2025 Season
January
Pop up Blackbox: A Night of One Acts 2025
“I Think You Think You Love Me” by Kelly Younger
“Lockdown” by Douglas Craven
“Bake Off” by Sheri Wilner
Venue:
Warehouse14 – 14 East Ohio Avenue Mount Vernon OH 43050
January 10-12, 2025
Public Performances:
Friday, January 10, 7:30pm; Saturday, January 11, 7:30pm; Sunday, January 12, 2:00pm
Tickets:
General admission $10
FEBRUARY / MARCH
Disney’s Beauty and The Beast JR
Title sponsor:
Ariel Corporation
Event sponsors:
Knox County Foundation
Classroom Connection in partnership with Knox ESC
Venue:
Knox Memorial Theatre – 112 East High Street Mount Vernon OH 43050
Feb. 28-March 2, 2025
The Award-winning animated film and stage play comes to life in this 60-minute romantic and beloved take on the classic fairy tale.
MAY
SOMERSET TAVERN
Classroom Connection in partnership with Knox ESC
An original work by Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Mark Epstein
Sponsor:
Venue:
The Woodward Opera House – 107 S. Main Street, Mount Vernon, OH
May 2-11, 2025
In a faraway time in colonial America, before there were theaters or courthouses, the Somerset Tavern served as both. A troupe of actors is accused of treason for a play staged there; by chance their trial for the capital offense convenes in the same tavern, owned by Bridget Brighton, a young woman of mixed race. The traveling Judge, Aubrey Draw, and Bridget were lovers once but have not met in ten years.
Most of the actors have escaped, but Judge Draw insists that the two remaining perform the play so he can rule on the evidence. The old actor playwright, Roland Bannister, and his young protege, Morgan Nightingale, perform a farcical version of their play that is poetic allegory, perplexing the Judge as well as a young lawyer, Edgar Weathervane, who witnessed the play and is obsessed with getting a conviction. The kindly Bridget is equally obsessed with freeing these innocent men. The conflict between them, and her ongoing romance with the Judge set the stage for exciting reversals, high-jinks, revelations, and an astonishing resolution.
SEPTEMBER
TO BE DETERMINED
Classroom Connection in partnership with Knox ESC
Title Sponsor:
Venue:
Knox Memorial Theatre, 112 East High St MV OH
