UPCOMING PLAYS
Season 2027 Announcement below!
CTC shows run Thursdays - Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 3pm.
What's Playing
Join us as we celebrate 33 wonderful years of bringing professional theatre entertainment to Anchorage.
October 9 - November 1, 2026
Misery
By William Goldman
Based on Stephen King’s novel, this thriller follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Unwilling to let him leave, the irate Annie forces him to start a new Misery novel, and Paul quickly realizes he is writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Live captioning performance
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2026 | 7:00 PM
A personal smart phone or tablet is required to access the live captioning service. A QR code and URL will be provided to patrons in their programs and posted in the Cyrano's Theatre lobby. Patrons may use their personal devices to access the live captioning website during the performance. Transcribers will be providing live captioning through the website during the performance.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jay Burns
Jay Burns is a 5th generation Alaskan who has been writing, directing, and acting for the stage for 30 years. He trained at UAA, Michigan State (earning an MFA in Acting), and Michael Howard Studios, before working in Hollywood development for 10 years. Since his return to Alaska he has worked extensively as an actor, most recently in CABARET, CONSCIENCE, METEOR SHOWER, and LIFESPAN OF A FACT. This is his directing debut for Cyrano's, and he is overjoyed to present MISERY.
November 27 - December 20, 2026 | fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm & 7pm, and Sundays at 3pm.
Twas The Night Before Christmas
By Ken Ludwig
The wild holiday adventures of a mouse, an elf, and a spunky little girl who just won't take no for an answer, on their quest to find out why Santa missed their house last year. This play with music, both celebrates and teases the timeless story “Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
Bring your young children and families of all ages, to a joyful tribute to the holiday season!
Celebrating a decade of partnership with ConocoPhillips, Alaska, providing outstanding theatre for young children and families!
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2026 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Morgan Mitchell
Morgan Mitchell hails from Anchorage where she first set foot onstage at the tender age of 8. Since then she’s worked as a director, actor, scenic artist, and playwright around Alaska, Oregon, NYC, London, and Scotland. A graduate of The Actor’s Conservatory, Morgan is passionate about collaboration in the arts and finding the fun and whimsy in the everyday.
january 15 - february 14, 2027
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Additional Material by Jay Reiss
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; Audience volunteers join as fellow spellers; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
Wednesday, January 13, 2027 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Krista M. Schwarting
Krista M. Schwarting is thrilled to return to directing at Cyrano's after a Covid hiatus. Her prior directing credits at Cyrano’s include: Emma, Boeing Boeing, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and Calendar Girls, among others. Krista has also appeared as an actor at Cyrano’s. Her favorite roles include Nora in A Doll's House Part 2, Brooke in Other Desert Cities and Betty Ford in Tea for Three. She is proud to be an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. When not working or in the theatre, Krista volunteers as a Crisis Counselor for a national suicide prevention organization.
March 19 - April 11, 2027
Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical
Based on books writing by Julianne Moore and illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Music and Lyrics by Gary Kupper
Book by Gary Kupper and Rose Caiola
Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles – from scrubbing them with soap to caking on makeup... and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize that it's her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror? With the help of her loveable schoolmates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different – and that's what makes everyone special.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
Wednesday, March 17, 2027 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
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May 14 - June 6, 2027
The Cottage
By Sandy Rustin
Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward and decides to expose her love affair to her husband and her lover’s wife.
With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, The Cottage offers a perfect showcase for six actors with endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy and a happy ending for lovers everywhere. The true meaning of fate, identity and marriage are called into question as a surprising, hilarious web of secrets unravels in this ridiculous, potentially murderous, uncharacteristically feminist 1923 British tale of sex, betrayal and love.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jill Bess
Jill Bess holds a BA in Theatre Performance from U.C., Irvine and a Meisner Method/Teaching Certification focusing on Acting from True Acting Institute. She is an actress, director and playwright who, during the last thirty years, has worked in nearly every theatre company in Alaska. As the East Anchorage High School Theatre Arts instructor from 2007-2020, she directed three to five productions a year, as well as directing the award winning Improv Troupe. Additional directing credits include: Guys and Dolls and Honk for ACT, and her newest play, The Old Woman Who Lost Her Voice, a co-production of Cyrano’s Theatre Company and RKP Productions. Jill has served as the Artistic Director for two Alaskan non-profit theatre companies. In 2020 she founded Alaska True Acting, through which she coaches acting and writing, and teaches Meisner theatre classes.
September 17 - october 17, 2027
Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express
By Agatha Christie
Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
Wednesday, September 15, 2027 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Coming Soon
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November 19 - december 19, 2027
Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley
By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
The third and final play in the Pemberley trilogy which continues the stories begun in Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice.
Georgiana Darcy is an accomplished pianist but wary of romance. Kitty Bennet is a bright-eyed optimist and a perfect best friend. After years of being overshadowed by their older siblings, these two younger sisters are ready for their own adventures in life and love, starting with the arrival of an admirer and secret correspondent. Meddlesome families and outmoded expectations won’t stop these determined friends from forging their own way in a holiday tale filled with music, ambition, sisterhood and forgiveness.
Pay-what-You-can preview performance
Wednesday, November 17, 2027 | 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Krista M. Schwarting
Krista M. Schwarting is thrilled to return to directing at Cyrano's after a Covid hiatus. Her prior directing credits at Cyrano’s include: Emma, Boeing Boeing, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and Calendar Girls, among others. Krista has also appeared as an actor at Cyrano’s. Her favorite roles include Nora in A Doll's House Part 2, Brooke in Other Desert Cities and Betty Ford in Tea for Three. She is proud to be an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. When not working or in the theatre, Krista volunteers as a Crisis Counselor for a national suicide prevention organization.