On Golden Pond Presented by MainStage

May 3 -18  I  (Replacing Grand Hotel)

MainStage Irving-Las Colinas has announced a change to the 2024-25 season. The previously announced production of Grand Hotel will be replaced with Ernest Thompson’s touching On Golden Pond. The timeless play will be directed by Michael Serrecchia.

Best known for the award-winning 1981 film starring Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond tells the story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. Norman is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return.

Patrons holding tickets to Grand Hotel do not need to do anything. Those tickets will admit them for On Golden Pond.  Patrons with questions should call the Irving Arts Center Box Office at 972-252-2787.

Box Office Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: Noon to 5:00 p.m. and 1 hour prior to performances
Contact: 972.252.2787 (ARTS)