The Phantom Tollbooth
By Susan Nanus, based on the book by Norton Juster
Directed by DeLaney Hardy Ray
Performance Dates
September 12-21, 2025
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
Trouble in Tahiti / The Filthy Habit
By Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Peter Hilliard (Composer The Filthy Habit), Matt Boresi (Libretto The Filthy Habit)
Directed by William Stearns
Performance Dates
October 10-19, 2025
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
9 to 5 the Musical
By Patricia Resnick, Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Based on the Twentieth Century Fox Film
Directed by Marisa Clark
Performance Dates
November 7-16, 2025
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
A Seussified Christmas Carol
By Peter Bloedel
Directed by Dakota Hunter
A whimsical reinvention of Dickens' most beloved Christmas story in wacky rhymed couplets. With zoot fruited juices and binka bird geese, from Bed-Headed Fred to Timmy Loo Hoo, this tale of glorious holiday cheer is similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with -- if he ever had his way with the story.
Performance Dates
December 4-14, 2025
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
Ticket Price
$12-22
A Crazy Little Café Called Love
By Luigi Jannuzzi
Directed by Ginger Role
Linda has a blind date, Bob is casting a movie, the waitress likes the monk, old Mr. Philips wants a séance and the bride's dad is livid! Throw in a frantic bride, her theatrical mother, a dancing nun and an apologetic groom, and you have a comic hit! And all happening one crazy day in the one-set Love Café.
Performance Dates
January 30-February, 8 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Black Box
Ticket Price
$12-22
Snow White and the Seven Endings
By Tracy Wells
Directed by Deyja Whitcomb
Snow White and the Seven Endings is the story of Snow White like you’ve never seen before! This charming and hilarious love letter to all types of theater tropes explores the age-old story from the perspective of Snow White's Seven Forest Dwelling friends. Who needs a prince, right?
Performance Dates
February 20-March 1, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
Ticket Price
$12-22
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Glenda Brauneis
As You Like It, follows Rosalind, who is banished by her uncle, Duke Frederick, and seeks refuge in the Forest of Arden. She disguises herself as Ganymede, a boy, and begins to teach a love-sick Orlando about the nature of love. In the forest, she meets other characters, including Celia, Oliver, and Touchstone, who experience their own romantic entanglements and personal growth. The play explores themes of love, exile, and the relationship between courtly life and the simpler life in the natural world.
Performance Dates
March 13-22, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Black Box
Ticket Price
$12-22
Imagine a Dragon
By Kathryn Funkhouser, Music & Lyrics by Denver Casado, Music Arrangements by Jeff Daye
Directed by Janie Sutton
The dragon is back in town! Well… not really. That’s the story a ragtag band of innkeepers makes up, desperate to draw questing heroes to the struggling Dancing Dragon Inn. Soon the inn is full of unexpected guests, from an army of princesses out to prove their bravery, to a group of overwhelmed heroes trying to hold onto their fame. But what happens if they all discover the innkeepers’ dragon story is made up? Could there be more than one way to save the day? An epic folk-rock score brings magic to this funny, heartfelt fantasy musical.
Performance Dates
April 1-19, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
Ticket Price
$12-22
This Murder Was Staged
By Patrick Greene & Jason Pazzarello
Directed by Gustavo Belotta
It's opening night of a brand-new mystery play, but just as the killer is about to be revealed, the body of the play's director falls on stage instead. In that moment, the theater becomes an active crime scene, and everyone from cast to crew to even the audience becomes a suspect. But how is the intrepid detective supposed to find the killer when everyone and their mother (literally) has a motive to want the demanding director gone?
Performance Dates
May 8-17, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
Venue
NOVA Main Stage
Ticket Price
$12-22
