Great theatre - Past and Present
our 2025-2026 SEASON
Being a domestic goddess is not as easy as it looks!
Since its 2018 debut, Home, I'm Darling has received rave reviews and toured the UK, Australia in the US. It has won several awards.
Striving for domestic bliss, Judy and Johnny choose to live a 1950s lifestyle, complete with vintage clothes, retro knick knacks and even an old refrigerator. Judy embraces the role of the perfect housewife, while Johnny works in real estate. But pressures from friends and Johnny's work threaten their idyllic life and they struggle to maintain their facade.
The play examines the role of modern women juxtaposed with the nostalgic rose-tinted view of the past. Were things really all that wonderful in the old days?
Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect housewife.
"...a timely analysis of the gender divide, which manages to ask important questions about what women might want and how they might successfully find it."
- The Guardian
"...sharp, funny and strikingly perceptive play..." - WhatsOnStage
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine
A STAGED READING
By Heidi Schreck
What the Constitution means to people can evoke a range of personal reflections on its significance in individuals' lives, communities, and the nation.
Some might focus on the protection of individual liberties like freedom of speech or religion, while others may emphasize its framework for a representative democracy and the rule of law. Heidi Schreck’s play explores its impact on women's lives and rights. It highlights its imperfections and the challenges in upholding its ideals. It speaks more personally and critically about what the Constitution has meant for her, her family, and American women as a whole.
Moving between humor, grief, and impassioned political reflection, it urges the audience to consider their own relationship to the Constitution and its ongoing impact.
What the Constitution Means to Me is a profoundly personal look at our nation’s most debated document and how it could evolve to fit our modern times.
Brace yourself for laughter, a touch of chaos, and a front-row seat to democracy like you've never seen it before.
“A thought-provoking and essential piece of theatre.” –Maryland Theatre Guide
“Never has a play been so timely.” – Broadway World
“Excellent… takes on today’s test on democracy.” – DC Theatre Arts
Presented at The Center for Spiritual Living
1795 Old Moultrie Rd., St Augustine, 32084
Directed by Cindy Alexander
Musical Direction by Ron Hunsicker
Last year's production of It's a Wonderful Life A Live Radio Play delighted audiences and left them asking for more, so we're bringing back the live radio format!
Based on the 1948 radio play Miracle on 34th Street, we recreate the magic complete with live sound effects and holiday jingles!
When a department store Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, his case gets taken all the way to the Supreme Court. Watch the miracle unfold when the belief of a little girl makes all the difference in this iconic story.
Bring the whole family to enjoy this classic, told in the style of a live 1940’s era radio broadcast.
“All in all, this show is a delightful way to get into the holiday spirit and believe in Santa, magic, and imagination again just in time for this holiday season.”
- Broadway World
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine Florida
A STAGED READING
By A. R. Gurney
The Cocktail Hour is a poignant yet humorous exploration of family relationships and the clash between personal truth and social expectation within the privileged class. Set in a comfortably upper middle class living room in the mid 1970s, The Cocktail Hour revolves around John, a playwright who has written a new play which reveals some of his family’s disagreeable family secrets. He is at his parents’ house to get their blessing on its production. Their confrontation takes place during the ritual of the cocktail hour, and as the martinis flow so do the recriminations and revelations, both funny and poignant. In the end it is evident that what John has written is closer to the truth than his family has heretofore been willing to admit, and that beneath their WASP reserve his parents and siblings are as beset with uncertainties and frustrations as their presumed “inferiors.”
Gurney said this play was "probably the most personal thing I had written up to this time” and is a testament to the sharp and witty writing that has made Gurney one of the most heralded playwrights of American theatre.
"an examination of an overprivileged family that fights domestic battles while downing drinks.” – The NY Times
“deliciously funny and also occasionally touching” – New York Post
Presented at The Center for Spiritual Living
1795 Old Moultrie Rd., St Augustine, 32084
By Leonard Gershe
Directed by Grace Reed
Looking to get out from under his overprotective mother's influence, Don Baker, blind since birth, decides to move out on his own into an apartment in Manhattan. But when he becomes involved with his neighbor, a kooky and sexy actress named Jill, Mother can't stay out of the mix in this classic play that leads to hilarious and touching results!
Butterflies Are Free is a funny, touching and emotional play about the risks that go along with striking out on your own and falling in love.
“A charming play... humorous, winning and quietly moving.”
– New York Post
“A lovely play. It is funny when it means to be, sentimental when it is so inclined, and heartwarming.”
– New York Daily News
Presented at The Waterworks
184 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine
A STAGED READING
By Jonathan Spector
Eureka Day explores a timely and relevant topic: a mumps outbreak at a private, progressive elementary school that prided itself on inclusion and reaching decisions by consensus. The outbreak forces the school's Board of Directors to realize, with horror, that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.
Wildly relevant and bitingly funny, Spector’s lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement. Facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?
“…Spector…extract[s] comic gold from the little tugs-of-war for control among the members of the committee. But…this comedy of manners yields to a serious probing of interpersonal responsibility and the limits of consideration.” –Time Out New York
Presented at The Center for Spiritual Living
1795 Old Moultrie Rd., St Augustine, 32084
A STAGED READING
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Kimberly Levaco is a teenage girl who suffers from a condition similar to progeria, causing her to age rapidly and appear much older than her actual age. About to turn 16, she is physically an elderly woman due to her condition, forcing her to navigate a world that doesn't understand her. She has a dysfunctional family with a hypochondriac mother, a sometimes-drunk father, and a scam-artist aunt, all of whom add to her challenges. Kimberly experiences a first crush and finds friendship, but her unique situation complicates these relationships.
Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure. This is a story about appreciating life no matter what it throws at you.
Kimberly Akimbo has been praised for its ability to blend humor and heart, offering a poignant and relatable story about finding happiness and meaning in the face of life's challenges.
“Kimberly Akimbo is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone.” —The New York Times
Presented at The Center for Spiritual Living
1795 Old Moultrie Rd., St Augustine, 32084
By Richard Dresser
Directed by Rick Cirucci
Assisted by Harolyn Sharpe
Rounding Third is a comical journey of two Little League coaches through an entire season, from their first tentative meeting to the climactic championship game. A stand-in for the team, the coaches speak directly to the audience about competition, character, punctuality, and the importance of wearing the right equipment.
Don is the tough, blue-collar, win-at-all-costs veteran coach whose son is the star pitcher. Michael, a corporate executive and newcomer to both the town and baseball, agrees to be Don's assistant in order to have a special activity with his son, who's never played baseball before.
Michael believes coaching is all about everyone having a good time, Don thinks it's about teaching the kids to win.
This is where the play takes off and real issues emerge. How should we raise our kids? Do we teach them that winning is everything or protect their childhood as long as possible? In facing these questions, both men also grapple with their own lives and inner conflicts of what being a dad is all about.
"As a writer, Dresser embodies the ability to channel the voices of real people. You will recognize your neighbor, your brother, and maybe yourself."
-nytheatre.com
Their clash of styles and wills drives this funny, acerbic and touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball."
-Playbill