The Paul Bunyan Playhouse 2024 Season is coming!
1) All ticket sales are final. No refunds, exchanges, or price adjustments.**
2) Please check your tickets to confirm the day, date, and time of your seats.
3) All purchases are subject to $2 per ticket handling fee.
**Season Ticket holders will be allowed to exchange tickets for another performance of the same show with 24 hour or greater notice. Excludes tickets purchased with Flex Passes.
2) Please check your tickets to confirm the day, date, and time of your seats.
3) All purchases are subject to $2 per ticket handling fee.
**Season Ticket holders will be allowed to exchange tickets for another performance of the same show with 24 hour or greater notice. Excludes tickets purchased with Flex Passes.
2024 Season Lineup
• The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - July 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - July 14, 17
One of the most clever comedies by one of the greatest writers in the English language, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST introduces us to Jack and Algernon, two charming bachelors who are each living a double life, aided by a fictional alter ego called “Ernest.” But when they fall truly in love with a pair of proper young women, will they be able to bring an end to the charade and convince the formidable Lady Bracknell that they are suitable candidates for marriage? After all, “the one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
•The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - July 25, 26, 27 and August 1, 2, 3
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - July 28, 31
Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing-lodge holiday in the Deep South of America, and to avoid being pestered by the locals pretends that he is a foreigner who speaks no English. This leads him to becoming involved, at first unwillingly, in bizarre goings-on featuring a corrupt preacher, his pregnant girl-friend, her none-too-bright kid brother and the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan! The London production of this play starred Nicholas Lyndhurst.
•The Pirates of Penzance
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Book and Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - August 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - August 11, 14
Set against the backdrop of Cornwall’s coastline, The Pirates of Penzance is a comedic operetta that revolves around a young man mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates due to a communication mix-up. As he completes his term with the pirates, he yearns for love and an honorable life. After humorous encounters with a group of young women and a crafty ruse involving the pirates’ soft spot for orphans, a surprising revelation about the young man’s true apprenticeship commitment is unveiled. Enjoy unexpected twists and a heartwarming resolution that touches on loyalty, duty, and societal expectations.
by Oscar Wilde
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - July 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - July 14, 17
One of the most clever comedies by one of the greatest writers in the English language, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST introduces us to Jack and Algernon, two charming bachelors who are each living a double life, aided by a fictional alter ego called “Ernest.” But when they fall truly in love with a pair of proper young women, will they be able to bring an end to the charade and convince the formidable Lady Bracknell that they are suitable candidates for marriage? After all, “the one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
•The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - July 25, 26, 27 and August 1, 2, 3
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - July 28, 31
Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing-lodge holiday in the Deep South of America, and to avoid being pestered by the locals pretends that he is a foreigner who speaks no English. This leads him to becoming involved, at first unwillingly, in bizarre goings-on featuring a corrupt preacher, his pregnant girl-friend, her none-too-bright kid brother and the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan! The London production of this play starred Nicholas Lyndhurst.
•The Pirates of Penzance
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Book and Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Evening Shows: 7:30 pm - August 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17
Matinee Shows: 2:00 pm - August 11, 14
Set against the backdrop of Cornwall’s coastline, The Pirates of Penzance is a comedic operetta that revolves around a young man mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates due to a communication mix-up. As he completes his term with the pirates, he yearns for love and an honorable life. After humorous encounters with a group of young women and a crafty ruse involving the pirates’ soft spot for orphans, a surprising revelation about the young man’s true apprenticeship commitment is unveiled. Enjoy unexpected twists and a heartwarming resolution that touches on loyalty, duty, and societal expectations.
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