2025 – 2026 season
The Book Club Play, 2025
Home, I’m Darling
by Laura Wade
Judy and Johnny have the perfect 1950s marriage in their perfect 1950s suburban house in England. Life is ordered just right.
Or is it?
As the edges of their perfect life start to unravel, it turns out that being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks. It’s a fizzy comedic drama dolled up in a gingham house dress with some hard truths to tell about tradwifery.
August 15 – September 6
The Language Archive
by Julia Cho
George is a linguist who races to document endangered languages, but he doesn’t know how to save his own marriage. Mary finds language inadequate, and looks for another way to express herself. Emma tries to learn a new language to connect with her soulmate. And into this triangle walk Alta and Resten, the last two living speakers of their people’s once thriving tongue.
Maybe nobody is great at communicating in any language. But once in a lifetime, if we’re lucky, we find a way to get our true feelings across.
October 10 – November 1
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley
by Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Over the last two holiday seasons we’ve met four of the Bennet sisters – Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, and Lydia – and we’ve cried and laughed with them as they navigate challenges, setbacks, misunderstandings, and happy outcomes over a few busy days leading up to the Christmas of 1815.
But there’s one sister we’ve been waiting to meet – the bright, amiable Kitty – plus the truly accomplished young woman who has come to be her best friend, Mr. Darcy’s sister Georgiana. Now they get their own story, and it’s no spoiler to say that they will have to overcome both pride and prejudice to achieve long-overdue recognition, independence, and lasting happiness with truly complementary young gentlemen. Don’t miss the final play in the beloved Christmas at Pemberley trilogy.
November 28 – December 20
Fly by Night
a musical by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, & Kim Rosenstock
1965, New York City (with the occasional detour to Hill City, South Dakota): a star-crossed prophecy leads two charming sisters, a luckless sandwich maker, and an eclectic cast of lovable characters inexorably towards the fateful November night when a historic blackout plunged the entire Northeast into darkness. There’s a lot of music. Just not a lot of light.
We’re excited to partner with the Rapid City Arts Council to present Fly by Night at the Dahl Arts Center!
February 13 – 21
The Squirrels
by Robert Askins
A changing environment, a rising tide of desperate refugees, artificial scarcity: a fruitful setting for drama anytime, anywhere. Imagine a classic revenge tragedy complete with forbidden love, whispered treachery, bloody combat, and… nut puns? Give the characters fluffy tails, and you have The Squirrels.
March 27 – April 18
Poor Clare
by Chiara Atik
It’s AD 1211, and eighteen-year-old Clare lives with her family in Assisi. They live comfortably, but they’re not, like, rich, you know? She’s happy enough until she meets this boy Francis who is like, against the idea of rich people and poor people? Which is weird – like, what does that even mean? And he’s started this bizarre ministry without getting any kind of permission from anybody, and the bishop is not at all happy with him. Nobody is, really.
But what if he’s right?