Stone Soup’s 2025/26 season celebrates plays and musicals celebrating hope in the face of adversity and the power of telling our own stories.
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Man of La Mancha
Directed by Melissa Craib Dombrowski
Music Direction by Dr. Joanna Sisk-Purvis
Fall 2025
Man of La Mancha is one of the world’s most popular musicals. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterwork Don Quixote and set during the Spanish Inquisition, the original 1965 production won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Miguel de Cervantes is in prison awaiting trial during the Spanish Inquisition. He and his fellow prisoners perform a play-within-a-play, telling the story of the elderly Alonso Quijano, who renames himself “Don Quixote” and goes on a quest to right all wrongs in the world.
The rousing, Spanish-inflected score includes the classic numbers “The Impossible Dream,” “I, Don Quixote,” “Dulcinea,” “I Really Like Him” and “Little Bird.”
Every Brilliant Thing
Winter 2025
Performed by Brittni Shambaugh Addison
Directed by Lavour Addison
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own.
The Guardian (UK) described Every Brilliant Thing as “a heart-wrenching, hilarious play…One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression—and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop…There is something tough being confronted here—the guilt of not being able to make those we love happy—and it is explored with unflinching honesty.” Join us for a powerful, interactive, one-person show about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.
Content Warning
While this show is ultimately uplifting, it deals with the subjects of mental illness and attempted suicide, and relays a story of having to put down a family pet.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Directed by Lily Vance
Spring 2026
Stone Soup is delighted to welcome back Lily Vance, director of last season’s hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest! This season, Lily helms Shakespeare’s enchanting, whimsical comedy of lovers, faeries, actors, nobles, and magic.
Join us as a tangled web of love and magic unfolds in Athens and its surrounding woods where fairies, humans, and a group of amateur actors collide, leading to mistaken identities, enchanted love potions, and a comical resolution.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a timeless musing on love, magic, and the sheer joy of theatrical absurdity. One of Shakespeare’s most well known and beloved plays, this whimsical production is sure to delight audiences of all ages.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Summer 2026
Directed by Melissa Craib Dombrowski
Music Direction by Dr. Joanna Sisk-Purvis
One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, eleven brothers, and the coat of many colors, told entirely through song.
After being sold into slavery by his brothers, Joseph ingratiates himself with Egyptian noble Potiphar, but ends up in jail after refusing the amorous advances of Potiphar’s wife. While imprisoned, Joseph discovers his ability to interpret dreams, and he soon finds himself in front of the mighty but troubled Pharaoh. Joseph’s solution to Egypt’s famine elevates him to Pharaoh’s right hand and reunites him with his family.
This magical musical is full of catchy songs in a variety of styles, from a parody of French ballads (“Those Canaan Days”), to country-western (“One More Angel in Heaven”) and calypso (“Benjamin Calypso”), along with the unforgettable classics “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door.” Appropriate for all audiences and groups, Joseph is performed hundreds of times a year by groups around the world.
