theatre Tag

Message Theater (one of Lexington African American Theater companies) has been representing the African American experience in the theater community for over thirty years. Our first show of the season is by one of our founders, actor/photographer Patrick J Mitchell. In the making for over twenty years "The Waiting Room"...

Finding yourself missing summer? Looking for something for your young person to do while school is out for a week this fall? LCT is bringing back our beloved Summer Theatre School programming for a limited run during Fayette County Public Schools’ Fall Break! PW: The Lion,...

When Circle and Square meet for the first time, they realize that they are very different from each other. Circle likes blowing bubbles, juggling balls, and twirling, while Square is happiest stacking blocks neatly and as tall as they will go. Will the two be...

Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl...

The award-winning author of The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, and Crow and Weasel describes his newest play as “a children’s story for adults.” When June’s father dies, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray so no one will ever...

A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well...

By chance, Kris Kringle, an old man in a retirement home, gets a job working as Santa for Macy’s. Kris unleashes waves of good will with Macy’s customers and the commercial world of New York City by referring parents to other stores to find exactly...

Here is the spooky classic story by Washington Irving, presented with all the thrills, chills and laughs that keep young audiences on the edge of their seats. The storybook tale revolves around the main characters—the bumbling schoolteacher Ichabod, the coquettish Katrina and Ichabod’s brutish rival,...