This is Riverside Theatre’s Stark Stage, home to some great, exciting, thrilling and sumptuous productions.
By PAM HARBAUGH
The theater awaits you.
With a community theater scene that keeps growing and delivering, big time, Brevard theater patrons are a lucky bunch. So join the crowd and go to some great shows. You’ll emerge entertained and enlightened.
And then there’s the wealth of professional theater beckoning you to venture beyond Brevard’s borders to Vero Beach and Orlando for some stunning productions.
Original Broadway Company of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Photo: Joan Marcus.
Here’s the list of Brevard’s community theater 2016/2017 season followed by the list of professional productions, both national tours and regionally produced. Be sure to take advantage of the season subscriptions…you’ll save oodles and at the same time help the theater company. And, please, be sure to click onto the ads on the right side of this page to show your appreciation of those theaters that support BREVARD CULTURE.
COMMUNITY THEATER:
COCOA VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE
300 Brevard Ave.
Cocoa, FL
321-636-5050, CocoaVillagePlayhouse.com Click on their ad to the right.
SUBSCRIPTION SERIES:
Sept. 24 – Oct. 8: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
Nov. 19 – Dec. 3: “Meet Me in St. Louis”
Jan. 28 – Feb. 11: “On the Town”
March 11 – 25: “Aida”
April 29 – May 13: “Mary Poppins”
June 24 – July 1: “Nunsense: The Second Coming”
STARS OF TOMORROW:
Dec. 12 & 13: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and Holiday Showcase
May 26 – 28: “101 Dalmations”
June 2 – 4: “Alladin, Jr.”
June 9 – 11: Disney’s “High School Musical:
SPECIAL SHOWS:
Oct. 22: “The Gold Rush” silent film classic screening
Dec. 20: Michael Law “The Holidays Unwrapped”
Jan. 6 – 8: “The Miracle Worker”
Jan. 15: “Playhouse 101”
Feb. 19: “May the Road Rise Up to Meet You” starring Margaret Cross
HENEGAR CENTER
625 E. New Haven Ave.
Melbourne, FL
321-723-8698, Henegar.org Click on their ad to the right.
MAINSTAGE SHOWS:
Oct. 14 – 30: “The Witches of Eastwick”
Dec. 2 – 18: “A Christmas Story, the Musical”
Jan. 13 – 29: “It Shoulda Been You”
March 10 – 26: Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
May 5 – 21: “Hands on a Hardbody”
UPSTAIRS SHOWS:
Sept. 9 – 25: “Hand to God”
Feb. 3 – 18: “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”
MELBOURNE CIVIC THEATRE
817 E. Strawbridge Ave.
Melbourne, FL
321-723-6935, MyMCT.org Click on their ad to the right.
FLEX PASS SERIES:
Aug. 5 – Sept. 11: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”
Sept. 30 – Nov. 6: “Mauritius”
Jan. 20 – Feb. 26: “Calendar Girls”
March 24 – April 30: “Rumors”
May 19 – June 25: “The Glass Menagerie”
HOLIDAY:
Dec. 2 – 24: “A Tuna Christmas”
PLAYREAD SERIES:
T.B.A.
SURFSIDE PLAYHOUSE
South Fifth Street and A1A
Cocoa Beach, FL
321-783-3127, SurfsidePlayers.com Click on their ad to the right.
Sept. 16 – 25: “Extremities”
Nov. 4 – 20: “The Producers”
Jan. 13 – 29: “The Rainmaker”
March 3 – 19: “South Pacific”
April 21 – 30: “The Ritz”
June 2 – 11: “Alice in Wonderland”
SPECIAL EVENTS
Improvisation shows TBA
New Play Competition TBA.
TITUSVILLE PLAYHOUSE
321 Julia St.
Titusville, FL
321-268-1125, TitusvillePlayhouse.com Click on their ad to the right.
MAINSTAGE
Aug. 19 – Sept. 11: Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”
Sept. 23 – Oct. 16: “The Little Shop of Horrors”
Nov. 25 – Dec. 18: “Miracle on 34th Street”
Jan. 13 – Feb. 5: “Rock of Ages”
Feb. 24 – March 19: “Ragtime”
March 31 – April 23: “Jesus Christ Superstar”
May 12 – June 4: “Next to Normal”
TPI 2nd STAGE:
Nov. 4 – 13: “Sealed for Freshness”
Feb. 10 – 19: “Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged”
March 17 – 26: “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch”
April 28 – May 7: “The Glass Menagerie”
SPECIAL EVENT
Oct. 21 – 30: “The Rocky Horror Show”
PROFESSIONAL THEATER:
“Revolting Children”
Evan Gray (Bruce) and The Company of “Matilda” The
Musical National Tour. Photo by Joan Marcus
3250 Riverside Park Drive
Vero Beach, FL
772-231-6990, RiversideTheatre.com Click on their ad to the right.
THE STARK STAGE:
Oct. 25 – Nov. 13: “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash”
Jan. 3 – 22: “Chicago”
Jan. 31 – Feb. 19: “Private Lives”
March 7 – 26: “Mame”
April 11 – 30: “Saturday Night Fever”
THE WAXLAX STAGE:
Jan. 17 – Feb. 5: “An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf”
March 21 – April 9: “The Christians”
MAD COW THEATRE
54 West Church Street – Second Floor
Orlando, FL
407-297-8788, MadCowTheatre.com.
HARRIETT THEATRE:
Sept. 23 – Oct. 23: “1776”
Nov. 18 – Dec. 18: “Pygmalion”
Jan. 20 – Feb. 19: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”
March 24 – April 16: “Three Sisters”
June 2 – July 2: “Animal Crackers:
Aug. 4 – 27, 2017: “Fences”
THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE
Oct. 21 – Nov. 20: “The God Game”
Feb. 17 – March 19: TBA
June 16 – July 9: “Skylight”
Aug. 11 – Sept. 10, 2017: “The Amish Project”
National Touring Company. The cast with John Rapson as Lord Adalbert D’Ysquith (red
) in a scene from “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”Photo credit: Joan Marcus.
445 S. Magnolia Ave.
Orlando, FL
800-448-6322, OrlandoBroadway.com
FAIRWINDS Broadway in Orlando series:
Oct. 4 – 9: “The Illusionists”
Nov. 1 – 6: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Dec. 13 – 18: “An American in Paris”
Jan. 11 – 29: “Wicked”
Feb. 7 – 12: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
March 7 – 12: “The Little Mermaid”
May 9 – 14: “Matilda”
June 6 – 11: “Finding Neverland”
ORLANDO SHAKESPEARE THEATER
John & Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center
812 E. Rollins St.
Orlando, FL
407-447-1700, OrlandoShakes.org
SIGNATURE SERIES:
Sept. 7 – Oct. 9: “West Side Story”
Oct. 12 – Nov. 13: “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Nov. 30 – Dec. 30: “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)”
Jan. 4 – Feb. 5: “Blackberry Winter”
Feb. 22 – March 24: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Feb. 8 – March 26: “The Great Gatsby”
March 29 – April 30: “Antony and Cleopatra”
CHILDREN’S SERIES
June 16 – July 24: “Beauty and the Beast”
Oct. 27 – Nov. 18: “Stuart Little”
April 6 – May 7: “Pinkalicious, the Musical”
SPECIAL EVENTS:
“Playfest” TBA
