2023-2024 Season

Poster for Acrosstown Repertory Theatre showing various plays with dates and authors, featuring an image of two actors, one with glasses and a beard, and the other wearing glasses and leaning on the first actor.

  • Showing August 18 – September 3, 2023

    Written by Jean-Paul Satre

    Directed by Lola Bond

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    Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell. The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit.

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    A remounting of our successful 2017 production reminds us that Hell is other people.

  • Showing October 13 – 29, 2023

    Book by Hugh Wheeler

    Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

    Directed by Calypso May

    Auditions: August 20 & 21, 2023

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    An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!

  • Showing December 1 – 17, 2023

    By William Shakespeare

    Directed by Rikki Baynard

    Auditions: October 15 & 16, 2023

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    Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity. Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: Confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia’s arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his friend Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and the maidservant Maria into believing his mistress loves him.

  • Regional Premiere

    Showing January 19 – February 4, 2024

    By Heather Chrisler

    Directed by Andrea Young

    Auditions: December 3 & 4, 2023

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    ​A four women adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy transform into women before our eyes and experience love, loss, and the ever glowing warmth of the March family hearth.

  • Showing March 1 – 17, 2024

    By William Goldman

    Directed by Derek Wohlust

    This show has been precast

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    ​Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.

  • Showing April 19 – May 4, 2024

    By Christopher Durang

    Directed by Katherine Simon

    Auditions: March 3 & 4, 2024

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    Bruce and Prudence, two modern, neurotic urbanites searching for love and sanity – with the questionable help of their offbeat therapists. This delightful comedy will keep you laughing as the couple learn to live beyond therapy.

  • Showing June 7 – 23, 2024

    Book by Joe Masteroff

    Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood

    Music by John Kander

    Lyrics by Fred Ebb

    Directed by Andrea Young

    Auditions: April 14 & 15, 2024

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    In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles.

Three people, a man and two women, in vintage clothing against a brown background. The woman on the right is having her chin touched by the woman in the center, while the man looks on with a smirk.
A man with short brown hair and a woman with dark hair in updos, both dressed in black, standing against a red background. The man is holding a shiny knife and has an angry expression, while the woman looks skeptical.
A man with a beard shows aggression, holding chopsticks and making a fierce expression against a red background.
Four women dressed in black gothic clothing with dark makeup, standing against a red background; the central woman is holding a small sword to her head with a confident expression, while the others look serious.
Poster for a play titled 'Little Women' based on Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Heather Chisler, showing silhouettes of a girl reading and a woman and girl walking, with theater details and dates.
Portrait of a smiling man with glasses, wearing a dark shirt and a gray striped sweater, standing against a dark background.
Portrait of a young woman with curly hair, wearing a black top, looking directly at the camera, against a dark background.
A man with light skin, dark hair, and glasses wearing a black shirt, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
A man with glasses, wearing a green and gray striped sweater over a black shirt, is crying and wiping his eye with his hand against a dark background.
A middle-aged man with short brown hair making a grimace while standing against a dark background, wearing a purple button-up shirt, jeans, a large belt buckle, and a watch.
A man with brown hair and facial hair smiling, wearing a black shirt, against a dark background.
A young woman with curly blonde hair and a man with glasses and dark hair, both smiling softly against a dark blue background.
A woman and a man are reacting with looks of confusion or worry, with the woman looking to the side and the man holding his face with a distressed expression.
A man and a woman appear upset and concerned. The woman has curly blonde hair and is wearing a black top, while the man has dark hair, glasses, and is dressed in a gray sweater with stripes.
Two men standing together, one making a confused face and the other smiling, both wearing glasses and dark-colored shirts, against a dark background.
Three people, two men and one woman, standing close together against a dark blue background. The woman in the middle looks confused and worried. The man on the left appears confused or skeptical, and the man on the right is smiling with a hand on the
A man and a woman are having a tense conversation, with the man raising his hands in a defensive gesture and the woman pointing her finger at him.
A man in a purple shirt and jeans appears to be talking animatedly to a woman with curly hair in a black top, who looks confused or skeptical. They are against a dark blue background.
A man in a purple shirt appears to be talking or explaining something to a woman with curly hair in a black shirt, who looks confused or skeptical. They are standing against a dark blue background.
Two men smiling at each other against a dark blue background, one wearing glasses and a dark shirt, the other in a leather jacket and black shirt.