It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

This unique show is styled as a 1940's Live Radio Broadcast, with an ensemble of six actors bringing to life more than two dozen characters from the novel, with sound effects created live on stage, 1940's era commercials, and live musical accompaniment.

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The Valley Players' fall 2021 production will be Noises Off – often described as “a play within a play, a farce within a farce” by Michael Frayn. The show is directed by Joanne Puente.

Adapted by Tim Kelly

Out of Sight... Out of Murder was the first Vermont Playwright's Award winner, produced in 1983. The play was subsequently published by Samuel French, and the Acting Edition bears the names of the original cast at the Valley Players.

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Written by Mary Chase First

Our first show, Harvey, was staged in 1979. This was an auspicious start to our 40 year run performing community theater in the Mad River Valley. Over our 40 years we have never repeated a show, until now. To celebrate our anniversary, we hand-picked six of our most memorable shows to revive and kicked off the season May 31, 2019, with Harvey.

Written By Max Frisch; Translated by Alistair Beaton The story is about Gottlieb Biedermann, who has gotten himself into some hot water. He is in conflict with his business partner of twelve years, at odds with the changing world around him, and struggling to maintain an idea of safety in his home as a spat of fires ravage through some of the more well-known locales of his modern American city. His wife Babette feels torn between her perception of the world around her and the reality of it, caught up in the love she has for her husband all the while being deceived by it. The infallibility of a grim ending becomes all too real when a stranger knocks on the door, asking simply for a bit of food and maybe a dry place to sleep. The play suggests that once a door has been knocked it has to be opened, eventually. What would you do for the one who had knocked?

Written and Composed by Jason Robert Brown

Written by DC Cathro

Book by Christopher D'Arienzo

Music & Lyrics by A Bunch of F*#@!ing Face Melting 80's Bands

Written by Jeanne Beckwith

written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso

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Directors Note: I expect that everyone in our audience has experienced
the desire to escape—most recently from a world where spring
and sunshine seemed to disappear. The characters in our play
are desperate to escape as well. They are caught in a world of
unending rain that symbolizes their own loss of hope and of love.
World War I is four years past, but the grief, both public and private, is still very real, and for “Those who appreciate Wisteria and
sunshine...” it seems that a journey of rediscovery and reawakening could bring them the happy “Afters” that will heal all the
sad “Befores.” In the play tonight, we will journey with them to a
“Paradise” where they find themselves able to heal and prosper
and bloom once more.
Jeanne Beckwith, Director

by John Cariani

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Three Staged Readings by VT Playwright Winners

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Book by mel Brooks and Thomas Neehan, Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks

By Barbara Robinson

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music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty

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by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell

By George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Teresa Langston

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Directed by Jasmine White

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Adapted by Tim Kelly

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A Musical from the book by Studs Terkel

Ruth Ann Pattee, Artistic Director with a bunch of fabulous actors, singers and Joan Foster pulled together a wonderful evening of song, dance and play snippets.

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This popular show about the lives of three Jewish widows is funny and poignant; full of laughter and tears. Lifetime friends, Ida, Doris and Lucille are part of a club, The Cemetery Club. Every month they meet at Ida's house in New York for tea, then trundle off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with deceased husbands. Sam, the butcher, meets the widows at the cemetery while visiting his late wife and changes their lives forever. The movie version of this wonderful comedy starred Olympia Dukakis, Diane Ladd, and Ellen Burstyn.

Directed by Michael Lemay

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By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jaime Wooten

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A Musical by Rupert Holmes

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by Willy Russell

by Marc Camoletti Adapted by Robin Hawdon

by Ray Cooney

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By Robert Harling

By A.R. Gurney

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By Todd Mueller, Hank Boland and Greg Opelka

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Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written, including "Tomorrow."

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Book by Todd Mueller & Hank Boland, Music and Lyrics by Gregg Opelka

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