Far Fetched Fables
A family show Inspired by the classic "Fractured Fairy Tales" cartoons.
We Need A Little Elmwood Holiday Special
Grab your "TV" dinner, adjust your antenna and get ready for this old-fashioned, musical, holiday special.
Porch Stories II
Elmwood Playhouse our own version of true story telling, Inspired by NP's The Moth Radio Hour.
Porch Stories
Inspired by NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, Elmwood Playhouse presents our own version of this national treasure.
Born Yesterday
A not-so-dumb-blond outwits her bullying boyfriend while finding true love
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
A gifted boy sets out to find a dog's killer with an adventure in self discovery
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
A hilarious modern comedy that turns Chekhov on his head
The Odd Couple
A comedy about two divorced men trying to live together despite their differences.
Death Of A Salesman
Arthur Miller's classic drama about the loss of identity and changes in society.
A Lesson Before Dying
A powerful drama based on the award-winning novel by Ernest J. Gaines.
An American Daughter
A drama about the cost one woman pays when she dares to have it all.
You Can’t Take It With You
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The [...]
Minnie’s Boys
The madcap Marx Brothers musical. A touching, song-filled celebration of the origins of these show-business legends and gutsy, tender, matriarch Minnie Marx, the extraordinary woman who gave [...]
Three Tall Women
It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to [...]
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the [...]
And The World Goes ‘Round
Filled with humor, romance, drama, and nonstop melody this title is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going. Five individuals find themselves careening [...]
Kindertransport
A modern classic about one woman’s struggle to come to terms with her past – brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise [...]
The Dining Room
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is [...]
Angels in America II
The second half of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. “Angels in America, Perestroika” steers the characters introduced in “Millennium Approaches” from the [...]
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
A satire of big business and all it holds sacred, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called “How To Succeed [...]
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically [...]
A Delicate Balance
Wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless “fear” [...]
After-Play
Set in the newest “in” Manhattan restaurant, the play opens with an ethereal waiter preparing for the arrival of a party of four. Just as the two couples are about to enter, it [...]
Angels in America
In Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in 1980s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s [...]
The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and [...]
Wait Until Dark
A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the [...]
Lost In Yonkers
Bella is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz . As the play opens, ne’r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old [...]
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet’s scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for [...]
The Sisters Rosensweig
Sara Goode, an enormously successful American woman working as the British representative of a major Hong Kong bank, is about to celebrate her fifty-fourth birthday, and she isn’t exactly [...]
Twelfth Night
In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and [...]
The Lion In Winter
Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons – Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who [...]
The Road to Mecca
This unusual drama by a premiere contemporary dramatist focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she [...]
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
An American doctor and an Irish journalist are being held captive by terrorists in Beirut. They exercise and they argue, supportive in their mutual determination to survive. They are joined by an [...]
The Sum of Us
The plot revolves around the comfortable relationship between widower Harry and his gay son Jeff and their individual searches for the right mate. Harry unconditionally loves his Rugby-playing [...]
Crossing Delancey
Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother (Bubbe) in Manhattan’s Lower East [...]
Six Degrees of Separation
Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, claiming he [...]
Charlotte’s Web
The Children’s Literature Association named this “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years,” and Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B. [...]
Marvin’s Room
Bessie lives in Florida where she cares for her pain-ridden aunt and ailing father, Marvin, who is confined to his bed and unable to speak. When Bessie is diagnosed with leukemia, her only hope [...]
Romance, Romance
Two one act musicals take varied looks at romance seekers. The first is a delightful romp through the sexual ennui of turn of the century Vienna based on Schnitzler’s tale The Little [...]
Dancing at Lughnasa
This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates [...]