The Circle Theatre Players at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts in Averill Park, NY, announce their 2024 season schedule.
Lost in Yonkers by Neil SImon
Directed by Maureer Baillargeon Aumand
February 16-25, 2024
A coming-of-age story set in Yonkers, New York in the 1940’s. Simon’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers around two brothers, Arty and Jay, who live with their grandmother and their Aunt Bella, while their father travels, desperately trying to scrape enough money together while working as a salesman to pay off his debts to a loan shark, and their mother has died of cancer. Over the course of the play, the young boys learn lessons about love, responsibility and the importance of family that will carry them into adulthood.
Little Wars by Steven Carl McCasland
Directed by Vat Kavanuagh & Sue Frost
April 12-21, 2024
The Nazi invasion of Paris is imminent. At a dinner party, where only booze is served, a group of female writers, among them Agatha Christie, Dorothy Parker, and Gertrude Stein, bicker and argue until they are close to boiling point. No subject it seems is off limits. A mysterious guest joins the party, and the maid is attentive to all. Everyone, it turns out, has a secret. Who is prepared to reveal theirs? And how can these women overcome their prejudices to work together?
Web by Brendan McDermott
Directed by Michael McDermott
June 7-15, 2024
More info coming soon!
Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Corie Whalen
September 13-22, 2024
Songs for a New World is a work of musical theatre written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. This was Jason Robert Brown’s first produced show, originally produced Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1995. Brown and director Daisy Prince put together songs he had written for other venues and events, resulting in “neither musical play nor revue, it is closer to a theatrical song cycle, a very theatrical song cycle. The show lies between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract musical, a series of songs all connected by a theme: “the moment of decision.Songs for a New World has become a favorite small show for colleges and local theatres.
Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Gary Hoffmann
November 15-24, 2024
A hit in London and New York and one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain’s grand master of comedy, the Olivier & Moliere award-winning writer Sir Alan Ayckbourn, whose 72 plays have achieved astonishing audience success throughout the world. Comic Potential is a seriously funny love story, a romantic sci-fi lesson in comedy, set in a not too distant future when actors are replaced by robots, or rather ‘actoids’, and an aspiring young comedy screenwriter falls in love with one of them.