Simpson Productions 2024-25 Season

The Moors By Jen Silverman

October 10-12, 2024

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.

Speed Dating Tonight! Music and Lyrics by Michael Ching

November 15-18, 2024

This one-act comic opera explores the human desire for connection. We will meet many different characters, some bold, some shy, some ready to start a relationship, and some just recovering.

Working: A Musical

From the book by Studs Terkel
Adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
Localized format conceived by Daniel C. Levine for ACT of CT*
February 14-16, 2025

Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the waitress, the millworker, the mason, and the housewife, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, this classic has been updated for a modern age, featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, James Taylor, Micki Grant, and more.

Behind every job, there is a person with a story to tell

Medea By Euripides

March 28-30, 2025

Lies, betrayal, and revenge culminate in this Greek tragedy as a passionate exploration of the depth of Medea’s pain.

Aesop’s Fables Adapted by James Brock

April 25-26, 2025

An updated version of four of the timeless storyteller’s most popular fables, Aesop’s Fables is a fast-moving play in which all the scene changes and costume adaptations are done in full view of the audience.  As the various actors become the Rabbit, the Turtle, the Fox, the Crow, or the Donkey in the Lion’s skin, the audience is brought into the action of the play by seeing the change from actor to character and back to actor again.  Four of Aesop’s best loved fables… ‘The Fox and the Crow,’ ‘The Hare and the Tortoise,’ ‘The Donkey In the Lion’s Skin,’ and finally, ‘The Fox and the Sour Grapes,’ are delightfully created in this interesting approach to storyteller’s theatre.