PROFESSIONAL THEATRE
Actors Theatre
Actors Theatre at the ARTfactory 2025 Season
A child begins making a list of things that make life worth living after their mother attempts suicide. The list starts with simple things like ice cream and kung fu films, but grows to include more personal things like family music, love, regret. As the child grows up, the list evolves with them.
Joe Keller is a successful businessman who sold faulty airplane parts to the government during World War II, causing the deaths of 21 airmen, including his son Larry. Joe's partner was blamed for the deaths, but Joe was exonerated. After the war, Joe and his wife Kate live with the ghosts of the past, as Larry is missing in action and presumed dead. The play explores themes of honesty, social responsibility, and the cost of the American dream.
The play is set in 1934, when the clever and combustible Lucille Wiley, Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is ready to welcome world-class soprano Elena Firenzi for her one-night-only starring role in Carmen. Alas, Elena arrives late, her impassioned husband Pasquale has a fit of jealousy, and it remains to be seen whether Mrs. Wiley’s mousy but determined assistant Jo can save the day.
Cabaret takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending Master of Ceremonies, “the Emcee.” Here, Cliff meets Sally Bowles, a vivacious, talented cabaret performer, and an utterly lost soul.
The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" - after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out of this world origins and intent towards global domination!
The musical Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a musical adaptation of the beloved television special. The story is about Rudolph, a reindeer who doesn't fit in with the other reindeer because of his bright nose. Rudolph sets off to find a place that accepts him, and along the way he meets new friends and learns that what makes you different can be what makes you special
