PRODUCTION HISTORY
From June to September, Dorset Theatre Festival mounts 4 main stage productions, drawing from some of this country’s most talented playwrights, actors, and directors.
Interested in Dorset Theatre Festival’s work? Take a look at the Festival’s production history. Click each title to view photos, cast & creative, and reviews!
2024
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2024 Main Stage Season
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
June 21 - July 6
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Theresa Rebeck
Native Gardens
July 12 - July 21
By Karen Zacarías
Directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Sidekicked
August 2 - August 17
By Kim Powers
Directed by Jackson Gay
True Art
August 23 - September 7
By Jessica Provenz
Directed by Michelle Joyner | World Premiere
Developmental Workshop
Eugene Onegin
September 12
By Sarah Gancher
Directed by Jade King Carroll
2023
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2023 Main Stage Season
Misery
June 23 - July 8
By William Goldman
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by Jackson Gay
Still
July 21 - August 5
By Lia Romeo
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt | World Premiere
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B
August 11 - 26
By Kate Hamill
Cheerfully Desecrating the Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar
The Thanksgiving Play
September 1 - 10
By Larissa Fasthorse
Directed by Raz Golden
2022
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2022 Main Stage Season
Wait Until Dark
JUNE 23 - JULY 9
By Frederick Knott
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed By Jackson Gay
Scarecrow
JULY 14 - 23
Written and performed by Heidi Armbruster
Directed by Dina Janis
Back Together Again
JULY 27 - AUG 7
Featuring Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson
Thirst
AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 3
By Ronán Noone
Directed by Theresa Rebeck
2022 Pipeline Presentation
I Need That
By Theresa Rebeck
AUGUST 30 (Staged Reading)
Starring Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, and Ray Anthony Thomas
Dance Party Ball
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Arkell Pavilion
2021
The Outdoor Stage at SVAC
Laughing Wild (July 9 - July 31, 2021)
by Christopher Durang
directed by Jade King Carroll
Queen of the Night (Aug 10 - Sept 3)
by travis tate
directed by Raz Golden
2021 Pipeline Presentation
Scarecrow (Pipeline Presentation)
by Heidi Armbruster
directed by Dina Janis
2020
Wingspan
By Chris Bohjalian
Directed by Lisa Rothe
GRACE
By Dorset’s Women Artist Writing Group
NOTORIOUS
By Dorset’s Women Artist Writing Group
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2019
Noël Coward’s Private Lives
Directed by Evan Yionoulis
June 20 - July 6 I Regional Revival
DIG
Written and Directed by Theresa Rebeck
July 11 - 27 I World Premiere
Mrs. Christie
By Heidi Armbruster
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
August 1 - 17 I World Premiere
Slow Food
By Wendy MacLeod
Directed by Jackson Gay
August 22 - 31 I Second Production
2019 Pipeline Series
Panelists by Sofia Alvarez
Three Girls Never Learnt The Way Home by Matthew Paul Olmos
A Stage of Twilight by Sarah T. Schwabb
2019 Summer Stars Gala
Honoring Tim Daly I Featuring Jamie Bernstein
2018
Cry It Out
By Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by Marc Masterson
June 21 - July 14 | Second Production
Skeleton Crew
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Jade King Carroll
July 19 - August 4
Pride and Prejudice
Adapted by Kate Hamill from the original novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
August 9 - August 25
Ann
By Holland Taylor
Directed by Kristen Van Ginhoven
August 29 - September 1 | Co-production with WAM Theatre
2018 Pipeline Series
Is Edward Snowden Single? by Kate Cortesi
A New Play by Melissa Ross
Invictus Mingus by Frank Harts
A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet
2017
Downstairs
By Theresa Rebeck
June 22 – July 8 | World Premiere
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
By Ken Ludwig
July 13 – 29 | Regional Premiere
The Legend of Georgia McBride
By Matthew Lopez
August 3 – 19 | Regional Premiere
American Buffalo
By David Mamet
August 24 – September 2 | Regional Revival
2017 New Play Reading Series
MONA MANSOUR
LAUREN YEE
PAOLA LÁZARO
2016
The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
By Alan Ayckbourn
June 16 – July 2
Dear Elizabeth
By Sarah Ruhl
July 8 – 23
The Way of the World
By Theresa Rebeck
July 28 – August 13 | World Premiere
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By Lanie Robertson
August 18 – September 3
2015
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
June 13 – 20
Intimate Apparel
By Lynne Nottage
June 25 – July 4 | Regional Premiere
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily
By Katie Forgette
July 9 – 25
Outside Mullingar
By John Patrick Shanley
July 30 – August 15 | Regional Premiere
I Hate Hamlet
By Paul Rudnick
August 20 – September 5
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Laura Eason, adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
September 9 – 12
2014
Red
By John Logan
June 18 – July 6
Out of the City
By Leslie Ayvazian | World Premiere
July 10 – 19
All in the Timing
By David Ives
July 24 – August 9
The Mousetrap
By Agatha Christie
August 14 – 30
Travels with Mark Twain
By Ron Crawford
September 18 – 20
2013
The Scene
By Theresa Rebeck
June 19 – July 7
The Whipping Man
By Matthew Lopez
July 11 – 20
Barefoot in the Park
By Neil Simon
July 25 – August 10
Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris
August 15 – 31 | Co-production with Barrington Stage Company
2012
Good People
By David Lindsay-Abaire
June 20 – July 7
Boeing Boeing
By Marc Camoletti
July 12 – 28
The Whore and Mr. Moore
By Michael Cristofer
August 2 – 11 | World Premiere
Deathtrap
By Ira Levin
August 16 – September 1
2011
Superior Donuts
By Tracy Letts
June 22 – July 3
Dial “M” for Murder
By Frederick Knott
July 7 – 23
Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
July 28 – August 13
Mauritius
By Theresa Rebeck
August 18 – 27
2010
The Pavilion
By Craig Wright
June 30 – July 11
Fallen Angels
By Noel Coward
July 14 – 25
Murder on the Nile
By Agatha Christie
July 28 – August 15
The Novelist
By Theresa Rebeck
August 18 – 29 | World Premiere