My Fair Lady focuses on a young woman named Eliza Doolittle, a flower seller whose Cockney accent interests professor and phonetician, Henry Higgins. Henry decides …

Follow the lives of a family of three (mother Amanda and two adult children, Laura and Tom) as they struggle to deal with a changing …

Joseph Kesselring’s classic black comedy Arsenic & Old Lace is back to poison your delight! Grab your antidote to boredom and join us for a night of …

Get ready to be served a delicious slice of life with the thrilling premiere of Waitress. Featuring an irresistible score by Sara Bareilles and a book …

Waco Civic Theatre presents a chilling adaptation of George Orwell's masterpiece. Witness a world where truth is fiction, freedom is a myth, and surveillance is …

A truly original musical that honors brothers and sisters, as well as parents and children, set against the background of a changing America between 1950 …

Based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, …

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Peter Pan: A New Musical is a reimagined adaptation of the classic tale by J.M. Barrie. Set in both the bustling streets of London and …

Based on the famous Roald Dahl book, James and the Giant Peach is a fantastical tale of a boy, his insect friends, and their amazing …

The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry …

Waco Civic Theatre invites you to our fundraiser event CURTAIN UP: A CENTURY OF STORYTELLING as we celebrate 100 years of local theatre. This ticketed event will …

As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can’t control, a destiny he doesn’t want, and a mythology textbook’s …

Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive …

A Simpler Time is a series of comic plays interconnected by a frame story. Each of the nine plays in the collection is by a different …

Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of …

  Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and …

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory …

Ordinary Days is a sung-through musical with music and lyrics by American composer Adam Gwon. Set in New York City, the musical follows four characters, Claire, Jason, Warren, and Deb, exploring …

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Escape to Margaritaville is a musical comedy featuring the most-loved Jimmy Buffett classics, including “Cheeseburger in Paradise”, “Margaritaville,” “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” “Fins,” “Volcano,” and …

In the suburbs of Washington D.C., a high-powered lawyer named Pablo and his very pregnant, doctoral candidate wife named Tania, have just purchased their dream …

A Texas-style Christmas celebration.  

Beth Bradley’s church’s Christmas pageant is predictable every year — the angel choir wears too much lipstick, the shepherds are all in their father’s bathrobes, …

Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer ahead of her time. It is 1900, and Henrietta has the opportunity to work at …

Summer 1953: Margaret Johnson, an elegant and strong-willed Southern woman, has taken her daughter, Clara, on a vacation to Italy. When a gust of wind …

Inspired by a true story and featuring a Tony®-nominated score by Waco native Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale …

HAVING OUR SAY opens as 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany welcome us into their Mount Vernon, New York, home. As they prepare a …

A LITTLE HOUSE CHRISTMAS Based on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE by Laura Ingalls Wilder Adapted for the stage by James DeVita Presented by arrangement …

  A good-hearted comedy freckled with dark reflections by the author of Moonstruck in this very Irish story that revels in a turn of phrase, …

The beloved Louisa May Alcott story comes to the stage! Based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1868–69 semi-autobiographical two-volume novel, it focuses on the four March …

The play takes place in South Philadelphia in March 1959. Billie Holiday is performing in a run-down bar, during one of her last performances before …

Retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives a quiet life alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, set in her routines and secure in her position as the town’s …

The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a …

This modern musical by Jason Robert Brown ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up and from break-up to meeting. The …

Emma is a beautiful, high-spirited, intelligent, and ‘slightly’ spoiled young woman from the landed gentry. She is twenty when the story opens. Her mother died …

Storybook Waco Variety Hour is an original musical featuring familiar songs and beloved characters from your favorite fairy tales! Join Alice and Wendy, as they …

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 …

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 …

When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting …

Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and …

Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical written by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott. It dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956, among early Rock and roll stars Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl …

Attend this dark and witty tale of love, London, murder and revenge. Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19th century London seeking vengeance …

Beauty and the Beast--Cast List BELLE: Meredith Marcum, Ashley Meade BEAST: John Tripp, Todd Blattman GASTON: Jonah Hardt, Tyler Miller MAURICE: Bill Selby, Scott Peden …

Based on the 1992 film of the same name, Sister Act tells the story of aspiring disco diva Deloris Van Cartier. Trying to work her way to …

Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, passionately pursues the elusive Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, a young newcomer to Long Island, is drawn into their world of …

On February 6, 2006, people began lining up at dawn outside of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta …

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute …

By chance, Kris Kringle, an old man in a retirement home, gets a job working as Santa for Macy’s. Kris unleashes waves of good will …

The Addams Family Musical features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in …

A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor …

Daisy is a Jewish widow who still sounds like the elementary school teacher she once was. Hoke is an African American driver hired by Miss …

In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre - not a handsome prince - shows up to rescue a …

It's the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn't be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about …

A moving and celebratory musical play in which a young black woman has come down South to stay with her aunt. Hats are everywhere, in …