For its 53rd season, Curtain Players Theatre is pulling out all the stops. From a musical comedy about zombies to two Pulitzer Prize-winning classics, audiences are certainly in for a treat.
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Zombies from The Beyond
Sept. 11-27
This is Curtain Player's first musical since its 2012 production of Titanic, the Musical. Zombies from The Beyond was an off-Broadway hit in '95, drawing inspiration from pulp films that were all the rage at the time.
The Outgoing Tide
Oct. 23-Nov. 8
This play, penned by Bruce Graham, had its 2011 debut in Chicago. The Curtain Players' production will be the show's Ohio premiere of the family drama in which an aging man hatches a unique plan to secure his family's future.
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Dec. 4-20
A holiday favorite, this play is adapted from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra and Jo Swerling.
Simply Staged
Second weekend of January
Details TBA
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Feb. 5-21
This play had its 1976 world premiere in Columbus before it advanced to Broadway and Hollywood. This 2016 revival production will be the 40th anniversary of the play's hometown debut.
You Can't Take it With You
March 18-April 3, 2016
In this Pulitzer Prize- winning play, a quirky family allows each member to pursue his own ambition in the home, but their routine is disrupted when a daughter with a regular job wants to bring her husband-to-be and his Wall Street family to dinner.
The Skin of Our Teeth
May 6-22, 2016
This is a dark comedy in which a modern family and their maid survive ancient and Biblical disasters such as the Ice Age, Noah's floor, war and famine. The show won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943.
