Raven Players
Raven Players’ 2025-2026 season
See the 2025-2026 lineup below; for season ticket information, please visit our season ticket page. Packages include all seven plays of the new season, including the smash hit musical, Hairspray! You’ll save $25 by buying a season pass instead of individual tickets to the season.
*Note: Friday — Saturday performances during the season are always at 7:30 pm; the special “Value Thursday” performance is also at 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees are at 2:00 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before show time.
2025 Summer Shakespeare at Bacchus Landing
The Two Gentlemen of Verona production at Bacchus Landing was a wonderful Shakespearean experience, with wood-fired pizza and outstanding Bacchus Landing wines for the appreciative audiences to enjoy. Stay tunded for an announcement about the 2026 Summer Shakespeare play!
New Works
Be sure to check our ScripTease page regularly for information about the free readings in our new works program. Support new works — come to the next ScripTease reading!
The 2025-2026 Season
Scroll down to see the full lineup!
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association recognized several Raven Players’ productions at their annual 2025 MTJA Norbay Theater Awards, with nominations in several categories (see below). Elliot Davis took home an award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical. Congratulations to Elliot and the other nominees; we’re proud of the outstanding work you do, year-round!
- The Bridges of Madison County:
- Director Joe Gellura, Outstanding Musical Production.
- Katie Watts-Whitaker: Outstanding Lead Performance/Musical.
- Elliot Davis: Outstanding Lead Performance/Musical.
- Les Phutzenreuter: Outstanding Musical Direction.
- School of Rock:
- Katie Watts-Whitaker: Outstanding Choreography.
- Home, I’ Darling:
- Jeanine Gray: Outstanding Costume Design.
Eureka Day
September 6 – 21
By Johnathan Spector
Director: Steven David Martin
Eureka Day is a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else – that is, until an outbreak of the mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.
Macbeth
October 24-November 9
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven David Martin
Is one born evil, or can anyone be seduced by the powers of the dark side? After a victorious battle, Macbeth, a military leader, and hero beyond reproach, meets three witches who prophesy great things for the man – but at what cost? When Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to take action to help the prophecy come true, it sets in motion a runaway train of ambition, betrayal, blood, and madness.
Who Will Dance with Pancho Villa?
January 22-January 31
By John and Gabriel Fraire
Director: Oscar Montelongo
An original play about an urban Chicano struggling to understand himself and his place in his family legacy – a history of warriors, fighters, battlers against oppression and discrimination. He is gifted and educated but conflicted and repressed. Afraid to show his emotions, it takes his mother’s nearly fatal heart attack and the visitation of the spirits of his long dead relatives, and the spirit of his historical idol, Pancho Villa, to help him realize that he still can dance, love, and learn to forgive.
Steel Magnolias
February 13-March 1
By Robert Harling
Director: Diane Bailey
Set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, Steel Magnolias centers around a group of ladies who frequent the parlor to get their hair done and gossip about anyone and everyone in town – not necessarily in that order. Alternately hilarious and touching, the play is a loving exploration of the profound bond that connects these six wildly different women.
A Good Deal
February 27-March 8
A Raven on the Road Production!
Cloverdale Performing Arts Center
209 North Cloverdale Blvd
Cloverdale
By Ron Nash
Director: Jenna Dolcini
Lee, a psychologist from Santa Fe, unexpectedly shows up at the door of her old flame, Bo, with a life-changing secret she is reluctant to share. As she struggles with opening up to Bo, Lee also seeks to reconnect with her estranged daughter who lives nearby. Brimming with humanity and humor, A Good Deal is a bittersweet tale of love, loss, and family connections.
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches
May 8-24
By Tony Kushner
Director: Steven David Martin
Set in 1980s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, while closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Widely described as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, Angels in America is a complex, dynamic, sometimes surrealistic examination of the AIDS crisis and homosexuality in the United States, while touching on universal issues including change, loss, identity, and the challenges of finding community in an increasingly fractured society.
Hairspray
June 26-July 12
Book By Thomas Meehan and Mark O’Donnell
Music By Marc Shaiman
Lyrics By Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
Director Katie Watts-Whitaker
Music Director Kelly Considine
Choreographer Katie Watts-Whitaker
The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire – to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob, Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do!