Aiken Community Theatre 2025-26 Season

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Sept. 5-13, 2025

Mainstage, Musical Comedy

A distant heir to a family fortune sets out to speed up the line of succession by using a great deal of charm… and a dash of murder.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile 

Oct. 17-25, 2025

Mainstage, Comedy

Tickets go on sale for the comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile on Monday, September 15th. Show dates are October 17, 18, 24, 25 at 7:30 and October 19 at 2:00.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a comedy written by comedian Steve Martin that imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Parisian cafe in 1904. Though the two visionaries are young and not yet famous, they debate and philosophize about the relative merits of art and science, and their inevitable roles in shaping the 20th century. 

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Nov. 12-16, 2025

Youth Wing, Black Box, Musical Comedy

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang explore life’s great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing, swoon over crushes and celebrate friendship.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Dec. 5-16, 2025

Mainstage, Family, Holiday

Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town’s annual Christmas play.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Feb. 13-21, 2026

Youth Wing, Mainstage, Drama

The ACT Youth Wing performs a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank.

You Can’t Take it With You

April 10-18, 2026

Mainstage, Comedy

During this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a girl from a family of free thinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker. 

Fame

May 15-24, 2026

Mainstage, Musical

Like the 1980 film and 1982 TV series of the same name, Fame follows a diverse set of students at the New York High School for the Performing Arts. 

Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood

July 10-18, 2026

Mainstage, Comedy

Packed with thrills, romance, laughter, this is the enduring story of a hero of the people who takes on the ruthless powers that be.