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Welcome to Tibbits Summer Theatre!

Each year, our artistic director hires a variety of professional actors, designers, and technicians from throughout the country and brings them together at Tibbits. Some cast members are only here for a show or two; others are here the entire season. Artistic Director Charles Burr retired after the 2020 season, with long-time Tibbits favorite Peter Riopelle taking over the position. Audition and tech information can be found at the Audition Tab on the Get Involved page HERE.

In August 2020, Tibbits Summer Theatre closed the final show of the most unique and challenging season in its history. We also celebrated Burr’s final show as Artistic Director with a standing ovation. We are beyond proud of our small, dedicated company to be one the few theatres in the country to pull off this feat in a safe, outdoor space. In 2021, we began with an outdoor season but pivoted indoors when an inordinate amount of rainfall presented us with additional challenges at an outdoor venue.​ The past two years have been extremely challenging and without the support of our audience, our playbill advertisers, and our season sponsors, it wouldn’t haven’t been possible. Thank you to all who enabled the show to go on! We’re looking forward to 2022!

2021 Season

  • The Best of Broadway (June 16-25)
  • The Fantasticks (June 30-July 9)
  • You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (July 14-23)
  • On Golden Pond (July 28-Aug 6)
    You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

    You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, TST 2021. Photo by Laura Pentecost.

 

2020 Season

  • Sing Happy (July 9-11)
  • A Popped Potpourri (July 16-18)
  • When Radio Was King (July 23-25)
  • Love Letters (July 30, 31, Aug 1)
  • Man of La Mancha (Aug 5-7, 13-15)
  • What Mad Pursuit (Aug 19, 20, 22)
  • It Started With Eve (Aug 27-29)

    When Radio Was King, 2020 TST at The Ponds

2019 Season

  • Ken Ludwig’s Be My Baby (June 20-22, 26-29)
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (July 5-7, 10-13)
  • West Side Story (July 25-27, 31, Aug 1-3)
  • See How They Run (Aug 8-10, 14-17)
  • Plus a special fall performance of Next to Normal (Sept 6-8, 12-14)
    West Side Story, TST 2019

    West Side Story, TST 2019. Photo by Laura Pentecost.

2018 Season

*Mixed Emotions (June 14-16, 20-23)
*Jesus Christ Superstar (June 28-July 1, July 5-7)
*A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (July 19-21, 25-28)
*Resident Alien (Aug 2-4, 8-11)

Jesus Christ Superstar 2018 TST

Jesus Christ Superstar, 2018 TST. Photo courtesy of Stan Clayton/Classic Portraits.

 

2017 Season

Footloose, 2017. Photo courtesy of Mike Gorecki/SPI Photo

2016 Season

 Fall production: Always a Bridesmaid

 

 PRIOR to 2016 Season (since 1964!)

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION/BEING COMPILED]

 

SaSav

2015:
  • The Odd Couple – Classic Neil Simon Comedy
  • Peter Pan– Musical for the child in all of us who dream of soaring high & never growing up
  • Pippin – The original captivating, mischievous, magical, humorous Broadway musical sensation
  • Alone Together Again – Hilarious Broadway comedy about would be empty -nesters whose parents move in.
2014:
2013:
  • Greater Tuna
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Producers
  • The Foreigner
2012:
  • On Broadway: 1956
  • Chicago
  • Funny Money
  • Nymph Errant
2011:
  • On Broadway, Too:  An Irving Berlin Songbook
  • The Full Monty
  • Out of Order
  • Working
2010:
  • On Broadway:  A Modern Songbook
  • Crazy for You
  • Run For Your Wife
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee