The Franklin Stage Company (FSC), 25 Institute Street, Franklin, Delaware County’s renowned classical summer theater, announces its 27th season from June 30 through Aug. 20.
The season opens with David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy “Good People,” a play about trying to make the American dream a reality, from June 30 – July 16 with five shows per week.
FSC will presents A Palo Seco Flamenco Dance Company directed by Rebeca Tomás July 21-23. A Palo Seco has been described as employing “lightning fast footwork.” The next weekend, July 28–30, FSC will feature a return engagement of Julian Fleisher and Band. Fleisher brings his four-piece band who perform both original and tunes from the Great American Songbook.
FSC’s final production of the season is a world premiere play by Kyle Bass, which FSC commissioned in 2022. Set at the start of the American Civil War, Toliver and Wakeman dramatizes the experiences of two actual historic characters who lived locally. Toliver Holmes was a young black man born into slavery in Virginia who escaped to New York, changed his name to avoid capture, and mustered into the Union Army’s 26th Regiment of Colored Troops (N.Y.), later settling in Delhi. He is also the playwright’s great-great grandfather. Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, born in Bainbridge, disguised herself as a man and mustered into the Union Army — the 153rd New York State Volunteers — using the alias Lyons Wakeman.
Evening shows have a curtain time of 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows are at 5 p.m. Good People and Toliver and Wakeman will also have 3 p.m. Saturday matinees; general seating.
Admission is free — suggested donation is $25 per person. Audiences are not required but encouraged to wear masks. Updates to FSC Covid policy can be found at franklinstagecompany.org.
For reservations, visit www.franklinstagecompany.org or call 607-829-3700.
