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announced: open auditions for The Effect

Our 2026 season begins April 17th!

As an all-volunteer organization, we are deeply committed to providing our greater community with a welcoming, educational, innovative, and safe place for all. Our passion is engaging with people who already love the arts as well as with those who are interested in finding out more. With this in mind, we have made the goal of our 2026 season to expound upon our shared definition of community, using arts-based entertainment, education, and events that look to our future while honoring our past.

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR by
Neil Simon

This laugh-out-loud comedy was inspired by Neil Simon’s experience as a writer on Sid Caesar’s *Show of Shows*. Just like Neil, Lucas has landed his dream job as a comedy writer on *The Max Prince Show,* the hottest program on television in 1953. But, variety shows are becoming an endangered species as sitcoms usher in a new era for TV. Money gets tight when ratings fall and the McCarthy hearings are on the rise. Will Lucas and his lovable group of comedy writers stay on the air and off the black list? This fast-paced, razor-sharp comedy preserves a special moment in time, filled with hilarity, laughter, love, and a tiny bit of madness. *Variety* called it “the funniest comedy on Broadway in years” and *Newsweek* raved “one of [Simon’s] funniest.”

THE EFFECT by Lucy Prebble

Penned by Emmy Award winner Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), this intensely dark comedy follows two patients, Connie and Tristan, who are enrolled in a pharmaceutical trial testing a new wonder drug. As the two begin to feel a connection, they can’t tell if this attraction is truly a matter of the heart, or is it simply finding the right combination of brain chemicals? In this clinical romance, it’s hard to tell what is real and what is purely a symptom of better living through modern chemistry. Side effects may include moments of intense romantic tension, uproarious laughter, and rare cases of falling in love. “...a scintillating exploration of the clash between scientific advance and human impulse… it demonstrates the same vivid, provocative intelligence.” – *Financial Times*

HOME, I'M DARLING by Laura Wade

In today’s modern world, Judy and Johnny feel out of place. They’ve chosen to give up the trappings of the Internet age and live life like it’s 1950 all over again, but “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be...” How can they cope when the fantasy of domestic bliss clashes with cold hard reality? Issues of marriage partnership, identity, and traditional gender roles swirl in this halcyon dream of yesteryear where rules and routines become a love language all their own. “An original, sometimes unsettling look at the masks people put on in order to conceal their pain.” *The Evening Standard.* *WhatsOnStage* raves“...sharp, funny, and strikingly perceptive play,”

ON THE MARKET
by Jason Odell Williams

Charlotte, a Long Island real estate agent in her early forties finds herself recently widowed and navigating the awkward world of online dating, but she just can’t shake the bizarre dreams she’s been having. Are they messages from her dead husband, premonitions of things to come, or something more? A snappy New York sense of humor abounds in this sharp-witted romantic comedy where the audience takes a front row seat, witnessing a cavalcade of first dates as Charlotte tries to find her forever home and Mr. Right. “Williams delivers a rom-com with one laugh line after another that leaves a hopeful lump in your throat.” – *City News, Rochester*

MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON - APT. 2B by Kate Hamill

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest detective duo are reimagined in this irreverent comedy filled with mystery, intrigue, and plenty of laughs. American medico, Joan Watson, is struggling to find her purpose in the world and a place to live, when fate, and her low bank account balance, step in, pairing her with an unlikely companion; Sherlock Holmes, herself. Not simply a feminist retelling of an old story. Baker street meets Laverne and Shirley in this fresh take that has punch and panache; with fast-paced hilarity from beginning to end. Holmes’ superlative powers of perception and beguiling eccentricities seem to be just what the doctor ordered, but will they be enough to unravel the game afoot? Sherlock faces the usual obstacles; Scotland Yard’s hapless Inspector Lestrade and a femme fatale with designs on Holmes’ heart. It seems as if Holmes isn’t the only one with clever ideas. *Portland Monthly* raves, “Witty & relevant… Sharp, playful, and moves at a rapid-fire pace… hilarious!”

Our strategies to prioritize community throughout our 2026 season include:

Presenting the works of innovative playwrights both new and old, beloved and previously unknown, local and far-flung, and whose plays offer stories both familiar and unfamiliar, escapist and challenging.
Continuing to add more programming to our recently expanded Special Events & New Works series with even more staged readings, workshops, short plays, improv., poetry, and music.
Expanding our community and diversity outreach in all of our programming. This includes inviting local groups to take part in our talkback events, interconnecting with local schools and special interest groups for onstage and offstage volunteer and educational opportunities, and participating in more community events throughout Bucks County and its surrounding PA & NJ areas.
Adjusting our performance schedule to help accommodate the ever-growing number of patrons who prefer matinees. Starting this season, each production’s third week of performances will no longer have a Thursday or Saturday evening performance but will instead have a Saturday matinee performance, bringing the total number of matinees during each production’s three-week performance run to 4.
Renovating, restoring, and modernizing the historical Spring Garden Mill so that it can continue being a working, cherished member of our arts community.

WE ARE SO THANKFUL to be afforded the opportunity to showcase the arts in our community and we cannot wait to welcome our new and longtime patrons, volunteers, and artists throughout our 2026 season!

79th Season