AUDITIONS
50th Season
Old Courthouse Theatre has five mainstage shows in each season that have open auditions typically 6 to 8 weeks before each show opens. Auditions are announced on this page, by email and on our social media pages - Facebook and Instagram
Unless otherwise noted all auditions will be held at: Old Courthouse Theatre, 49 Spring Street NW, Concord, NC 28025
Times will be posted for each show.
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Audition Dates: June 8 and 9, 2025
Performance Dates: August 7 to 17, 2025
Director: TBD
“An inspired comic romp.”
Winner of Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play.
Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing lodge holiday in the Deep South of America. To avoid being pestered by the locals, he pretends that he is a foreigner who speaks no English. Of course, hilarity ensues!
Company
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Audition Dates: August 3 and 4, 2025
Performance Dates: October 9 to 19, 2025
Director: TBD
“There is nothing fragile about Company... it is by turns brassy, brittle, sympathetic, cynical, romantic, calculating and alive-oh so very much alive. It’s been a long time since a musical has come along with so many show-stopping numbers.... Stephen Sondheim’s music and lyrics add up to one of the best scores on Broadway currently.... Company is the best musical of the year” – The Wall Street Journal
In a series of vignettes, Company tells the story of New York bachelor Bobby who learns about the perils and pleasures of love, marriage, dating, and divorce from his married friends. Sondheim’s score includes: “Getting Married Today,” “The Little Things you Do Together,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Being Alive,” and “Have I Got a Girl for You.”
A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Michael Paller
Based on the Story by Charles Dickens
Audition Dates: September 28 and 29, 2025
Performance Dates: December 4 to 14, 2025
Director:
“Done with respect and ingenuity. Deserves to be seen.” - Cleveland Free Press
“A treat ... for the whole family to enjoy.” - Cleveland Sunday Press
This fresh approach to the classic tale faithfully conveys the magic of Dickens. On Christmas Eve in 1843, friends and family gathered at Dickens’ home ask him to tell a story, but he refuses to work on Christmas Eve. If there is going to be a story, each must take a part in the telling.
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Audition Dates: December 7 to 8, 2025
Performance Dates: February 12 to 22, 206
Director: TBD
A Streetcar Named Desire is a brilliant, implacable play about the disintegration of a woman, or, if you like, of a society.” – The New Yorker
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama;
Winner of the 2023 Olivier Award f
or Best Revival of a Play.
Explosive, passionate and heartrending, A Streetcar Named Desire is Modern American Theatre at its best. With his signature poetic prose, muggy Southern Gothic setting and psychological insight, Tennessee Williams’s mighty play and his troubled eccentric heroine unravel before our very eyes.
Kiss Me, Kate
Book by Samuel and Bella Spewack
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Audition Dates: February 22 and 23, 2026
Performance Dates: April 30 to May 10, 2026
Director: TBD
The ORIGINAL GOLD of the Golden Age of Musicals; WINNER of the FIRST EVER TONY AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL in 1949;
Winner also the same year for Best Script and Best Score (5 total awards that year)/WINNER of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival and Best Orchestrations (5 total that year)/WINNER of the 2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Orchestrations/WINNER of the 2019 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical
The Battle of the Sexes takes center stage as former spouses feud onstage and off during a musical presentation of The Taming of the Shrew. Sophisticated, romantic and delightfully hilarious, Kiss Me, Kate boasts a sparkling Cole Porter score and a brilliant book from Sam and Bella Spewack. Cole Porter’s score includes: “Too Darm Hot,” "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "So in Love," and “From This Moment On."
