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Current Season 2022

All The King's Women
March 18, 19, 20 & 25, 26, 27
​Rowan County Arts Center
Written by Luigi Jannuzzi
Directed by Pam Hammonds

​The story of Elvis Presley is told through the eyes of 17 women - some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! This fast-paced series of five comedic plays and three monologues recounts the King’s life in nearly chronological order.  Stand-alone scenes take place between the 1940s and the present day  - from Tupelo, Mississippi where 11-year-old Elvis wants a BB Gun instead of a guitar to The Steve Allen Show; from President Richard Nixon's office to Andy Warhol's studio; and, from Cadillac salespersons to Graceland guards. This touching, bring-the-family comedy with a heart captures the spirit in which fame, generosity, and just being a nice guy can affect those around us!

The Sugar Bean Sisters
July 8, 9, 10 & 15, 16, 17
Rowan County Arts Center
Written by Nathan Sanders
​Directed by Ted Pack

In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood – Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake to find a good Mormon husband, and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the “space people” return for another visit. We meet Willie Mae and Faye in the evening as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Florida, after a disastrous daytrip. A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters back outside, where a strange, bird-like woman suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of mysterious  events. Lies begin to unravel and truths are finally revealed.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Oct 28, 29, 30 & Nov 4, 5, 6
Rowan County Arts Center
Adapted by Noah Smith from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by George McKee

Set in the year 1888 in Victorian London, brilliant scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll—frustrated with his dull and respectable life–creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature thus transforming him into the brutish Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll’s middle-aged, normal life continues–until Hyde’s passions begin to turn up a body count. This reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s science fiction classic returns to the original message of his novel–that a person’s inner nature is comprised with both elements of good and evil–and the way in which each one of us deals with that conflict is what defines our character.