Scratch Theater Brings Dracula Back to Life — With Laughs — at the Lewisville Grand

A Vampire Hunter Who Happens to Be a Woman

The curtain rises at 100 N. Charles St. on July 31, and the Dracula audiences will find there is not quite the one Bram Stoker wrote. Lucy Westfeldt and Jonathan Harker are still in the story, but this time they have recruited a female vampire hunter to help them deal with the count — and the whole affair is played for laughs.

That is the premise Scratch Theater Company is bringing to the Lewisville Grand Theater for a four-performance run at the end of the month. “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” opens Friday, July 31 at 7 p.m., continues Saturday, August 1 at 7 p.m., and closes Sunday, August 2 with matinee and evening performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are priced between $20 and $30.

What Scratch Theater Is Doing With the Material

The Dracula story has been adapted countless times — gothic horror, stage melodrama, film franchise — but comedic stage versions occupy a particular niche. They work when the cast is willing to commit fully to the bit while still honoring the architecture of the original plot. Scratch Theater’s production keeps the core characters intact: Lucy and Jonathan are recognizable figures from Stoker’s novel, and the vampire threat is real within the world of the play. The twist is that the solution involves a hunter the 19th-century source material never imagined.

That kind of revisionist storytelling tends to land well with mixed-age audiences. Parents who know the original can catch the winks; younger theatergoers can enjoy the physical comedy and the pacing without needing any prior knowledge of Victorian gothic fiction.

The Grand’s Summer Programming Context

The Lewisville Grand Theater has been running a varied summer lineup at its Charles Street address in Old Town. The building serves as home base for multiple local and regional theater companies, and the calendar through August reflects that range — music, dance, workshops, and now a full comedic production.

The day of the “Dracula” opening, July 31, also features an Our Productions Theatre Co. workshop running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the same building, which means the Grand will be an active creative space from morning through the evening curtain. For a mid-sized venue in a mid-sized North Texas city, that kind of layered programming on a single day speaks to how much the theater has become a working hub rather than just a rental hall.

A Note on the Venue

The Lewisville Grand Theater sits at 100 N. Charles St., a walkable distance from the restaurants and small businesses that make up the Old Town district. If you are planning to go on a weekend — the August 2 matinee at 2 p.m. is particularly convenient for families — there is enough in the surrounding blocks to make an afternoon of it before or after the show. The 7 p.m. curtains on Friday and Saturday work for a dinner-first evening as well.

Tickets in the $20–$30 range put this on the affordable end of live theater in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where comparable productions at larger regional venues can run significantly higher. That price point, combined with the comedic premise, makes this a reasonable pick for a first live theater experience or a low-stakes summer night out.

Why It Fits the Moment

Lewisville’s performing arts calendar tends to thin out in deep summer — heat pushes activity indoors, schedules scatter around vacations, and the big civic events like Western Days are still weeks away on the September calendar. Late July and early August can feel like a quiet stretch.

A theatrical production with a defined run, a clear premise, and a local company attached to it is exactly the kind of programming that fills that gap. Scratch Theater is choosing to stage their show during what is traditionally a slower window, which suggests confidence in both the material and the local appetite for it.

For Lewisville residents who have been waiting for a reason to spend an evening at the Grand this summer, the count is coming — and apparently, so is someone ready to stop him.

Full performance details and tickets are available through the Lewisville Grand Theater website.