The Twin City Players announces its 2025-2026 Mainstage Season – featuring six timeless tales reimagined for now! The season represents TCP’s 93rd year of keeping the arts alive!
The TCP Mainstage Season opens August 2025 and runs through June 2026. . The season’s shows include:
Something Rotten!, August 29 – September 21, 2025, book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell; Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Director: Scott Bradford. It’s the 1590s – welcome to the Renaissance! Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of Shakespeare, that Renaissance rock star known also as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. This hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway garnered ten Tony Award nominations!
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, October 17 – November 2, 2025. Director: Stephen Kadwell. The powers of evil can take many forms! Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig, comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless classic The Hound of the Baskervilles is transformed into a murderously funny adventure. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, accents, disguises, and deceit as actors deftly portray more than forty characters.
A Christmas Carol, December 5 – 21, 2025, by John Jakes, based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Directors: Johnna Bither and Peggy Harrington. A new take on an old classic! Perhaps one of the most famous Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol, is told through the eyes of Charles Dickens. At the opening curtain, Charles Dickens himself is introduced to the audience, ready to present one of the famed platform readings of his stories that packed auditoriums in Europe and America. So begins the timeless story of Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Dickens weaves in and out of the action helping Scrooge navigate until the iconic “God Bless Us Everyone” finale.
Emma, February 20 – March 8, 2026, by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Director: Joe Daniel. Emma Woodhouse is clever, educated, and energetic… and in imminent danger of going mad with idleness. In a time when respectable ladies are expected to sit quietly at home, she desperately needs projects. Ever the romantic, Emma prides herself on being the best matchmaker in town. Goaded by her friend George Knightley, she sets out on a quest to set up the adorable ingénue Harriet with a fitting suitor. But love has its own agenda with plenty of screwball comedy and twists and turns in store – including a few for Emma herself. A fresh feminist take on a treasured classic, that breaks down convention, expectation, and even the fourth wall with vibrant comic flair.
Home, I’m Darling, April 17 – May 3, 2026, by Laura Wade. Director: Anna Pille. Ready to take a deep dive into nostalgia? 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. A surprisingly funny, thought-provoking, social comedy about the workings of a marriage. Extremely enjoyable! A Laurence Olivier Award Winner for Best New Comedy!
The Prom, June 5 – 28, 2026, book & lyrics by Chad Beguelin, book by Bob Martin, music by Matthew Sklar, based on an original concept by Jack Viertel. Director: Jacob Holmes. Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So, when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow – but when one female student just wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, the entire town has a date with destiny. On a mission to transform lives, Broadway’s brassiest join forces with a courageous girl and the town’s citizens and the result is love that brings them all together. Drama Desk Award for Best Musical!
Tickets are $15-$20 plus a $1 per ticket fee. Group rates are available. All seats reserved. Tickets and Flex Passes available August 1, 2025, at twincityplayers.org and 269-429-0400. Performance times: 7:30 pm Fri/Sat and 2 pm Sun. All performances take place at the Twin City Players Playhouse, 600 West Glenlord Road, St. Joseph, Michigan.
TCP’s 2025-2026 Mainstage Season is generously sponsored by: Bradford Insurance Agency, Trilogy Counseling, Glenn & Kathy Ward Charitable Trust, Five Star Heating & Air Conditioning, Lake Michigan Chiropractic, LLC, Indiana Michigan Power’s Cook Nuclear Plant, and The Herald Palladium
About Twin City Players
Formed in 1932, Twin City Players is a volunteer based nonprofit organization that strives to engage the community in quality theatre that changes lives and to be recognized for organizational excellence producing quality performances in southwest Michigan. The TCP Playhouse is located at 600 West Glenlord Road, St. Joseph, MI. For more information about TCP, call 269-429-0400 or visit at twincityplayers.org.
