DA’s 2024 high school fall play opens next week! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (90-minute version) is based on the novel by Mark Haddon of the same name, adapted by Simon Stephens. Performances will be held next Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 7-9 at 7 p.m. in DA’s Louise McCabe Performing Arts Center in the Gary Family Theater. The play is best enjoyed by those ages 13 and up.

Fun DA fact: DA Alum Gene Gillette is known for portraying Ed Boone in the Broadway First National Tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for The National Theatre. Click here to read his DA Alumni Spotlight.

THE STORY: 15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road; he detests being touched; and he distrusts strangers. Now it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.