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The comedy revolves around the Brewster family. Mortimer Brewster is a drama critic who deals with his crazy, murderous family and local police as he debates whether to marry the woman he loves, Elaine Harper. Two spinster aunts, Abby and Martha Brewster, have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide. Brother Teddy, who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs Panama Canal locks for they “yellow fever victims” in the cellar of the Brewster home. Murderous brother Jonathan and his sidekick Dr. Einstein arrive to complicate matters.

Eight short intertwined scenes that take place in a Midwestern mall on the last day of shopping before Christmas. A diverse cast of characters—from a lovesick mall Santa to an overeager mall cop, from a pair of brainy misfit teenagers to a pair of battling actors in a production of A Christmas Carol, from a petulant college freshman to a pair of newlyweds—navigate first meetings, second chances, and last-minute choices. One Christmas Eve in Evergreen Mall wraps the joys and sorrows of the season into one festive package.

Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical. It's a "big bright beautiful world" as everyone's favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek JR. is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.

These Shining Lives is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. The play dramatizes the danger women faced in this workplace and highlights the wider lack of concern companies had for protecting the health of their employees. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.

This family-favorite is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on the eve of the take-over by the Nazis in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", and "Do-Re-Mi", to name a few.