- A Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber
Another Surflight premiere! |
- Book and Lyrics by
- Lynn Ahrens
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- Music by Stephen Flaherty
Once on this Island tells a tale of romance, tragedy, redemption and rebirth with sunny songs, captivating choreography, and irresistable Calypso beat. |
The ultimate in classic comic entertainment! |
- Music by Gary William Friedman,
- Lyrics by Will Holt,
- Adapted by Robert Livingston & Herb Schapiro,
- Based on the book by Stephen M. Joseph,
- Additional lyrics by Herb Schapiro,
- Arrangements & orchestration by Gary William Friedman
A TONY-nominated and OBIE Award-winning, THE ME NOBODY KNOWS is a ground-breaking musical which has been inspiring and touching audiences throughout the world for generations. Within the envelope of a single day, the show poetically examines the aspirations and fears of a multi-racial cast of young people. In... |
Beginning in 1920, Ruth Draper held the stage in this country and in Europe for 40 years with her one-woman shows where she played a vast array of characters. ELTC is only the second production company - ever - to be allowed to produce this incredible material since Ms. Draper's death. |
- Book by Thomas Meehan. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Martin Charnin. Based on the Tribune Media Service Comic Strip, Little Orphan Annie.
TONY AWARD BEST MUSICAL 1977. See it at Surflight before the show heads to Broadway! |
- by Yasmina Reza; translated by Christopher Hampton
Fast, furious and very funny, this winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play is a 90-minute thrill ride to the most dangerous place on Earth: parenthood. |
We are such stuff as dreams are made on,/And our little life is rounded with a sleep. |
- TBA (runner up in the Premiere Stages Play Festival)
Get a first hand look at the new play development process by attending these free staged reading of the runner up in the Premiere Stages Play Festival competition! A talkback with the playwright will follow each performance! |
Swingadelic is the New York City Metropolitan Area’s greatest “little big band” that delivers the traditional big band music. |
- TBA (Play Festival Winner)
Chosen from over 300 submissions, the winner of the 2012 Premiere Play Festival will kick off the main stage season with a full production. Come experience the birth of an exciting new play in a stunning production! Check Premiere Stages’ website in the Spring, 2012 for updates.
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The whole audience bouncing and swaying to the irresistible rhythm. Everybody singing HI-DE-HO! They’re echoing the King himself, Cab Calloway. |
As the great thespian Patrick Swayze once said, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." The same is true of Sarah Borges. |
- Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp.
TONY AWARD BEST MUSICAL 1959. ACADEMY AWARD BEST PICTURE 1965. Featuring songs from the motion picture "Something Good" and "I Have Confidence.” |
- James Rana adapted three mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
Follow the adventures of Auguste Dupin, in this world premiere, as he solves macabre mysteries in Paris of the 1840s, as created by Poe in Murders of the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter. A cast of 6 portray 50 characters to bring these mysterious puzzles to life. |
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical theatrical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. |
"Beatlemania Now"... an amazing concert experience...
The New York Daily News says, "Extraordinary!" |
- Adapted by Patrick Barlow
- From the novel by John Buchan
- From the Movie of Alfred Hitchcock, licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited
- And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
A Two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning fast-paced whodunit for anyone who likes Hitchcock and Monty Python |
A moving portrait about a journalist and photographer, coping with changes in life and their relationship following the trauma of covering the Iraq war |
- Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett
This screwball comedy examines the very romance of advertising. All it takes is one adventurous young man to announce, “Advertising is responsible for everything!” and he and his two friends are off and running in this delightfully sly farce, with a cast of 12. |
For more than forty years, Robert Klein has entertained audiences, and he continues to have an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film.He was nominated twice for Grammy Awards for “Best Comedy Album of the Year” for his albums “Child of the Fifties” and “Mind Over Matter.... |
For more than forty years, Robert Klein has entertained audiences, and he continues to have an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film.He was nominated twice for Grammy Awards for “Best Comedy Album of the Year” for his albums “Child of the Fifties” and “Mind Over Matter.... |
Ustad Shafaat Khan, world-renowned classical Indian musician, debuted at the age of 11 in the King’s Lynn Festival opened by the Queen Mother. |
Join us as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the greatest “who-done-it” ever written, Agatha Christie’s famed THE MOUSETRAP… It’s a cold, wintry night in a lonely boarding house. Somewhere, a murderer is on the prowl…. |
- By William Luce
- A play based on the life of Emily Dickinson
A play based on the life of America's greatest woman poet Emily Dickinson |
The ancients believed that once a year the border between this world and the next became thin, allowing spirits of lost souls to pass through. |
A brand new group: two classically-trained jazz masters of the piano and trumpet have joined with a marvelously gifted and classically-trained cellist to explore the intersection of chamber music and jazz. |
Twin tales of mystery, murder... and mortar! A must-see for Poe enthusiasts! |
A Couple of Blaguards, a two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt, is a bubbling stew of their well-known humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. |
- Adapted by Gayle Stahlhuth based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The return of ELTC’s popular 1930’s radio style productions with live sound effects and commercials. All of the evidence points to a young lawyer as a murderer. But is he being set up, or is he the murderer after all. It’s an exciting puzzle fit for Holmes and Watson. |
Brad Ross is an award winning, International Star Illusionist combining magic, illusion, theatricality, comedy and fun into a totally family friendly experience that kids, parents and grandparents can all enjoy together. |
It's like your job...but weirder. Brand new comedy from Parallel Exit. Celebrating the silent physical style of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton with a dash of Monty Python and Tim & Eric. 9 to 5 will never be the same! |
Bill Bowers' critically acclaimed Under a Montana Moon is a collection of silent stories which all take place under the Western sky. |
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Directed by Nicholas Martin
My Wonderful Day
Winnie Barnstairs, a nearly 9-year-old, Anglo-Caribbean girl from south London, has a school assignment to write about her day. She is spending it with her mother, a house cleaner who works for an unhappily married, minor television celebrity. Instructed to get on with her homework, Winnie o... |
- by David Lee White
- directed by Adam Immerwahr
It’s 1932 and America’s most brilliant detective is on the verge of apprehending the world’s most brilliant and devious master criminal. Stranded in a dilapidated mansion on a former resort island gone to seed, Detective Dorrington discovers a murder that begins to unravel the very fabric of democracy... |
- By John Guare
- Directed by Sam Buntrock
A Nantucket house with a mysterious past. A pair of abandoned children. An 11 pound lobster. Edmund Gowery is trapped and knows the only way to escape is to change his life—he just doesn’t know how. |
- Written and Performed by Dominic Hoffman
Jazz drummer Jacques Hoffman, a 'hip cat with fast hands on the music scene in 1950's Chicago,' had to wrench himself away from clubs and late nights in order to enter the real world. This life change inspired Jacques to build a symphony out of the diverse friendships in his life to nourish his soul. |
