Hendersonville Theatre Announces 2024 Season
2024 SEASON SUBSCRIBER PLANS
To order, call our box office at 828-692-1082. Box office hours are W-F from 10am to 5 pm. You may leave a message, and we will return those calls first in the order they are received.
Season Subscribers save 20% on the cost of single tickets, plus the following subscriber benefits:
- Pre-season priority booking in advance of the general public
- Season Subscriber Plans do not include additional specials events added throughout the year. However, subscribers will receive discounts on select Special Events.
- Ability to purchase additional tickets to theatrical events ahead of the general public.
Theatrical Events Only
Save 20% on the cost of single tickets for all of our plays, musicals, and reader’s theatres.
Section A: $194
Section B: $160
Section C: $132
You will be asked to pick your seat and show date for each production prior to checkout. NC sales tax will be added to final price at checkout.
Hometown Sound Music Series
Save 20% on 8 intimate, listening-room concerts featuring top acts from our region and across the United States.
$236
You will be asked to pick your seat for each concert prior to checkout. NC sales tax will be added to final price at checkout.
The “Everything” Pass
Save 20% on plays, musicals, reader’s theatres and concerts.
Section A: $430
Section B: $396
Section C: $368
You will be asked to pick your seat (concerts and theatrical productions) and show date for each production (theatrical production only) prior to checkout. NC sales tax will be added to final price at checkout.
The 2024 Theatrical Season includes the following shows:
February 1-10, 2024
The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Ensler
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of the feminine experience in all its complexity and mystery. Based on countless interviews conducted with real-life women, the production features stories of body image, consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, sex work, and several other topics through the eyes of women of various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.
Approximate Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
Rating: Mature due to adult themes, humor, and language
March 21-30, 2024
Sordid Lives
By Del Shores
In this beloved cult classic, chaos erupts in small-town Texas when the elderly family matriarch, an upstanding member of the community, accidentally dies during a clandestine meeting in a seedy motel room with her married lover. The woman’s family must deal with more skeletons coming out of the closet while preparing for what could be an embarrassing funeral. In this ‘coming out’ story, the hilarious, sad, trashy truth about their lives runs amuck.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult language, themes and situations.
April 13, 2024
Act2 Players Present the Reader’s Theatre
On Golden Pond
By Ernest Thompson
Exploring the often turbulent relationship between adult children and parents, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, On Golden Pond is a heartwarming and hilarious show about generations of a family learning to communicate and to care. Ethel and Norman Thayer return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. This classic American comedy/drama is every bit as touching, warm, and witty today as when it debuted on Broadway in 1979.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: PG due to adult situations and mild language.
May 2-12, 2024
Anne of Green Gables
By Justin Arnold
Elderly siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert asked the orphanage for a boy. What they got was Anne Shirley––a plucky redhead with a huge imagination and an even bigger temper. Soon, Anne burrows her way into the hearts of the Cuthberts, and the residents of Avonlea, as she grows from a hysterical twelve-year-old to a whip smart young woman who burns with ambition. Adapted from the 1908 book by Lucy Montgomery, this classic faithfully follows Anne’s journey through all of her iconic moments.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: G (ideal for ages 9 and up)
July 18-August 3, 2024
Legally Blonde the Musical
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin
Book by Heather Hach
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Presented through special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
America’s favorite blonde, Elle Woods, is ready to prove who’s in charge in this fabulously-fun, award-winning musical based on the adored movie. In the ultimate tribute to girl power, Legally Blonde follows Elle’s transformation from the UCLA sorority house to the Harvard halls of justice as she tackles stereotypes and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. Action-packed and exploding with pink, memorable songs and dynamic dances – this musical is so much fun, it should be illegal!
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult content, themes and strong language.
October 5, 2024
Act2 Players Present the Reader’s Theatre
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com
This Agatha Christie classic features a cast of colorful characters and a plot twist that is sure to delight any mystery fan! Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again. Ken Ludwig’s clever adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express boasts all the glamor, intrigue and suspense of the celebrated novel, with a healthy dose of humor.
Approximate Run Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Rating: PG due to smoking, adult themes and mild violence.
October 17-27, 2024
Misery
By William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King
True life becomes stranger than fiction when an acclaimed romance novelist wakes up in the home of his “number one fan.” Rescued from a wintery car crash, Sheldon finds himself incapacitated and convalescing in the secluded home of Annie Wilkes, a seemingly kind nurse. When events take a nightmarish turn, the injured Paul realizes the unhinged Annie has no intention of letting him leave. This spine-tingling, nail-biting stage adaptation traps you in the room with Paul as the story spins out of control. Based on Stephen King’s acclaimed, best-selling novel, the tense cat-and-mouse game will grip you until the very end.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Rating: M due to intense adult situations, drug use, violence and strong adult language.
December 5-15, 2024
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Full Length Version
Adapted by Joe Landry
Frank Capra’s beloved American holiday classic film is reimagined as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Set in Studio A at WBFR in Manhattan on Christmas Eve 1946, this hilarious re-enactment, with the help of a live Foley artist and a talented small ensemble, brings the entire town of Bedford Falls to life on stage. Small-town everyman George Bailey is having a Christmas Eve that can only be saved by a miracle. Enter George’s guardian angel, Clarence, who takes him on a heartwarming journey of redemption proving that “no one is a failure who has friends.”
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: G (ideal for ages 7 and up)
HT Hometown Sound Music Series:
All shows are on Saturdays at 7:30 pm
January 20: Empire Strikes Brass
February 17: Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters
March 16: Tuatha Dea
April 20: The Fritz
May 25: Harvest Moon: The Music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
August 17: Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues
September 21: Leon Timbo with The Family Band
November 16: BonFide featuring Paula Harris