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2025: B.o.a.T.S. and The SpongeBob Musical

2025 has a nautical theme!

B.o.a.T.S. : Jennifer Chaney

The David Ogden Stiers black box theater will host 8 ten-minute original plays that are Based on a True Story (B.o.a.T.S.)

The SpongeBob Musical: Morgan Locklear

"Are ya ready kids?!" When you live in a pineapple under the sea, it's a safe bet that it will be a Bikini Bottom Day! 

2024 : Spirits of Sylvia Beach, Improv Launch & Lincoln Pops

Our 2024 was a season of Original Content.

Spirits of Sylvia Beach : Morgan Locklear and Sean Orton

The Stiers gets Spooky in September 2024 with Spirits of Sylvia Beach. 

Launch of Crash Box

The year it all began for our very own Improv group, Crash Box!

Lincoln Pops Return to the PAC

This year we hosted the Lincoln Pops for their return to the Newport Performing Arts Center stage after a decade away!


2023 : Matilda the Musical

2023 was the year of the comeback.

Matilda : Jennifer Hamilton

These naughty kids stood up for what's right in Matilda the Musical. 

2019 : Man of La Mancha, She Loves Me Not, and Arsenic and Old Lace

2019 was our last season before the global pandemic shut down.

Man of La Mancha : Cyn Wilkes

Fighting windmills and dancing donkeys brought one mans dreams to life in Man of La Mancha. 

She Loves Me Not : Milo Graamans

Written and composition by Director and accidental last minute lead Milo Graamans She Loves Me Not tackled tough family subject matter.


Arsenic and Old Lace : One Night Delights

An uproarious farce on plays involving murder, Arsenic and Old Lace was an obvious choice for 2019s One Night Delights, part of the PACs capital campaign. 

2018: Buddy Holly, On the Verge

2018 took us back in time and back again.

Buddy Holly : Erik Furuheim

Renowned as a pioneer of rock and roll and an influential figure in the music world of the 1950s, celebrate the life of Buddy Holly.

On the Verge: Justin Atkins

Three Victorian women go exploring, but their travels lead them through time itself in On the Verge. 


2017: Addams Family and Really Rosie

2017 proved to be the year the kids literally stole the show(s)

Addams Family: Kathryn Heater and Sara Coxen

Things in the Alice Silverman theater got  creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky...altogether ooky  in The Addams Family. 

Really Rosie : Josh Lawrence

Bored silly on summer vacation, a group of kids led by Rosie make up gruesome and grandiose stories to pass the time in Really Rosie.

2016: Fantasticks, Sex please, We're Sixty and The Matchmaker

2016 was a season of LOVE!

Fantasticks

Two neighboring fathers trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud in Fantasticks.

The Matchmaker

With slapstick situations, mistaken identities, secret rendezvous, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, everyone finds themselves paired with a perfect match in The Matchmaker. 

Sex Please, We're Sixty

When you swap Viagra pills with the Venusia, it gives men the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping, and irritability in Sex Please, We're Sixty!

2015: Come Blow Your Horn and Avenue Q

2015 showcased Neil Simon's first play and NSFW puppets!

Come Blow Your Horn: Stephan

Alan discovers feelings for one of the many women with whom he is sleeping, and when she leaves him, he falls apart. This juxtaposes Alan's hunger for companionship with Buddy's metamorphosis into a ladies' man in Come Blow Your Horn.

Avenue Q : Cyn Wilkes

Follow Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers his neighborhood, Avenue Q and it's quirky inhabitants as they are influenced by some Bad Ideas. 

2014: I Love you Because, She Loves Me Not and Young Frankenstein

2014 was a musical year!

I love You Because

This musical is based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I Love You Because follows the lives of Austin and Marcy, two young New Yorkers navigating the ups and downs of modern dating. 

She Loves Me Not: Milo Gramaans

Written and composed by Director  Milo Gramaans, this local talent had his debut musical She Loves Me Not performed reader's theater style. 

Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks’ madcap comedy collides with Mary Shelley’s classic monster tale in Young Frankenstein.  

2013: Picasso at LA and Christmas Belles

2013 made us laugh!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Comedian Steve Martin’s absurd comedy of historical fiction, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, has Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meet in a bar in Paris in 1904, the year before Einstein’s theory of relativity and Picasso’s transition into cubism.  

Christmas Belles: Cyn Wilkes

 A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator in Christmas Belles.

2012: Company and Producers

2012 was a year of shows about shows and marriage!

Company

Company follows bachelor Bobby interacting with his married friends, who throw a party for his 35th birthday. 

The Producers

A pair of showmen down on their luck decide to swindle some little old ladies for money to put on the worst show Broadway has seen in The Producers. 

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