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SEASON 106 | 2025-2026

SEASON 106 PACKAGES are

ON SALE with Early Bird Savings until May 31

(...psst with Season 105 pricing!)

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THE CLASSIC IN SAN MARCO

Features mature language and themes

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A Doll’s House

by Henrik Ibsen

A New Version by Amy Herzog

September 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 2025

Nominee: Six 2023 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play
Winner! Three 2023 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Adaptation

Young housewife Nora Helmer comes to the disturbing realization that she has spent her entire

marriage, and indeed most of her life, pretending to be the person that her husband, her father,

and society expect her to be.  Ibsen’s celebrated play explores the ways that societal expectations

restrict individuals, especially women.  Its success when it premiered in 1879 thrust drama firmly

into the modern age.  Amy Herzog’s thrilling, compact and devastatingly contemporary adaptation

makes freshly relevant a story that shocked audiences and brought forth a new era of theatre.

“It is a thing of beauty, this play… the story is clear, unmuddied by all the usual strutting and fretting… it’s thrilling.” – Variety

 
THE MAINSTAGE SEASON

May contain mature language and themes

Barefoot in the Park 

by Neil Simon

November 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 2025

Paul and Corie are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He’s a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and

she’s a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find

– too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a quick honeymoon, they get

a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker with their neighbor-in-

the-attic,  Velasco, at a dinner where everything that can go wrong does. Paul just doesn’t understand

Corie, as she sees it. He’s too staid, too boring, and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous.

Running “barefoot in the park” would be a start…

“A bubbling, rib-tickling comedy.” – The New York Times

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Packing Up Polly

by Leslie Kimbell

January 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, February 1, 2026

Polly Porter, famous 1970s gospel singer, has gone on up to heaven. Her daughter, Caroline, has

come home to Savannah to pack up Miss Polly’s house, but there is just one little problem (or two

or three): Miss Polly was an extreme hoarder of epic proportions. Caroline’s three best friends from

high school, former co-cheerleaders, have all shown up... unannounced! The gospel music plays

and the margaritas pour as the four ladies laugh, cry, scream and come together with humor, wit

and vulnerability to pack up Miss Polly’s house.

“Reminds you to go home and straighten things up a bit!” – Atlanta Arts Scene

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Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise by Ken Ludwig

February 27, 28, March 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 2026

When two strangers meet by letter during World War II, a love story begins.  U.S. Army Captain

Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, begins writing to Louise Rabiner, an aspiring

actress and dancer in New York City, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. The war,

however, threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Tony Award-winning playwright

Ken Ludwig tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents’ courtship during World War II and

the results are anything but expected.

​“An affecting love letter to unlikely romance... a poignant, funny tribute to the enduring power of human

connection.” – The Washington Post​​

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Play On!

by Rick Abbot

April 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, May 1, 2, 3, 2026

In this hilarious comedy of a play within a play, a theatre group is trying and failing in different ways

to put on a play despite the haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the

dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance,

in which everything goes wrong. When the author decides to give a speech on the state of modern

theatre during the curtain call, the audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hysterical

romp.

a “zany love letter to community theatre…” – The Show Report

 

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Sondheim on Sondheim 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Conceived and directed on Broadway by James Lapine

June 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2026

An intimate portrait of famed songwriter Stephen Sondheim in his own words...and music. 

His story.

His inspiration. His genius. Ranging from the beloved to the obscure, the carefully selected songs

hang from a framework of exclusive and in-depth video interviews with Sondheim that provide an

inside look into his personal life and his artistic process.

"An enchanting, warm and provocative opportunity to hear not only Sondheim's songs but, literally,

the master's voice." – Variety

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 Theatre Jacksonville is a volunteer based community theatre whose mission is to enrich lives and broaden cultural understanding through community participation in theatre arts.

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