Between the Lines
theatre as conversation
Between the Lines is a staged reading series featuring thought-provoking plays driven by big questions rather than big spectacle. Each reading focuses on rich language, compelling characters, and moral, philosophical, and social ideas.
Join us for a Saturday matinee performance followed by an optional, facilitated engagement experience—including guided discussions, simple creative prompts, and shared reflection.

Kimberly Akimbo
November 7, 2026
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by: Jason Connors
Hilarious dark comedy with heart
Meet the Levaco family — an anything-but-average working-class family from New Jersey — whose teenage daughter, Kimberly, was born with a condition that causes her to age four and half times faster than everyone else. Watch how Kimberly navigates high school, her very pregnant mother, her drunken father, her criminal aunt… and maybe even her first boyfriend?
Footlighters’ own President of the Board, Pam Lambert, stars as Kimberly in this outrageously funny and deeply moving play, recently adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical. Note: Contains explicit language,
KIMBERLY AKIMBO is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com

Rhinoceros
January 9, 2027
By Eugene Ionesco / Translated by Derek Prouse
Directed by: Jason Connors
Mid-20th-century masterpiece of Absurdist Theatre”
In a bustling Paris café, a meeting between two longtime friends is abruptly disrupted by the shocking intrusion of a mysterious and exotic menace. The aftermath plunges the friends — and their entire community — into an absurd new reality, as each character develops their own way of making sense of, accepting, rationalizing, and conforming to the “alternative facts” transforming them into something unrecognizable.
An allegory about the dangers of complacency in perilous times, this timeless and unsettling play is as relevant now as when it was first performed — and not to be missed.
RHINOCEROS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

Candida
March 6, 2027
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Jason Connors
Pinnacle of biting Shavian wit
When the disarmingly charming Candida returns home from abroad to her popular yet egocentric reverend husband, she brings back not only her luggage, but a young poet she befriended along the way. Reverend Morell might tolerate his wife’s new companion — if the idealistic Marchbanks weren’t head-over-heels in love with Candida and determined to free her from what he sees as a life of domestic banality.
Who will Candida choose? This Valentine’s season, choose an evening at Footlighters for a night of exquisitely witty banter and a thoughtful exploration of love, commitment, and the complicated duties of following one’s own heart.

R.U.R. : Rossum’s Universal Robots
May 1, 2027
By Karel Čapek / Translated by Paul Selver
Directed by: Jason Connors
Groundbreaking early science-fiction drama
Ever wonder where the word robot came from? It was coined in this play. The Universal Robot Company manufactures humanoid machines designed for every household and industrial task imaginable. But what happens when these machine-servants begin to learn, think, and dream for themselves?
Will they accept a life of servitude — or rise up against their creators? Written over 100 years ago, this astonishingly prescient play anticipated many of our modern anxieties about artificial intelligence and automation, asking what it means to remain human in a world obsessed with efficiency.

