The People's Choice 2025
The Theatre of Dare Board of Directors is hard at work reading plays and choosing productions for our 2025-2026 season. But one of the productions is up to you! Read through the nominees for next season's People's Choice Production, then use the form below to vote. But hurry! Voting closes on January 16, 2025.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide head-on with the story of Christmas!
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This delightful show is adapted from the bestselling Young Adult book, and has become a holiday staple for groups across the United States. The crowd-pleasing comedy features plenty of great roles for children and adults, a few favorite Christmas Carols, and lots of laughs.
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The Game's Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays)
It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. It is then up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.
The Inn at Little Bethlehem
Christmas Eve at a small inn in rural Maine. A nor'easter for the record books is blowing and the staff hunker down for a quiet night. But the roads are closing and Christmas makes people do strange things. Two stranded travelers arrive, Joseph and a very pregnant Mary. Then three more arrive and when they take off their coats we see they are Elvis impersonators (Elvis is King!), Finally, a beautiful woman arrives: Holly Noelle Hallmark, who is fleeing Boston and a broken engagement. Will Holly tempt Ethan, who everyone knows is supposed to be with Louisa? Will Louisa step in to claim Ethan for herself? Then Mary's water breaks.
An Inspector Calls
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl’s undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector—who turns out to be no copper at all but a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone’s connection with the suicide. After the false inspector has been shown up, and it is discovered that no suicide had been recorded, an actual copper shows, and a last-minute suicide is reported, which ties in mysteriously with the foregoing.