Cape May STAGE
Where Is It? The Robert Shackleton Playhouse on Bank and Lafayette.
Why Should I Go? Welcome to Cape May Stage’s 35th season. As Cape May’s premier professional theater, we invite you to join us as we present award-winning plays that will entertain you, make you feel, make you think, all while enjoying an intimate theatrical experience in the historic Robert Shackleton Playhouse.
Cape May City is on an island and, for the past two years, many have felt secluded with mask mandates and fears of travel due to the pandemic. And yet, the theater offers a balm for us to experience our humanity as we gather to laugh and cry and think “as part of the main.” This season, each play deals with how others shape our lives, whether it's through friendships, through work relationships or as lovers. All of the offerings this season are comedies in a time when everyone could all use a laugh in a precarious world. So welcome to Cape May Stage where all can celebrate what Shakespeare observed: “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact."
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, Directed by Roy Steinberg
June 8 — July 2: A Liverpool housewife’s best friend wins a competition for a trip for two to Greece and she embarks on a life-changing adventure. This romantic comedy won both the Olivier and Tony Awards and was adapted into a film in 1989. Called a “joyful, captivating piece of theater” by The New York Daily News, this one-woman play is a must see! age guide 16+
Art by Yasmina Rez, Directed by Roy Steinberg
July 19 — August 27: Set in Paris, this Tony Award-winning play focuses on the meaning of art and friendship. The art is a solid white painting, and friendships between the man who bought the painting and his two friends who come to see it are put to the test. This comedic play features a battle of wits and words between the trio as they grapple with age-old questions about art, relationships, and themselves. age guide 13+
The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle, Directed by Roy Steinberg
September 13 — October 22: This unconventional buddy comedy follows first-time sanitation worker Marlowe and lifer Danny in the cab of a 19-ton garbage truck in NYC. Marlowe is a black, Ivy League-educated newbie learning the ropes from Danny, a white blue-collar mansplainer. Tasked with picking up what the world has discarded, they learn there’s more that binds them than just picking up the trash. age guide 13+
A Tuna Christmas by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, Directed by Roy Steinberg
November 15 — December 30: Spend the holidays in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas! With 22 characters, dozens of costume changes, and just two actors, this play is a fun-filled, satirical look inside the workings of a small town at Christmas. Narrated by Arles and Thurston who keep you up on all the local news from their 275-watt radio station, it follows the Yuletide festivities of the delightfully eccentric cast of characters in the third smallest town in Texas. age guide 10+
The 2022 Broadway Series
These one night only events feature stellar musical talent from Broadway & Beyond...
Carol J. Bufford — June 3 at 7pm
Mary Testa — July 31 at 7pm
Amanda McBroom — September 25 at 7pm
Website: capemaystage.org
Phone: 609-770-8311
Address: 405 Lafayette Street, Cape May
