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The Hampton Roads Achievement in Community Theater Awards
Sound of Music Best Song Ensemble
Best Performance Of A Song (Ensemble)
Sound of Music Best Musical
Best Musical
Sound of Music Best Leading Male
Best Performance In A Leading Male Role (Musical)
Sound of Music Best Supporting Female Actress
Best Performance In A Supporting Female Role (Musical)

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

December 6 - 15, 2024
Fridays at 8:00 pm
Saturdays at 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:30 pm
Directed by:  Judith Post and John Post
Two compelling stories come together in this heartwarming play inspired by the famous editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. On Christmas Eve, 1897, in New York City, eight-year-old Virginia is left pondering whether or not Santa really exists after a series of unhappy events. Meanwhile, a young newspaper editor also struggles against tough holiday times as he is faced with losing his job if he can't find his writer's voice by morning. Even though they don't know each other, the spirit of Christmas is about to bring these people together, creating in the process an unforgettable and cherished part of classic Christmas folklore.
 
by:  Jamie Gorski
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Italian American Reconcilation

February 7, 2025 - March 2, 2025
Directed by:  Jeff Corriveau
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm., Sundays at 2:30 pm.
Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano has a problem: While he is safely divorced from his shrewish first wife, Janice, who shot his dog and even took a bead on him, he feels he cannot regain his “manhood” until he woos and wins her one more time—if only to put his broken marriage behind him once and for all. He enlists the aid of his lifelong buddy, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who tries, without apparent success, to convince Huey that he would be better off sticking with his new lady friend, Teresa, a usually placid young waitress whose indignation flares when she learns what Huey is up to. In a moonlit balcony scene (hilariously reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac) Aldo pleads his lovesick friend’s case and, to his astonishment, Janice capitulates—although not for long. However we do learn that her earlier abuse of Huey was intended to make him “act like a man” which, at last, he does. And, more than that, he (and the audience) become aware that, in the final essence, “the greatest—and only—success is to be able to love” —a truth which emerges delightfully from the heartwarming, wonderfully antic and always imaginatively conceived action of the play.
Italian American Reconciliation
Written by:John Patrick Shanley
Italian American Reconciliation
Is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by DPS.
Dramatists Play Service

SLT Actor's Intensive for Teens
For Students Ages 12-18
Limited To 12 Participants
Cost to Participate:  $100
Dates:  Feb. 6, 15, 22, 2025 and March 1, 8, 15, 2025
Times:  9:00 am. - 12:30 pm.
Schedule: 
  • 9:00 am. - 10:00 pm. - Workshop
  • 10:30 am. - 10:45 am. - Break
  • 10:45 am - 12:30 pm. - Rehearsal and workshop practice
March 15, 2025:  There will be a lunch party for participants
from 12:30 pm. - 2:30 pm. and a public performance at 3:00 pm.

12 Incompetent Jurors

Date:  March 15, 2025
Time:  3:00 pm.
When a man is accused of abducting half a dozen cats, it's a simple open-and-shut case, even for a jury that is filled with odd balls like a dim-witted PR guy, a bickering couple, and a man obsessed with French fries. After all, every scrap of evidence indicts the accused.  And yet, Juror #8, a wannabe lawyer, believes that the "Cat Burglar" is innocent. Will he be able to sway the other jury members? Or will they side with Juror #3, the only sane man in the room? A hilarious parody of 12 Angry Men.
A production presented by the SLT Actor's Intensive for Teens program.

Ragtime

April 25 - May 18, 2025
Directed by: Marty Bussert
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm., Sundays at 2:30 pm.
At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair... and what it means to live in America.
Book by:  Terrence McNally
Music by:  Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by:  Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel Ragtime
By:  E.L. Doctorow
Ragtime (Version 1)
Is presented through special arrangement with
Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

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Route 258/10 (South Church Street) Bridge Construction

December 2023 - September 2025
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2025 - 2026 Play Submissions

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
October 31, 2024
Smithfield Little Theatre is currently accepting submissions of full-length plays for our 2024-2025 season. If you are a director interested in directing a production, please read our Play Submission Guidlines and fill out the submission information form.

Smithfield Little Theatre Performing Arts & Education Scholarship Fund

Submission deadline:
March 14,2025
Award Announced:
May 16, 2025
Complete information can be found
on our SCHOLARSHIP page.

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