SEASON/FLEX PASS RENEWALS
We are honoring our 82 Season (2020-2021) Ticket and Flex Pass subscribers who renewed before and during COVID-19 shutdown by transferring their seats and tickets to Season 83.

Our Box Office is calling Season Subscribers from Season 81 and Season 82 for renewals. Thank you for your patience and for your support. We will announce when new subscribers may apply.
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Broadway Bound

In 2018, we performed Brighton Beach Memoirs and in 2019 we followed Eugene to basic training in Biloxi Blues before he headed off to war. This is the third play in the semi-autobiographical Neil Simon trilogy about Eugene Morris Jerome. Now we return to Brighton Beach, NY as Eugene and his brother navigate complicated family matters while trying to become famous entertainment writers in BROADWAY BOUND.

​Several actors from Brighton Beach Memoirs will return to reprise their roles in the Jerome family.

Individual tickets will become available soon.

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A Christmas carol ... more or less

Sarah and Charlie, a married couple, run a small theatre that's presenting A Christmas Carol -- until Charlie shows up backstage to say the cast and crew are snowed out. Charlie is planning to split up with Sarah tonight, but he's snowed in. Sarah, furious, capitalizes on Charlie's remarkable memory, and blackmails him into doing the play with her as a duo, relying on scripts when they need to. He plays Scrooge; she plays everyone else. As the performance proceeds, they actually manage to perform much of the play, with their personal story invading the Dickens tale, informing it with dual levels of meaning.

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the haunting of hill house

Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley. Its isolation is broken by the arrival of Dr. Montague, an investigator of supernatural phenomena who has been granted a short lease by the present owner. His mission is to delve into the morbid history of the house and to come to grips with the occult forces that have made it uninhabitable for many years. He is joined by three others, all unacquainted, but all having their particular reasons for accepting Dr. Montague’s invitation to share his Hill House sojourn. As subsequent events bear out, the evil forces of Hill House are goaded to a new and, for one of those present, fatal fury.

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Head over heels

HEAD OVER HEELS is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.”

A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family of Arcadia on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.

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The Diary of Anne Frank

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence – their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. ​This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

"When I write, I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

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RAGTIME

At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing … and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant, and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion, and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America.

This show was originally intended to be presented in June 2020 and was postponed due to the pandemic shutdown.

2021-2022 Special events

14th annual live radio gala

Every year we start our Season and kick off our Lakewood Playhouse Friends Fund with a Live Radio Gala.

Each year talented artists recreate the style of classic radio shows and ads in period costumes with live sound effects performed right in front of the audience.

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An evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Join us for An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe as he travels the country promoting his new literary magazine “The Stylus”. Our literary salon includes readings and performances of the stories and poetry found within by the great writer himself.

Parental Advisory:
Some of Mr. Poe’s stories might be scary for little ones. Parents are encouraged to read some of his stories, and poems, and decide if the material is appropriate for their young family members.​

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9th annual LIT SPOTLIGHT

Something Wicked This Way Comes

One strange and dark year long ago, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolled into Green Town, Ill. As the town clock chimes 3:00, James Nightshade and William Halloway leave their beds to watch the train pull in, but there is no one manning the locomotive and no one in the cars behind. First lured by its promises, the two boys will soon discover the diabolical truth about the carnival. Behind the Egyptian mirror mazes and the spooky cast of characters, including the Illustrated Man and deadly Mr. Dark, the cost of wishes can be the stuff of nightmares. Only Jim, Will and Will's father can save the town from the sinister carnival that threatens to destroy it and them.