The Schoolhouse Theatre Announces 2024 Season

The Schoolhouse Theatre Announces 2024 Season

Croton Falls’ Schoolhouse Theatre, winner of nine Broadway World Awards in 2023 including Best Play for their revival of John Logan’s 2009 multiple Tony Award-winning Red about Mark Rothko, recently announced their 2024 season.

World Premiere – What Keeps Us Going (May 24 – June 9) Their season will kick off with the World Premiere of  Barbara Dana’s comedy What Keeps Us Going, about a retired actress who is asked to to perform in a A-list benefit for a theatre. The production will be directed by Austin Pendleton the character actor best known for playing the mysterious Marty in Christmas with the Kranks. Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of the Broadway revival of Little Foxes starring Elizabeth Taylor. Austin will direct a Tony-studded cast including Tony-winner Karen Ziemba (Contact), Tony-nominees Amelia Campbell and Tim Jerome, and Anthony Arkin. What Keeps Us going will debut on Friday, May 24 and run form 15 performances through Sunday, June 9.

Athol Fugard’s – “Master Harold” … and the boys (September 6 – 22) Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical play depicts his relationship with his family’s servants in 1950’s apartheid South Africa. “Master Harold” was initially banned in South Africa and debuted at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1982 before moving to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre where it won the Drama Desk Award for Best Play. The Schoolhouse production will be directed by the theatre’s artistic director Owen Thompson and will star Will DeVary and Alvin Keith. The show will open on Friday, September 6 and will run for 15 performances through Sunday, September 22.

Brian Friel’s Faith Healer (December 6 –22) The Schoolhouse Theatre’s 2024 season will conclude with a revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 drama Faith Healer about a Welsh faith healer Francis Hardy. The play is told in four monologues from Hardy, his wife, his manager and Hardy himself. The monologues tell a story of Hardy curing ten people in a Welsh village, questioning if his gift is real and then coming to grips with his failure to cure a cripple. Faith Healer was voted one of the most significant plays of the 20th century in a poll from London’s Royal National Theatre. Owen Thompson will direct Victor Slezak, Michale Daly and Elizabeth Rodgers. The play will open on Friday December 6 and run for 15 performances through December 22.