Sordid Lives (III)
Del Shores
Opening Date:
July 10, 2026
Closing Date:
July 26, 2026
In a small Texas town, a family matriarch’s scandalous death sets off an outrageous funeral gathering. Her relatives and neighbors collide over secrets, shame, identity and old resentments in Del Shores’ irreverent Southern black comedy.
Cast & Crew
Production Notes
Production History
Del Shores’ Sordid Lives closed CST’s Season 42 (2025–2026). Set in Winters, Texas, the comedy follows an extended family gathering after its matriarch dies in a scandalous motel-room accident. Funeral preparations expose secrets and resentments while testing the characters’ capacity for acceptance and forgiveness. This was a distinct revival at CST’s Reno Avenue theatre. CST earlier produced the show in 2007 and 2010.
CST Connections
Elin Bhaird appeared in CST’s 2010 Sordid Lives revival, directed by Rodney Brazil, before directing the 2026 production. okgazette.com
Del Shores appeared at CST in Six Characters in Search of a Play (2018). That engagement’s publicity recalled two previous CST stagings of Sordid Lives.
Terry Veal and Lilli Bassett played Irving and Jean Sultan in Pictures from Home earlier in Season 42.
Ben Hall also designed the set for Pictures from Home, whose costume designer was Elin Bhaird.
Terry Veal previously played Frank Butley opposite Elin Bhaird as Virginia Butley in Native Gardens (2025).
Lilli Bassett and C. W. Bardsher appeared in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2023), the inaugural public mainstage production at the Reno Avenue venue.
Lana Henson played Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys and Dinettes (1986) and is cast as Aida Gianelli in the scheduled Over the River and Through the Woods (2026).
Shelly Harmon is cast as Emma Cristano in that same upcoming production.
Nick Solomon played Ryan in Sheepdog (2024) and designed sound for She Kills Monsters (2025).
Press and Photography
BroadwayWorld production listing and gallery, containing ten captioned rehearsal and production images.
“OKC’s Carpenter Square Theatre Announces 2025–2026 Season” — The Oklahoman, September 11, 2025, supplied season-announcement lead.
Acknowledgments
Supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Inasmuch Foundation, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, and Allied Arts Foundation.
Production-specific sponsors and additional acknowledgments were not included in the supplied record.
Licensing
Current performance licensing is available through Concord Theatricals.