Peter and the Starcatcher
A Play By Rick Elice
Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music By Wayne Barker
October 9-11, 2026
The Colonial Theatre, 609 Main Street, Laconia NH
Fri & Sat 7:30, Sun 2:00
$18-$24
This Tony winning play based on the popular book series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is an imaginative account of how an orphan boy becomes the famous Peter Pan by helping an apprentice Starcatcher named Molly foil a plot by pirates led by the infamous Black Stache. This imaginative storytelling theatre style production will excite audience members of all ages.
A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.