Year-round events keep the Charleston area buzzing. Music and tempting aromas fill the air. Witness world-renown performances at Spoleto, get a taste of our heritage at a small town oyster roast or discover the find of a lifetime at an antique show. With so many events taking place, you'd better mark your calendar now.
CHARLESTON STAGE SOTTILE SERIES
Magic – Tradition - Rhythm
Join the Charleston Stage Usher Corps
We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary Season and want you to be part of it! Come join the Charleston Stage Usher Corps and support the Charleston Stage community. As a member of the Usher Corp you will receive volunteer discounts on tickets, be invited to our end-of-season reception, meet new friends and best of all, be a valued member of the friendly and professional Front of House staff while representing one of South Carolina's largest arts organizations!
Gershwin At Folly
September 5 - 23, 2007
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $36.50
Senior (60+): $34.50
Student: $26.50
And the Living is Easy!
Music by George Gershwin • Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Additional Lyrics from Porgy and Bess by Dubose Heyward • Book by Julian Wiles
An Original Gershwin Musical set right here in the Lowcountry and the best-selling show in Charleston Stage’s 30-year history, Gershwin at Folly returns to open the Company’s Thirtieth Anniversary Season. Taking place on Folly Beach in 1934, Gershwin at Folly is the story of George Gershwin’s vacation with Dubose Heyward as they began work on Porgy and Bess. Gershwin at Folly features Gershwin classics such as Summertime, I Got Rhythm, Someone to Watch Over Me and more.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
November 29 - December 23, 2007
Be Our Guest! Be Our Guest!
Music by Alan Menken • Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice • Book by Linda Woolver
Be our guest for this enchanted Broadway musical, which includes all of the wonderful songs from the animated film and tells the magical story of a young beauty and the beast she comes to love. Filled with fantastic costumes and sets, a live orchestra and magical special effects Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a spectacular show perfect for the whole family.
Fiddler on the Roof
February 28 - March 11, 2008
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match!
Book by Joseph Stein • Lyrics by Sheldon Hardwick
One of the most beloved Broadway musicals of all time, Fiddler on the Roof set Box Office records while running for more than seven years and returned recently for another successful run. Featuring such memorable melodies as Tradition!, Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match and Sunrise, Sunset; Fiddler on the Roof is the poignant story a of Jewish milkman and his three daughters in turbulent turn-of-the-century Russia.
CHARLESTON STAGE SOTTILE CHILDREN’S SERIES
Adventure – Friendship - Amphibians
James and the Giant Peach
January 9 & 12, 2008
By Roald Dahl • Adapted for the stage by David Wood
James and the Giant Peach is one of the world’s most acclaimed children’s fantasies, written by Roald Dahl who is best known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. James and the Giant Peach is the story of a little boy named James, his evil Aunts Sponge and Spiker, and the magical peach that takes James on flights of fancy across the Atlantic to the Big Apple - New York City.
A Year With Frog and Toad
April 9 & 12, 2008
A Musical!
Book by Willie Reale • Lyrics by Willie Reale Music by Robert Reale
Based on The Books by Arnold Lobel
This acclaimed, kid-sized Broadway Musical brings Arnold Lobel’s enchanting Frog and Toad books to life on the stage. Frog and Toad follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way that include a most important lesson about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. The show features a score that bubbles with melody and wit, its jazzy upbeat sound is a perfect match for the hopping, crawling and flying denizens that inhabit Frog and Toad's world.
CHARLESTON STAGE AMERICAN THEATER SERIES
Bold – Intimate – Provocative
Tick, Tick . . . Boom!
October 10 - 27, 2007
From the Creator of Rent
Book music and lyrics by Jonathon Larson
A musical look at the courage it takes to follow your dreams, TICK, TICK... BOOM! is Jonathan Larson's autobiographical tale of a young composer on the brink of turning 30 and falling into oblivion. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue, and yet Jon is still waiting tables and trying to write the great American musical. TICK, TICK... BOOM! takes you on Jonathan Larson’s journey that led to the Broadway blockbuster, RENT. Everyone, regardless of age, will love this youthful, endearing, and thoughtful piece, and will surely embrace the universal ideal of holding on to your dreams through life's most difficult challenges.
I Am My Own Wife
October 31 - November 17, 2007
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play 2004
By Doug Wright
This one-man show, a tour-de-force, tells the remarkable true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite tangled in two of the great nightmares of the Twentieth Century, Nazism and Communism. Unlike many contemporaries, von Mahlsdorf found a way to survive in East Berlin under both the Nazi and Soviet dominated East German regimes.
The Santaland Diaries
December 6 - 22, 2007
By David Sedaris
This merrily subversive tale is writer David Sedaris’ acerbic account of days working part-time as an Elf at Macy’s and has become an “anti-holiday” cult classic in productions all over the country. A perfect antidote for the sweetness of the season, The Santaland Diaries, despite its caustic wit and hilarity, still manages to touch the heart in this new contemporary Christmas confection.
Bad Dates
January 30 - February 16, 2008
By Theresa Rebeck
“Sex and the City Meets the Sopranos”
Bad Dates tells the hilarious tale of Haley, a recent divorcee and mother who is trying to reconnect with her romantic side. Haley rides the roller coaster of the Manhattan dating scene, an experience that includes a brush with the Romanian mob, acquiring 600 pairs of shoes and of course, a succession of bad dates…very bad.
Greater Tuna
April 2 - 26, 2008
By Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howard
“So Damn Funny, You Gotta See It”
One of Off-Broadway’s greatest comedies returns to Charleston after a long absence! Greater Tuna is the outrageous comedy set in the mythical small town of Tuna, Texas where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. Two performers play ALL of the inhabitants of this quirky mid-America metropolis: men, women, children and animals. The quick changes alone are worth the price of admission.
09/05/2007 - 04/26/2008
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