Upcoming Events
Hope to see you soon at some of our upcoming productions! Stay tuned for the latest updates on show schedules, ticket sales, and more.
See you at the Cast & Crew Retreat on Saturday, September 20!
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Join us in the BSHS Theater from 10AM-2PM for food and fun, and great company!
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A - L bring a main dish to share
M - S bring a dessert to share
T - Z bring drinks to share
Holiday Show
Dinner with the MacGuffins
One Christmas Eve at the Evergreen Mall
December 9, 2025
Spring Production
Once Upon A Mattress
April 10-11, 2026
High Tea with Prince Dauntless and Princess Winifred - April 4, 2026
Student Film Festival
May 4, 2026
SEASON OF DISCOVERY
2025 - 2026
The 25-26 theatre season at Bloomingdale High School focuses on discovery of a new theatre, under Producing Artistic Director, Dr. Chad Cornwell. The community will discover the philosophy of the theatre program to encourage and educate generations of arts appreciators, arts funders, arts educators, and artists.
Discovering Who We Are
The theatre season opens in November with Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan based on the children’s book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and freely adapted for the stage by Rick Elice, with co-directors Alex Timbers and Roger Rees. The original Broadway production was a deliberately low-budget spectacle: an extravaganza of staging that relied on suggestion and storytelling rather than expensive set pieces like the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera or the helicopter in Miss Saigon. Elice’s is a coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan - inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl - became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.​
Discovering Who We Could Be
In December, guests will enjoy two productions. Dinner with the MacGuffins, Bloomingdale’s competitive one act explores a world, just a little bit “off”. Think back to the Twilight Zone and old Alfred Hitchcock movies, with a twinge of humor. Written by Florida natives Chris Shepherd and Jeff Grove, Dinner with the MacGuffins appears to be quite normal, until three (one plus two) unexpected visitors take the production in a unique direction. Bloomingdale Theatre will present the one act at the District Nine Thespian One Act Festival at USF, (tentatively) at the Florida Theatre Festival in Winter Haven, and finally at the Bloomingdale Theatre Holiday Show.
Dinner is paired with One Christmas Eve at Evergreen Mall, eight intertwined stories in a Midwestern mall on the last day of shopping before the holiday. A diverse cast of characters—from a lovesick mall Santa to an overeager mall cop, from a pair of brainy misfit teenagers to a pair of battling actors in a production of A Christmas Carol, from a petulant college freshman to a pair of newlyweds—navigate first meetings, second chances, and last-minute choices. One Christmas Eve wraps the joys and sorrows of the season into one festive package, and features students from the performance and technical theatre programs, as well as some select individual events from the fall Thespys (competitive theatre).
​Discovering Who Others Are When We Look Under the Surface
Concluding the Bloomingdale Theatre’s season is the family favorite, Once Upon A Mattress, a telling of the humorous fairy tale, The Princes and the Pea, originally by Hans Christian Andersen. The biggest change is Bloomingdale’s production set in Buckingham Palace in 2026. The sets and costumes are modern, but the story is the same story families have enjoyed since Carol Burnett starred as Princess Winifred on off and on Broadway in 1959. More recently (2024) Princess Winifred has been portrayed by Broadway legend Sutton Foster with Burnett as Prince Dauntless’s mother, Queen Aggravain.