Laughter, Mystery, Music, and Joy

Previewing TheatreSquared’s Ambitious 2023-24 Season

TheatreSquared (T2) has announced their highly anticipated 2023-2024 season.

“It’s big,” said T2 Artistic Director Robert Ford at the theatre’s season recent unveiling event. “It’s our most ambitious season yet, and it’s filled with the kinds of experiences that will have you leaving the theatre with a bounce in your step. There’s so much comedy, love, intrigue – and a throughline of joy.” reimagines how this living document served four generations of women and what it will mean for the future of America.

The season begins with the play that inspired the classic Alfred Hitchcock crime thriller: Dial M For Murder (Aug. 16 to thru Sept. 10), written by Frederick Knott and newly adapted by Jefferey Hatcher. Tony Wendice married his wife for her money. Now he plans to kill her for it. In this brand-new, edge-of-your-seat adaptation full of forbidden romance, blackmail and betrayal, will he get away with it – or will Scotland Yard’s best detective crack the case?

Next up is Lauren Yee’s critically acclaimed new play with music, Cambodian Rock Band, (Feb. 28 thru March 24), an intimate rock epic. Backed by a live band playing contemporary Dengue Fever hits and classic Cambodian oldies, this darkly funny, electric new play tells the story of a father who escaped a murderous regime to return home after 30 years in search of his wayward daughter.

“We’re incredibly grateful for the rich partnership we’ve developed through the years with Butterfield Trail Village and are humbled by the applause worthy support of the over 250 Butterfield residents and Carriage Club members who subscribe, donate, and believe in the work of the theatre.”

– Robert Ford

Next up is The Band’s Visit (Oct. 11 thru Nov. 5), the winner of ten 2018 Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, as well as a Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album – music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses. In a town way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrives lost, out of the blue, and in the wrong town. Under the spell of the desert sky and with beautiful music filling the air, the band brings the town to life in unexpected and tantalizing ways.

Then, for the holidays, A Christmas Carol returns to the T2 stage Nov. 29 thru Dec. 24. Adapted by Robert Ford and Amy Herzberg from the Charles Dickens novel, this inventive, magic filled T2 original has quickly become a Northwest Arkansas family tradition. The first show of the New Year is Heidi Schrek’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, What the Constitution Means to Me (Jan. 17 thru Feb. 25, 2024). Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition and a deep love of the Constitution by winning nationwide debate competitions. All grown-up, she hilariously

Then comes the brand-new comedy, Laughs in Spanish, by Alexis Scheer (March 27 thru May 5). Art Basel is about to begin, and Mariana, the director of a swanky modern art gallery, has a problem: her showroom is an active crime scene. Part caper comedy and part telenovela, Laughs in Spanish shows how far Mariana will go to save the show.

Following an extended run at New York’s Public Theatre and a Broadway engagement this past summer, Fat Ham, by James Ijames, will also take the T2 stage in Spring 2024 (April 17 thru May 12). Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this deliciously funny send-up of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy.”

The season closes with a world premiere of a dark comedy by Arkansas native Joseph Scott Ford, Responders (June 5-30). Two small-town paramedics are the first to arrive at a deadly scene. Since the cops got a flat, and there’s no help to render, all they can do is wait, until they realize every school bus in the county is about to drive right by –that’s when things go from bad to ridiculous.

New season subscription packages are on sale now, giving buyers the first opportunity to book the best seats, in addition to a variety of discounts and exclusive add-on options. For more information, visit theatre2.org