SEASON 13 - “ALL IN THE FAMILY”
The Fantasticks | A Delicate Balance| Fat Ham | The Dying Gaul | At the Wedding
2024–2025
“This season we are celebrating and exploring stories about families. We all have them! Some of them by birth, others by choice. Some we love and some we hate. Some we can’t stand to be with and others we can’t live without. Some are close and some are so distant we forget where they are. The point is, we can all relate to these stories, whether we or the characters on stage identify as LGBTQ+ or not, because we all have families. These plays explore the ways in which families express their love, through song and conflict, manipulation and fear, grand gestures and intimate moments.” Andy Rogow, Artistic Director
October 17 – November 17, 2024
The Fantasticks
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Andy Rogow
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Experience The Fantasticks like never before. The longest running musical worldwide has been given an extraordinary update by its original book writer, Tom Jones. This new LGBTQ+ rewrite now features two young gay men, Matt and Lewis (and their mothers), as the central story exploring first love and self discovery.
Join us as we are only the third theatre in the country to perform this all-new version featuring memorable songs such as "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain".
“I had great fun doing it. I hope people have great fun viewing it.” – Tom Jones
TICKETS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Matinees — $43
Saturday & Sunday Performances — $48
Mimosa Sunday, October 27 — $55 | Sponsored by Dr. Deborah Floyd
2 HOURS 30 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION
January 16 – February 9, 2025
Edward Albee’s
A Delicate Balance
Directed by Michael Leeds
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As relevant today as ever, Albee won his first Pulitzer Prize for this provocative work. Wealthy, middle-aged couple Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends, appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless “fear” has forced them from their own home, these neighbors bring a firestorm of doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsetting the “delicate balance” of Agnes and Tobias’ household.
In another first for Island City Stage, this will be the first play we have produced with no gay characters, though Albee's voice throughout speaks from an intensely gay perspective.
TICKETS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Matinees — $43
Saturday & Sunday Performances — $48
Mimosa Sunday, January 26 — $55 Sponsored by
Women’s Night -
2 HOURS 40 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION
April 3 – May 4, 2025
In partnership with Brevo Theatre and GableStage
Fat Ham
by James Ijames
A South Florida Premiere!
Co-producer: The Warten Foundation
It’s Hamlet, but with barbeque and disco! Swapping a Danish castle for a Southern BBQ pit, Fat Ham remakes Shakespeare’s story of murder and revenge into something hilarious and profound. Juicy, a black queer Southern kid, has a lot on his plate already when his father’s ghost shows up, demanding vengeance. As generations clash at the family’s backyard barbeque, Juicy must face the legacies of violence he’s been raised with and shape the man he wants to be. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.
This historic partnership between three theatre companies is made possible through major funding from the Warten Foundation.
“Hilarious yet profound …” – The New York Times
TICKETS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Matinees — $43
Saturday & Sunday Performances — $48
Mimosa Sunday, April 13 — $55 | Sponsored by
1 HOUR 35 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION
May 22 – June 15, 2025
The Dying Gaul
by Craig Lucas
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Playwright Craig Lucas, whose most familiar work is “Prelude to a Kiss”, has written a modern American tragedy pivoting on the dramatic potential of the Internet - a blank slate where one can pretend to be anyone, though not without consequence. Lucas has written a story of uncommon emotional depth and subtlety in which failed redemption curdles into revenge. With breathtaking speed, our protagonist is caught in a love triangle with a powerful, ruthless and rapacious film producer and his fascinating but woefully under stimulated wife; and the anonymous internet chat room where he visits to find comfort and sex becomes a haunting nightmare that ignites a shocking finale.
TICKETS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Matinees — $43
Saturday & Sunday Performances — $48
Mimosa Sunday, June 1 — $55 | Sponsored by
2 HOURS 20 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION
August 21 – September 14, 2025
At The Wedding
by Bryna Turner
Co-producer: Sue Wilder
You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else's life… but what if it's also the worst day of yours? Follow Carlo as she navigates the highs and lows of attending her ex’s wedding to a man while dealing with her own heartbreak. Can she make it through the night without drinking too much, talking too much, or trying to win back the bride? This laugh-out-loud play tackles big issues with humor and heart and if for anyone who has ever attended a wedding... or had their heart broken.
TICKETS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Matinees — $43
Saturday & Sunday Performances — $48
Mimosa Sunday, August 31 — $55 | Sponsored by
75 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION