February 2-4 and 9-10, 2024
Directed by Claire Boston
Uptown Theatre at the First Street Community Center

An irreverent, darkly comic, modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick, this fast-paced romp re-examines the world’s most famous detective story with a bold new feminist lens. In this highly theatrical, small-cast escapade, oddball female roommates Sherlock (yes, it’s also a girl’s name—wait, is it a girl’s name? Is it even a name?) Holmes & Joan Watson join forces to emerge from pandemic fog as a deeply codependent, quasi-dysfunctional Odd Couple adventure duo—solving mysteries and kicking butts, until they come face to face with a villain who seems to have all of the answers.

Courtesy of TRW

An Elliot Studio Series Production

March 7 - 10, 2024
Directed by Carrie Pozdol
Uptown Theatre at the First Street Community Center

Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Synopsis Courtesy of Dramatists Play Service

An Elliott Studio Series Production

May 16-19, 2024
Directed by Grant Freeman

Uptown Theatre at the First Street Community Center

No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre

Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell. The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit. The irony of this Hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of Hell. It is an eternal torment.

The Criminals - Jose Triana
Lalo and his sisters, Cuca and Beba, stuck in a basement create a play-within-a-play acting out the murder of their parents. Playing all the roles in the show they take us from the killing through the press coverage, the investigation, the arrest, and trial. The play adds and subtracts as it reaches its inevitable conclusion. Written in the 1950’s, the play looks at power structures inherent in destructive political systems using the children as a metaphor for the first Cuban Revolution.

June 21 - 23 and 28 - 29, 2024
Directed by Katie Starks
Uptown Theatre at the First Street Community Center

It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door.

October 18-20, 25-26
Directed by Kerry Covington
Uptown Theatre at the First Street Community Center

When they gather to celebrate a tenth wedding anniversary, four New York power couples experience a severe attack of Farce.

At a large, tastefully-appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though it's only a flesh wound, Charlie Brock's self-inflicted injury sets off a series of events causing four couples to experience a severe attack of farce.

As their tenth wedding anniversary party commences, Charlie lies bleeding in another room, and his wife Myra is nowhere in sight. The first guests, lawyer Ken Gorman and his wife Chris, scramble to get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.

Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals