Arsenic and Old Lace, that classic killer comedy about sweet little old ladies with a homicidal hobby, is knockin’ ‘em dead at the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre through October 8.
This is not your Grandmother’s Pride & Prejudice!
Imagine Monty Python & the Marx Brothers meet Jane Austen, and you will be close to the amazing chaos on the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre stage as Pride & Prejudice plays through August 6.
The Bad Seed is a phrase, title, or story that has been seared into society’s awareness since 1954—almost 80 years. If you really want to understand it, see the play by that name at the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre through June 11.
A romantic comedy about Golden-Agers embarking on the rough seas of 21st-century online dating...and everything that follows? You’d better fill its two-person cast with solid, dependable performers...and that’s what the Good Company Players did with Amelia Ryan and Noel Adams in Kalamazoo, playing at the 2nd Space Theatre through April 16.
For decades, writers have made up tales of William Shakespeare having affairs that inspired his great plays. In 1998, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s script became the film Shakespeare in Love starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Dench. In 2014, Lee Hall adapted the film script for the stage. Now, you can see Shakespeare in Love performed live at the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre through February 19, and you can fall in love with it, too.
Christmas time is on its way, and so are the holiday plays, such as A Christmas Carol and all its variations, Papa’s Christmas Miracle, stories of the Christmas Truce of 1914, The Littlest Angel, and The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Take a time machine to the time of King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It is cleverly disguised as the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre production of Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons. The time machine is only available through October 16.
It’s 1957—A lavish New York penthouse apartment. She’s a world-famous opera singer. He’s a revered orchestra conductor. Life should be perfect, right? It isn’t, but it’s very funny in Living on Love, playing through August 14 at Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre.
This past weekend I Remember Mama opened on stage at 2nd Space Theatre in Fresno, presented by Good Company Players. The play premiered on Broadway on October 19, 1944. It was written by John Van Druten and based on Kathryn Forbes' novel Mama's Bank Account, which was loosely based on her childhood. It is a study of family life centered on a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco early in the 20th century.
Start with a dreary, rainy English March, take an Italian castle, add four English women with sadness and problems of their own, drench them in wisteria and sunshine, and what do you get?
Enchanted April.
