NLT's 65th Season
Productions and
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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance. All benefit preformamce tickets must be purchased at the box office or by calling NLT.

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
(Thursday August 23rd - Saturday August 25th 2012 at 7:30 pm and Sunday August 26th at 2:00 pm. Benefit preformance will be held Wednesday August 22nd, 2012 at 7:00 pm. All proceeds will go towards roof replacement over the stage door entrance to NLT. Tickets for this preformance may be purchased by calling NLT or at the box office)

Links: Poster,  Cast Photo,  Character Photo's,  Photo Gallery

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

Sordid Lives
(September 28 - October 14, 2012)

This is an adult comedy with strong language and adult situations!

When Peggy, a good Christian woman hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.  Sordid Lives puts a comedic twist on a story of unconditional love, acceptance and "coming out" in an eccentric Texas family, as they all converge for the matriarch's funeral. "Sometimes it takes a death to bring a family together, but not necessarily.”  

The original stage play premiered in Los Angeles on May 11, 1996, and was nominated for over thirty awards during its long Los Angeles run.  Sordid Lives ultimately won 14 Drama League Awards.  It was a very popular independent film made in 2000.

Links: Poster, Weekend Cast Photo, Week Day Cast Photo, Photo Gallery

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

ARSENIC & OLD LACE
(Thursday November 8, 2012 - Saturday November 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday November 11, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.)

The farcical black comedy classic, "Arsenic and Old Lace," was written by American playwright, Joseph Kesselring,  It premiered at the Fulton Theatre in New York on August 18, 1941 and ran for 1,444 performances.  Boris Karloff created the role of Jonathan Brewster.   Written in 1939, the play is best know by the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.


In “Arsenic and Old Lace,” we meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously 'acceptable' roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the antics of their nephews, one a socially prominent drama critic and the other on the lam from an asylum for the criminally insane.

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

A Natchez Christmas Carol
(Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15 2012 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 and 16, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.)

Jacob Marley died seven years ago and left his home and his half of the business to his partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Marley was a stingy old man, and Scrooge happily carries on the tradition. Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone. He doesn't believe in charity, and he is certain that those who do are just lazy bums looking for a handout. Scrooge’s entire life is his Natchez cotton brokerage and bank and he shuts out his nephew who is the only relative he has. Bob Cratchit, his loyal employee, is a free man of color who supports his growing family on Scrooge’s meager wages. Once prosperous Natchez planters and merchants are down on their luck after the War of Recent Unpleasantness and compete with carpet baggers and newly freed slaves for income. Scrooge has profited greatly by repossessing plantations and business alike; putting out war widows and orphans; and taking advantage of newly freed slaves. But Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that if he continues to live his life in such an unchristian way, he will spend all eternity trying to make up for it. Three more ghosts visit Scrooge and show him the errors of his ways. Because of what he sees and learns, Scrooge opens his heart to the people around him and learns charity and love and saves himself from the doom of which Marley warned him.

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
(Jan. 24 -26, 2013 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.)

The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s last play.  It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre January 17, 1904, directed by Constantin Stanislavski.  Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some of elements of farce.  But in the original production Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy.  The Cherry Orchard is considered one of the great plays of modern theatre and early realism.  The roles have been performed by the greatest actors of stage and screen and his been directed by a veritable who’s who of directors.

The story is originally set in late 19th/early 20th century in rural Russia on a great estate famous for its cherry orchard.  This NLT adaptation by Layne Taylor sets Chekhov’s great play on a plantation outside of Natchez, Mississippi, in the 1920s, prior to the Great Depression.  The play concerns an aristocratic woman and her family as they return to the family’s estate just before it is to be auctioned to pay the taxes.  While presented with options to save the estate, the family essentially does nothing.

The play presents themes of cultural futility, both the futility of the aristocracy to maintain its status and the futility of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its newfound materialism.  It is a reflection of the socio-economic forces at work in Russia and the United States at the turn of the 20th century and even today in the 21st century, including the rise of the middle class.  It has been translated into numerous languages and performed all over the world.  The Cherry Orchard is considered a classic of modern drama.

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Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
(Every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday Evening at 8:00 p.m. March 9 - April 9, 2013 and Sunday, April 7th, 2013, at 2:00p.m.)

 It is azalea season in Natchez, Mississippi, and the annual pilgrimage of tourists is swarming through the historic mansions. In Mayweather Hall, Penelope Mayweather, a once beautiful Southern belle, is horrified by the tourists who are led through her home by an energetic guide at fifty cents a head. But the money isn’t enough to keep Penelope from the clutches of those “damn Yankees” down at the bank. Thus when a young author, John Salguod, turns up, she is persuaded to take him in as a roomer. However, it develops that John is visiting under an assumed name because he has written a book banned in Natchez. The locals consider it a gross libel on their way of life, but it is a best-seller everywhere else. Penelope’s frantic efforts to keep him hidden from her neighbors are frustrated when Carol, her soon-to-be-married, pretty young cousin, comes to spend the night. When her parents discover she stayed a second night, scandal looms. The irate parents, blaming Penelope, threaten to take over Mayweather Hall, which they can do by forcing foreclosure through the bank. But meantime John finds Penelope’s diary which she wrote over a period of forty years, giving embarrassing details about most of the town’s citizens. John’s publisher arrives on the first morning of the Pilgrimage and offers Penelope a fabulous sum for her memoirs and Mayweather Hall is out of hock!

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ANNIE
(June 6 - 8 2013 7:30 p.m. June 9, 2013 2:00 p.m.)

Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan.  The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre, now the Neil Simon Theatre.  It won the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book.

Leapin’ Lizards!  The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world’s best-loved musicals.  Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan.  In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

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10th Annual Standing Ovation Awards Gala
(July 13, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.)

Natchez Little Theatre Celebrates the best of it's 6th Season with the 8th Annual Standing Ovation Awards Gala. Live Entertainment, Champaign, Hors D'ouevres, Silent Auction and Awards Ceremony! Come join the Celebration !