The Schoolhouse Theater Announces 2025 Season

The Schoolhouse Theater Announces 2025 Season

After a triumphant 2024 season that saw the Schoolhouse Theater win seven Broadway World Awards including Best Play for Master Harold and the Boys; and a powerful production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, the Schoolhouse is going to lighten up the drama of the Schoolhouse’s recent years to bring a little fun and games to the stage in Croton Falls.

Satchmo at the Waldorf

Beginning with Terry Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf about the beloved and forever smiling jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Written for one performer playing multiple roles include those of Armstrong’s manage Joe Glaser and trumpeter Miles Davis, Satchmo is a comedy/drama about a personal and professional life that saw Armstrong rise from poverty in the racially segregated New Orleans of the early 2oth century to winning the Grammy Award for Best Male Performance for Hello Dolly in 1965. Schoolhouse Producing Director Bram Lewis will return to his directorial roots to helm this production. Satchmo at the Waldorf opens on May 23 and will run fro 15 performances through June 8.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Could there be anything more fun than corrupt and depraved nobility toying with the hearts of innocents shortly before the French Revolution? I think not. Neither do Bram Lewis and Owen Thompson (Artistic Director) of the Schoolhouse Theater who are no doubt splitting their seams in anticipation of bringing this seductive thriller complete with scandal, sex and sword fighting to the stage. This 1782 novel by Pierre Chaderlos de Laclos was staged by The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1985 starring Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman; and opened on Broadway in 1987 where it won the Tony Award for Best Play. In 1988 it was adapted for the screen where it received seven Academy Ward nominations and starred Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich. Les Liaisons Dangereuses will open on September 5 and run fro 15 performances through September 21.

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Finally, anyone who has not already tasted the guilty pleasure of P.G. Wodehouse’s tales of the amiable/idle rich Bertie Wooster and his Uber-Butler Jeeves who Bertie depends on to get him out of one hilarious scrape after another are in for in incomparable treat. If I sound like a Wodehouse fan—I am. And I, for one am excited for this event. You should be too. There is nothing in the history of American comedic duos to match Wooster and Jeeves. And Perfect Nonsense describes their antic entanglements to a T. The Schoolhouse Theater’s season finale opens on December 5 and will run for 15 performances through December 21. Load up on tickets for your friends.