Harbor Playhouse offers great acts to follow

The Harbor Playhouse keeps the theater tradition alive and thriving in the city of Corpus Christi. Located downtown in the arts district, the Harbor Playhouse is home to a year-round school of theater and serves as a showcase for a variety of productions, including musicals, dramas, comedies, children’s shows, and summer melodramas. Ticket prices vary per production and may be obtained at the Harbor Playhouse Box Office located annat #1 Bayfront Park, or by calling (361) 888-SHOW. For more information, go to our Web site at www.harborplayhouse.com

May 11 - 20 “Science Fiction Double Feature”
By Peter Lutz
Welcome to the world of two old-fashioned radio plays with a science fiction twist. Written by local playwright Pete Lutz, “Science Feature Double Feature” is like Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” combined with “The Shadow;” two delightfully dark tales of time travel and genetic research in the style of old time radio theatre.

May 25 - June 9 “My Three Angels”
By Sam Spewack & Bella Spewack
Set in French Guiana, on Christmas Day where the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. A family has employeed three convicts to roof their house and an evil-hearted cousin is coming from France to oust the father from his business. Meanwhile, a cold-blooded nephew is jilting the father’s daughter for an heiress. The three convicts take on the visitors; all three have warm hearts and are passionate believers in justice. Possessing criminal art and penal grace, they set matters right, and in doing so redeem themselves.

June 8 - June 24 Summer Melodramas: “Slaughter on South Staples” and “Who Was That Masked Man” by local playwright Joe Middendorf.

July 6 - July 21 Richard O’Brien’s “Rocky Horror.”

July 27 - Aug. 12 “The Music Man”
By Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” follows fast-talking salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying equipment for a boys’ band he vows to organize-despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain.

Aug. 16 - 25 “Smoke on the Mountain”
By Constance Ray
The year is 1938. It’s Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, and the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sander Family Singers to provide an upliftin’ evening of singin’ and witnessin’. The audience is invited to pull up a pew and join in the rollicking good time. More than two dozen songs, many of them vintage pop hymns, and hilarious stories from the more or less devout Sanders provide a richly entertaining evening that has audiences clapping, singing, laughing and cheering.

Aug. 31 - Sept. 16 “Into the Woods”
By Stephen Sondheim
When a baker and his wife learn the Witch next door has cursed them with childlessness, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack. What begins as a lively, irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Sept. 28 - Oct. 7 “WIT”
By Margaret Edson
Vivian Bering, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness-and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital-Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformational both for her and the audience.

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