By Irene Sankoff and David Hein 

Come From Away is based on the true story of the time when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small town turned into an international sleepover, when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from around the globe, were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001. Undaunted by culture clashes and language barriers, the people of Gander cheered the stranded travelers with music, an open bar and the recognition that we’re all part of a global family.

Based on the film adapted by Sandy Rustin

It was a dark and stormy night. Six strangers. One mansion. A murder — or three. And absolutely nobody is telling the whole truth.

Was it Miss Scarlet in the library? Colonel Mustard with the candlestick? Or is everyone guilty of something?

Clue is the beloved murder mystery comedy that proves even rooted people need to laugh until they can't breathe. We give you permission to scream, point fingers, and enjoy every chaotic, hilarious minute of it.

By Ossie Davis 

In 1961, Ossie Davis sat down and wrote a comedy about a Black preacher in the Jim Crow South who decides he is going to claim what belongs to him — by any means necessary, and with a grin on his face.

Sixty-some years later, it still lands like a bell.

Purlie Victorious Judson has a plan. It involves a forgotten inheritance, a borrowed dress, a little bit of performance, and an unshakeable belief that the ground beneath his feet was always his. The system says otherwise. Purlie does not care.

Purlie Victorious is a masterpiece of wit, fury, and joy — a play that dares to laugh at injustice without ever letting it off the hook. It is a declaration as much as it is a comedy.

An original play by Bleu Do'zia 

Macy finds him on the sidewalk in front of the new art museum, a homeless man named Nick, quiet and unhurried, with something about him she can't quite name.

She can't name it, but she can feel it. Because whenever Nick is near, magical things happen. Small things. Impossible things. The kind of things that make you stop and ask whether the world is stranger and more generous than you gave it credit for.

Her father Aaron Hale doesn't see it that way. A city councilman with a cold and practical eye, Aaron has made it his mission to clear the homeless from Winchester's streets. He is not a villain. He is a man whose heart stopped warming the day his wife died and has been governing from that frozen place ever since.

Miracle on Braddock Street is an original play set right here, in this city, on this street, outside the very kind of space where art and community are supposed to change things. It is a story about what happens when a child still believes what a grieving father has forgotten: that magic is real, that the most inconvenient people carry the most necessary grace, and that a heart can thaw.

By Del Martin 

Joseph Merrick is known to the world as the Elephant Man. Joseph lived in Victorian London as the most famous freak of his age. He was exhibited, studied, pitied, celebrated, and never fully seen.

Del Martin's extraordinary ensemble adaptation does something no single actor can do alone: it distributes the weight of Merrick's inner life across an entire company. Every member of the cast inhabits him. Every voice carries a piece of who he was. The result is not a spectacle — it is a reckoning.

The Elephant Man asks what it truly means to be seen. Not observed. Not displayed. Not diagnosed. Seen. And it asks what we owe each other when we look.

This is the most theatrically adventurous production of our season, and one of the most important stories we have ever chosen to tell.

An original work · Upstage Youth Ensemble 

Alice is asleep. And in her dream, nothing makes sense, yet somehow, everything does.

Down she goes, past the rabbit hole and straight into the most wonderfully strange landscape imaginable: a world where the Cheshire Cat speaks in Seussian rhyme, where the Queen of Hearts is running for office, where the Mad Hatter and Thing One and Thing Two are throwing the same tea party, and where the only way out is to figure out who you actually are.

The Very Strange Dream of Alice M. Who is an original Selah-Upstage production. A wholly invented collision of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss, performed by our youth ensemble and made entirely our own. It is funny, it is wild, it is wise, and it is proof that our young artists are rooted in something real.

An original play by Bleu Do’zia

Ruth’s Tea Room was real. It was a Black-owned Winchester institution, a place where community was poured into every cup, where people gathered not just to drink tea but to belong to something. This play is its tribute.

Azi Wells has come home. Her mother is gone, and grief has brought her back to the one place that still holds the shape of who she used to be — Ms. V’s tea room. In the hours that follow, the tea room fills again with the memories of people who loved it, and love Azi in the complicated, tender, sometimes insufficient ways that people love each other when they don’t know what else to do.

What unfolds is not just a story about loss. It is a story about what survives loss: community, memory, the particular warmth of a room where you were always welcome. It is about what Black-owned spaces mean to the people who built them and the people who were raised inside them. It is about a daughter trying to find her mother in the only place she has left.

Ruth’s Tea Room is an original work by Selah Theatre’s Artistic Director Bleu Do’zia, now in its fourth production and returning home to The Vivienne L. Jackson Sanctuary for the Arts.

*DINNER THEATRE VERSION ON APRIL 17 FOR THE WORK CONTINUES SCHOLARSHIP DINNER

An evening of story, supper, and service. Join Selah Theatre Project at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley for The Work Continues Scholarship Dinner, featuring the production of Ruth's Tea Room. Guests are welcomed to the table for a shared meal curated by Chef Do'zia of Atlanta, Georgia. Before the lights rise on this intimate production, blending Southern hospitality with powerful storytelling, we are giving special awards to our community for bring Selah Theatre Project this far. Every ticket supports the Larry Lamar Yates Memorial Scholarship, carrying forward a legacy of access, opportunity, and unapologetic art for the next generation of artists. Come hungry. Leave inspired. The work continues, one story at a time.

By Michael Frayn 

What happens when a theatre company that has been through everything, the grief, the glory, the arguments, the miracles, gets on stage together for a backstage farce?

Everything goes wrong. Absolutely everything. And it is the funniest thing you will ever see.

Noises Off is Michael Frayn's masterwork comedy about a touring production of a terrible play, and the magnificent human disaster unfolding behind the scenes. Doors slam. Sardines appear. Relationships collapse in real time. The show must go on...and it does, somehow, against all odds.

We end Season 15 the way we have always endured: together, barely holding it together, laughing until we cry.