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.