IN 2025, WE’RE CELEBRATING OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE HERE IN THE HEART OF CAMDEN COUNTY
Artistic Director Dawn Varava has chosen a fantastic season of shows for all of our patrons — past, present, and future, to enjoy.


Beginning in 2015, our country experienced a division unprecedented since, perhaps, the 1850s, when violent clashes in Kansas and beyond existed over whether or not to allow slavery in the new territory. These differences pitted citizens against citizens and families against families, ultimately leading to the Civil War.
Today, we find ourselves in a similar situation, fighting over things that most of us find central to our Democratic ideal. At the core is a type of Xenophobia and racial intolerance being pushed into the minds of many of our countrymen and women. Fear of ‘the other’ seems to have taken hold in a large population segment.
I cannot understand this because, to me, our differences in color, culture, and ethnicity are things to be cherished—things that make life interesting and exotic. Look at all the wonderful variables in nature and imagine how boring it would be if everything were the same.
I have had the good fortune to travel to many places in the world, and the one thing that I have found to be true is that underneath skin color and cultural and ethnic differences, humans are all the same. We all want the same things for ourselves and our families. We all hurt the same way. We all laugh at things that bring us joy. We all are very human!
We believe the four plays we present to you in our 2025 season, our 20th anniversary, will show you these things that make us the same. Although the characters in the scripts we’ve chosen are different in appearance, location, and upbringing, they all share the very human connection of love and support for family and one another.
We strive in the hope that, in 2025, our beloved America will find its way back to this common humanity.

Dawn Varava, Artistic Director
A NEW JERSEY REGIONAL PREMIERE
Hollywood, Nebraska
By Kenneth Jones
Directed by Connie Norwood

February 28, March 1, 2, March 7, 8, 9, March 14, 15, 16
Two forty-something actresses have returned to their dying hometown in the Great Plains of Nebraska. TV star Jane is in from Los Angeles to check on her ailing mom, Alma. Stage actress Andrea is back from New York City to bury her father. Distracted by two charismatic local men—a handsome widower and a rough-and-ready laborer—the former frenemies confront complicated feelings about career, love, and loss, leading to an overdue showdown between Jane and her mother. Fall in love with a hope-filled, tears-and-laughter comedy about small towns and big dreams, the urge to be creative, the itch to move away, and the ache—and joy—of coming home.
How The Light Gets In
By E.M. Lewis
Directed by Damien J. Wallace

May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18
A travel writer who never travels. A Japanese architect who can’t figure out how to build a simple tea house. A gifted tattoo artist who resists the power of his talents. And a homeless girl who lives under a weeping willow tree in the Japanese Garden. Four lonely people, their stories written on paper, earth, and skin, find each other when one of them falls apart. Together, they realize the heart is as strong as it is fragile and that the safety of home might be found in the most fearsome explorations. It is a beautiful, haunting, and richly human play.
“Nuanced… earns its optimism through hard-won human connection.”
— Los Angeles Times
A Good Farmer
by Sharyn Rothstein
Directed by Scott Grumling

September 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21
A moving drama laced with humor and heartache, A GOOD FARMER is the story of two women—a farm owner and her unlikely best friend, an illegal Mexican immigrant—fighting to survive in a small town divided by America’s immigration battle. With rich, complicated roles for women, A GOOD FARMER is a play about love, friendship, and finding the power to face what divides us.
“…outstanding…brings the much-needed sense of humanity to the immigration issue and addresses many of the moral questions we face…This is an important piece of theatre…a gem of a show…”
— BroadwayWorld.
Dot
by Colman Domingo
Directed by Zuhairah McGill

November 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles to hold on to her memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. This twisted and hilarious new play grapples unflinchingly with aging parents, midlife crises, and the heart of a West Philly neighborhood.
“A thoroughly entertaining comedy-drama! […] An impressive advance for Colman Domingo.”
— The New York Times
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Funding has been made possible in part by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.