Seven Angels 2025-26 Mainstage Season

Press release

SEVEN ANGELS THEATRE ANNOUNCES THEIR FABULOUS 2025-26 MAINSTAGE SEASON. PLENTY OF COMEDY AND MUSIC! THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.

(CONNECTICUT)–The Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut announces its 2025–2026 theater season featuring hilarious comedy, brilliant artistry, and guaranteed fun.

The announcement comes hot off of the heels of June’s breaking news when Seven Angels presented the new leadership team; Constantine Pappas as Artistic Director, and Craig David Rosen as Managing Director. Seven Angels bid farewell to longtime Artistic Director, Semina DeLaurentis, who retired after 35 years.

Seven Angels Theatre will produce five mainstage productions, an increase from their regular four show season. Lucky Stiff (September 26-October 12), Art of Murder (November 14-30), Farce of Nature (March 6-22), Grand Night for Singing (April 24-May 10), and Something Rotten (June 19-July 3).

“We are so very excited to bring a wide variety of shows to Seven Angels Theatre that will entertain our audience,” said Pappas. “

Since signing on June 2, Rosen and Pappas were immediately tasked with putting together a season. How quickly did they put it together?

“We had a season worked out in under 24 hours”, remarked Rosen. “Most theaters announce their upcoming season three to six months in advance. We’re announcing less than two months prior. The creation was the easy part, awaiting rights acquisitions was the long part.”

When asked if the announcement is too late, Pappas stated, “This is a unique opportunity to show that you can announce a season anytime. While most Connecticut-based theaters have announced their season, we are in the clear and have the advantage of leading the air waves.”

The 2025-26 Season...

LUCKY STIFF
September 26-October 12, 2025
Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lucky Stiff is a hilarious murder mystery musical, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn... or else his uncle's gun-toting ex! Lucky Stiff is a riotous beginning to our season featuring music from the creators of Anastasia, Ragtime, Seussical and Once on This Island!

ART OF MURDER
November 14-November 30, 2025
By Joe DiPietro
In a remote estate in the countryside of Connecticut, the accomplished and eccentric painter Jack Brooks awaits the arrival of his art dealer. This would not seem so unusual, except Jack is intending to kill the man. While Jack lays out his murderous intentions, his wife Annie calmly paints. Once he threatens her with violence, Annie seems to get on board. Will Jack carry out his plot? Will Annie help? Or is something else going on? Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play, Art of Murder is “hilarious, suspenseful, surprising and dazzling in every way.” —Equinox News

FARCE OF NATURE
March 6-March 22, 2026
By Jones Hope Wooten
The laughs come fast and furious in this Southern-fried farce! Meet D. Gene Wilburn, the owner and proprietor of The Reel 'Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. Unfortunately, business is down and the only guest is a jittery man in the Witness Protection Program. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be a quiet day of fishing for D. Gene. In no time, his lodge is infested with kooky family members, a murderous gangster, a sexy moll, and a mysterious foul odor. In the deliciously funny romp that ensues, they all hide, lie, disguise themselves, cross-dress, and slam doors chasing one another while trying to figure out the source of an increasingly awful stench. You are guaranteed to fall for this comedy hook, line, and stinker!

A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
April 24-May 10, 2026
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
This enchanting musical revue features some of the greatest hits inventively interpreted and interspersed with some lesser known delights from one of the richest musical catalogues in Broadway history. With songs drawn from such classics as The King and I, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Cinderella, State Fair and South Pacific, you are certain to be transported to musical theatre heaven. “A Grand Night for Singing is enough to restore one's faith in the future of the revue and the durability of Rodgers & Hammerstein. It gives the material the kind of thoughtful rethinking it has long deserved.” – USA Today

SOMETHING ROTTEN!
June 19-July 3, 2026
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O’Farrell
Music by Karey Kirkpatrick & Wayne Kirkpatrick
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. “A deliriously funny show.” - Variety

Show times: Evenings (Fridays and Saturdays) at 7:30 PM and matinees (Saturdays and Sundays) at 2 PM. To purchase tickets, stop in the box office W-F noon to 5, call 203-757-4676, or online at SevenAngelsTheatre.org. Tickets can be purchased on the day of the show. Seven Angels Theatre is located on Plank Road in Waterbury, with plenty of free parking. Just off exit 25 on I-84. GPS directions use: Hamilton Park, Waterbury.