Hendersonville Theatre Announces 2025 Season
OCTOBER 1
Season Subscriptions and Flex Passes Go on Sale to Existing Subscribers
OCTOBER 10
Season Subscriptions and Flex Passes Go on Sale to the General Public
2025 SEASON SUBSCRIBER PLANS
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.
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.
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.
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 2025 Theatrical Season includes the following shows:
February 6-16, 2025
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
By Todd Kreidler
A progressive white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities are tested when their daughter brings her black fiance home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Blindsided by their daughter’s whirlwind romance and fearful for her future, Matt and Christina Drayton quickly realize the difference between supporting a mixed-race couple in your newspaper and welcoming one into your family–especially in 1967. But they’re surprised to find they aren’t the only ones concerned about the match, and it’s only a short time before a multi-family clash of racial and generational difference sweeps across the Draytons’ idyllic San Francisco terrace. Will the love between young Joanna and John prevail? With humor and insight, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner begins a conversation sure to continue at dinner tables long after the curtain comes down.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult language and situations. Conversations addressing prejudice, racism, and bigotry.
March 20-30, 2025
Life Sucks.
By Aaron Posner
In this bold reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong enemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions—and each other. What could go wrong? Incurably lustful and lonely, hapless and hopeful, these seven souls collide and stumble their way towards a new understanding that LIFE SUCKS! Or does it?
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: PG-13 due to adult language, themes, and situations.
April 12-13 2025
Reader’s Theatre
Doubt, A Parable
By John Patrick Shanley
Recipient of the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner. In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.
Approximate Run Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult themes and suggestions of sexual abuse.
May 1-11, 2025
Terms of Endearment
Adapted for the stage by Dan Gordon, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry and the screenplay by James L. Brooks
Challenges in life and love test the resilience of a mother-daughter relationship in Dan Gordon’s adaptation of Terms of Endearment, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry and James L. Brooks’s screenplay of the Oscar-winning film. Though Emma is often exasperated by her highly-opinionated mother, Aurora, they talk daily about their problems, from Aurora finding unexpected love even as she becomes a reluctant grandmother to Emma’s struggle in her troubled marriage. But when they need one another most, will they be able to find courage in each other? This funny and touching story captures the delicate, sometimes fractured bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers, both old and new.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: PG-13 due to adult language and situations. Depictions of drinking, smoking, drug use, illness and death.
July 24-August 10, 2025
Something Rotten
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Score by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Something Rotten! is presented through special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star, “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting simultaneously, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of the opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to “thine own self” and all that jazz.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult themes, language, and humor.
October 4-5, 2025
Reader’s Theatre
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily
By Katie Forgette
The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone has stolen the highly intimate letters Lillie exchanged with the Prince of Wales, and now she is being blackmailed. Only Holmes can solve the case, going so far as to disguise himself as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde’s latest play, The Importance of Being Forthright. At the same time, Watson falls head-over-heels for the Jersey Lily, and a wicked professor attempts to bring the Crown to its knees.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Rating: G (ideal for ages 11 and up).
October 16-26 , 2025
Clue on Stage
Adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, written by Sandy Rustin, additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party, and murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Led by Wadsworth–the butler, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Colonel Mustard race to find the killer as the body count stacks up. Clue is the comedy whodunit that will leave cult fans and newcomers in stitches as they try to figure out…WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!
Approximate Run Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Rating: PG-13 due to adult situations, language, depictions of smoking, and alcohol use.
December 11-21, 2025
Dashing Through the Snow
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
Four days before Christmas in Tinsel, Texas, a colorful parade of eccentric guests arrive at the Snowflake Inn and deck the halls with holiday hilarity. Trina, the harried yet upbeat innkeeper of this B&B, has more than she can handle coping with these nuttier-than-a-fruitcake lodgers. Hoyt and his sister, Donna Jo, make the mistake of trying to end a thirty-year feud between their curmudgeonly aunts, Ennis and Della, with sidesplitting results. Ainsley and Lenora, self-involved actors from a lower-than-low-budget touring production of A Christmas Carol, descend on the Inn to fulfill a promise, leaving comedic chaos in their wake. Add to this Yuletide mayhem an ill-advised romantic rendezvous between Mrs. Claus and one of Santa’s elves. This demanding guest refuses to leave, not to mention a tipsy housekeeper, and it will take more than a kiss under the mistletoe to keep Trina’s spirits merry and bright. But a spur-of-the-moment Christmas Eve wedding that brings together the fabulous Futrelle sisters—Honey Raye, Twink, Frankie, and Rhonda Lynn—and their best friend, Raynerd, takes a surprising and delightful turn that leads to a laugh-’till-your-sides-ache climax, changing all their lives forever.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
Rating: PG due to adult content and mild language.
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