Disney's The Little Mermaid
Sep
8
to Sep 16

Disney's The Little Mermaid

  • 126 Newberry Street SW Aiken, SC 29801 United States (map)
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Performances:
7:30 p.m. Sept. 8, 9, 14, 15, 16
2 p.m. Sept. 10

Music by: Alan Menken

Lyrics by: Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater

Book by: Doug Wright

Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tory and Disney film produced by Howard Ashman, John Musker and Ron Clements

Originally produced by Disney Theatrical Productions

Set in the magical world under the sea, the story follows Ariel, a young and curious mermaid princess with a beautiful voice. Longing to explore the human world above, she defies her father, King Triton, and strikes a deal with the villainous sea witch, Ursula. In exchange for her voice, Ariel is given legs, with the condition that she must capture the heart of Prince Eric within three days.

As Ariel embarks on her quest, she encounters a colorful array of characters, including her loyal and comical sidekick, Flounder, and the hilarious seagull, Scuttle. With the help of her friends and the power of true love, Ariel must navigate the challenges of the human world while outsmarting Ursula's wicked plans.

ACT Director: Marcia Harris

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God of Carnage
Jul
14
to Jul 22

God of Carnage

  • 126 Newberry Street SW Aiken, SC 29801 United States (map)
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  • Friday July 14 7:30pm

  • Saturday, July 15  7:30pm

  • Sunday, July 16  2pm

  • Thursday, July 20 7:30pm

  • Friday, July 21  7:30pm

  • Saturday July 22 7:30pm

A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters.

By Yasmina Reza

Translated by Christopher Hampton

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Some Place Called Mayor's Income, Tennessee
Apr
1
to Apr 9

Some Place Called Mayor's Income, Tennessee

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April 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 pm
April 3 at 2:00 pm

SOME PLACE CALLED MAYOR’S INCOME, TENNESSEE, is a full-length play that is made up of a collection of short, episodic plays. Each short play can stand on its own, but they’re all tied together by one theme. They’re all set in the same town – some place called Mayor’s Income, Tennessee. It’s a location that you won’t be able to find on any map or your fancy GPS-enabled smart phones. And that’s because it’s a place that doesn’t exist in this reality. The stories are all works of fiction. These characters are not real, and every piece of dialogue they speak are just words on a page. A script written by a playwright. Entertain this thought for a moment: What if every time an author writes a novel, a poet writes a poem, or every time a playwright writes a play, the events created in those stories become very real, set somewhere else in their own reality. A work of fiction to you, but very real in some other place. Some other time. In SOME PLACE CALLED MAYOR’S INCOME, TENNESSEE, we will open a door to this other reality. Where these stories are very real. These characters are very real. And Mayor’s Income, Tennessee, is a very real place. A place where people who visit, even momentarily, get a weird feeling that its residents are hiding something from the rest of us. Now, let us take a glimpse at the past, present, and future of this place called Mayor’s Income, Tennessee.

THIS PLAY CONTAINS MATURE THEMES, ADULT LANGUAGE AND GUN VIOLENCE

Written by local, award-winning playwright Jonathan Cook

Dave Engleman - Narrator

Ensemble:

  • Will Lane

  • Gina Vitgenos

  • Jeremy McCoy

  • Ken Hendricks

  • Garrett Maroney

  • Matthew Hoffman

  • Carolyn McCoy

  • Tricia Perea

  • Joshua Cloyd

  • Brandon McVey

  • Chelsea Glass

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Murder's in the Heir
Feb
18
to Feb 26

Murder's in the Heir

  • 126 Newberry Street SW Aiken, SC 29801 United States (map)
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Turn the game Clue into a play and you have the masterfully entertaining Murder’s in the Heir!’ Almost every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. And it’s up to your audience to decide who actually did it! Each of the heirs to the tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and the motive to do away with him. Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals that he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants. Then Lois delivers the bombshell! Within hours this will becomes invalid. Of course, the rejected heirs are not pleased, so it’s not surprising when they roam the old mansion carrying such items as an ax, a gun and poison. Predictably, the lights go out, and Simon is discovered murdered. Simon III (played by the same actor who plays the elderly Simon) is determined to find his grandfather’s killer, with the help of detective Mike Davis. The play’s unique ending, utilizing secret ballots gathered at intermission from the audience, determines the killer in this Billy St. John maze of murder.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Dec
3
to Dec 11

A Charlie Brown Christmas

  • 126 Newberry Street SW Aiken, SC 29801 United States (map)
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The classic animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts Gang discover the true meaning of Christmas.

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Murder on the Orient Express
Sep
10
to Sep 18

Murder on the Orient Express

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Famous detective Hercule Poirot is called back from Istanbul to London on urgent business. He intends to book a first-class compartment on the Orient Express, run by his former friend and colleague, Monsieur Bouc. The train is surprisingly full, but Bouc manages to secure Poirot a spot in the first-class cabin. While aboard the Orient Express, Poirot meets a host of peculiar characters: an aging Russian princess, her Swedish companion, a Hungarian countess, a Minnesota housewife, a Scottish colonel, an English governess, a French conductor, a disagreeable American businessman, and his anxious secretary. While aboard the train, the angry businessman, Samuel Ratchett, corners Poirot and demands Poirot to investigate a series of ominous letters that have been sent to Ratchett, threatening his life.

As a snowdrift halts the Orient Express in its tracks, Ratchett is found stabbed multiple times in his locked train compartment. Poirot is tasked by Monsieur Bouc to solve the murder, as the killer could still be in their midst. As Poirot investigates, conflicting clues and convoluted alibis lead him to dead ends. Over the course of 48 hours, will Poirot be able to solve the case of the Murder on the Orient Express?

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Jun
29
10:30 AM10:30

New content and information coming soon.

It is the mission of the Aiken Community Theatre to provide a superior, entertaining and safe theatre experience. Thus we are temporarily suspending productions until such time that we can provide a quality, safe experience for all our patrons. We will strive to continue to provide theatrical content through various means such as our Entra’ACT YoUTube channel.

Please check back soon for more information.

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Seussical the Musical, Jr.
Feb
20
to Feb 29

Seussical the Musical, Jr.

Feb. 20,21,22,27,28,29 7:30pm   Feb 23 2pm

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once on This Island, Ragtime), have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

A Youth Wing Production

Directed by JC Crider

Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

Music by Stephen Flaherty  Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle

Based on the works of Dr. Seuss

Music Supervised, Adapted and Produced by Bryan Louiselle

Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

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Coffee House - featuring Weston and Preston
Feb
14
7:00 PM19:00

Coffee House - featuring Weston and Preston

Make this a magical Valentine’s Day!  Their mix includes spirited renditions of R&B classics, beach and pop music, jazz standards, reggae and even some country.  Preston and Weston go together like hand in glove, and we’re not just talking about their names.  They have both toured with James Brown!  Full of vocals, laughter and fun.

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Move Over Mrs. Markham
Jan
16
to Jan 25

Move Over Mrs. Markham

Jan 16,17,18,23,24,25 7:30pm   Jan 19   2pm

To Sylvie it's the "goose" that she learned from Alistair, but to Philip, Joanna Markham's husband, it's "a variety of geese," and fifteen years of marriage is just about undone along with everything else in this wild zany free for all. Everything from Philip's business deals with Bow Wow Books and Alistair's near escape from Joanna's chiding seduction to the naked G.P.O. girl and the specter of scandal is hilarious. A lot of bedhopping occurs as Sylvie winds up taking Alistair on "walkies" and the amazing Mrs. Markham gets her man her husband! It all takes place in an elegant top floor London flat.

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A Christmas Story
Dec
5
to Dec 14

A Christmas Story

Dec 5,6,7,12,13,14   7:30pm  Dec 8   2pm

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out!" All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.

Directed by Janette Godwin

By Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

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Dessert Theatre
Nov
22
7:30 PM19:30

Dessert Theatre

Aiken Community Theatre Youth Wing is proud to present Dessert Theatre, a fundraiser performance to raise money for the ACT Youth Wing. Dessert Theatre will be held on Friday, November 22 at 7:30 in ACT's Bechtel Experimental Theatre and will feature Chelsea Glass, Chuck Carver, Jim Anderson, Juli Davis, Kelvin Jenkins, Marshall Mahoney, Matt Osteen, and Tyler McKinney as they perform songs you know and love. Doors open at 7:00 and desserts and coffee will be served. Dessert Theatre raises money for the ACT Youth Wing in order to provide immersive experiences to our students including the Broadway Student Summit in NYC, Camp Broadway in Atlanta, and the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Nov
6
to Nov 10

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

November 6,7,8,9 7:30pm Nov 9&10 2pm

In this faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's classic American ghost story, award winning playwright Mark Scharf has created theatrical event as easy or as complex to stage as your imagination and budget. The story follows Ichabod Crane, an outsider from Connecticut as he tries to fit into the isolated and insular society of Sleepy Hollow – a land steeped in stories of the supernatural including the terrifying tale of the Headless Horseman. In doing so, he seeks to court Katrina, the local beauty, but Katrina is already being pursued by the local hero and hell-raiser Brom Van Brunt and the sparks that fly may not be the kind Ichabod intends.

A Youth Wing Production

Directed by Chrissey Miller

by Mark Scharf
Presented by special arrangement with Brooklyn Publishers

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Of Mice and Men
Oct
17
to Oct 26

Of Mice and Men

October 17,18,19,24,25,26 7:30pm   Oct 20 2pm

Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat of the land," have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's obsessions with things soft and cuddly that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. His promise to allow Lennie to "tend to the rabbits" on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown child needs constant reassurance. But when a ranch boss' promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it's obvious that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed her. George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide, and he meets him there. Realizing they can't run away anymore, George is faced with a moral question: How should he deal with Lennie before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands?

Directed by Bob Franklin

By: John Steinbeck
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York

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Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame - a new musical
Sep
5
to Sep 14

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame - a new musical

September 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14   7:30pm   September 8 2pm

Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz. Peter Parnell’s new book embraces story theatre and features verbatim passages from Hugo’s gothic novel.

The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the gypsies – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.

A sweeping score and powerful story make The Hunchback of Notre Damean instant classic. Audiences will be swept away by the magic of this truly unforgettable musical.

Directed by Kyle Seconi

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Gibson & Sons: A Comedy
Jul
19
to Jul 27

Gibson & Sons: A Comedy

Summer 2019

Helping his father save their struggling small-town funeral home has gotten in the way of Harry Gibson’s love life. Desperate to settle down, he turns to an unconventional method of meeting a woman: an online Russian bride service. When his bride Katya arrives, with her acerbic sister Eva in tow, the Gibson family is thrown into a tailspin.

Due to language and subject matter this show is recommended for ages 14 and above.

Written by Kristen Da Silva
Directed by Bob Franklin

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Legally Blonde:
May
23
to Jun 1

Legally Blonde:

Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend Warner dumps her so he can attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle ingeniously charms herself into the prestigious law school. While there, she struggles with peers, professors and her ex. With the support of some new friends, though, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world.

Book by Heather Hach
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin.
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture.
Directed by Juli Davis.

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