Season 51

Park Square Theatre’s 51st Season brings together a mix of comedy, drama, music, and mystery - each offering a different kind of night at the theatre.

From the fast-paced comedy of On the Razzle to the intense family story in Appropriate, this season moves between lighthearted fun and more serious themes. You’ll also experience something brand new with the world premiere musical The Ostentatious Outlaws of Neehai Valley, and edge-of-your-seat tension in the mystery/thriller Rope.

These stories explore relationships, choices, and the impact of the past, all in ways that feel engaging and relevant.

In addition to the mainstage productions, Live @ the Square returns with live music in an intimate setting, along with more programming to be announced.

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2026-2027 SEASON

ON THE RAZZLE

Farce / Classic Comedy

By Tom Stoppard | Directed by Stephen DiMenna

September 30 - October 25, 2026

When their employer departs for a reckless romantic escapade, two young shop assistants seize their moment. Determined “to acquire a past before it’s too late,” they abandon their provincial responsibilities and head to Vienna for a spree that quickly spirals into a whirlwind of mistaken identities, romantic misfires, elaborate lies, and breathless pursuit.

Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle is a joyous explosion of language and farce. Wit flies as fast as doors slam. Romance is impulsive, impractical, and irresistible. Beneath the high jinks and double entendres lies something tender: the longing to live boldly, to risk embarrassment, and to seize youth before it slips away. What unfolds is a night of theatrical mayhem that builds toward a crescendo of comic precision and sheer delight.

Themes: A joyous exploration of youthful rebellion, romantic mischief, and the irresistible pull of adventure. The play celebrates risk, reinvention, and the chaos that unfolds when responsibility is abandoned for one unforgettable night.

History

On the Razzle premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1981. Stoppard’s play is an adaptation of Johann Nestroy’s 19th-century Austrian farce Einen Jux will er sich machen. Nestroy’s work later inspired Thornton Wilder’s The Merchant of Yonkers (1938), which Wilder revised into The Matchmaker (1954). That play ultimately became the basis for the beloved Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!

APPROPRIATE

Family Drama

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Directed by Stephen DiMenna

February 24 - March 21, 2027

The estranged Lafayette siblings reunite at their late father’s deteriorating Arkansas plantation home to settle his estate. What begins as a practical sorting of possessions soon becomes an excavation of long-buried resentments, inherited narratives, and unsettling secrets. As Toni, Beau, and Frank sift through decades of accumulated debris, they confront not only their father’s legacy but their own complicity in preserving it.

Darkly funny and deeply unsettling, Appropriate peels back layers of family mythology to expose uncomfortable truths about race, history, ownership, and denial. The play moves between biting satire and emotional volatility, forcing its characters, and its audience, to grapple with what it means to claim, inherit, or reject the past.

Themes: A piercing examination of inherited legacy, generational trauma, and the myths families construct to survive. The play confronts race, memory, and complicity, revealing how the past continues to shape and unsettle the present.

Content Advisory:
This production contains mature language and flashing lights / intense sounds.

History

Appropriate premiered Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre in 2014 under the direction of Liesl Tommy. The play quickly became one of the most talked-about American works of the decade. In 2023, it made its Broadway premiere at the Hayes Theater, directed by Lila Neugebauer and starring Sarah Paulson, who won the Tony Award for her performance. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has become one of the leading voices in contemporary American theatre, known for interrogating historical narratives and theatrical form with boldness and precision.

THE OSTENTATIOUS OUTLAWS OF NEEHAI VALLEY

World Premiere / Musical Comedy / Satirical Fantasy / LGBTQIA+

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Keith Hovis | Directed by Tyler Michaels King

Co-Produced with Trademark Theater

June 2 - June 27, 2027

Welcome to Neehai Valley, a quiet rural town where residents follow the teachings of a literal bush, and conformity is both spiritual doctrine and social glue. Into this tightly wound world steps an outsider whose arrival - along with a pair of magical capris - sparks awakenings no one is prepared for. Desire surfaces. Doubt spreads. Existential crises bloom. And an epic showdown between a bush and a pair of pants becomes inevitable.

Wildly irreverent, The Ostentatious Outlaws of Neehai Valley collides religion, queerness, absurdity, and community into a genre-bending musical comedy. Beneath its camp spectacle lies a story about belief, belonging, repression, and the courage required to question the narratives that shape us.

The show lands somewhere between The Book of Mormon, Little Shop of Horrors, and Kinky Boots, blending satire, humor, and music with a tone similar to South Park.

Themes: A bold and irreverent exploration of faith, conformity, queerness, and self-discovery. Through absurdity and spectacle, the story celebrates liberation while questioning the systems of belief that define community and identity.

Content Advisory:
This production contains mature language, adult humor, and references to drug use. Viewer discretion is advised.

History

The Ostentatious Outlaws of Neehai Valley is an original musical by local composer/author Keith Hovis. Developed through co-produced readings and workshops, the piece has evolved, building momentum as a bold new theatrical work. Its mashup of pop-cultural references and satirical edge positions it within the lineage of boundary-pushing musical comedies that use humor to explore identity and social tension.

ROPE

Mystery / Psychological Thriller

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher | Based on the play Rope’s End by Patrick Hamilton | Directed by Tracy Brigden

July 28 - August 29, 2027

A murder has been committed. The body is hidden in plain sight. And the killers have invited guests to dinner.

Confident in their intellectual superiority, two young men commit what they believe to be the “perfect murder,” motivated by a chilling philosophy that elevates certain individuals above ordinary moral law. As their unsuspecting guests gather - among them those closest to the victim - the hosts grow intoxicated by their own audacity. But as the evening unfolds, cracks begin to appear. Is the unraveling accidental, subconscious, or inevitable?

Rope unfolds in taut real time, tightening its grip scene by scene. The play examines arrogance, power, morality, and the dangerous seduction of believing oneself above consequence.

Themes: A taut meditation on arrogance, moral superiority, and the seductive thrill of power. The play probes guilt, philosophy, and the fragile illusion that one can outsmart consequence.

Content Advisory:
This production contains depictions of murder, moments of violence, references to alcohol use, and the onstage presence of a firearm. Viewer discretion is advised.

History

Patrick Hamilton’s Rope premiered in London in 1929 and was later retitled Rope’s End for its first American production. The play was inspired in part by the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case. In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock adapted the story into his landmark film Rope, famous for its illusion of continuous, unbroken takes.

Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation premiered at Hartford Stage in 2025. While remaining faithful to Hamilton’s original structure and psychological tension, Hatcher’s version sharpens the language and pacing for contemporary audiences, bringing renewed urgency to this classic thriller.