sponsor for our 2024-25 season, C&E Specialties.

Purchase a flex pass for the season as well as single tickets for shows HERE. Or you can download an order form. OR call the AET box office (open M-F, 11-3) at 815-394-5004.

THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR

By Paul Slade Smith
Sept. 5 – 22

It is 1948 and husband-and-wife playwrights, Charlotte and Arthur, have just completed their next sure fire Broadway smash. But… there are problems. Because of course there are. And it will take all of Charlotte and Arthur’s wiles to untangle the complications in this screwball comedy.

A lovestruck novelist, the actress he adores, a vain leading man, the married playwrights, and an eccentric (and very cranky) housekeeper all collide in a perfect storm of comic chaos. Tickets on sale HERE.

“The Angel Next Door is a super entertaining, laugh a minute romantic romp.” —LA Splash Magazine

AET is grateful to the Community Sponsors for The Angel Next Door: John & Diane Cobb

NO WAKE

by Erica Berman
November 7–24

Elder Peter Michaels (Ensemble member Gary Wingert) is determined to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee. He has two weapons: stubbornness and a bullhorn. Sarah is a local teen who has been hired to clean the lake house net door to Peter. These two clash right from the start.

Over time, this odd couple reach an understanding as an unlikely friendship blooms. This tender play about loneliness, loss, and healing will touch your heart. No Wake tickets may be ordered HERE.

ALABAMA Story

by Kenneth Jones
Mar. 20 – April 6

A timely play about book banning and bunnies that is based on a true story.

In 1959, a librarian (Ensemble member Katie Maringer) reluctantly goes to war with a state senator over a children’s book about the wedding of two rabbits. This blows up into a huge controversy at the state house with the librarian (who is a Yankee) accused of peddling a hidden message. Elsewhere, two childhood friends, one white and one black, reconnect as adults and their story serves as a private counterpoint to the very public uproar at the State House. This is a play that tackles sensitive issues with smarts, humor, and hope. Alabama Story tickets may be ordered HERE.

The MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD

by Margaret Raether
adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie
May 8–25

When Doctor Sheppard receives a frantic phone call telling him that Roger Accord has been killed, he grabs his medical bag and hastens to Ackroyd’s home. There, a bewildered butler insists that he made no such call. Just to be sure, they decide to check on Roger, who is in his study with the door locked from the inside. He is quite alone and quite dead.

Clearly, it is time for Hercule Poirot to exercise the little gray cells in this Agatha Christie classic.

Purchase tickets to this classic whodunit HERE.