Ilion Little Theatre
2025- 2026
$20 General Admission, $15 Student Admission
Tickets available at the door or online, based on availability.
Season subscriptions are $65 for adults and $50 for students. Each subscription entitles you to 4 admissions as a flex pass. You choose how to use them!
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIPTION HOLDERS: Reserved seating is made when purchasing tickets.
48 HOUR ADVANCED NOTICE REQUIRED. Seats will be held 15 MINUTES PRIOR TO CURTAIN.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
October 3, 4, 10, and 11 at 7:30 p.m.
October 4, 5, 11, and 12 at 2 p.m.
Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced, wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience.
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; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
Original Broadway Musical by Rachel Sheinkin, Directed by Josh Clanton
Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life
November 28, 29, and December 5, 6 at 7:30 p.m.
November 30 and December 7 at 2 p.m.
It is Christmas Eve, and George Bailey stands on a bridge looking over the icy waters below, contemplating suicide. Joseph, an unseen angel, calls on The Boss for advice, and they decide on Clarence Oddbody, an Angel Second Class who, after 200 years, has yet to earn his wings. Joseph takes Clarence into the past to see George as a boy, rescuing his brother from drowning, enduring a beating from grieving druggist Gower, saving a child from accidental poisoning, then growing up to forgo college so he can save the family business and keep the citizens of Bedford Falls from being ruined by the Depression and the machinations of the conniving Henry Potter. George marries his childhood sweetheart, has a family, and resigns himself to a life of “failure.” When his Uncle Billy misplaces $8,000 of the Building and Loan’s money, George takes responsibility and runs to the bridge to commit suicide. Clarence stops him, and when George wishes he had never been born, makes the wish come true. Now George wanders through a Bedford Falls that has been rechristened Pottersville and has fallen far without him to save it. He realizes how many lives he has touched, how many people he has helped—and that he has been a success, after all. Clarence brings him back to “his” Bedford Falls and even manages to make Henry Potter pay for his sins.
Written by Phillip Grecian, Directed by Tory Girmonde
Dear Jack, Dear Louise
February 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m.
When two strangers meet by letter during World War II, a love story begins. Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents’ courtship and the results are anything but expected.
Written by Ken Ludwig, Directed by Tory Girmonde
**Please note that this show is an add-on to our regular season and is NOT included in subscriptions. Tickets for this extra show can be purchased HERE.
Goodbye Charlie
April 10, 11, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m.
April 12 and 19 at 2 p.m.
Lauren Bacall on Broadway and Debbie Reynolds onscreen assayed the title role in this knockabout farce by the author of The Seven Year Itch. Charlie was a cad, a womanizer, with a foul mouth and taste for booze. Killed hightailing it from a lover’s husband’s yacht, Charlie “returns” as a woman (cigar in hand) and gets a second chance at life and love.
Written by George Axelrod, Directed by Deborah Martin
Murder on the Orient Express
June 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m.
June 21 and 28 at 2 p.m.
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.
Written by Agatha Christie, Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig, Directed by Char Lyon and Tory Girmonde
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