Main Street Theater

It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America, and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country, but rent is still due on the first. A young girl is pulled into intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill white wife home for the holidays and forces long-simmering family tensions to boil over. Winner of the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Cold War Choir Practice is an explosion of roller disco, Reaganomics, espionage, and cults, underscored by the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus. This production contains adult language and mature themes.

Memorial is a large, mid-gentrified neighborhood in the American South, where just about every kind of American life can be found within its fifteen miles. When a group of Memorial High School theater students have their production of The Laramie Project shut down by the school board, they decide to make their own piece of documentary theater about the fight to do their play. Soon they find themselves on the frontlines of a hijinks-filled culture war that transforms Memorial and the students alike. The Sparkle Wars is a mockumentary and satire about how communities choose the stories that represent them. This production contains adult language and mature content, including discussions of violence and death.

An Irish Carol is an homage to Dickens’ classic, told as only the Irish can. Set in a modern Dublin pub, this comic and touching play follows one evening in the life of David, a wealthy pub owner who has lost touch with his own humanity in the interest of self-protection and material success. On Christmas Eve, challenged by a voice from the past, provoked by those in the present, and faced with the reality of a lonely future, David’s life may just change forever. This production contains adult language.

Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present day at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition as the Arcadian landscape is transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens while young Lady Thomasina and her tutor explore intellectual ideas amid passion and intrigue. In the present day, the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars research a possible scandal at the estate involving Lord Byron. With humor and heart, Arcadia explores truth, time, classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex and passion.