CELEBRATING THE ARTS: ACTS Theatre’s New Season Displays the Importance of Community

Stories of love, hope and perseverance feature in ACTS main season this year. Performances begin with Come From Away, the story of Gander, Newfoundland, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

“It’s a show based on what happened that day, and in the days to follow in Gander,” says director Kris Webster. “You have a place roughly the size of Jennings getting 6,000 extra people. You have to house them, and there’s so much uncertainty about how long they would have to stay. And the people of Gander welcomed their visitors with open arms.” Come From Away is on stage starting on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 through the 20th of September.

For Halloween, there will be a special event showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with participation bags being sold, as part of ACTS’ Underground season, which will wrap up in January with Neil Simon’s Rumors.

ACTS’ main season includes The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon, a hilarious play that pokes fun at all of those Christmas movies on a certain channel that seem to have the same six storylines, on stage in December.

In April, Seussical the Musical returns to the ACTS stage, a mashup of a variety of Dr. Seuss stories that will be fun for the whole family. Horton the Elephant finds himself sitting on Mayzie’s egg AND protecting the speck of dust on a flower that is the Who’s entire universe. Meanwhile JoJo, a little kid with a big imagination, is sent off to military school for thinking too many “thinks” and navigating the world with The Cat in the Hat.

The season concludes in June with Little Women, the classic story of the March sisters turned into a musical.

Full details on ACTS’  shows, audition information and season tickets can be found on their website actstheatre.com.