An Ideal Husband

Written by Oscar Wilde
Performance Dates: September 5 - 27, 2025
Run time: tbd

When a well-kept past threatens a rising politician’s future, personal ideals clash with public image. With dazzling dialogue and timely themes, the play explores reputation, forgiveness, and the illusion of perfection in society and relationships.

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by Debbie Barber-Eaton
Performance Dates: October 24 - November 15, 2025
Run time: tbd

In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who also just happens to be the most terrifying and ferocious monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula! As famed female vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and company chase Drac from Transylvania to the British countryside to London and back, their antics are guaranteed to increase your pulse and cause bloodcurdling screams—of laughter.

A Christmas Carol

Play and Lyrics by Richard Wade
Music by Richard Gessner
Directed by Erica Miller
Performance Dates: December 4 - 14, 2025
Run time: tbd

This musical tale of Scrooge’s redemption is an Annapolis tradition that will warm your heart, bring you glad tidings, and add a glittering touch to the festive season. Written for the Players in 1981 by Richard Wade and Dick Gessner. 

Other Desert Cities

Written by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Laura Gayvert
Performance Dates: January 9 - 31, 2026
Run time: tbd

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history – a wound that her parents don't want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.

City of Angels

Book by Larry Gelbart
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by David Zippel
Directed by Beth Terranova
Performance Dates: February 27 - March 28, 2026
Run time: tbd

A smart and stylish film noir musical. In the late 1940s, Stine, a bookish writer of detective stories, struggles to adapt his crime novel into a workable screenplay. As Stine tries to maintain some integrity in the backstabbing world of Hollywood, his protagonist, a hardboiled private eye named Stone, fights for survival in a city full of criminals and opportunists. With wit, humor, and a fantastic Cy Coleman score, City of Angels captures the snappy dialogue of a Raymond Chandler novel and the glitzy showmanship of classic Hollywood; the result is a crowd-pleasing musical unlike any other.

Poor Clare

Written by Chiara Atik
Directed by Jennifer Cooper
Performance Dates: April 24 - May 16, 2026
Run time: tbd

It’s 1211 in Assisi, Italy, and Clare’s got beauty, wealth, and a rich suitor who showers her with expensive presents. So why is she so drawn to this guy Francis who gave up all his possessions just because poor people are suffering? Everyone in town says he’s crazy. And yet…she starts seeing everything in her life differently. This hilarious, anachronistic telling of the real story of St. Clare considers the cost of doing good—and how little has changed for the haves and the have-nots in almost a millennium.