The Blue Slipper Theatre is excited to announce our 2026-2027 season!

The new season includes four shows filled with thoughtful drama and delightful comedy. They range from a classic based on a play by Sophocles (which is nearly 2500 years old but is still incredibly relevant today), to a new play (less than 10 years old) that takes a stark look at the messed up world that we are leaving to our children. Add to that two stories that mix in plenty of comedy with their dramatic elements and have been done in the form of plays, musicals, and, in the case of one of them as a movie (we’ll be doing the plays) and you have a season that will touch all of us in meaningful ways. That is the power of theatre and we look forward to having you join us on the journey.

The four shows are described below. Take a look and then click the button to buy your season tickets! Season tickets are $70 for adults and $55 for seniors and students. A couple of perks: season ticket holders can reserve their seats for each show a week before they go on sale to the general public and, if you purchase your season tickets online, we will cover the online fee! (On the ticket site, ignore the October 11 date. That is simply when season ticket sales end.)

“Whoever is not for us is against us.” The sequel to the tragic tale of Oedipus, Antigone dramatizes the elemental question between private loyalties and a citizen’s responsibility to the state as depicted by the conflict between Antigone, Oedipus’ daughter, and Creon, the King of Thebes. Creon has forbidden a proper burial to Oedipus’s son Polynices, whom he has decreed a traitor. Antigone openly disobeys Creon’s command in order to honor the traditions of her ancestors by burying her brother. Ignoring the opinion of his confidants, Creon persists in his harsh punishment of Antigone until it is too late to avert personal and state tragedy.

Set on the English east coast, Hazel and Robin sit in their kitchen, both intelligent, retired nuclear physicists, now living a dull life with their four children now grown. Rose is there, a former friend, after 38 years and time spent in America – and both women have always shared an affection for Robin. Two backstories emerge, one from many years ago, and one more recent. The cottage they are in is just outside an exclusion zone, set up when a local power plant delivered the same results seen in Chernobyl. Will the fallout be more of a concern that troubles amongst these old friend? A drama with many comic moments that poses many important questions.

Kimberly is a lonely 16-year-old suffering from a disease that causes her to age at more than four times the normal rate, trapping her inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. She meets Jeff, another misfit at her school, and the two form an attachment to one another that borders on attraction. Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.

When Annie’s husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women’s Institute members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their newfound fame. Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest-selling play in British theatre history.