Current productions

January 5 - 14

The Teddy Bear Awards, a musical play by Peter Schmidt (with cameo appearance by B'way and Off-B'way legend Jeff Weiss) follows Valley students, parents, directors, school board members and international conspirators in their mad pursuit of the Teddy Award for "Awesomest Musical Ever this Year." Local business leaders Jocko's Doggies and the SmokeStaxx Casino are proud to sponsor this song-and-dance, sturm-und-drang multimedia extravaganza, which will be presented in the cabaret setting of the Red Door Cafe in Seegers Union at Muhlenberg College.

by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
March 22 – April 7

By now a comedy classic, Complete Works is a three-actor romp through the Bard's plays, full of parody, improvisation and farce. Among its many wacky wonders are Othello done as a rap song, Titus Andronicus portrayed as a cooking show and audience participation as Ophelia's subconscious in Hamlet. The play made a hilarious debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (1987) and then ran for nine record-breaking years at The Criterion Theatre in London. Now one of the world's most popular plays, it has been enacted in many languages.

by Eric Coble
July 19 – August 4

Eric Coble's The Dead Guy is, as one critic put it, “a slapstick satire on ultimate reality TV shows that will tickle your funny bone no end." What would you do for a million bucks and a week of TV stardom? Is there anything that an audience, obsessed with the lives of today's pseudo-stars, wouldn't watch? In this darkly humorous play, Eldon Phelps, down on his luck, gives everything for fortune and fame on a show called “The Dead Guy,” where ultimately viewers will vote on the means of his demise.

by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez
December 6 – 22

In this holiday revel, instead of doing Dickens yet again, a trio of actors powers through every Yule tale ever told – plus Christmas traditions from around the world, and all the carols too. A merry, witty dash through the holiday season, in the relaxed atmosphere of various 'watering holes' in the Valley. With lots of wig and mustache swapping, unscripted adlibs and occasional bits of audience participation, Every Christmas Story Ever Told is likely to become a fun, new holiday tradition.