2024 – 2025 Season
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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
(June 2025) Stone Soup closed our 2024-2025 season with this revue of songs and vignettes, based on the beloved Charles Schulz comic strip. With charm, wit, and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang. Critics were delighted with our dual-cast (teen & adult) production, describing it as “funny”, “endearing”, and “imaginative”!
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The Importance of Being Earnest
(Feb 2025) Stone Soup opened 2025 with Oscar Wilde’s classic farce, filled with mistaken identities, wordplay, and social commentary on the absurdity of manners and morality. Director Lily Vance’s charming production in a tea garden played to sold-out crowds, with critics naming it a “production worth seeing” and a “true gem”.
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Guys On Ice
(Dec 2024) From the pen of Fred Alley, author of last season’s hit “The Spitfire Grill”, comes a warm, funny comedy about friendship, life, beer, and fishing. Guys on Ice spends a day in the life of Marvin and Lloyd — fishing buddies and home-grown philosophers.
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Godspell
(Oct 2024) The first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden), Godspell took the world by storm. Stone Soup opens our 2024-2025 season with the 2012 revision of this amazing, meaningful show.
2023 – 2024 Season
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The Spitfire Grill
(Shows May 31 – June 9 at Center Theater, Carrboro) Stone Soup closed its 2023-2024 season with “The Spitfire Grill”, Fred Alley and James Valcq’s critically acclaimed musical that tells the tale of a parolee finding hope and community in a small Wisconsin town, celebrating human kindness with a folk-inspired score. Critics called it “touching and beautiful”, a show that “made sparks fly”.
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Romeo and Juliet
(Shows April 5 – 14, 2024 at Center Theater, Carrboro) Allison Nicole Acuff and Chandler Vance’s adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” presented an unconventional re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic, set in a care facility. Critics gave it rave reviews, singling out standout performances from leads Dan Oliver and Mary Rowland, who brought nuance to their roles, and recommending the show to both Shakespeare lovers and skeptics alike for its fresh take.
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Cabaret
(Shows October 12-22, 2023; Center Theater, Carrboro) Daring, provocative and exuberantly entertaining, Kander & Ebb’s classic musical Cabaret explores the dark and heady life of Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.
2022 – 2023 Season
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Ride The Cyclone
(Shows presented June 2023, Carrboro ArtsCenter) In this hilarious and outlandish musical, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. The result is a funny, deeply moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
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Into The Woods
(Shows October 7 – 16, 2022; Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill) Following up the success of our inaugural 2021 show, Stone Soup presents the classic modern musical, ‘Into The Woods’. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching: as fairy tale characters collide, everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results. Remember wishes come true, not free!
2021 Season (Inaugural)
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Something Rotten
(Shows Oct 9 – 24, 2021, at NC Museum of Art & Forest Theatre) Welcome to the Renaissance and Stone Soup’s inaugural production, the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten’s Broadway premiere was lauded by Time Out New York as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years”.