Season Announcement
Co-pros and big award-winners dot Stage West's 2024-25 season in Fort Worth
"Fat Ham" ran on Broadway in 2023.
Stage West is continuing its tradition of bringing provocative, award-winning, and of-the-moment plays to Fort Worth, and in 2024-25 it is collaborating on two productions with big-name Dallas theaters to round it all out.
The 46th season is an exciting mix of shows, including a popular cult musical, the return of a sell-out comedy-mystery, and the second of a Sherlock Holmes trilogy. Here’s the lineup:
What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck kicks it all off. The Pulitzer Prize finalist where humor and history collide is making its regional premiere, and audiences should prepare for an interactive experience.
Earnest and polite high schooler Heidi put herself through college by winning debates about the Constitution. Now an adult, she revisits her teenage self to trace the generational impact America’s founding document has had on her life. Civic duty is on full display as this witty and interactive new play builds to a live debate between Heidi and an actual teen, allowing “we the people” to decide how to move forward. It runs October 17-November 3, 2024.
Previously announced as part of WaterTower Theatre's next season, The Play That Goes Wrong returns due to popular demand.
Welcome (back) to the opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to horrible. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), the whole evening is a disastrous smash. Chock-full of mishaps and madcap mania, this classic murder mystery is sure to bring down the house (again!). It runs in Fort Worth November 29-December 22, 2024 (Addison dates are still TBA).
Dallas Theater Center is Stage West's next partner, co-producing Primary Trust in the New Year.
In Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Kenneth lives in a small town in upstate New York. By day, he works at a local bookstore. By night, he sips Mai Tais at his favorite bar with his best friend Bert. But when Kenneth is unexpectedly laid off, the quiet life he knows is thrown into a tailspin as he sets out on a journey of self-discovery. Courage gives way to transformation in this story about old friends, new beginnings, and the good in being there for one another. It runs in Fort Worth January 30-February 16, 2025, and then in Dallas February 27-March 16, 2025.
Uptown Players had a very memorable production in 2015, before the national tour came through DFW in 2017, but now it's Stage West's turn to present John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
From East Berlin to Junction City comes an electric tale of glitter, grit, and gnosis. On a revenge tour across the nation, punk goddess Hedwig Robinson, born Hansel Schmidt, recounts her high-octane journey in search of her other half. With a pulsing rock score, this groundbreaking smash-hit musical triumph is for anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile. It runs March 13-30, 2025.
The second Sherlock Holmes play in David MacGregor's trilogy is Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé.
It’s the eve of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee but her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, and French chef Auguste Escoffier have just turned up at 221B Baker Street in the thick of scandal and blackmail. Royal vice, priceless gems, and gourmet food abound in this new action-packed whodunit. Noted sleuth Sherlock Holmes reunites with his beloved Irene Adler and his partner Dr. Watson for their tastiest and most bizarre case yet. It runs June 12-29, 2025.
The season concludes with another Pulitzer Prize winner, James Ijames' Fat Ham.
Described as the savory, southern, Shakespearean remix you’ve been craving, this adaptation of Hamlet ran on Broadway in 2023.
Juicy’s got a lot on his plate — his mom just married his uncle. All he wants is to make his own way as a queer Black man in a Southern family. But here’s the rub: His father’s ghost just turned up at a backyard barbecue demanding vengeance. In this delicious and sizzling reinvention of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, a young man vows to break the cycles of violence in service of his own liberation and joy. It runs August 28-September 14, 2025.
Season tickets are on sale now, with single tickets available at a later date. For more information, call Stage West at 817-784-9378 or go online at www.stagewest.org.
