Vada Love Powell, the self-appointed doyenne of a small Southern town, has invited Mary Lou Mele to tea. It's Vada's intention to scare off another prospective bride for her beloved son, Apple, but she meets her match in Mary Lou, who's pretending to be her twin sister, Mary Ann, whom Apple secretly married that very afternoon. Now Vada must face her best friends, Marybell Baxter and Enid Symonds in Enid's tree house, where the three gather to "play canasta and consume sweets. "They agree that Vada "had this one coming," but she pretends nothing has happened. It's a complete surprise when Apple returns with his shy bride, who astounds even Vada with her love for him. Ten years pass and "The Tree House Gang has grown old." Vada "summons" Mary Lou, now an anthropologist, to discuss some photographs she took of a nearly nude tribe. Vada is appalled that Mary Ann is going to let her twins take these "suggestive" pictures to school. Apple blames his mother for offending his wife, warns her not to mention the photographs to the girls, and runs out before she can tell him she already has. Vada also "summons" Enid and Marybell to discuss the "unrest" in their beloved church guild. During their discussion Apple telephones that the twins have run away from school. After some panic, Mary Ann reports they've been found, but she holds Vada accountable: The girls ran away because Vada had said they should be ashamed of the photos. Vada apologizes to Mary Ann, and reveals to Apple "this little heart problem," that she's not going to let "change her life." She asks him to plan her funeral, then proceeds to tell him exactly what to do!

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A Tale of Greed, Insanity, Hope, Happiness, Love - and a One Eyed Teddy Bear
Samuel, Titus, and Lily Belle- presumed heirs to the Savage estate have just learned that just because you can't take it with you- you don't have to leave it to your ungrateful children either. Enter their stepmother Ethel, sole beneficiary of their late father's estate. Since she is determined to put the money to charitable use- the children decide she must be crazy- and have her committed to "The Cloisters" a sanatorium with a colorful 'family' all its own. Fairy May, Hannibal, Florence, Jeffrey, and Mrs. Paddy all bring something special into Mrs. Savage's world - leaving her torn between certain happiness in the safety of their eggshell world under the minding gaze of Miss Wilhelmina, or the uncertainty of the 'real' world outside The Cloisters – and in the end, Dr. Emmett forces her to choose for herself, in The Curious Savage by John Patrick.

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The Guests of The Cloisters, Entrusted To The Ever Capable Miss Wilhelmina 

Florence & John Thomas, her son	Mrs. Paddy, The Resident Misanthrope

Fairy May, As Always In Her Own Little World

Hannibal, The Musical Genius.... Well A Genius Anyway	Jeffrey Meredith & The Ever Mindful Miss Willie

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Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, children of privilege growing up as childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with a birthday party invitation. Romantic attachment drives them to continue writing one another from boarding school, college, and throughout their lives; which begin to take very different paths. Melissa weds, has children, becomes an artist, and eventually a divorced, former artist and alcoholic. Andy excels in school, and becomes an attorney, local politician, and, eventually, U.S. Senator while finding time for a wife and sons along the way. A brief affair only further serves to demonstrate the great divide that has come between them. However Andy's last letter, sent not to Melissa, but to her mother, just as that first party invitation reply was so many years before, illustrates powerfully how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.

Olive Madison, a New York City executive, long divorced from her gambling addict husband Phil, lends a shoulder to cry on, and an apartment to live in when her dear friend Florence Unger is suddenly dumped by her husband of fourteen years. The girls commiserate with their friend Vera, Sylvie, Renee, and Mickey during their weekly Trivial Pursuit games. When Olive and Flo meet their neighbors, the Constanzuela brothers things get more problematic, and hilarious by the minute.

Director Glenn Gannaway and Assistant Director Bobbi Potter

 

               This is just like a Noel Coward play!                That is a bery,bery,bery burnt bird Flo.

The miserly Harpagon uses his wealth to keep his children, virginal Elise and the dandy Cleante, securely under his thumb. Their lives grow more complicated as Elise falls in love with Valere, an aristocrat who disguises himself as a servant of her father's; and both her father and brother fall in love with the lovely Marianne. Complications grow further comedic still as various servants, schemers, and hustlers attempt to part Harpagon from his true love- his money.

The lovely, sweet, somewhat dim witted Marianne and the miserly Harpagon.

 
One of the many Cleante[s] of the production.

In Emlyn Williams' drama The Corn Is Green, Miss Moffat, an English spinster, moves to the Welsh countryside where she establishes a school for the boys of the mining town.  When one pupil, Morgan Evans, shows promise, she becomes determined that he will be a success. When she acquires a scholarship to Oxford for him, one foolish mistake threatens to destroy his once all too promising future. In the end Miss Moffat finds a means to an end which brings a brighter day for all.

An original production, "An Afternoon at Bray's Drugstore with Peggy Castle" examines the events surrounding actress and Appalachia native, Peggy Castle, during a return visit to the picturesque mountain town far from the glitz, glamor, and pressures of 1940s Hollywood.

Thornton Wilder's classic coming of age story begins at the dawning of the twentieth century, telling the story of the ever changing world as seen through the eyes of a small town and the residents who call Grover's Corners, New Hampshire home. Woven throughout the story is the love story of Emily and George, a story which continues to move and delight theater goers after decades on the stage.