Our 86th Summer Season is filled with everything you have come to love about the Peterborough Players. From known classics and engaging character studies, to a contemporary comedy and a big book musical; Summer 2019 is going to be a season to remember! Make your reservations today and join us for what is slated to be a stellar summer on Hadley Road.

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 Proudly Presenting our
2019 Summer Season

Main Stage Plays
Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven
By Russell Davis
June 19-30
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
Cultures collide in a chance encounter between an Iranian college student and a lonely American artist. Playwright Russell Davis sends Mahida and Thomas on a beautifully awkward search for common ground in this fascinating blend of tense drama, and inspired comedy. Rated PG-13

“Sensitive and surprising drama.” –The New York Times
“Funny, thoughtful, and with just the right amount of menace… “ –The New Yorker

Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com
Gertrude Stein and a Companion
By Win Wells
July 3–14
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
This evocative and witty play explores the 40-year relationship between avant-garde novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, Gertrude Stein and her partner, editor and muse Alice B. Toklas. In the early 1900s these women left behind their privileged American lives and found refuge and each other, in bohemian Paris… and in their friendships and encouragement of Picasso, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, SInclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder, and Matisse. The mystique of the ‘lost generation’ in Paris, a term coined by Stein, serves as a colorful backdrop to a tender and unconventional love story which won first prize at both the Edinburgh Festival and the Theatre Festival in Sydney, Australia. Rated PG-13

Presented by special arrangment with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Morning’s at Seven By Paul Osborn
July 17–28
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
The four highly strung Gibbs sisters have lived next door to each other most of their long lives. Three are married, and one, Esther, managed to escape with her husband to a few blocks away. But only Ida has produced a child. Homer is now 40, and after eleven years of courtship, may or may not be getting married himself. In his play Morning’s at Seven, playwright and screenwriter, Paul Osborne (East of Eden, South Pacific), captures the Midwestern eccentricity of a simpler time to hilarious effect. Winner of 4 Tony Awards, Morning’s at Seven is a funny and deeply poignant look at the foibles of a close-knit family in the 1930s. Critic Harold Clurman called it “One of the best American comedies.” 

“Absolutely entrancing...See this lovely play!” –New York Post

“Morning’s at seven, the hillside’s dew-pearled...
God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world.” –Robert Browning

Produced by special arrangement with the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency
She Loves Me
Book by Joe Masteroff, 
Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick 
July 31–August 11
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
Choreography by Bill Burns
One of the most charming musicals ever written, She Loves Me is a heart-stopping comedy about finding love in a very old-fashioned way. Georg and Amalia, two sparring co-workers in a 1930s Budapest perfume shop, simply can’t see eye to eye. But using the “lonely hearts advertisements” in the newspaper, each of them has found and fallen for the perfect secret admirer. MGM twice used the same source material, the Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László, to make classic movies: The Shop Around the Corner starring James Stewart and In the Good Old Summertime starring Judy Garland. But it took Harold Prince and the writers of Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret to bring She Loves Me to Broadway. The musical’s various Broadway productions have garnered 13 Tony nominations and 3 Tony Awards, as well as the Olivier, Drama Desk and Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical. PG

Presented through special arrangement with the Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
Dumas’ Camille By Charles Morey
August 14–25
Directed by Charles Morey
In 1895 Paris an elderly man, confused and unwell, disrupts a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. As he is being escorted from the theatre, he is recognized as Alexandre Dumas fils, the world famous author of the novel and the play La Dame aux Camélias upon which La Traviata is based. As the rehearsal continues, Dumas remembers his love affair of a half century prior that inspired his novel and play as well as Verdi’s opera. Prompted by the soaring arias and duets, Dumas is forced to confront his memories, regrets and guilt as he tries to reconcile the conflict between the reality of actual events and the varying levels of fiction and artifice he created from those events. Dumas’ Camille is a play with music filled with Verdi’s rich and powerful melodies from La Traviata.

Produced by special arrangement with the Playwright and the Harden-Curtis-Kristen-Riley Agency, 
214 W. 29th St, Suite 1203
New Yor, NY 10001
A Doll’s House, Part 2
By Lucas Hnath
August 28–September 8
Directed by Keith Stevens ​
Fifteen years after slamming the door on her marriage, leaving her husband and children behind, Nora opens the door again. Now a successful and somewhat scandalous writer, she needs her not-quite-ex-husband’s help. But her husband, daughter and nurse have a few grievances they want to air! A sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking 1879 classic A Doll House, Lucas Hnath’s Tony Award-nominated Broadway hit is a smart new comedy that raises fascinating questions about marriage and the ways men and women have – and haven’t – changed. Don’t miss your chance to see the most produced, most talked about play in America.

“This is great comedy. A hilarious and thrilling evening.” –New York Times

Presented by special arrangement with the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Rose
By Martin Sherman
September 11–15
Directed by Howard Millman
“I’m eighty years old. I find that unforgivable, and suddenly it’s a millennium and I stink of the past century, but what can I do?”

Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw’s ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami Beach. The play is both a sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a moving reminder of some of the events that shaped the 20th century. Written by Martin Sherman, the celebrated American author of Bent, Rose premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play. It was produced on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater.

Produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Second Company Plays
How I Became a Pirate
Book, Lyrics and Music by 
Mark Friedman and Janet Yates Vogt
June 22–July 20
Sail off on a fantastic musical excursion when a band of comical pirates lands at North Beach looking for an expert digger to join their crew. Braid Beard and his mates enlist young Jeremy Jacob as they try to find the perfect spot to bury their treasure. Jeremy finds that adventuring can be lots of fun, but also learns that love and home are treasures you can’t find on any map! The whole family will love this swashbuckling musical adventure!

Presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www,theatricalrights.com
Cindy Reilly
An updated musical story
By Gus Kaikkonen & Kraig Swartz • Music by Ellen Mandel
August 17–24
In this modern, musical retelling of the beloved Cinderella story, Cindy Reilly is a hard-working, bespectacled CPA in her family-run luxury hotel, surrounded by her chic stepsisters, a rockstar “formerly known as Prince Charming”, and her Leona Hemsleyish “Queen of Mean” stepmother. Written by Players’ Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen and Players’ favorites Kraig Swartz and composer Ellen Mandel, Cindy Reilly is fun is for the whole family.