Our Town

September 17 & September 24, 2025

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

Join us for a magical new staging of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece! In its depiction of the small town of Grover’s Corners, Our Town follows the lives of the Webb and Gibbs families, who fall in love, marry, and grow old. This American classic explores universal themes of life and death, love and friendship, celebrating the wonder of life’s “biggest smallest” moments. Staged by Tony Award-winning MacArthur “Genius” Mary Zimmerman, Our Town will reassert itself as one of the greatest plays ever written, and fill hearts with purpose, beauty, and meaning.

Age Recommendation: 10 & older

Content Advisory: Discussions of death

The Christine Jorgensen Show

November 11, 2025

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

Original songs power this hilarious and heartfelt play about living life on your own terms. In the buttoned-up 1950s, an ex-GI became the first transgender celebrity in America. Based on her true story, The Christine Jorgensen Show is a feel-good retelling of the cabaret act that transformed this American icon from headline into headliner! Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Barakiva, who helmed the show’s Off-Broadway premiere, brings this crowd-pleasing hit to Cleveland for its Midwest premiere.

Age Recommendation: 10 & older

A Christmas Story

December 10 & December 17, 2025

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

One boy. One holiday wish. One triple-dog-daring good time! Cleveland’s favorite holiday tradition returns to Cleveland Play House in all its pink-bunny-suit, glowing-leg-lamp, frozen-flagpole-licking glory. Be a holiday hero and bring your brood downtown to bask in the warm glow of holiday lights and experience the joy of creating holiday memories you’ll hold onto all year long. It’s “one of the more enchanting ways to be transported to a world beyond our own,” raves The Plain Dealer.

Age Recommendation: 7 & older

Primary Trust

February 18, 2026

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

“This is the story of a friendship. Of how I got a new job. A story of love and balance and time.” So begins Kenneth’s tale of losing his job, of discovering new beginnings, new friends, and new hopes. Absorbing, funny, and moving—it’s no wonder that Primary Trust is one of the most produced plays in the country. The LA Times calls this 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winner “as tenderhearted as it is spryly comic and as poignant as it is ultimately uplifting.” The Observer says, “it will restore your faith in theatre’s elemental storytelling powers.”

Age Recommendation: 13 & older

Tartuffe

April 25, 2026

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

Préparez-vous, you, for a hilarious night of theatre! The man of the house has lost his marbles, blinded by the counterfeit zeal of a sanctimonious scoundrel who fully intends to make off with his livelihood (as well as his wife!) Tartuffe is on the loose, and his schemes and shenanigans make for one of classical theatre’s most celebrated characters. The funniest French farce ever conceived promises to be as relatable today as when it premiered in 1664—slyly satirical, bitingly incisive, and wildly entertaining!

Age Recommendation: 13 & older

Freak The Mighty

June 17, 2026

• All performances start at 10:30am, $15 per ticket

Based on the beloved novel by Rodman Philbrick, this new musical follows the adventures of two unlikely friends, Maxwell Kane and Kevin “Freak” Avery. Though Maxwell and Kevin feel like outsiders, together they transform into “Freak The Mighty”, a heroic duo empowered to take on the world. Shepherded by the Tony® Award winning producers of Come From Away, Freak The Mighty celebrates friendship, resilience and community in the face of adversity: a soaring new musical with the spirit to connect to the dreamer in all of us.

Age Recommendation: 13 & older