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 Director TBA
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.
TBA
March 7-22, 2025 at Irving Arts Center
AMADEUS
May 2-17, 2025 at Irving Arts Center
By Peter Shaffer
Directed by Michael Serrechia
In the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition, to be a great composer. Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who has that which is beyond Salieri’s envious grasp: Genius. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards? The show received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1981. Musical history is enlivened and re-imagined in Peter Shaffer’s award-winning parable.
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!