers for High Tea, sandwiches, and murder!
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Clue | York | October 18-27, 2024
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects.
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Little Shop of Horrors | Boiling Springs | October 11 - 27, 2024
Romance! Murder! Doo-wop! Aliens!
A wildly entertaining dark sci-fi musical comedy, Little Shop of Horrors follows the misadventures of a lowly floral shopkeeper who discovers a seemingly harmless new breed of plant (with a secret taste for human blood) that carries ambitions that threaten our hero’s romantic inclinations… and the world!
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Sleeping Beauty | Harrisburg | September 18 - October 5, 2024
Loosely based on the beloved classic, this adaptation will have you “spinning” with laughter. Join our bumbling and fumbling Narrator-Turned-Prince, as he tries his best to rise to heroic heights to save the Princess and the sleeping village caught in the spell cast by Fairy Sour Puss! Modern word play and audience participation make this story a sure hit with the entire kingdom.
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Go Your Own Way: A Celebration of Fleetwood Mac | Harrisburg | September 6-21, 2024
Featuring classics like "Dreams," "Landslide," "Rhiannon," and more, this celebration promises to captivate audiences with its unforgettable melodies and soul-stirring lyrics. Join us for an electrifying tribute to Fleetwood Mac's enduring legacy, performed by a talented cast and accompanied by a dynamic band.
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Boeing Boeing | Camp Hill | September 13-29, 2024
French bachelor Bernard has successfully been juggling three fiancées who all happen to be flight attendants, without the women knowing about each other. But when an unexpected schedule change means all three show up at his Paris apartment at the same time, Bernard must enlist the help of his bemused friend Robert to keep them from discovering his ruse. This 1960s French farce employs slapstick physical comedy to trace one chaotic day in Bernard’s life.
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Cabaret | Harrisburg | September 6 -22, 2024
With the bawdy songs of the infamous Kit-Kat Club’s emcee serving up wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.
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Big- The Musical | York | September 13 -22, 2024
A 1996 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee for Best Musical, Big-The Musical brings the magic and heart of the 1987 Twentieth Century Fox film Big to the stage.
Josh Baskin is sick of being an awkward kid. At a carnival, he makes a wish to the Zoltar machine to become “big.” To his shock, his wish is granted. After an understandably awkward beginning, Josh is forced to do “adult” things, like getting a job and a girlfriend.
In the end, he discovers that there’s much more to being an adult than he bargained for and learns that we must all grow up at our own pace, in our own time.
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The Summer Club | Mt Gretna | August 31, 2024
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Join us for a swinging evening featuring some of your favorite big band music and incredible singing.
Featuring an incredible 17-piece big band, and hits like "That's Life", "Mack the Knife", Come Fly With Me" and so many more, come experience an evening of live music that you’ll never forget!
One Night Only!!
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Dial M For Murder | Mechanicsburg | October 11 - 27, 2024
A new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece!
Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but in his jealousy, Tony spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination and murder.
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The SpongeBob Musical - Youth Edition | Lancaster | July 16 - August 6, 2024
Based on the beloved animated series, the citizens of Bikini Bottom have discovered that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home. SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save their undersea world, resulting in an unexpected hero rising up. The power of optimism really can save the world!
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Madagascar Jr. - A Theatre Harrisburg and Whitaker Center Penguin Project Production | Harrisburg | August 17-18, 2024
Theatre Harrisburg & Whitaker Center for the Science and the Arts partner and present The Penguin Project Harrisburg Chapter’s production of Madagascar Jr.
The Penguin Project was conceived by Dr. Andrew Morgan to give children with disabilities an opportunity to participate in the performing arts. He created The Penguin Project recognizing that theater not only provides children with a valuable recreational experience and an opportunity to display their creative talents, but also enhances social interaction, communication skills, assertiveness, and self-esteem. The Penguin Project strives to demonstrate that individuals with disabilities are fully capable of participating in community activities with the same dedication and enthusiasm as others, if given opportunity and support.
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Mo Willems' 'Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience' | Boiling Springs | August 17-31, 2024
Based on the beloved children’s book by Mo Willems, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience is a charming rock ‘n roll parable that uses energetic songs and quirky characters to encourage young audiences to embrace their originality. Wilbur and all his fellow naked mole rats in the Tunnel have always been, well… naked
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Jersey Boys | Lancaster | August 16 - September 28, 2024
Go behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons! Discover the secret of a 40-year friendship as the foursome work their way from the streets of New Jersey to the heights of stardom. Hear Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Dawn, My Eyes Adored You, and many more!
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lancaster | August 8-16, 2024
Orpheus Theatre presents its imaginative production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A group of amorous Athenians, fearless fairies, and merry mechanicals head to the woods to experience an unforgettable dream of love, magic, and just the right amount of danger in one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies.
Coproduced by The Rock Ford Foundation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed at Historic Rock Ford's barn location.
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The Second Annual Harrisburg Fringe Festival | Harrisburg | July 18-21, 2024
The Second Annual Harrisburg Fringe Festival is a four-day multi-venue event that will feature original performances across multiple theatres and spaces in the city.
Performances will include a spectrum of artistic specialties: dance, comedy, drag, music, film, improv comedy, theater, hip-hop and more.
This year’s event will feature more than 200 artists, 40 productions and 100 performances.
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Great Balls of Fire | Mt Gretna | August 22 - 25, 2024
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
After playing Jerry Lee Lewis in “Million Dollar Quartet” in over 80 cities, Jason Cohen brings his ivory-smashing, high-energy performance to a new theatrical concert. Featuring songs of Lewis’s contemporaries such as Elvis, Cash, and Buddy, as well as the New Orleans and gospel traditions that inspired Lewis, Great Balls of Fire will have the audience dancing, singing, and saying “goodness gracious - when can we buy tickets again?!”
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Every Brilliant Thing | Mt Gretna | August 1-10, 2024
Every Brilliant Thing is a heart-wrenching and hilarious one-man play that will have your belly laughing and your eyes brimming. Based on true and untrue stories and told with the help of the audience, it is a life-affirming story of how to achieve hope through focusing on the smallest miracles of life.
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Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat | Mt Gretna | August 3, 10, 2024
The Cat in the Hat recounts the rainy-day adventures of Sally, her brother, and the most mischievous cat ever! From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears at their door, the Cat and his antics transform the kids’ afternoon.
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