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 2024-2025 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’ 2024-2025 Season
The Germans Upstairs
September 6 – 15
By Francine Schwartz
Director: Steven David Martin
A Raven original. Two German officers are billeted at the home of a Jewish family on the outskirts of Paris in 1940. One officer is drawn to the woman of the house, and she to him in this moving, star-crossed love story that explores the human struggles in a world at war.
Deathtrap
October 11-27
By Ira Levin
Directed by Steven David Martin
Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell when he receives a script from a student in a seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college – a thriller Sidney realizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer to collaborate with the student for co-credit. Or is it? Deathtrap provides clever twists and turns and hilarious sudden shocks that will captivate and delight the audience.
Cinderella-A Family Holiday Panto!
November 15-December 1
By Nick Lawrence
Director: Robert Zelenka
Experience a traditional British “Panto” holiday show in all its outrageous glory! Boo, hiss, and cheer at this uproarious family friendly fairy tale with a taste of vaudeville, music, dance, comedy, cross dressing, over-the-top costumes, audience interaction, and irreverent humor throughout!
The Absence
January 24-February 2
By Neva Hutchinson
with Clint McKay (Pomo, Wappo, Wintun)
Jack Kohler (Hupa Yurok, Karuk)
A Raven original. More than 6,500 Native American women are missing nationwide, many from Northern California, some from our own community. Using local Indigenous voices the story follows teenager Robin, who hitchhikes to work at a casino on her reservation. She crosses paths with a serial killer, and lives change as a result.
The Music Man
March 14-30
Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Wilson
Director: Joe Gellura
Music Director: Les Pfutzenreuter
Join everyone’s favorite traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.
This award-winning, critically acclaimed audience favorite such classics as Ya Got Trouble, Marian the Librarian, Till There Was You and, of course, 76 Trombones!
Home, I’m Darling
May 9-25
By Laura Wade
Directed by Caroline Clark
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks… Home, I’m Darling is Laura Wade’s new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.
School of Rock
June 27-July 13
Book by Julian Fellowes
Lyrics by Glen Slater
New Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Director: Steven David Martin
Music Director: Kelly Considine
Choreographer: Katie Watts-Whitaker
Based on the hit movie School of Rock – The Musical follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out?
Lloyd Webber penned 14 new numbers for the show, which additionally features all of the original songs from the movie. School of Rock – The Musical, with its sensational live kids’ rock band, is a loving testimony to the transforming power of music. May the spirit of rock be with all who pledge allegiance to Lloyd Webber’s newest hit!
Our new play readings continue. Read about the latest new plays on our ScripTease section.
Original poster art by Richard Sheppard.
