2024-2025 SEASON: "Art Isn't Easy"
In our 2024-2025 season, we’re thrilled to bring you five stellar productions, ranging from a smash-hit musical, to comedies, a thriller, and a drama. We hope you’ll make plans to join us for season 52 here at MainStage Irving-Las Colinas!”
Season ticket renewals are being accepted now. Season tickets and flex passes range from $106-$136 and will be available for purchase on July 9 at the Irving Arts Center Box Office (www.IrvingArtsCenter.com • 972-252-2787). Single tickets will go on sale at the Irving Arts Center Box Office on September 17.
For ticketing questions, please call the Irving Arts Center Box Office or e-mail at admin@mainstageirving.com.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Nov 1-16, 2024 at Irving Arts Center
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Dennis Canright
Music Direction by Jeff Crouse
Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles. This strikes a flurry of jealousy and suspicion between Desirée; Fredrik; Fredrick's wife, Anne; Desirée's current lover, the Count; and the Count's wife, Charlotte. Both men – as well as their jealous wives – agree to join Desirée and her family for a weekend in the country at Desirée's mother's estate. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises. A hilariously witty and heartbreakingly moving musical with a score that includes “Send in the Clowns.”
DEATHTRAP
Jan 17-Feb 1, 2025 at Irving Arts Center
By Ira Levin
Directed by Harry Friedman
Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, struggles to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it? Deathtrap provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness and offers hilariously sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment. Two-thirds gripping thriller and one-third clever comedy of deceit and betrayal.
INTO THE BREECHES!
March 7-22, 2025 at Irving Arts Center
By George Brant
Directed by Lisa Devine
It’s 1942 and Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. With the men overseas, it appears that the season must be cancelled. Until, that is, the women of the company see their chance to move from the sidelines to center stage and mount the first all-female production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Will their show be a victory in the battle for equality or a target for tomatoes? This hilarious and heartwarming play about what happens when we’re all in it together explores how theatre can unite a community and expand our idea of who that includes. A laugh-out-loud love letter to theatre and to all those who love it, don’t miss Into the Breeches! A modern and moving comedy about how art and community reveal our boldest selves even in the darkest times.
THE SUNSHINE BOYS
May 2-17, 2025
A comedy by Neil Simon
Directed by Michael Serrechia
Willie Clark and Al Lewis are an aging vaudeville comedy duo whose partnership ended bitterly after over 40 years. A dozen years later, Willie's nephew, a young theatrical agent, tries to reunite them for a TV special. Despite their animosity, they agree to perform together once more. Willie is cantankerous, irritable, and resistant to change, while Al is more easygoing and resigned to their past. Their rehearsals as the re-stage their classic comedy sketch are fraught with tension and bickering, leading to hilarious situations as they struggle to recapture their former chemistry. The play humorously explores themes of friendship, aging, and the passage of time. A hilarious and poignant comedy reflecting on the complexities of relationships and the inevitability of change.
NOISES OFF
Jul 18-Aug 2, 2025 at Irving Arts Center
By Michael Frayn
Directed by B.J. Cleveland
Sardines! Sardines! Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. This play-within-a-play captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Frayne gives us a window into the inner workings of theatre behind-the-scenes, progressing from flubbed lines and missed cues in the dress rehearsal to mounting friction between cast members in the final performance. A side-splitting backstage farce with slamming doors, falling trousers, and flying sardines!