Be sure to check our ScripTease page regularly for information about free readings in our new works program. Support new works — come to the next ScripTease reading!
See the lineup for our 2024-2025 season, below; for season ticket information, please visit our season ticket page. Our flexible season tickets include all six plays of the new season, including three musicals! You’ll save $50 by buying a season pass instead of tickets to individual performances.
*Please note: Friday — Saturday performances are always at 7:30 pm; the special “Value Thursday” performance is also at 7:30. Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before show time.
Raven Players’ 2024-2025 season
The Germans Upstairs
September 6 – 15
By Francine Schwartz
Director: Steven David Martin
A Raven original. Two German officers are billeted at the home of a Jewish family on the outskirts of Paris in 1940. One officer is drawn to the woman of the house, and she to him in this moving, star-crossed love story that explores the human struggles in a world at war.
Deathtrap
October 11-27
By Ira Levin
Directed by Steven David Martin
Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell when he receives a script from a student in a seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college – a thriller Sidney realizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer to collaborate with the student for co-credit. Or is it? Deathtrap provides clever twists and turns and hilarious sudden shocks that will captivate and delight the audience.
Cinderella-A Family Holiday Panto!
November 15-December 1
By Nick Lawrence
Director: Robert Zelenka
Music Director: Liz Fanora Jones
Choreographer: Tyler Marques
Experience a traditional British “Panto” holiday show in all its outrageous glory! Boo, hiss, and cheer at this uproarious family friendly fairy tale with a taste of vaudeville, music, dance, comedy, cross dressing, over-the-top costumes, audience interaction, and irreverent humor throughout!
Raven Shorts
January 24-February 2
A Collection of Plays by Various Playwrights
A selection of eight eclectic original ten-minute plays by local playwrights exploring life, love, and intelligence – artificial and otherwise!
The Bridges of Madison County (musical)
March 14-30
Based on the novel by Robert James Waller
Book by Marsha Norman; Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Director: Joe Gellura
Music Director: Les Pfutzenreuter
Choreographer: Bridget Codoni
Based on the best-selling novel, The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America’s heartland circa 1965, along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, “What if…?” Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Score and Orchestrations, this is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross.
Home, I’m Darling
May 9-25
By Laura Wade
Directed by Caroline Clark
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks… Home, I’m Darling is Laura Wade’s new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.
School of Rock
June 27-July 13
Book by Julian Fellowes
Lyrics by Glen Slater
New Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Director: Steven David Martin
Music Director: TBD
Choreographer: Katie Watts-Whitaker
Based on the hit movie School of Rock – The Musical follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out?
Lloyd Webber penned 14 new numbers for the show, which additionally features all of the original songs from the movie. School of Rock – The Musical, with its sensational live kids’ rock band, is a loving testimony to the transforming power of music. May the spirit of rock be with all who pledge allegiance to Lloyd Webber’s newest hit!