2020 Mainstage Show Line-Up

Good Luck Macbeth is committed to creating inspired, innovative, and inclusive theatre for a new Reno. We carry this mission to heart with our 2020 season as we unveil new programmatic initiatives, locally-curated productions, and exciting new partnerships that will enhance and elevate our work.

This season is a mixture of our infamous irreverent comedies, interspersed with engaging social dramas; a mixture of cult classics and modern shows. We firmly believe in the transformative power of theatre; its ability to connect, educate, heal, and uplift. This is more important now, than ever.

​At GLM, we are a loving band of misfits, outcasts, weirdos, and theatre nerds; we are family. When you walk through our doors, we hope that you feel the same way. We are looking forward to an incredible season. Check out our shows and enjoy!

Complete Mainstage Show Descriptions

Noises Off
by Michael Frayn, March 6th - April 4th 

​Michael Frayn's Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. This play-within-a-play captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Frayne gives us a window into the inner workings of theatre behind the scenes, progressing from flubbed lines and missed cues in the dress rehearsal to mounting friction between cast members in the final performance. Brimming with slapstick comedy, Noises Off is a delightful backstage farce, complete with slamming doors, falling trousers, and -- of course -- flying sardines.
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The Revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson, May 1st - May 23rd

Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
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Puffs
by Matt Cox, July 10th - August 1st

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world. puffstheplay.com
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The Colony
by Gina Stevensen, August 13th - August 22nd 
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The Colony is a new play about the eugenics movement in America. Synopsis: In 1924 Virginia, a dirt-poor young woman named Carrie Buck is brought to a mysterious medical facility. No one will tell her why she’s here, or where her two-month-old daughter is. The Doctor in charge is a charming progressive, a student of the new science of heredity and genes. In Carrie, he finds the missing link his movement has been searching for, placing her at the center of a chain of events that will lead all the way to the Supreme Court. Based on a true story, The Colony asks: how does our society, past and present, regulate the bodies of women who are deemed “undesirable”? ​
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Cannibal! The Musical
by Trey Parker, October 2nd - October 24th

​From the co-creator of South Park and The Book of Mormon, comes the “All Singing! All Dancing! All Flesh Eating!” Trey Parkers’ Cannibal! The Musical live on stage. Cannibal! The Musical is the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America - Alfred Packer. The sole survivor of an ill-fated trip to the Colorado Territory, he tells his side of the harrowing tale to news reporter Polly Pry as he awaits his execution. And his story goes like this: While searching for gold and love in the Colorado Territory, he and his companions lost their way and resorted to unthinkable horrors, including toe-tapping songs!
Golden Girls Live Holiday Special … 2.0
by Susan Harris, November 27th - December 19th 

We are doing the Holiday episodes from the iconic television show, along with two of our favorite episodes.