2025-2026 Season, Temple Civic Theatre

(via TCT)

 

Agatha Christie’s

The Mousetrap

After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.

Audition Dates

September 29 & 30, 2025

7:00pm

 

Show Dates

November 7 – 9, 2025

November 14 – 16, 2025

Friday– Saturdays 7:30 pm
Sundays – 2:30 pm

August Wilson’s

Fences

Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues, now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded from the major leagues in his prime, Troy has grown increasingly bitter, and his anger and frustration take a toll on his wife Rose and his son Cory, who now wants his own chance to play ball professionally.

Audition Dates

December 7 & 8, 2025

7:00pm

Show Dates

February 6 – 8, 2026

February 13 – 15, 2026

Friday– Saturdays 7:30 pm
Sundays – 2:30 pm

Cabaret

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.

Audition Dates

January 11 & 12, 2026

7:00pm

Show Dates

March 19 – 22, 2026

March 26 – 29, 2026

Thursday – Saturday 7:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday – 2:30 pm

Ken Ludwig’s

Dear Jack, Dear Louise

U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, begins writing to Louise Rabiner, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. But as the war continues, it threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Lend Me a Tenor) tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents’ courtship during World War II and the results are anything but expected.

Audition Dates

February 15 & 16, 2026

7:00pm

Show Dates

April 17 – 19, 2026

April 24 – 26, 2026

Fridays– Saturdays 7:30 pm
Sundays – 2:30 pm

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s

Oklahoma!

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.

Audition Dates

April 20 & 21, 2026

7:00pm

Show Dates

June 18 – 21, 2026

June 25 – 28, 2026

Thursdays – Saturdays 7:30 pm
Sundays – 2:30 pm