The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre’s
2018-2019 (38th) Season
Sep 7-23, 2018
Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
Sunset Village
By Michael Presley Bobbitt
Directed by Tom Miller
In Florida’s most notorious retirement community, a recent widow is pulled into a senior citizen Neverland where venereal disease rates are the highest in the nation, and sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll will never die. Sunset Village is fresh from its Off-Broadway run in New York City and making its regional premier at the Acrosstown!
Nov 1*-Nov 18, 2018
Thu, Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
Into the Woods
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
Directed by Kaitie Graves
Auditions: by invitation only
In Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical, several fractured fairy tales intersect and go off the rails. Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel collide with a witch and a childless baker in the dark woods as a vengeful giant tears apart the kingdom.
Thursday performances added!
*Delayed one week due to illness
Dec 4-9, 2018
Various Times
Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase
The Acrosstown’s 5th annual staged-reading series features brand-new plays from local playwrights. Standouts from previous years have gone on to full mainstage productions and widespread critical acclaim.
Feb 1-17, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
In Splendid Error
By William B Branch
Directed by Carol Velasques-Richardson
Auditions: Dec 2 & 3, 2018
This historical drama examines the friendship between the statesman Frederick Douglass and noted abolitionist John Brown, as Brown contemplates his now infamous raid on Harper’s Ferry. An intimate portrait of men at the crossroads of history, this play delves into the small decisions that sometimes change the world.
Mar 15-31, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
Bloody Poetry
By Howard Brenton
Directed by Jessica Jenkins
Auditions: Jan 6 & 7, 2019
An elegiac and fiery play about poetry and failed utopias, Bloody Poetry follows Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, and their lovers Mary Shelley and Claire Clairemont, into exile. Set on the night the famous story of Frankenstein was conceived, this lyrical play is a portrait of collapsing ideals in the face of human failing.
Apr 26-May 12, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
The Nether
By Jennifer Haley
Directed by Jennifer Hutton
Auditions: Feb 24 & 25, 2019
In the near future, the Internet has evolved into the Nether, a vast network of virtual reality realms where users may assume any identity and indulge any desire. A particularly dark corner of this realm leads a detective to interrogate its creator. The ethical issues raised by this encounter resonate beyond The Nether and into the real world.
Jun 7-23, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
You Have The Right to Remain Dead
By Pat Cook
Directed by Aleksandr Wilde
Auditions: Apr 7 & 8, 2019
Welcome to the Deep South, where all is not what it seems… Meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family. So you know who’s going to die, right? But who will the murderer be? It’s up to YOU to figure out whodunit– and not only are you questioning the cast, but they are questioning you! Yes, you are a suspect as well! This frantic mystery-comedy will have audiences guessing until the last clue is dropped and the last ham overacts!
Jul 19-Aug 11, 2019
Thu, Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
Summer Shakes
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Carolyne Salt
Auditions: May 5 & 6, 2019
Exploring themes of prophesy, ambition, crime, and betrayal, with a healthy dose of sex and the supernatural, the eerie play, Macbeth, is considered cursed, and its name reviled in theaters. Under Salt’s deft hand, expect brilliantly entertaining cool chills on a hot summer’s night, and thought-provoking Shakespeare of a caliber rarely seen in even much larger cities, certain to excite neophytes and scholars alike. Thursday performances added!