David Allen Prescott in GROSS INDECENCY. Photo by Jen Knight.
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City on a Hill Arts presents
END DAYS By Deborah Zoe Laufer November 8th at 7:30 PM November 9th at 6:00 PM November 13th and 15th at 7:30 PM Congregation Agudat Achim 268 Washington Street in Leominster, MA FREE ADMISSION - DONATIONS WELCOME RESERVE YOUR SEATS ONLINE |
Sixteen-year-old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a teenage Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocalypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all!
“…rapturously funny play about a family trying to survive in a world hurtling toward Armageddon…inspires healing and laughter through even the most sobering subjects.” - The Miami Herald
Featuring Traci Bartlett, Lucas Cardwell, Tim Daughters, Audrey Lavenski, Ben Spurr, Ben Wilder, and Cherry Lynn Zinger.
Director: Michael Knight
Producer: Debbie Moylan
Stage Manager: Corine Farnsworth
Set Designer: David Allen Prescott
Lighting Designer: Matt Valeri
Costume Designer: Jen Knight
Marketing Manager: Bethany Johnson
“…rapturously funny play about a family trying to survive in a world hurtling toward Armageddon…inspires healing and laughter through even the most sobering subjects.” - The Miami Herald
Featuring Traci Bartlett, Lucas Cardwell, Tim Daughters, Audrey Lavenski, Ben Spurr, Ben Wilder, and Cherry Lynn Zinger.
Director: Michael Knight
Producer: Debbie Moylan
Stage Manager: Corine Farnsworth
Set Designer: David Allen Prescott
Lighting Designer: Matt Valeri
Costume Designer: Jen Knight
Marketing Manager: Bethany Johnson
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This production is supported in part by a grant from the Leominster Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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UPCOMING AUDITION
THE WAVERLY GALLERY by Kenneth Lonergan
November 23rd and 24th
Directed by Jack Crory
Learn more on our Work With Us page
November 23rd and 24th
Directed by Jack Crory
Learn more on our Work With Us page
KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH US!
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HOLIDAY SPIRIT A Holiday Concert with Kevin Scott Hall Saturday November 29th at 3:00 PM Leominster City Hall 25 West Street in Leominster FREE ADMISSION - DONATIONS WELCOME RESERVE YOUR SEATS ONLINE Come celebrate the season with Hall at the Hall! Join Kevin Scott Hall for a festive holiday concert at Leominster City Hall. An afternoon of music and cheer sure to put you in the holiday spirit, proudly sponsored by City on a Hill Arts! Featuring musicians Michael Larson and Adrian Gates and special guest Lillian Maxwell. |
COMING UP IN 2026
February 2026
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June 2026
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Summer 2026
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November 2026
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City on a Hill Arts is thrilled to announce its next season in 2026!
THE WAVERLY GALLERY by Kenneth Lonergan
February 2026 in Leominster
Gladys has run an art gallery in a Greenwich Village hotel for many years, but now the hotel owner wants to replace it with a trendy coffee shop. As they try to help her hold on to her independence, Gladys’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson become worried about her increasingly erratic behavior. Inspired by Lonergan’s own grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, THE WAVERLY GALLERY is an ode to an extraordinary woman and the humor and strength of a family in crisis.
“A stirring and soulful comic drama…WAVERLY is often deeply funny. It is both painful and hilarious.” – The New York Times
SWEAT by Lynn Nottage: A Staged Reading
June 2026 in Lancaster and Ashby
In Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of friends have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs together while working on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines start to chip away at their trust, they find themselves pitted against each other in a struggle to hold on to what used to bring them together. City on a Hill Arts is excited to present this Pulitzer Prize-winning play as a staged reading.
“passionate and necessary…a masterful depiction of the forces that divide and conquer us.” – Time Out New York
ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE: A Musical Revue
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers
Summer 2026 in Leominster
Throughout a career that spanned four decades, legendary lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II used the theatre to promote human understanding. This special one-night event will highlight a number of his songs that address the dangers of prejudice, the importance of tolerance, and the empowerment of self-esteem from classic musicals like Show Boat, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and Carousel. As Doc sings in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream: “It takes all kinds of people to make up a world.”
PRODIGAL SON by John Patrick Shanley
November 2026 in Leominster
17-year-old Jim Quinn from the Bronx suddenly finds himself at a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. His teachers and roommate find their own lives altered in profound ways as they wrestle with a passionate, explosive young man on the edge of salvation or destruction.
“PRODIGAL SON is a heart-sore portrait of adolescent turmoil that bears the stamp of hard-earned truth on every scene…the best thing that Mr. Shanley has given us since DOUBT.” – The Wall Street Journal
THE WAVERLY GALLERY by Kenneth Lonergan
February 2026 in Leominster
Gladys has run an art gallery in a Greenwich Village hotel for many years, but now the hotel owner wants to replace it with a trendy coffee shop. As they try to help her hold on to her independence, Gladys’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson become worried about her increasingly erratic behavior. Inspired by Lonergan’s own grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, THE WAVERLY GALLERY is an ode to an extraordinary woman and the humor and strength of a family in crisis.
“A stirring and soulful comic drama…WAVERLY is often deeply funny. It is both painful and hilarious.” – The New York Times
SWEAT by Lynn Nottage: A Staged Reading
June 2026 in Lancaster and Ashby
In Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of friends have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs together while working on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines start to chip away at their trust, they find themselves pitted against each other in a struggle to hold on to what used to bring them together. City on a Hill Arts is excited to present this Pulitzer Prize-winning play as a staged reading.
“passionate and necessary…a masterful depiction of the forces that divide and conquer us.” – Time Out New York
ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE: A Musical Revue
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers
Summer 2026 in Leominster
Throughout a career that spanned four decades, legendary lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II used the theatre to promote human understanding. This special one-night event will highlight a number of his songs that address the dangers of prejudice, the importance of tolerance, and the empowerment of self-esteem from classic musicals like Show Boat, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and Carousel. As Doc sings in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream: “It takes all kinds of people to make up a world.”
PRODIGAL SON by John Patrick Shanley
November 2026 in Leominster
17-year-old Jim Quinn from the Bronx suddenly finds himself at a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. His teachers and roommate find their own lives altered in profound ways as they wrestle with a passionate, explosive young man on the edge of salvation or destruction.
“PRODIGAL SON is a heart-sore portrait of adolescent turmoil that bears the stamp of hard-earned truth on every scene…the best thing that Mr. Shanley has given us since DOUBT.” – The Wall Street Journal
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Bethany Johnson, David Allen Prescott, and Debbie Moylan in AN ACT OF GOD. Photo by Jen Knight.
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