Gather with friends at the historic Asistencia to enjoy delicious catered fare, delightful tea, and a silent auction featuring wonderful items to kick off your holiday shopping.  Spaces are limited for this special event, so reserve your seat today and start your holiday season on a festive note!

Every ticket purchased helps support Footlighters and ensures that we remain the best community theatre right here in Redlands. Special thanks to our cohosts, the Historic Asistencia and Rhonda’s Royal Tea Time, for their partnership and generosity.

Make it a Full Day of Holiday Magic!

Following the tea service at 1:45 PM, cap off your afternoon with our 2:00 PM performance of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” right next door at Redlands Footlighters Theatre! It’s the perfect double-header to get into the Christmas spirit and fun for the whole family. Please note: Show tickets are sold separately. 

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide head-on with the story of Christmas!

This holiday special is produced in partnership with the Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts, Redlands.

General Admission – $20
Students with valid ID – $14
Groups of 10 or more – $17 each

“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

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. 

About the Series:

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. The Saturday matinee performance is followed by an optional, facilitated engagement experience—including guided discussions, simple creative prompts, and shared reflection.

NOTE: Tickets for the Between the Lines series are sold separately and not included in season ticket packages.

General Admission – $10
Students with valid ID – $0 (reservation required)

RHINOCEROS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

Adapted from the same short story that inspired All About Eve and the hit musical Applause! An engrossing and revealing “inside” story of life in New York‘s theatre world, told in terms of an unscrupulous ingenue’s rise to Broadway stardom. The play follows Eve Harrington, a devoted fan who inserts herself into the life of actress Margo Crane. As Eve gets more and more entangled in Margo‘s life, her intentions are revealed to be not as pure as they seemed.

General Admission – $20
Students with valid ID – $14
Groups of 10 or more – $17 each

THE WISDOM OF EVE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

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.

About the Series:

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. The Saturday matinee performance is followed by an optional, facilitated engagement experience—including guided discussions, simple creative prompts, and shared reflection.

NOTE: Tickets for the Between the Lines series are sold separately and not included in season ticket packages.

General Admission – $10
Students with valid ID – $0 (reservation required)

Oscar Wilde’s famously witty play follows two Victorian gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who create false identities (specifically, a brother named “Ernest”) to avoid tiresome societal duties. Their roguish duplicity leads to romantic complications when they woo two charming ladies, Gwendolen and Cecily. After Jack discovers his real name is in fact ‘Ernest’, the play’s farcical resolution untangles their web of identities and satirizes Victorian hypocrisy.

General Admission – $20
Students with valid ID – $14
Groups of 10 or more – $17 each

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. 

About the Series:

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. The Saturday matinee performance is followed by an optional, facilitated engagement experience—including guided discussions, simple creative prompts, and shared reflection.

NOTE: Tickets for the Between the Lines series are sold separately and not included in season ticket packages.

General Admission – $10
Students with valid ID – $0 (reservation required)

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

General Admission – $20
Students with valid ID – $14
Groups of 10 or more – $17 each

“Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com