Mainstage Summary

Here at the "Barn" we are celebrating our 46th anniversary providing quality live theater to Ridgefield and the surrounding communities. Our heated, air-conditioned theater offers a comfortable, intimate setting with cabaret seating for most events. We have handicap accessible restrooms and a comfortable reception gallery on the main level. Doors open one hour prior to curtain and seating is cabaret style with our audience members invited to bring their food and beverage of choice to enjoy before the show and during intermission.

All Mainstage shows are cabaret style. Doors open one hour prior to curtain and audiences are invited to bring their own food and beverages to enjoy before the show and during intermission. Tickets will be available on-line. Seating is reserved with tables assigned upon arrival at the theater. If you have handicapped seating requirements or wish to be seated with another party, please use our "SEATING REQUEST" option. If you prefer, you may email us at info@ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org or call us at 203-431-9850.

No time for dinner? Order BARN PICNICS from participating local restaurants. Each of our sponsoring restaurants provides a little 'something extra' for our patrons who use their take-out service to bring dinner to a Theater Barn event.

Again this season, we will offer coffee, tea, and bottled water at all main stage performances. The coffee and tea will be available in do-it-yourself individual servings before the show and during intermission. A donation of $1 is requested for each serving to offset our costs.

While this season is only half over, we are already planning for the next one.... CLICK HERE to get a preview of our 2012-13 season!

The Norman Conquests ~ Round & Round the Garden

Written by Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Debbie Levin

September 9th - October 1st, 2011
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on September 18th & 25th at 5 pm

Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20

The 'garden variety' of Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious trilogy of plays, The Norman Conquests, recounts the incorrigible Norman's quest to bring happiness to the women in his life through romance....with him! Wildly comic and at times sweetly poignant, we meet the irritating but somehow irresistible Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sara, Ruth's sister Annie and her would-be suitor, Tom, in a fast-paced, roller-coaster of British comedy. The Norman Conquests won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play as well as several 2009 Drama Desk Awards.

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Written by George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Larry Schneider

November 18th - December 10th, 2011
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on November 27th & December 4th at 2 pm

Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20

Young, Cambridge-educated Vivie Warren may be financially independent and live in considerable comfort, but it’s her independent spirit and joie de vivre that drive her to want to be a success in her own right. That sumptuous comfort is provided courtesy of her distant mother, Kitty, a rags-to-riches success in a secretive business who travels the world and has seen little of her daughter. When Mrs. Warren arrives for an infrequent visit and announces plans to renew her relationship with her daughter, Vivie uncovers more than she bargained for. One revelation after another creates twists and turns that upset the daily decorum of life for the highly principled and unsentimental Vivie. A supporting cast of scoundrels and scallywags provide the sparks that climax in a series of spectacular familial fireworks.

NUTS

Written by Tom Topor

Directed by Sherry Asch

June 1st - June 23rd, 2012
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on June 10th & 17th at 5 pm

AUDITIONS: March 18 & 19

Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20

SEATING

A Broadway hit, Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a high-priced call girl incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent "john". The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physicians and her parents unfolds, with her psyche and childhood dissected, she must prove that she isn't "nuts," but legally sane to stand trial for manslaughter.