OUR 2022-2023 SEASON
The Sensuous Senator
by Michael Parker
September 9 - October 3, 2022
Senator Douglas is running for President on a "morality" platform, but when his wife Lois leaves to attend a conference in Chicago he does not hesitate to invite Veronica, his secretary and lover, over. Finding her unavailable, he has an escort agency send voluptuous Fiona. All seems well until his elderly Congressional colleague and neighbor locks himself out and asks to spend the night. Then Congressman Jack Maguire drops in unexpectedly and Fiona, unsure who her client is, zeros in on him. Meanwhile, Veronica changes her plans and appears on the scene. Before Lois reaches the airport, her fashionable Washington townhouse is swarming with libidinous politicians, scantily dressed women, security police and a muckraking reporter from The National Intruder! When snow closes the airport and she returns home, the bedlam crescendos to a surprise ending in this outrageous farce by the author of The Amorous Ambassador.
Dracula! The Radio Play
by Philip Grecian
based on his own stage play and on the novel by Bram Stoker
October 8 - 9, 2022
Remember the good old days of radio—when people had to use their imaginations—when the mind was a stage? Those days are back—only better! You can SEE as well as HEAR radio programs. "I have long followed the trail of the vampire," Professor Van Helsing tells us, "It lives on…for centuries…draining the blood…the life…from its victims, causing them also to become vampires. And this is our story. The story of a small band of mortals who faced the most powerful vampire of them all."
Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams
by Alexandra-Spencer Jones and Patrick Gleeson
October 21 - 31, 2022
Constance and Sinestra live on the edge of a cliff with their mad taxidermist father who never comes upstairs. Three years ago their mother died and he stuffed her and mounted her in the hall. A heartbreaking and twisted tale of love, loss and baking perfect for lost children of all ages.
Annie
by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin
based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray
December 2 - 11, 2022
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations... and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
They Promised Her the Moon
by Laurel Ollstein
based on a true story
March 3 - 26, 2023
The first American woman to test for space flight, Jerrie Cobb steps into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours as her memories unfold before her, from learning to fly a plane as a child in Oklahoma to testifying in Congressional hearings about the under-the-radar all-female Mercury 13 space program. They Promised Her the Moon is a compelling drama about the challenges of sisterhood and fighting for the greater good, based on a true story.
The Great Gatsby: A Live Radio Play
by Joe Landry
based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 22 - 23, 2023
F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic comes to life as a 1940s radio broadcast in this spirited adaptation of The Great Gatsby. An ensemble brings more than two dozen characters from the novel to the stage of the WBFR radio station for a live broadcast, punctuated by 40s-era commercials. A story of triumph and tragedy that reflects the decadence of the Jazz Age and the perils of the American Dream. Still, ain't we got fun?
Wait Until Dark
by Frederick Knott
May 5 - 28, 2023
A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across the Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside were several grams of heroin. When the woman is murdered the situation becomes more urgent. The con man and his ex-convicts, through a cleverly constructed deception, convince Susy that the police have implicated Sam in the woman’s murder, and the doll, which she believes is the key to his innocence, is evidence. She refuses to reveal its location, and with the help of a young neighbor, figures out she is the victim of a bizarre charade. But when Roat kills his associates, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues between the two. Susy knows the only way to play fair is by her rules, so when darkness falls she turns off all the lights leaving both of them to maneuver in the dark until the game ends.
OTHER PERFORMANCES
RKP & ACT Present
Out To Lunch
by Dick Reichman
January 5 - 22, 2023
RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theatre present Out to Lunch; a Political Comedy. The setting is a city council meeting in an unnamed small town. The mayor expects a quick vote from the 6 person council to decide if they should accept the offer of free covid vaccine for the community. But every council member has a different reason why they should or should not vote yes. Every conspiracy theory we've heard these last few years about vaccines, fake news, government takeover, Bill Gates, and more becomes part of the ensuing dialog, some of which is bitingly funny. But like a good comedy, there is an undercurrent of sadness as we realize how ineffective the government has become and how the democratic process doesn't always work well.