Announcing Playhouse 2000 Season 2022!

One night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, a

desperate last-minute customer offers him and his girlfriend Abby two

thousand dollars to sit and have a drink with him, and the reason he gives them is completely unbelievable.

When a very displeased second stranger arrives, the unbelievable begins to seem like the truth.

Now and Then is a heartfelt romantic comedy about the costs of the choices we make, and the impact on people who make those choices with us.

Sean Grennan is the writer of the hilarious Making God Laugh, which was a popular part of Playhouse 2000’s Season 2017.

The VK Garage Theater

February 4 through 20

Based on the biblical story of Esther, For Such a Time as This is a love story about the young beauty who captures the heart of a King despite her place in an enslaved class, and ultimately saves her people.

Using a wide variety of musical styles and more than a smattering of humor, the musical relates one of the great stories in a way that appeals to a wide audience, young and old alike.

Rob Ward and Lew King both live in Kerrville, and For Such a Time As This received a concert-style reading in The Cailloux Theater in January, 2021.

The VK Garage Theater

April 8 through 24

Playhouse 2000 partners once again with The City of Kerrville Parks &

Recreation Department and the Tivy High School Technical Theater

Department to bring the Bard to Louise Hays Park, this year presenting a little-known comedy that deserves greater attention.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, leaves home to escape death only to win a jousting contest and marry a princess. Once he can return home, his family sails with him, but a storm separates them, so Pericles returns alone. Years later, Pericles finds his daughter and reunites with the wife he had thought was dead.

(Thanks to Tivy HS Senior Scooty Garrett for the graphic and poster design)

Louise Hays Park

June 3 and 4, 8:30 pm

Nat Paradis is a Red Sox-loving part-time dad who manages “Paradis’ Last Convenient Store,” the last place to get gas (or anything) before the Canadian border in northern Maine.

When an old flame returns to town, Nat gets a chance to rekindle a romance he gave up on years ago. But sparks fly as he’s forced to choose between new love and old.

This play takes a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking look at love lost and found, and what it means to “get back to happy.”

John Cariani is the playwright who created Almost Maine and other beautiful and poignant comedies.

The VK Garage Theater

July 15 through 31

Two down-at-the-heels Shakespearean actors try to take advantage of a rich Pennsylvania widow who is looking to leave her fortune to missing relatives.

They plan to impersonate the lost nephews “Max” and “Steve,” and are surprised when the pair turn out to actually be nieces “Maxine” and “Stephanie.”

Undeterred, the actors continue the ruse by assuming female form. Their ploy becomes even more complicated when love enters the picture, and the laughs just keep on coming.

We’ll return to the spacious and beautiful Cailloux Theater to create

another “all out” production of a Ken Ludwig script, following up on last

season’s spectacular Murder on the Orient Express.

The Cailloux Theater

September 16 through October 2

It’s Christmas time 1941 in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina (home of the pickle factory) and Dennis Sanders is making his last appearance with the singing Sanders Family before heading off to join the war effort.

The family shares the news with their Mount Pleasant Baptist Church friends while celebrating the season the only way they know how – with amazing music.

The sequel to Smoke On The Mountain, A Sanders Family Christmas features a multi-talented cast telling humorous and moving stories in between performing more than two dozen Blue-Grass and Gospel Christmas favorites.

The VK Garage Theater

December 2 through 18