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Current Season

Lycoming College Theatre Department 2024-2025 Season

All productions begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary L. Welch Theatre.

Purchase Tickets

Ticket sales begin three weeks before opening night. Ticket sales for "Rumors" begin Wednesday, March 19.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Directed by Matt Ripa
November 13-16, 2024

How do you spell fun? "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!" This Tony Award-winning musical is a comedic celebration of eccentricity and the quirks that make everyone unique. Follow the journey of six adolescents competing in a regional spelling bee as they navigate the pressures of competition, while revealing their hopes, fears, and unique personalities. Prepare to be spellbound by the charm and hilarity of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."

Girl in the Red Corner

By Stephen Spotswood
Directed by Matt Ripa
February 26-March 1, 2025

Unemployed, fresh off a dead-end marriage, and searching for a way to take control of her life, Halo walks into a gym and signs up for mixed martial arts lessons. Her trainer thinks she’s a light-weight. Her mother and sister think it’s just plain weird. Very quickly the lessons she learns in the ring bleed into the rest of her life and Halo finds herself battling against everyone around her. As she prepares for her first match, Halo realizes that life inside the cage and outside the cage are disturbingly similar. And that the only way to survive either is to fight.

Rumors

By Neil Simon
Directed by Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian
April 9-12, 2025

In Neil Simon’s hilarious farce, four New York power couples arrive at the 10th anniversary celebration party for a deputy mayor and his wife, only to find the mayor with a superficial bullet wound and his wife missing. In their attempt to cover up a potential scandal, the characters entangle themselves in a web of outrageous rumors and misunderstandings that will keep you laughing and thoroughly entertained. Would we ever know what really happened?