Theatre Events

National Players is honored to portray this award-winning drama with a universal story about an African American family dealing with prejudice, history, and a world where everything changes.

Whiskey Galore is a remake of the 1949 classic film based on the events of 1941 when the S.S. Politician was shipwrecked in the Outer Hebrides. The inhabitants of a nearby Eriskay tried to salvage the huge cargo of whisky on board the ship (50,000 cases of whisky), leading to a hilarious battle between the wily islanders and the British authorities.

From spirited soft shoe numbers to heart-pounding hard shoe pieces, these dancers will delight and entertain any audience.

Langston Hughes was a poet who utilized the American language, music, slang and religious views to educate the world about African American lifestyles during the Harlem Renaissance.

HDG’s favorite Dame Edna Honorary Understudy, Scott Mason, returns to spread laughter and love for Valentine’s Weekend!

Tidewater Players presents: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS A deviously delicious Broadway salute to Hollywood sci-fi movies, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre audiences for 40 years. Based on Roger Corman’s classic 1960s B movie, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, and Aladdin) provide a masterpiece of Faustian proportion set to the beat of a powerhouse score inspired by the best sounds of the 60s

Thirsty Thursdays with Theatre presented in the Fire Hall Studio at the Opera House

Enjoy play readings presented by local actors. No sets, no costumes, no props but lots of talent!

Tidewater Players presents: DOLLY PARTON'S 9 TO 5. The musical the pandemic closed down finally comes to the Tidewater Stage! Based on the iconic 1980 movie, three female coworkers at odds with each other form an unlikely friendship and, through a series of unplanned catastrophes, exact revenge on their vile boss.

Join us for this special community celebration of the poems of one of America’s most brilliant and gifted poets, Langston Hughes.