ROME LITTLE THEATRE 2025-2026
Upcoming Mainstage Shows
Season Tickets On Sale June 16, 2025 | Single Tickets On Sale July 15, 2025
Mean Girls Jr.
August 29-September 7, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
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Book by Tina Fey
Music by Jeff Richmond
Lyrics by Nell Benjamin
Based on the Paramount Pictures film Mean Girls
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady and her friends devise a "Revenge Party" to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.Adapted from Fey's hit 2004 film, Mean Girls was nominated for a staggering 12 Tony Awards. This queen-bee took Broadway by storm and has joined the musical in-crowd. And now, so can you with the Mean Girls High School Version!
Now and Then
October 3-12, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
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By Sean Grennan
Sometimes what happens after last call just might change your life. One night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, a desperate last-minute customer offers him and his girlfriend Abby two thousand dollars to sit and have a drink with him. Who wouldn't take it? As the trio swaps stories and Jamie considers the decisions he faces about his musical career and his future with his girlfriend Abby. the young couple begins to realize that this older man is unusually invested in their choices... and the reason he gives them is completely unbelievable. But when a very displeased second stranger arrives, the unbelievable begins to look like it just might be true. Now and Then is a heartfelt romantic comedy about the costs of the choices we make, and the people who make them with us.
A Tuna Christmas
December 5-14, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 2:30pm
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​​​​By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it’s Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including the hot competition in the annual lawn-display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of A Christmas Carol is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmas is a total delight for all seasons, whether performed by two quick-changing comedians as it was on Broadway, or by twenty or more. Production requirements are minimal, making the play suitable for school and community producers as well as large venues. Audiences who have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy this laugh-filled evening.
The SpongeBob Musical
March 20-29, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
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Based on the series by Stephen Hillenburg
Book by Kyle Jarrow
Musical Production Conceived by Tina Landau
Additional Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton Additional Music by Tom Kitt
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The SpongeBob Musical is incredibly fun and family-friendly, its timeless story of identity, crisis, and community is also a witty allegory that examines and critiques the politics of the modern era, and it does so in such a way where children will appreciate and understand the plot line, while adults can read between the lines and extract even more from the musical’s message. SpongeBob SquarePants features an eclectic score of music, each song having been written by a different musical artist with the purposes of recreating the type of musical hodgepodge exhibited by the original television series.
Love/Sick
May 1-10, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
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​​​​By John Cariani
A darker cousin to Almost, Maine, John Cariani’s LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a Friday night in an alternate suburban reality, this 80-minute romp explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Full of imperfect lovers and dreamers, LOVE/SICK is an unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone.
EXTRA OFFERINGS - Tickets On Sale July 15, 2025
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
with Shadow Cast
October 24 & 25, 2025
Friday & Saturday at 8:00pm
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Back by popular demand!
RLT presents a special screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" with a live shadow cast featuring actors from RLT's 2015 production of "The Rocky Horror Show." Participation prop kits are included in the ticket price. RHPS costumes are encouraged. No outside props, food, or drink permitted.
Tiny Beautiful Things
February 6-15, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position of advice columnist, Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions which have no answers.
