Hendersonville Theatre Announces 2025 Season

Due to the effects of Hurricane Helene, we have rescheduled sales for the 2025 season.

NOVEMBER 1
Season Subscriptions and Flex Passes Go on‭ ‬Sale to the General Public

2025 SEASON SUBSCRIBER and FLEX PLANS

Don’t miss a moment of the magic! With our Producers’ Circle, Season Subscription, and Flex Passes, you get priority access to our exciting productions, reserved seating, and the best value for your theatre experience.

$150-456

Season Subscriptions

Season subscribers save 20% on the cost of single tickets.
Priority access to renew season after season.
Pre-season priority booking in advance of the general public.
Transfer tickets to friends or loved ones electronically.
Upgrade your seats online using our interactive seat map.
Flexible ticket exchanges.
Priority access to additional tickets at a discount for most shows before the general public.

$500+

Producers’ Circle

Everything from the “Season Subscriptions” list
Premium seating locations
Complimentary beverage at concessions for each show.
Recognition from the stage at each performance.
Playbill recognition.

$122-183

Flex Passes

You choose WHEN you attend, WHAT you attend, and HOW OFTEN you attend. Bring a friend or see a show again.
Buy now and select dates and shows later.
Save up to 20% off our regular prices.
Available in 4 or 6 show passes.

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.

November 6-16, 2025
One Act Play Festival

Join us at Hendersonville Theatre’s One Act Play Festival, where a dynamic lineup of short plays will showcase a variety of genres, from comedy to drama, all in one evening! Local talent takes the stage, and you get to play a crucial role in the action by voting for the Best of Show. At the end of the festival, the audience will choose the top performance in a thrilling competition, making this a night of entertainment and engagement you won’t want to miss!

Approximate Run Time: 2 hours
Rating: PG-13 due to adult situations and language.

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.