“Dedication”
The 2024-2025 Season
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
by Heidi Schreck
Directed by Maegan McNerney Azar
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Nominee for Best Play.
This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
October 31 - November 10, HHPS Main Street Theater
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Adapted by Matt Mundy from Charles Dickens
Directed by Blake White
A brand-new take on the standard—home grown, faithful to the source material, and adapted in a way only Lean Ensemble Theater can do it. While five actors take you through Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas, Lean takes you on a holiday journey that will not only remind you to hold your loved one tightly, but also why this tale remains a completely fresh classic.
December 12 - 22, HHPS Main Street Theater
SUMMER, 1976
by David Auburn
Directed by Maggie Kettering
A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.
January 16 - 26, HHSO SoundWaves
SKELETON CREW
by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Katherine LeRoy-Lawson
Tony Nominee for Best Play.
At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams a reality. Power dynamics shift as everyone is torn between doing right by their family, and by the red tape in their office.
March 20 - 30, HHPS Main Street Theater
MASTER CLASS
by Terrence McNally
Directed by Whitaker Gannon
Tony Award Winner for Best Play.
Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience: us. She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life—and drop-dead funny. Callas’ “victims” include a ridiculous, overly perky soprano, a tenor, who moves Callas to tears and finally another soprano— a young singer who has talent, which is not always enough. Callas brings the class to a close by reminding us of the sacrifices that must be made for the sake of great art.
May 15 - 25, HHPS Main Street Theater
