2018 Season

 

Love, Lies & the Doctor’s Dilemma
by Michael Parker and Susan Parker, directed by Matt Stepan
Farce

January 11 - 27
One little white lie leads to another in this hilarious farce, complete with a former movie star, a mobster hit man, an accident prone next door neighbor, a mysterious potting shed, and a gardener inexplicably masquerading as a psychiatrist...whose misguided advice actually seems to work! Will everyone survive the mayhem?

A Southern Exposure
Local Playwright!!
by Kelley Kingston-Strayer, directed by Leslie Austin
Comedy/Drama

March 1-17
Unrealistically romantic Callie Belle was raised by her sassy, Bible-thumping grandmother and her two eccentric aunts in a small Kentucky town, but she yearns for more. When her fairy tale doesn’t turn out the way she expects, she grows strong and independent while learning what family is all about - the fiercest kind of love imaginable.

365 Women a Year Festival
Festival

March 22-31
Rover again partners with international playwriting coalition, 365 Women A Year, whose focus is to write and present plays about extraordinary women, bring women back into the social consciousness, and plant seeds of herstory around the country.

Thursday 3/22, Saturday 3/34, and Friday 3/30 at 8:00 pm and Saturday 3/31 at 3:00 pm:

BEST ACTRESS 1962 by Allie Costa EVERY ROSE by Danielle Wirsansky SARAH’S POEM by Charissa Menefee OLGA’S LETTER By J. Sanders Nelson AN UNTIMELY LIKENESS by Nancy Cooper Frank ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER REVISITS by Jennifer O’Grady BLOODLETTING by Lisa A. Mammel

Friday 3/23 at 8:00 pm, Saturday 3/24 at 3:00 pm, and Thursday 3/29 and Saturday 3/31 at 8:00 pm:

BRYNLEE & THE BULL by Sean Nill BABE by Cindy Cooper DAISY, FIRST GIRL SCOUT by Susan Shafer THREE JUDY GARLANDS by Jess Eisenberg UNVEILED By J. Thalia Cunningham BETWEEN US GALS by Sue Yocum

Smoke & Mirrors
by Will Osborne and Anthony Herrera, directed by Carol M. Rice
Comedy/Thriller

May 10-26
Power hungry film producer-director Hamilton Orr has lured his timid screenwriter Clark into a scheme to get rid of the insufferable star of their multi-million dollar movie. But no one on this isolated island is what they appear to be and twists and turns abound as the talkative local sheriff unearths one surprise after another.

10-Minute Play Festival
Festival

June 21-30
Join us for the winners in our fourth annual 10-minute comedy contest! Funny stuff from playwrights all over the world!

The Awesome 80s Prom
by Ken Davenport, directed by Polly Harrison
Comedy

July 26 - August 11
It’s 1989, and all your high school buddies are at the prom! From the captain of the football team to the foreign exchange student, from the geek to the head cheerleader, they’re all competing for Prom King and Queen...and the audience decides who wins! Travel back in time and join the breakdancing, or just sit back and laugh at everyone!

Charley’s Aunt
by Brandon Thomas, directed by Lon Barrera
Classic Comedy

September 13-29
Jack and Charley invite Kitty and Amy to meet Charley’s wealthy aunt from Brazil, but she cancels at the last minute, leaving them without a chaperone. Desperate, the boys draft a college pal into a black satin skirt, bloomer, and a wig. As “Charley’s Aunt,” this charming frump wins over everyone, but when the real aunt turns up, comic confusion ensues!

The Best of One Day Only, Vol. 3

October 18-27
Some of the BEST 10-minute plays from past One Day Only 24-hour play festivals!

Murder on West Moon Street
by Rob Urbinati directed by Chad Jones
based on the Oscar Wilde short story "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"
Mystery/Comedy

November 1-17
Young Lord Arthur is deliriously happy – just down from Oxford and engaged to be married – when a mysterious palm reader predicts that he will commit a murder. A proper English gentleman, Arthur believes it is his duty to get this killing business over with before he marries. But his education has not provided him with the required skills, and a hilarious series of mishaps ensues as he sets about finding a victim.
Based on the Oscar Wilde short story, "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime."

Death Imitates Art: A Valentine Murder Mystery
Interactive Dinner Theatre

February 9-10
Somebody in the Rover family will be murdered, and it will be up to the audience to help us solve the crime. Two nights only! This event tends to sell out fast!

One Day Only 29

Saturday, April 7
Another installment of our signature play festival, featuring five short plays, concept to curtain in JUST ONE DAY!

I Am a Star
by Billy St. John, directed by Penny Chinn
Youth Show, Comedy

April 19-21
The “in-crowd” is too involved trying to get parts in the movie that’s going to be filmed at their school to notice nerdy new student Jane. Little do they know Jane is really a teen soap opera star who’s there undercover to prove she can act and earn the film’s lead! Can she succeed...and learn something about herself at the same time?

The Belle of West Texas
by Carol M. Rice, directed by Nancy Pistilli
Youth Show, Melodrama

July 19-21
When villain Gerald Snively and his sidekick, Melinda Mooch, hit Oilwell, Texas, it's rack and ruin from start to finish. From providing poor widow Lizzie Holiday a fake map to her dead husband’s oil well, to keeping apart true love between our hero, Eddie Allswell, and the angelic Belle, these two are evil personified! But naturally good triumphs and “all’s well with oil wells.”