Past Performances in the Lynn Theatre

Dates

March 21, 22, 23*, 27, 28, 29, and 30*

Showtimes

7:00 p.m.

*Sunday matinees opened at 2:00 p.m.

In the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, Alice Spencer’s budding teen life is turned upside down, and she and her dear friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. When the ailing Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with her into their cherished book and journey down the rabbit hole to Wonderland.

Directed by Foster Solomon, Alice by Heart was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

Alice by Heart was open admission for all Brightpoint students and our community, but we welcomed donations to the Arts at Brightpoint.

Dates: Thursday, February 20 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. & Friday, February 21 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

A one-woman play written and directed by Brightpoint Professor Foster Solomon. The Penny Executive is about the life of Ms. Maggie Walker, the first Black female president of a U.S. bank.

The play was free and open to the public. 

When Will is faced with the impending death of his younger sister, Shay, he realizes he must do something to stop it. With a little help from a statue of St. Francis (and possibly the edibles he ingests), he connects with a miraculous power inside him that can heal his sister, but may cost him his own life. If he can only get past his mother, who both believes and doubts it all...

WillJee was intended for mature audiences. Written by M Mary Sullivan and directed by Kerrigan Sullivan, WillJee was the third production in The Lynn Theatre Studio Series. WillJee was developed in the Pipeline New Works Fellowship Program by Cadence Theatre Company. The playwriting cohort was led by David Lindsay-Abaire, a Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist. 

Presented January 24 – February 6, 2025

Join the Brightpoint Brass and student musicians in a free concert featuring a variety of instrumental and vocal selections! 

Date: Saturday, December 14 at 7:00 p.m. 

Location: The Lynn Theatre (Midlothian Campus, Trailblazer Hall) 

The Brightpoint Department of Music presents a concert of seasonal music and holiday favorites featuring the Brightpoint Chorus and the Brightpoint Chamber Ensemble. Admission is free. 

Date: Friday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m. 

Location: The Lynn Theatre (Midlothian Campus, Trailblazer Hall) 

At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, they begin to question who is really the hero and what is the truth, discovering their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy captures a generation in mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, writing their own coming-of-age story.

John Proctor Is the Villain is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.

Presented November 8 – 17, 2024

The Phantom Tollbooth comes to the rescue of the perpetually bored Milo. Transported to the Land of Wisdom, Milo is thrust into adventure rescuing the Princesses Rhyme and Reason and bringing peace between two divided kings. Knee-deep in danger, language and math along the way, Milo learns everything has a purpose.

Select dates: March 22–30, 2024

Tickets: $10 (free with a Brightpoint student ID)

Directed by August Hundley • Music Direction by Cassie Cipolla •

Choreography by Lisa Perkinson

The Phantom Tollbooth is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 

Presented by the Brightpoint Chorus and Brightpoint Instrumental Ensembles. Admission is free and open to the public.

Directed by Dr. David Guthrie

Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:00–8:30 PM

Free

Additional Events: 

• Improv Showcase on Friday, April 26 at 7:00–8:30 p.m. Directed by Kerrigan Sullivan • Free
• Advanced Acting on Saturday, April 27, 2024, shows at 2:00–3:30 p.m. and at 7:00–8:30 p.m. Directed by Foster Solomon • Free
• Acting I Showcase Monday, April 29, 2024 at 12:45–1:45 p.m. Directed by Landon Nagel • Free
• Music Showcase Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:00–8:30 p.m.

Adapted for the stage from the 2021 film Foster Solomon wrote and directed, Hawks Ridge tells the story of Elijah Frank, a black, grieving ex-pastor who must decide whether to save the life of the white man that killed his wife. Elijah’s journey reflects complex personal feelings about love, despair, religion, and (most importantly) HOPE in the uncertainty of the modern world. Recommended for mature audiences.

Presented by the Brightpoint Chorus and the Brightpoint Chamber Ensemble.

Friday, December 1, 2023

A concert of seasonal music and holiday favorites featuring the Brightpoint Chorus and the new instrumental Brightpoint Chamber Ensemble.

Free and open to the public.

The Lynn Theatre Mainstage is proud to present David Ives' new version of Georges Feydeau's classic farce, A Flea in Her Ear!

The lovely Raymonde Chandebise wonders why her husband has stopped visiting her bedroom, and assumes he must be having an affair. So she asks her friend Lucienne to write him a love letter meant to lure him to a rendezvous where she can catch him in the act of being unfaithful. But when Raymondes (very faithful) husband Victor Emmanuel receives the letter, he assumes its for his bachelor friend Tournel and gives it to him instead, setting in motion a hilarious series of events that bounces from the Chandebise home to a hotel of ill repute, where anything (and apparently everyone) goes.

Performances on select dates November 10 – 19, 2023. Tickets are $10, or free with a Brightpoint Student ID. Directed by Foster Solomon. Recommended for audiences age 13 and up.

The Brightpoint Music Program presents "This Shall Be for Music," a concert featuring the Brightpoint Chorus, directed by Dr. David Guthrie, with accompanist Justin Lee. The concert will feature a variety of selections including folk songs, show tunes, and more. Admission is free!

Friday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m.

The Lynn Theatre presents ONCE ON THIS ISLAND! Celebrate storytelling with this rousing Calypso-flavored tale of one small girl who finds love in a world of prejudice.

Show dates:
Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 25 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 26 at 2 p.m.
Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m.*
Friday, March 31 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 1 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 2 at 2 p.m.

Recommended for audiences 12 and up.

JUMP BABY, an original musical by Rachel Landsee and Mark Messing, inaugurates The Lynn Theatre Studio Series of winter performances. Through continuous deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and an airborne operation gone awry, Jump Baby explores the timeless dialectic of war and love. JUMP BABY opens in January 2023. Directed by Kerrigan Sullivan.

Directed by Dr. David Guthrie
Accompanied by Justin Lee

7:00 p.m.
Friday, December 9, 2022

Two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love, motherhood, family, art and science in this contemporary comedy. LEGACY OF LIGHT juxtaposes the story of Émilie du Châtelet—a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great 18th-century philosopher Voltaire—who became unexpectedly pregnant at 42, and that of a 21st-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child. Directed by Zack Owen.

November 11–13 and 17–19

Recommended for audiences age 13 and up.

Join us Friday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m. for "Sing with the Spirit!," a concert featuring the Brightpoint Chorus Ensemble! The program will feature a variety of selections including classical pieces, spirituals, folk songs, and more. Admission is free!

Directed by Dr. David Guthrie and accompanied by Mr. Justin Lee

Everyone's favorite ogre is back in the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Oscar-winning, smash-hit film! Shrek The Musical brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there’s more to the story than meets the ears and that beauty is truly in the eye of the ogre. Tickets are free for current Brightpoint students or $10 for general admission. April 1st–3rd & 7th–10th.

Presented by Brightpoint Chorus Ensemble
December 10, 2021, 7 p.m.
Lynn Theatre, Trailblazer Hall, Midlothian Campus

You are cordially invited to attend "Sing Noel!", a holiday concert presented by the Brightpoint Chorus Ensemble. The program will feature music of the season, including several holiday favorites. Admission is free.

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Foster Solomon

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. It follows four young lovers: Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena as they escape parental interference and flee into the woods. The lovers become entangled with the fairy kingdom as the mischievous Puck casts spells on them for the entertainment of the King and Queen of the fairies. A band of would-be actors who have come to the woods to rehearse are also caught in the spell. In the end, order is restored, love triumphs and the play within a play is performed as a wedding gift. Our production sets the play in the 60's and 70's so get ready for some serious disco madness!

The Brightpoint Music Department and The Lynn Theatre proudly present our Spring 2021 Brightpoint Chorus Ensemble Virtual Showcase.

No Clue! A New Musical, written by Levi Meerovich and Kerrigan Sullivan, is an all-original radio-play musical comedy where the audience is tasked with determining who – out of the hilarious, gut-busting suspects – might be the supposed Jugular Smasher.

Presented online April 9, 10 and 11. 

Charmaine Crowell-White returned to The Lynn Theatre to reprise her role as Harriet Tubman in a one-woman virtual play about one of the most important abolitionist figures in American history.

Presented online February 25

Conceived, written and created by Brightpoint’s students, faculty, staff, and community partners, No More War: Stories of Pandemic and Protest presents a series of vignettes inspired by our current experiences.