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56th Creative Greensboro Drama Season
A season inspired by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer’s Halloween Nightmare?!? Inspired by William Shakespeare October 24-27
A school production of The Bard’s famed play goes horribly wrong when classic horror movie characters take over! Can the cast and the characters make it out alive? What about the audience?!? Produced in collaboration with Scrapmettle entertainment and adapted for the stage by Todd Fisher at the Van Dyke Performance Space. Audition Dates are September 9 and 10.
LEMURIA by Bonnie Antosh January 16-19, 2025
Winner of the 2025 New Play Project, Professor Anabelle Katz-Carver, the greatest primatologist since Jane Goodall, runs her elite research lab as a strict matriarchy. After grooming potential successors for decades, she's finally ready to choose an heir — but in the animal kingdom and in our own, how does a queen pass the crown on to another queen? LEMURIA is an inheritance drama about dominance, queer Southern scientists, academic lineage, sex, and — yes — lemurs. At the Stephen D Hyers Theatre. Audition Dates are November 4 and 5.
Short Tales for Children February 1-2, 2025
An annual collaboration with UNCG that brings future theater educators together with young actors to rehearse and perform short plays written by a members of the Creative Greensboro Playwrights Forum. Plays will feature a few Shakespearian Surprises! At the Van Dyke Performance Space. Audition Dates are December 13 and 14
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare March 13-16, 2025
Everybody has a secret . . . Orsino wants Olivia, who likes Cesario, who is really Viola, who believes her brother, Sebastian, drowned in a shipwreck but was actually rescued by Antonio, who has beef with Orsino, and Malvolio wants Olivia but he’s being tricked by Feste and Sir Toby, who wants Olivia to marry Sir Andrew, and Maria? Who knows what secrets she’s harboring. Set in an Illyria covered in pop art and artpop, this gender-bending Shakespearean comedy is a romp through love, identity, and all the consequent twists and turns. Produced in collaboration with Shared Radiance Performing Arts Company. At the Stephen D Hyers Theatre.
Audition Dates are January 21 and 22.
43rd Annual Evening of Short Plays April 3-6, 2025
Come see Greensboro’s newest plays by members of the Creative Greensboro Playwrights Forum. These new plays will feature more than a few Shakespearian Surprises! At the Stephen D Hyers Theatre. Audition dates are February 18-19.
TWELFTH NIGHT - A Musical Adaptation! June 26-29, 2025
Conceived by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub. Music and Lyrics by the Tony Award winning Shaina Taub. A North Carolina and Greensboro first! Two different versions of Twelfth Night in one season? Yes! Are we crazy? Yes, we are crazy for a musical version of this enduring classic featuring 23 songs that combine the best of Shakespeare and the first woman to ever win Tony’s in Book and Score (Suffs). Hear Shakespeare’s words told in jazz, funk, pop and classic musical theatre. At the Virginia Sommerville Sutton Theatre. Audition dates are May 5 and 6
Summer Shakespeare in the Park August 7-10, 2025
The return of our popular free summer Shakespeare series set in one or more of Greensboro’s beautiful parks. We are still in the development phase of this show and can’t wait to announce what title or titles are put together for the finale of our season inspired by William Shakespeare!