Our History
Village Players of Fort Thomas has been producing plays and musicals for almost 60 years in the charming and historic building at 8 North Fort Thomas Avenue. Village Players of Fort Thomas began as a subsidiary of the Fort Thomas Woman’s Club in 1966, and took ownership of the building in 2018 thanks to the generosity of the Woman’s Club. To learn more about our future, click here.
2023-2024 Season
Doublewide, Texas by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten; September-October, 2023
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson; December 2023
Art by Yasmina Reza; February-March, 2024
Spreading It Around by Londos D’Arrigo; April-May, 2024
Moments of Truth: 5 new plays by local playwrights; June 2024 (New Works production)
Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook by by Allison Gregory; July 20254 (Next Gen production)
2022-2023 Season
The Taming by Lauren Gunderson; September-October, 2022
Holidazed by local playwrights; December 2022
Airness by Chelsea Marcantel; February-March, 2023
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen; April-May, 2023
Relatable and Inflatable (The Beach Ball Chronicles): 6 new plays by local authors, June 2023 (New Works production)
2021-2022 Season
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; October 2021
Dashing Through the Snow by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten; December 2021
You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman; February-March, 2022
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney; April-May, 2022
On the Road to Nowhere: 6 new plays by local playwrights; June 2022 (New Works production)
2020-2021 Season
Mainstage season cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic
A Tale of Tails by local playwrights, May 2021
To Make a Long Story Short: A Video Production of 6 New Plays by local playwrights, June 2021 (New Works production)
2019-2020 Season
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard; October 2019
Of Dragons & Dwarves by Jack Williams; December 2019
Room for Seconds by A.K. Forbes; March 2020
Spring show cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic
2018-2019 Season
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis; September-October 2018
How to Eat like a Child by D. Ephron, I. Forster, & J. Kahan; December 2018
Women Playing Hamlet by William Missouri Downs; February 2019
The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher; April-May 2019
2017-2018 Season
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies; September-October 2017
The Unvarnished Truth by Royce Ryton; December 2017
Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh; February 2018
Bingo, the Winning Musical by M. Heitzman, I. Reid, & D. Holcenberg; April 2018
2016-2017 Season
The Faculty Lounge by Teri Foltz; October 2016
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss; December 2016
Love/Sick by John Cariani; January-February 2017
Don’t Talk to the Actors by Tom Dudzick; April 2017
2015-2016 Season
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott; September
My Friend, the Fox by William Glennon; November 2015
Dearly Departed by David Bottrell & Jesse Jones; February 2016
The Girls of the Garden Club by John Patrick; April 2016
2014-2015 Season
Evil Dead, the Musical by George Reinblatt & various composers; October 2014
Santa Spikes the Eggnog… by A.K. Forbes; December 2014
The Women by Clare Booth Luce; February 2015
Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock; April 2015
2013-2014 Season
Darkside by Ken Jones; September 2013
A Year with Frog & Toad by Willie & Robert Reale; December 2013
Almost, Maine by John Cariani; February 2014
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling; May 2014
2012-2013 Season
The Curious Savage by John Patrick; September 2012
The Magician’s Nephew by Aurand Harris; November-December 2012
Swiss Cheese, Sweethearts… by A.K. Forbes & Phil Paradis; February 2013
The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein; April 2013
2011-2012 Season
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel; September-October 2011
The Secret Garden by Helen Avery; December 2011
Come Back to the Five & Dime… by Ed Graczyk; February 2012
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley; April 2012
2010-2011 Season
Forever Plaid by Stuart Ross & various composers; September 2010
Dorothy Meets Alice… by Joseph Robinette; December 2010
The Lunacy of Love (5 short plays) by Various playwrights; February 2011
Do Not Go Gentle by Susan Zeder; April-May 2011
2009-2010 Season
Southern Hospitality by J. Jones, N. Hope, & J. Wooten; August 2009
The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf by Joseph Robinette; December 2009
Full Moon by Norman Krasna; February 2010
Belles by Mark Dunn; April-May 2010
2008-2009 Season
Christmas Belles by J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten; October 2008
Clara & the Nutcracker by Fred Tacon; December 2008
Epic Proportions by Larry Coen & David Crane; February 2009
Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Ubry; April-May 2009
2007-2008 Season
That Darn Plot by David Belke; September-October 2007
The Christmas Toy Shop by Michele Vacca; November-December 2007
Proof by David Auburn; February 2008
Dearly Beloved by J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten; April 2008
2006-2007 Season
The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson; July-August 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare; October 2006
The Wizard of OZ by Anne Coulter Martens; December 2006
Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott; April 2007
2005-2006 Season
Lester the Jester by Fred Tacon; July 2005
Harvey by Mary Chase; September-October 2005
Hyronomous A. Frog by Edith Weiss; December 2005
Last of the Red-Hot Lovers by Neil Simon; February 2006
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) by J. Borgeson, A. Long, & D. Singer; May 2006
2004-2005 Season
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney; July 2004
The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt; September-October 2004
Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon; February 2005
Over the River & Through the Woods by Joe Dipietro; May 2005
2003-2004 Season
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon; July-August 2003
The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive; October 2003
Stuart Little by Joseph Robinette; December 2003
An Evening with Mark Twain by Bill Hartnett; February 2004
Social Security by Andrew Bergman; April-May 2004
2002-2003 Season
Bus Stop by William Inge; July-August 2002
Twelve Angry Jurors by Sherman Sergel; October 2002
The Hobbit by Edward Mast; December 2002
Lettice & Lovage by Peter Shaffer; February-March 2003
Some Enchanted Evening by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein; April-May 2003
2001-2002 Season
Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade; July-August, 2001
Rumors by Neil Simon; October 2001
Dear Edwina by Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich; November-December 2001
Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell; February 2002
Cheaper by the Dozen by Christopher Sergel; May 2002
2000-2001 Season
The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney; July-August 2000
Beau Jest by James Sherman; October 2000
Winnie the Pooh by Kristin Sergel; December 2000
Foxfire by Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, Jonathan Holtzman; February 2001
The Heiress by Ruth & Augustus Goetz; April-May 2001
1999-2000 Season
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; July-August 1999
Clever Dick by Charles Marowitz; October 1999
1940’s Radio Hour by Walton Jones & various composers; February 2000
Talley & Son by Lanford Wilson; April-May 2000
1998-1999 Season
See How They Run by Philip King; July-August 1998
The Passion of Dracula by Bob Hall & David Richmond; October 1998
Old King Cole by Ken Campbell; December 1998
The Girls of the Garden Club by John Patrick; February 1999
Picnic by William Inge; April-May 1999
1997-1998 Season
Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson; July-August 1997
Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson; October 1997
My Emperor’s New Clothes by Larry Shue; December 1997
Fools by Neil Simon; February 1998
Forty Carats by Jay Presson Allen; April-May 1998
1996-1997 Season
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s by Sam Bobrick & Ron Clark; July-August 1996
Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring; October 1996
The Curious Savage by John Patrick; February 1997
U.T.B.U. by James Kirkwood; April-May 1997
1995-1996 Season
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman; July-August 1995
Nuptials by Judy Cook; October 1995
Dark Castle by Sally Netzel; December 1995
The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry; February 1996
Dearly Departed by David Bottrell & Jesse Jones; May 1996
1994-1995 Season
Crossing Delancey by Susan Sandler; July-August 1994
The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash; October 1994
The Mirrorman by Brian Way; December 1994
Lie, Cheat, & Genuflect by Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore; February 1995
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin; May 1995
1993-1994 Season
Give ‘em Hell, Harry by Carl Eugene Bolta; July-August 1993
Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig; October 1993
Hucklebee & the Rhyming Mountain by Wil Denson; December 1993
Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky; February 1994
The Whales of August by David Berry; May 1994
1992-1993 Season
The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell; July-August 1992
Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. by Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore; October 1992
Marmalade Gumdrops by Carol Lauck; December 1992
Day in Hollywood/Night in the Ukraine by Dick Vosburgh & Frank Lazarus; February 1993
The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin; May 1993
1991-1992 Season
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde; July-August 1991
The Pajama Game by G. Abbott, R. Bissell, J. Ross, & R. Adler; October 1991
Ali Baba & The Magic Cave by William Glennon; December 1991
The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon; February 1992
A Murder is Announced by Leslie Darbon & Agatha Christie; May 1992
1990-1991 Season
Macbeth Did It by John Patrick; August 1990
Cole by Barry Green, Alan Strachan, & Cole Porter; October-November 1990
My Friend, the Fox by William Glennon; November 1990
The White Sheep of the Family by L. du Garde Peach & Ian Hay; February 1991
Broadway Bound by Neil Simon; May 1991
1989-1990 Season
The Foreigner by Larry Shue; August 1989
Design for Murder by George Batson; November 1989
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote; January-February 1990
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling; May 1990
1988-1989 Season
Tom Jones by David Rogers & Henry Fielding; August 1988
George Washington Slept Here by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; November 1988
Stepping Out by Richard Harris; February 1989
The Odd Couple (Female) by Neil Simon; May 1989
1987-1988 Season
Light up the Sky by Moss Hart; July-August 1987
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; November 1987
Chicken Every Sunday by Julius & Philip Epstein; February 1988
Something’s Afoot by J. McDonald, D. Vos, & R. Gerlach; May 1988
1986-1987 Season
A Funny Thing Happened…Forum by B. Shevelove, L. Gellert, & S. Sondheim; July-August 1986
The Octette Bridge Club by P.J. Berry; November 1986
Painting Churches by Tina Howe; February 1987
Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams; April-May 1987
1985-1986 Season
Whodunnit, Darling? by Charles Edward Pogue & Larry Drake; August 1985
Rain by John Colton & Clemence Randolph; November 1985
The Silver Whistle by Robert E McEnroe; February 1986
Tantalus by Ian Cullen & Catherine Arley; May 1986
1984-1985 Season
The Second Time Around by Henry Denker; November 1984
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s by Sam Bobrick & Ron Clark; February 1985
Waiting in the Wings by Noel Coward; May 1985
1983-1984 Season
Strange Bedfellows by Colin Clements & Florence Ryerson; November 1983
Lunch Hour by Jean Kerr; February 1984
Morning’s at Seven by Paul Osborn; May 1984
1982-1983 Season
You Can’t Take It with You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; November 1982
Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton; February 1983
God’s Favorite by Neil Simon; May 1983
1981-1982 Season
On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson; November 1981
Breath of Spring by Peter Coke; February 1982
The Pleasure of His Company by Samuel Taylor & Cornelia Otis Skinner; April-May 1982
1980-1981 Season
No Hard Feelings by Sam Bobrick & Ron Clark; November 1980
Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon; February 1981
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring; April-May 1981
1979-1980 Season
6 Rms Riv Vu by Bob Randall; November 1979
Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; February 1980
A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner; May 1980
1978-1979 Season
Night Watch by Lucille Fletcher; November 1978
Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette & Guy Bolton; February 1979
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; May 1979
1977-1978 Season
Catch Me if You Can by Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert; November 1977
Harvey by Mary Chase; January-February 1978
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson; April-May 1978
1976-1977 Season
Rally Round the Flag, Boys by David Rogers & Max Shulman; November 1976
Fool’s Paradise by Peter Coke; February 1977
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon; April-May 1977
1975-1976 Season
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder; October-November 1975
Dinny and the Witches by William Gibson; January-February 1976
Last of the Red-Hot Lovers by Neil Simon; April-May 1976
1974-1975 Season
See How They Run by Philip King; November 1974
Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson & William Berney; January-February 1975
Sunday in New York by Norman Krasna; May 1975
1973-1974 Season
Mary, Mary by Jean Kerr; November 1973
The Curious Savage by John Patrick; January-February 1974
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon; May 1974
1972-1973 Season
State of the Union by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; November 1972
Bell, Book, and Candle by John Van Druten; January-February 1973
U.T.B.U. by James Kirkwood; May 1973
1971-1972 Season
Don’t Drink the Water by Woody Allen; November 1971
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott; February 1972
Picnic by William Inge; May 1972
1970-1971 Season
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward; November 1970
My Three Angels by Samuel & Bella Spewack; February 1971
Cactus Flower by Abe Burrows; April-May 1971
1969-1970 Season
Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan; November 1969
Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple, Jr; January-February 1970
Never Too Late by Sumner Arthur Long; April-May 1970
1968-1969 Season
The Crucible by Arthur Miller; November 1968
Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil; January-February 1969
Absence of a Cello by Ira Wallach; April-May 1969
1967-1968 Season
Guest in the House by Hagar Wilde & Dale Eunson; November 1967
The Gazebo by Alex Coppel; February 1968
The Women by Clare Boothe Luce; May 1968
1966-1967 Season
The Solid Gold Cadillac by George S. Kaufman & Howard Teichmann; April 1967