2015-16 Eldred Theater Season Announced

Artistic Director Jerrold Scott is pleased to announce the Eldred Theater 2015-16 Season: 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare

October 2-11, 2015

Directed by Jayce Tromsness

In Shakespeare’s most popular play, his wit and wisdom are both present in glorious full-force.  Placing his love-struck, love-sick, and love-lorn characters deep in an enchanted forest full of rude fairies and rude mechanicals, he brings us face to face with our mortal foolishness and our foolish attempt to resist mortality.

The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice

November 13-22, 2015

Directed by Jerrold Scott

Musical Direction by Brad Wyner

This Tony and Drama Desk award winner sees the Addams family’s peace and serenity put to the test when daughter Wednesday falls in love with a completely undesirable match:  a boy from Ohio.  Can the family hold together in the face of such a tragedy?

The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh

February 19-28, 2016

Directed by David Vegh

A Hollywood movie crew arrives in rural Ireland seeking local talent.  Seeing his chance to escape his unsatisfying life, young Cripple Billy sets out to become the unlikeliest of film stars in this Tony-nominated tragicomedy.

Proof by David Auburn

April 8-17, 2016

Directed by Christopher Bohan

Catherine, the daughter of a preeminent mathematician, fears she has inherited not only her father’s genius, but his insanity as well.  When the ownership of a ground-breaking mathematical theory is called into question Catherine is forced to choose between losing her heart or her mind.