Production History
TICKETS ON SALE NOW Jewish Community High School of the Bay presents Once Upon a Mattress MUSIC BY MARY RODGERS LYRICS BY MARSHALL BARER BOOK BY DEAN FULLER, JAY THOMPSON,…
See the JCHS Drama production of “Little Shop of Horrors December 3-6, 2023
“When June’s father dies, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray so no one will ever suffer again; the next thing she knows, there’s…
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table,…
From the innovative theatrical mind of Mary Zimmerman… “The Secret in the Wings” is a stunning work full of exceptional beauty and inventive visuals. Adapted from several classic, lesser-known fairy tales,…
Welcome to the Wellness Project. The year is 2062. After the disastrous experience of COVID-19, Virtual Reality Room Technology has been developed to make a room look and feel like…
Charles Schulz’s beloved comic comes to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The whole gang is here: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy…
“A Scandal in Bohemia,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the first Sherlock Holmes short story. It was first published in 1891 in The Strand Magazine. It was preceded by “A Study…
Beyond the Zoom Glass is a series of monologues developed from interviews with JCHS students, who spoke frankly about their response to life during the pandemic. The actors perform as fictional…
When the law stands against human rights, Antigone, a young girl, rebels against a tyrannical king. With lives at stake, will Antigone’s loved ones come to her defense in time,…
Six awkward tweens vie for the coveted spelling championship in this fast-paced, Tony Award-winning comedy. As they fight to stay in the contest, the students – each with their own…
Ah, Paris! The genteel Madame Chandebise has everything an upper-class woman could want, until her loving husband suddenly and inexplicably loses all physical interest in her. Suspicion puts “a flea…
NU WURKS IV is the fourth installment of JCHS Drama’s New Plays Series. JCHS Drama commissioned the creation of these plays, which are inspired by or based on the works…
An irresistibly funny, smash-hit musical! Set in a Greek island paradise, a young bride-to-be secretly brings together three men from her mother’s past to try to discover the identity of…
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights…
In the waning days of the Soviet communist regime, the state-run Kuzlov Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia is having hard times. Its audience is shrinking, the leading lady is past…
J. Pierpont Finch is a lowly window cleaner with dreams of making it big in the business world. After finding a copy of the book “How to Succeed in Business…
The JCHS Drama company is among a handful of high school programs selected to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in 2017
Under the auspices of the American High School Theater Festival, the JCHS Drama company returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2017 to perform Alice & the Black Hole Blues, an…
This world premiere, devised theater piece imagines what happens when an explosion creates multiple universes, in which Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and a modern day Alice meet five visionaries who challenge…
JCHS Drama presents Nu Wurks III, a festival of new plays written by JCHS playwrights – students & alumni Nu Wurks III February 14-16, 2017Tuesday, February 14 at 7 pmWednesday, February 15 at 7…
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. The smart and beautiful young Ella lives in the care of her wicked, self-absorbed stepmother Madame and Madame’s two daughters,…
Secret passageways, Nazi saboteurs, and dead bodies combine to create mayhem in this sidesplitting comedy. At Elsa Von Grossenknueten’s mansion, the creative team for a new musical gathers for a…
At the height of The Troubles in Ireland, religion determines who you are and where you can go. Zippy just wants to be normal, but she’s the only Jewish girl…
URINETOWN is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, politics and musical theatre itself! In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage,…
Productions from 2001-2015
2014-2015
The Drowsy Chaperone – Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Moon Over Buffalo – Ken Ludwig
A Second Skin – Multimedia Performance Featuring Works from Various Artists, Including JCHS Students
2013-2014
Pippin – Stephen Schwartz, Roger O. Hirson
Hearts Like Fists – Adam Szymkowicz
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Christopher Shinn
2012-2013
Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
The Liar – David Ives, Pierre Corneille
The Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
Dancing at Lughnasa – Brian Friel
2011-2012
Anything Goes – Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse, John Weidman
Fortinbras – Lee Blessing
Hamlet for Smart Dummies – Jake Rosenberg, JCHS Class of 2014
NU WURKS II – JCHS Playwriting Students
2010-2011
The Sound of Music – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka with an adaptation by the JCHS Company
2009-2010
Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
The Government Inspector – Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
2008-2009
Cabaret – Joe Masterson, John Kander, Fred Ebb
12 Angry Jurors – Reginald Rose
NU WURKS – JCHS Playwriting Students
2007-2008
Once Upon a Mattress – Marshall Barer, Mary Rodgers, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller
The Rubenstein Kiss – James Phillips
Twentieth Century – MacArthur/Hecht, adapted by Ken Ludwig
2006-2007
Smash – Jeffrey Hatcher from G.B. Shaw
Working – Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz, Nina Faso, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, James Taylor, Susan Birkenhead
2005-2006
Tartuffe – Moliere, translated by Christopher Hampton
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine – Dick Vosburgh, Frank Lazarus
2004-2005
What’s Wrong with This Picture? – David Margulies
Zombie Prom – Dana P. Rowe, John Dempsey
2003-2004
Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
Words, Words, Words – An Evening of One-Acts & Song on the Theme of Literature (including works by David Ives, Christopher Durang and many more)
2001-2003
Alice in Wonderland
Israel Horowitz One Acts
