September 13, 2025
2025/2026 Theater Season Auditions
Local Casting Call
The North Street Playhouse is kicking off our 2025/2026 season with local auditions for performers ages 16 and up!
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: 34 Market Street, Onancock, VA 23417
What to Prepare for Your Audition:
• A 1-minute monologue (required)
• Optional: 16 bars of a song of your choice (musical theater, contemporary, or classical welcome)
How to Reserve Your Audition Slot:
Email your name, age, and contact information to northstreettickets@gmail.com to secure your audition time.
This is a great opportunity for local actors, singers, and performers to be part of our 40th Anniversary Season! Join The NSP family!
We can’t wait to see you at the theater!
Sept. 26 & 27, 2025
Educating Rita
by Willy Russell
Featuring
Unique Bailey & Sean Thomas
Performances
Friday, September 26, 2025 at 7:00pm
Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 7:00pm
Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn. After weeks of cajoling, Rita slowly wins over the very hesitant Frank with her innate insight and refusal to accept no for an answer. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms, ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the knowledge she so craves. The play became a hit film in 1983 starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters.
General Admission $15.00
**All tickets are general seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
October 10, 2025
Open House
Join us on Friday, October 10, 2025 during Onancock's 2nd Friday event!
Time: 4:00pm-8:30pm
Theater Tours!
Cash Bar!
We look forward to seeing you at the theater!
October - TBA
Student Auditions
Student Auditions Student Auditions will be held early in October for our production of 'Elf The Musical Jr.'
More information coming soon!
October 24 & 25, 2025
Haunted asylum
October 24 & 25, 2025
Tours start at 5:00pm
Recommended for ages 12+ with fun activities in the lobby!
Ages 13-17 must have parental signature.
Ages 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Are you brave enough to enter?
Join us on a haunted tour of The North Street Playhouse.
You never know what’s around the corner.
Entrance Fee $10 at the door
Nov. 15-16 & 20-23, 2025
Incorruptible
written by Michael Hollinger
A dark comedy about the dark ages!
Performances
Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 7:00pm
Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 2:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2025 at 7:00pm
Saturday, November 21, 2025 at 7:00pm
Sunday, November 22, 2025 at 2:30pm
Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D.: The river flooded again last week. The chandler’s shop just burned to the ground. Nobody’s heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Saint Foy, the patron of the local monastery, hasn’t worked a miracle in thirteen years. In other words, the Dark Ages still look pretty dark. All eyes turn to the Pope, whose promised visit will surely encourage other pilgrims to make the trek and restore the abbey to its former glory. That is, until a rival church claims to possess the relics of Saint Foy—and “their” bones are working miracles. All seems lost until the destitute monks take a lesson from a larcenous one-eyed minstrel, who teaches them an outrageous new way to pay old debts.
Tickets: $25 Adults/Seniors & $10 Students
* Tickets go on sale October 20, 2025!
**All tickets are reserved seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
December 5-7, 2025
The Eastern Shore
Madrigal Singers
Holiday Program
The Eastern Shore Madrigal Singers will be presenting their legendary Holiday program at the Playhouse. As many of their fans have noted in the past, the Christmas season starts for them with the Madrigals’ rendition of favorite carols and songs.
Performances
Friday, December 5, 2025 at 7:30pm
Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 7:30pm
Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 2:30pm
Tickets: $10 Students & $25 Adults/Seniors
*Tickets go on sale November 10, 2025!
*Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.*
December 13, 2025
Breakfast With Elves!
A fun family event!
December 13, 2025
Time: 10am-1pm
An Elf Approved Breakfast!
Games!
Face Painting!
...and other Christmas shenanigans!!!
December 19-21, 2025
Elf The Musical Jr.
Book by Thomas Meehan & Bob Martin Music by Matthew Sklar Lyrics by Chad Beguelin Based on the New Line Cinema film written by David Berenbaum
Performances
Friday, December 19, 2025 at 7:00pm
Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 7:00pm
Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 2:30pm
Buddy, a young orphan, mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported to the North Pole. The would-be elf is raised, unaware that he is actually a human, until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa's permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father and discover his true identity. Faced with the harsh reality that his father is on the naughty list and that his half-brother doesn't even believe in Santa, Buddy is determined to win over his new family and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas.
General Admission: $15.00
*Tickets go on sale November 24!
*Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.*
January 23 & 24, 2025
Chase the Winter Blues with…
a “Starry” Night at North Street…
Over the years we’ve been fortunate to have many wonderfully talented singers in a variety of great musicals, from “Crowns” to “Pump Boys and Dinettes” to “Beehive,” “Bark,” and, most recently, “Long Beach Blanket Bingo.” For everyone who saw some or all of these shows and have favorite performances, or missed them and wish you hadn’t….. have we got a show for you! Join us for an evening of some of your favorite singers singing some of the songs that made you love them!
Performances
Friday, January 23, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 7:00pm
Tickets $15 general admission
*Tickets go on sale December 29, 2025!
**All tickets are general seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
Feb. 20-22 &
Feb.27-Mar. 1, 2026
PuRLIE VICTORIOUS
by OSSIE DAVIS
Dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community’s church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, Purlie hopes to pry loose from Cotchipee an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to achieve his goals. Fortunately, Cotchipee’s son Charlie proves to be far more fair-minded than his brutal father, saving the church from destruction with a brave act of defiance.
Performances
Friday, February 20, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 2:30pm
Friday, February 27, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 2:30pm
Tickets: $10 Students & $25 Adults/Seniors
*Tickets go on sale January 26, 2026!
**All tickets are reserved seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
March 20 & 21, 2026
BINGO NIGHT!
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!
March 20 & 21, 2026 at 7:00pm
*Tickets go on sale February 23, 2026!
Tickets: $15 (admission includes bingo boards!)
april 3 & 4, 2026
KALAMAZOO
written by Michelle Kholos Brooks and Kelly Younger
Performances
Friday, April 3, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 7:00pm
Peg and Irv, two quirky but endearing baby-boomers, bravely venture into the world of modern dating. But when these opposites attract, they discover love isn’t any easier the second time around. KALAMAZOO is a romantic comedy about life’s second act and learning you’re never too old to be young.
Tickets: $15 General Admission
*Tickets go on sale March 9, 2026!
**All tickets are general seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
May 8-10 & 15-17, 2026
RUMORS
A Farce
written by Neil Simon
Performances
Friday, May 8, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 2:30pm
Friday, May 15, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 2:30pm
At a large, tastefully-appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though it's only a flesh wound, Charlie Brock's self-inflicted injury sets off a series of events causing four couples to experience a severe attack of farce. As their tenth wedding anniversary party commences, Charlie lies bleeding in another room, and his wife Myra is nowhere in sight. The first guests, lawyer Ken Gorman and his wife Chris, scramble to get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
Tickets: $10 Students & $25 Adults/Seniors
*Tickets go on sale April 14, 2026!
**All tickets are reserved seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
June 6, 2026
The North Street Playhouse’s
40th anniversary Party
Save the Date!
June 6, 2026
June 15-19, 2026
June 22-26, 2026
Two Week Summer Musical Theatre Camp
Legally Blonde The Musical Jr.
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin
Book by Heather Hach
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture.
CAMP DATES:
June 15-19, 2026 (9:30am-4:00pm Mon.-Fri.)
June 22-26, 2026 (9:30am-4:00pm Mon.-Fri.)
*Camp registration opens Monday, February 2, 2026*
Performances:
Friday, June 26, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 2:30pm & 7:00pm
Tickets: $15 General Admission
*Tickets go on sale June 15, 2026!
Co-directed by Mary A. Stiegelbauer & Mel Walker
Music Direction by Natasha Smoot
Choreographed by Mary A. Stiegelbauer
Legally Blonde JR. follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. When Elle's boyfriend, Warner, dumps her and heads to Harvard, claiming she's not "serious" enough, Elle takes matters into her own hands, crafting a showy song-and-dance personal essay and charming her way into law school. Befriending classmate, Emmett, and spunky hairdresser, Paulette, along the way, Elle finds that books and looks aren't mutually exclusive. As Elle begins outsmarting her peers, she realizes that law may be her natural calling after all.
To sign up email: northstreetplayhouse@gmail.com: Student Name, Age, Parent/Guardian Name, Preferred Email, Preferred Phone Number.
Camp Tuition: $250.00 for 2 weeks
(limited scholarships available)
To sign up email: northstreetplayhouse@gmail.com
Student Name
Age
Parent/Guardian
Phone
*Camp registration opens Monday, February 2, 2026*
July 2026
World Premiere
It's On!
The TV Theme Song Musical
Conceived by Stan Zimmerman
Written by Stan Zimmerman & Christian McLaughlin
Performances
July 2026
Ever dreamed of being the star of your own sitcom with your own theme song? This may be your chance! IT’S ON! is the simple love story of two young songwriters who are hired to write the theme song for YOUR show, assisted by a veteran ‘jingle’ singer of some 200 previous sitcom themes , an aged-out Disney channel star, and his over the top “momanger,” While the musical score for their story may not include soaring strings, it does include the theme songs from dozens of recent TV shows! There are bound to be several of your favorites among them that you never heard quite this way! You’ll probably be tempted to sing along…
Reserved Seating: $10 Students & $25 Adult/Senior
**All tickets are reserved seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.
Curtains
Book and Additional Lyrics by Rupert Holmes
Music and Additional Lyrics by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Original Book and Concept by Peter Stone
Performances
Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 7:00pm
Friday, August 14, 2026 at 7:00pm
Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 2:30pm
CURTAINS is a delightful and suspenseful musical comedy, featuring a Golden Age-style score by the legendary songwriting duo John Kander & Fred Ebb, the creative minds behind Cabaret and Chicago. With a sharp, witty book by Rupert Holmes, CURTAINS combines the best elements of classic Broadway with a clever whodunit twist that will keep audiences laughing and guessing until the very end. Set in the brassy, bright, and promising year of 1959, Boston’s Colonial Theatre is playing host to the opening night performance of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies on stage… the entire cast and crew are suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan!
Tickets: $25 Adults/Seniors & $10 Students
**All tickets are general seating. Tickets can only be purchased online, or, as available, at the door prior to each performance. Please check for ticket availability and other information at the box office telephone number, 757-787-2050. The box office will open 1 hour before each performance.