A House In Winter

By Fabrice Conte Williamson
Directed by Cody Hurm*
*Parkside student director
Sept 18-19 @ 7pm | Studio A

A FreshINK staged reading | FREE

A House in Winter follows the emotional intersection of two siblings selling their cluttered historic home and a couple seeking a fresh start during a severe Midwestern snowstorm. As ambitious realtors, Leslie and Wes push the listing, house hunter Amy struggles with her crumbling marriage to her emotionally distant husband Brian, while the home’s aging owners—fragile, romantic Peter and weary, pragmatic Gabriella—clash over financial ruin, grief, and Peter’s manipulative younger lover, Talo. Residents and visitors confront their uncertain futures and the lingering weight of letting go.

The Arsonists

By Max Frisch
Directed by Brian Gill
Oct 9-18 | Black Box Theatre
Oct 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 7pm
Oct 11, 18 @ 2pm

The Arsonists is a dark comedy about a businessman named Beidermann who unwittingly allows two arsonists to move into his attic. The play explores themes of denial, collusion, and the failure to confront uncomfortable truths. As Beidermann ignores obvious signs of danger out of a desire to be amicable, he enables an ironic and tragic conclusion.

Rent

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Directed by Brett Olson
Nov 19-Dec 6 | Main Stage Theatre
Nov 19, 20 & Dec 4, 5 @ 7pm
Nov 21 & Dec 6 @ 2pm

RENT is a rock‑opera portrait of bohemian life in New York City’s East Village. It follows a community of young artists confronting love, poverty, and the realities of HIV while fighting to create boldly and live authentically. It captures the urgency of chosen family and the revolution of living for today. One of the most popular musicals of all time, RENT reminds us that there is “No day but today!”

Arms And The Man

By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Mary Kerr
Mar 5-14 | Black Box Theatre
Mar 5, 6, 12, 13 @ 7pm
Mar 7, 14 @ 2pm

Arms and the Man is a comedy satirizing the futility of war and the hypocrisy of Romantic Ideals. Set in the Serbo- Bulgarian War of 1885, the play follows Raina, a young woman brimming with idealistic and patriotic love for her War Hero love interest, and then finds herself hiding a jaded Swiss mercenary soldier who fights for the other side. Complications ensue! Arms and the Man was written at the height of Shaw’s popularity and is often described as his wittiest work.

The Oregon Trail

By Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by Joycelyn Fish*
*Parkside student director
Apr 9-10 @ 7pm | Black Box Theatre

Jane’s trapped in her middle school computer lab playing “The Oregon Trail” for what feels like hours. The game becomes life and rips us back to the trail, 1848, where we travel in a covered wagon with Jane’s great-great-grandmother. As Game moves us, back, forward, and back again, Now-Jane and Then-Jane’s sadnesses are delicately juxtaposed in this play-meets-video-game about depression, Then and Now.

Clue

Based on the Screenplay by Jonathan Lynn
Written by Sandy Rustin
Directed by Brett Olson
Apr 30-May 9 | Main Stage Theatre
Apr 30 & May 1, 7, 8 @ 7pm
May 2, 9 @ 2pm

It’s a dark and stormy night, and our cast of oddball characters has been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.

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