Be sure to check our ScripTease page regularly for information about free readings in our new works program. Support new works — come to the next ScripTease reading!
For 2023-2024 season ticket information, please visit our season ticket page. Our flexible season tickets include all six plays of the new season, including three musicals! You’ll save $50 by buying a season pass instead of tickets to individual performances.
*Please note: Friday — Saturday performances are always at 7:30 pm; the special “Value Thursday” performance is also at 7:30. Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before show time.
Raven Players’ 2023-2024 Season
Evil Dead, The Musical
October 13 – 29
Book & Lyrics by George Reinblatt
Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris & George Reinblatt
Director: Troy Thomas Evans
Assistant Director: Kerry Duvall
Music Director: Tika Moon
Choreographer: Ashley Talbot
Last year’s bloody Halloween hit returns! Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee turned demon-killing hero) and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes … and all to music. Get up close and bloody when you purchase our special “Splatter Zone” tickets!
Betty and Edith and Sue
November 10 – 19
By Tony Sciullo
Directed by Neva Hutchinson
Another Raven original is an engaging story filled with warmth and humor about three strong and independent women that rule an Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Their voices are the foundation of all families and hold their community together through bad times and good.
Chimichangas and Zoloft
By Fernanda Coppel
Directed by Sky Hernandez-Simard
January 26 – February 11
Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription Zoloft and greasy chimichangas. Sonia’s rebellious daughter Jackie and her best friend Penelope hatch a plan to lure Sonia back home, while their fathers struggle with a secret association of their own. This irreverent story examines the search for happiness and the mysteries of sexuality through the eyes of two brazen teenagers.
March 22 – April 7
Book by L. Frank Baum, Glen MacDonough
Lyrics by L. Frank Baum, Vincent Bryan, Will D. Cobb, William Jerome, & others
Music by Paul Tietjens, Charles A. Zimmerman, Gus Edwards, Leo Edwards, & others
Director: Steven David Martin
Choreographer: Katie Watts-Whitaker
Music Director: Kelly Considine
An American classic, done with a touch of contemporary spice. Young Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her Kansas farm to the magical land of Oz. There, she encounters good witches, bad witches, animals that talk, scarecrows that walk, trees that move, and a merry melange of melodic Munchkins! Her quest to return home takes her along the Yellow Brick Road to see the mysterious and all-powerful Wizard in Emerald City. Featuring the timeless songs we know and love, the Raven’s Wizard of Oz is a very human journey that explores fear, loneliness, and belonging. Spoiler alert: Dorothy discovers that home is not necessarily a place but a state of mind.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
May 10 – 26
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Diane Bailey
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Company
June 28 – July 14
Book by George Furth
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Director: Steven David Martin
Music Director: Kelly Considine
Choreographer: Michella Moerbeek
Winner of six Tony Awards, Company is a defining musical of the 1970s and Stephen Sondheim’s illustrious career. On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor, Robert, contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his friends – “those good and crazy people [his] married friends” – explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.
Company features a brilliantly brisk and energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim’s best-known songs, including The Ladies Who Lunch, Being Alive, and the title tune.
Our new play readings continue. Read about the latest new plays on our ScripTease section.
Original poster art by Richard Sheppard.
