Our 2025 Season Main Stage Shows!
The Candlelight Theatre has more exciting news. In late spring 2025, we will upgrade the old barn. It will take 4 - 6 weeks, so we are only producing 5 shows in 2025. We can’t wait to tell you more about our plans!
SOMETHING ROTTEN
January 18 – February 23, 2025
Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, SOMETHING ROTTEN! Two brothers set out to write the world’s first musical in this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten! garnered 10 Tony nominations and was lauded by audience and critics alike as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years.”
BRIGHT STAR
March 15 – April 19, 2025
An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, BRIGHT STAR is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful. Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s.
ESCAPE to MARGARITAVILLE
July 12 – August 24, 2025
Set your mind to island time and ESCAPE to MARGARITAVILLE! Featuring your favorite Jimmy Buffett classics with book by Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley, Margaritaville tells the story of Tully, a smooth-talking singer/bartender whose laidback, no-strings-attached lifestyle is turned upside down when he falls for Rachel, an environmental scientist visiting the island. This hilarious, heartwarming musical is the party you’ve been waiting for!
RAGTIME
September 13 - October 26, 2025
It’s the dawn of the 20th century in New York and everything is possible. Three uniquely American tales are woven together and united by their shared belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history’s timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair… and what it means to live in the “land of opportunity.” Nominated for an astounding 13 Tonys and written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and noted playwright Terrence McNally, RAGTIME is based on E.L. Doctorow’s distinguished novel of the same name.
CHRISTMAS by CANDLELIGHT
November 15 – December 21, 2025
There’s no place like home for the holidays so we are thrilled to welcome you “home” to the barn for our heartwarming celebration of the yuletide season back by popular demand. Featuring some of your favorite seasonal and sacred tunes, as well as some new surprises, brought to life by some of your favorite Candlelighters. CHRISTMAS by CANDLELIGHT has been consistently voted Best Musical by our subscribers and is not to be missed.
