2024-2025 Season Announced!
2024-2025 Season Announced!
Florida Repertory Theatre’s 27th Season Brings Stories of Mystery, History, Music, Comedy, Friendship, and Love, To Life On Stage!
FOREVER PLAID
Written and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Stuart Ross
Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt
Sponsored by Sam Galloway Ford-Lincoln & Lighthouse Wealth Management
Previews Sept. 17 – 19, 2024 | Sept. 20 – Oct. 27
ArtStage Studio Theatre
Celebrate the music of the 1950s in this nostalgic, funny – and heavenly – musical revue! When tragedy strikes on the way to their first big gig, four young singers get to perform their show-stopping concert in the afterlife. This smash-hit musical, filled with barbershop harmonies and pitch-perfect melodies, features songs like “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Moments to Remember,” “Sixteen Tons,” and more!
Media Sponsor: WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA
Previews Oct. 22 – 24, 2024 | Oct. 25 – Nov. 10
Historic Arcade Theatre
Inspired by true events, Ben Butler is a historically hilarious comedy about a runaway slave demanding sanctuary at Fort Monroe. Set at the dawn of the Civil War, Gen. Benjamin Butler faces an impossible moral dilemma: follow the law or alter the course of U.S. history. It’s a battle of wit and wordplay that is “simultaneously thought-provoking and sidesplitting.” –TheatreMania
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
Adapted for the Stage by Mark Shanahan
Sponsored by Naomi Bloom
Previews Nov. 26 & 27, 2024 | Nov. 29 – Dec. 15
Historic Arcade Theatre
Hailed as one of Agatha Christie’s best-known stories and voted “best crime novel ever” by the British Crime Writers’ Association! This suspenseful whodunnit features a mysterious cast of suspects guarding secrets about blackmail and murder – and only the great Hercule Poirot can solve the case. This brand-new stage adaptation comes from the mind of Mark Shanahan, author of last season’s A Sherlock Carol.
FULLY COMMITTED By Becky Mode
Previews Dec. 10 – 12, 2024 | Dec. 13, 2024 – Jan. 12, 2025
ArtStage Studio Theatre
This devastatingly funny one-man tour-de-force follows a day in the life of Sam, an out-of-work actor manning the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan’s #1 restaurant. Coercion, threats, bribes, and histrionics – these desperate callers will stop at nothing to score a table! Amid the barrage of frantic diners, Sam deals with his own career and family drama! One actor plays forty roles in this outrageous & touching comedy!
LUCKY STIFF
Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Music by Stephen Flaherty
Exclusively Sponsored by Ellie Fox
Previews Jan 7 – 9, 2025 | Jan. 10 – 26
Historic Arcade Theatre
The stage is set for hilarity in this off-beat musical-murder-mystery-farce! When hapless English shoe salesman, Harry Witherspoon, learns he’s heir to a distant uncle’s fortune of rare diamonds, he’ll do anything to get his hands on the jewels – even if it means wheeling his uncle’s corpse around Monte Carlo for one last vacation. Meanwhile, a host of shady characters (including a jilted mob wife, a dogged do-gooder, and an optometrist) are hot on his trail!
BLOOMSDAY By Steven Dietz
Sponsored by Shelley Wilson and Terry Kelley
Previews Jan 28 – 30, 2025 | Jan. 31 – Mar. 2
ArtStage Studio Theatre
In this touching time-travel love story from the author of “Becky’s New Car,” Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with the woman who captured his heart thirty-five years earlier. Dancing backward through time, Robert and Cait retrace their steps and discover their younger selves – Robbie and Caithleen. Told with wit, humor, and heartache, Bloomsday is a buoyant, moving story about making the most of the present before it becomes the past.
BOCA By Jessica Provenz
Sponsored by Noreen Raney
Media Sponsor: Florida Weekly
Previews Feb. 11 – 13, 2025 | Feb. 14 – Mar. 2
Historic Arcade Theatre
Celebrate our very own Sunshine State by traveling east to Boca Raton – and a retirement community where the lawns and residents are perfectly maintained. This brand-new not-to-be-missed comedy follows a group of retirees who – between golf, bridge, and Botox – can be found dishing gossip and living it up like they’re teenagers again. Through it all, they find the key to happiness lies within their own community.
SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL
Created by Phillip George & David Lowenstein
Continuity by Peter Morris
Sponsored by Bob & Jane Breisch
Media Sponsor: NBC-2 WBBH-TV
Previews Mar. 18 – 20, 2025 | Mar. 21 – Apr 13
Historic Arcade Theatre
The powerful women and smashing sounds that made England swing in the 1960s come to musical life in this non-stop revue! SHOUT! features the infectious, soulful pop anthems and ballads that made household names of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Lulu, Shirley Bassey, The Seekers, and others! If you enjoyed Beehive, you’ll love the eye-popping fashions, psychedelic dances, and new arrangements of hits like “Downtown,” “Wishin’ and Hopin’,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” and more!
VENUS IN FUR By David Ives
Sponsored by Bruce & Janet Bunch
Previews Apr. 15 – 17, 2025 | Apr. 18 – May 18
ArtStage Studio Theatre
Sexy, provocative, and witty, Venus in Fur turns up the heat on sexual power play and is sure to charm and mesmerize. When Vanda arrives several hours late to her audition for a play based on a nineteenth-century erotic novel, the director is less than impressed. Vanda’s masterful performance, however, flips the script and the audition turns into a tango for dominance between actress and director.