2026 – 2027 Season Shows
April 23–May 2 | Grandview Playhouse
The Light in the Piazza
A lush and soaring romance unfolds in Adam Guettel’s sweeping Tony Award-winning score and Craig Lucas’ profound book in this must-see story of a mother, a daughter, and the many meanings of love. In 1953, protective American mother Margaret Johnson brings her daughter Clara abroad for a glimpse of Italy’s romantic history. But when a real-life attraction sparks between Clara and a local boy, Margaret must ask: can she reconcile her own hopes with her daughter’s future?
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Book by Craig Lucas
February 12–21 | Grandview Playhouse
Circle Miror Transformations
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, Circle Mirror Transformation is a petri dish revealing, with hilarious detail and clarity, the diffuse and peculiar sadnesses of a motley quintet.
Annie Baker
December 4–13 | Grandview Playhouse
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie explores the visceral bonds of family. Southern matriarch Amanda frets constantly over her two live-in adult children—the painfully shy Laura and Laura’s restless poet brother, Tom. With great cajoling, Tom brings home a possible suitor for Laura, but reality soon casts a shadow on Amanda’s dreams for both her children. This iconic, emotional and enduring family drama made Williams famous and has become a classic of the American repertoire
October 16–25 | Grandview Playhouse
The Effect
The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction.
by Lucy Prebble
