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Join Theatre 40 For Our 59th Season!
The Theatre 40 Season Subscriber package includes tickets to all 6 of our regular season plays.

Play 1
A Jukebox for the Algonquin
by Paul Stroili
West Coast Premiere
The residents at the Placid Pines Senior Care Center really want a jukebox. When it costs more than the center can raise, a small band of former Brooklyn and Bronx residents hatch a plot to prove that aging is not a New York state of mind. Don’t miss the West Coast premiere of this serious comedy about sex, drugs, and rocking chairs!
WINNER: Wilde Award (Michigan): Best new Play 2023/2024.
Play 2
All These Women
by Melanie MacQueen
World Premiere
This world premiere play examines the almost insurmountable struggle women faced to get the right to vote in America. It is 1913, and women in America have been fighting for suffrage since 1848. Now that a new Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson presides over a Democratic Congress, has the time finally come for women to win the right to vote? Hopes are high until a World War looms, and divisions among the women themselves threaten to unravel it all. If they are to succeed, it’s time for desperate measures …
Play 3
An Inspector Calls
by J.B. Priestley
Classic Thriller
The Play occurs when a young girl meets with an untimely demise and a respectable family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family and it is revealed that each member of the family is implicated lightly or deeply in the girl’s undoing. The friendly and close knit family at the beginning of the evening is shown up to be selfish, self-centered and cowardly. Good fellowship turning to acid and dislike. A surprising revelation turns up in the end which makes this thriller not to be missed.
Play 4
What Opa Did
World Premiere
by Christopher Franciosa
World Premiere
A mystery play about the secrets we keep and the actions we take to protect the ones we love. A young American woman receives disturbing news about what her German/Jewish grandfather may have done during World War II. While uncovering the shocking facts, she learns the truth about the terrifying choices both of her grandparents made to survive. Sometimes secrets can eat you from the inside but sometimes they can save your soul.
Play 5
The Unexpected Guest
by Agatha Christie
Murder Mystery
Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the woman’s dazed confession is anything but convincing, and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the police clues point to a man who dies two years previously, but as the ghosts of a past wrong begin to emerge, a tangled web of les reveals family secrets and chilling motives, where the real murderer turns out to be the greatest mystery of all.
Play 6
Crossing Delancey
by Susan Sandler
A Romantic, Charming Comedy
Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after some handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother (Bubbe) in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This irascible granny and her friend the matchmaker have found a “good catch” for Isabel, whose initial reluctance give way to a blossoming romance when she finally meets Sam, the pickle vendor, as the end of the play offers a new beginning.