SEASON 54 (2025-2026)
NEW box office hours are Tuesday- Friday, 10am-4pm and two hours before showtime.
Call 901-453-7337 or email Engage@gctcomeplay.org for assistance
Season Show times are usually Fri/Sat 7:30pm & Sun 2:30pm
NOTE that some productions will have Thursday showings this season!
Check for added showtimes when you scroll below
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July 24th – August 3rd, 2025
Show Sponsor: The KROC Center of Memphis
Season 54 begins with a current Broadway smash hit from the mind of Anais Mitchell. This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – HADESTOWN invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
CAST – HERMES – Dillon Hennings, ORPHEUS – Elliot Lear, EURYDICE – Mia Murphy, PERSEPHONE – Olivia Thornell, HADES – Brayden Daughtery, FATE 1 – Ollie Bondurant, FATE 2 – Riley Griffin, FATE 3 – James Jones III, U/S HERMES – Tahj Porter, U/S ORPHEUS – Noah Mahintorabi, U/S EURYDICE – Lynette Davis, U/S PERSEPHONE – Kaidence Tate, U/S HADES – Jaden Brown, U/S FATE 1 – Sierra Jeffrey, U/S FATE 2 – Karina Holt, U/S FATE 3 – Madalynn Jeffrey, ENSEMBLE: Dellen Wetzel, Lynx Pollan, Cooper Tate, Stella Madzar, Hazel Millson, Reagan Hays, Kylee Oldham, Gracesyn Caldwell, Carter Yeargan, Witt Ezzell, Gabby Watson, Evelyn Dluhos
CREATIVE TEAM includes: Director – Christina Hernandez, Assistant Director – Annie McLean, Music Director – Adam Jeffrey, Choreographer – Abbie Martin, Stage Manager – Ashlyn Perry
This collaborative production will take place
on the beautiful stage at THE KROC CENTER of Memphis
July 24th – August 3rd.
Tickets to the show will be general admission sold through the Box Office at the KROC Center of Memphis located at 800 East Parkway South. They can be reached at 901-729-8007 or www.krocmemphis.org
GCT Membership Ticket Holders– Contact GCT Box Office to redeem your member tickets
NUNSENSE the Musical by Dan Goggins showdates:
September 12th – 28th, 2025.
Sensory Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter
Sun. Sept. 20th 2:30pm
September 12th -28th, 2025
Show Sponsor:
Season 54 continues with an all-time favorite musical beloved by GCT patrons in the past. The Little Sisters of Hoboken began as a greeting card series and quickly became one of the most prolific community theatre shows and the 2nd longest running off Broadway production of all time with well over 3000 performances. This habit-forming show has gained such popularity since it’s inception in 1985 that has spawned 6 sequels, 2 television adaptations and is translated into 26 languages around the world! GCT has even produced successful runs of the show in 1993 and 2019 along with 2 of it’s sequels over the years. This riotous show is set during a fundraiser to raise money in order to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God) and follows the silly antics and sweet reflections of the remaining sisters.
NUNSENSE the Musical by Dan Goggin Director Elizabeth Perkins & Music Director Eileen Kuo with Choreographer Christi Hall
October 24th – November 2nd, 2025
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Just in time for Halloween the original monster Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN was adapted to the stage by Nick Dear, famously performed by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2011. Director, Kevin Cochran takes on this thrilling and dark exploration of the humanity in this “creature”.
On the GCT stage October 23rd – November 2nd, 2025
Showtimes Thurs./Fri./Sat. 7:30pm & Sun. 2:30pm
SENSORY Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter Sun. Oct. 26th 2:30pm
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
Back for Christmas by popular demand, ANNIE JR. the Musical returns to the GCT stage under the direction of Rose Blakeman with a whole new team and cast of talented student actors!
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
ANNIE JR. is on stage December 5th – 21st, 2025.
Student matinees are back! If your school or senior group would like to plan a weekday outing email Education@gctcomeplay.org
Sensory Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter Sun. 14th 2:30pm
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage. Soon she finds a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
AUDITIONS announced over the summer!
January 28th – February 1st, 2026
Show Sponsor: Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Company
In 2026 we continue a newer tradition of featuring an Emerging Local Playwright with a script produced for the first time on the GCT stage, hand selected by our play-finding committee among multiple entries. Previous winners include the sold out run of Everyone & Their Mother by Emily Draffen & last season’s riveting Patterns by Michael Hoffman.
Savannah S. Miller’s THE HOUSE
runs January 28th – February 1st, 2026.
Showtimes Thurs/Fri/Sat 7:30pm & Sun 2:30pm
The winner of Season 54’s Teresa Jordan Emerging Local Playwright Competition, is set in the 1980s. Two brothers come to blows over the sale of their family home. In the 1940s, their mother leaves everything she knew in Puerto Rico to begin a life built on love with their father, a well-meaning but oblivious white soldier from Florida. The House examines the Latinx identity—how it has been constructed and depicted in the United States and how it may be truly felt by the individuals who claim it as part of their being. Ultimately, it is a lesson in where we come from and how it may define us, if we only let it.
Savannah S. Miller’s THE HOUSE production team will be a collaboration with Cazateatro Bilingual Group!
Congratulations Savannah, and thank you to our other talented playwrights for your entries!
GCT’s Season 54 Winner of The Teresa Jordan Emerging Local Playwright Contest
Now accepting submissions for Season 55 HERE
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February 27th – March 15th, 2026
Season 54 continues by revisiting another cherished show produced on our stage in 2010. “Prepare ye” for a musical by Stephen Schwartz, so timeless and adored that both its original Broadway run in 1971 and the 2011 revival received multiple Tony nominations including winning for best original score.
GODSPELL revisits the idea of Jesus as a revolutionary figure. One who challenged authority and preached a new, radical message to the world: “love your enemies and pray for your persecutors”.
What better way to address the divide amongst the population than with a musical about love, community, and connection Featuring a bevy of hit songs like “Day by Day”, “All For the Best” and “Turn Back Oh Man”; this irresistible musical goes beyond the gospel and will leave you feeling uplifted and joyful.
Director Jaclyn Suffel (Director of Season 53’s CABARET) & Music Director Nathan McHenry
with Choreographer Daniel Stuart Nelson
February 27th – March 15th, 2026
Sensory Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter Sun. March 8th 2:30pm
AUDITIONS announced soon!
April 24th – May 3rd, 2026
Show Sponsor:
Next, a true classic from the mind of William Shakespeare with a new twist. Julius Caesar is one of the most recognizable historic figures and stories of ancient Rome. Performed in countless film and stage adaptations by an endless list of legendary actors, the bard’s discourse on power, loyalty and tragic idealism found a new perspective in the 2019 in London with an entirely female cast.
In the original text Shakespeare gives Caesar the line, “I have a man’s mind but a woman’s might.” This powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of power beyond constitutional confines carries deeper impact through an all-female lens.
JULIUS CAESAR female cast is Directed by Meghan Lisi Lewis April 23rd – May 3rd, 2026.
Sensory Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter Sun. April 26th 2:30pm
AUDITIONS announced soon!
June 5th – 21st, 2026
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Season 54 will extend into June with another beloved award-winning title about family and love in all forms.
This musical by William Finn chronicles a Jewish family in the late 70’s and early 80s exploring themes of gender roles, divorce, parenting, gay life and chosen family. The original Broadway production won Tony awards for Best Book and Best Original Score and in 2016 won for Best Revival and was nominated for many more.
FALSETTOS is the tale of a neurotic New Yorker named Marvin, who leaves his wife Trina and young son Jason to live with his lover, Whizzer. In time, Trina marries his psychiatrist, Whizzer leaves him, and Marvin ends up alone. Two years later, Marvin and Whizzer reunite on the eve of Jason’s bar mitzvah, just as AIDS is beginning its insidious spread. With the help of their neighbors, Charlotte and Cordelia, Marvin and his entire family learn to grow up and face their future with love and dignity.
Director/Choreographer Jordan Nichols & Music Director Gary Beard with Stage Manager Katie Ogden
June 5th – 21st, 2026.
Sensory Friendly Performance with Sign Language Interpreter Sun. 14th 2:30pm
AUDITIONS announced soon!
