This performance is about six strangers, and a lonely farmhouse surrounded by brain-eating zombies – what could go wrong? A fun and hilarious re-imagining of the legendary classic. Set in 1968 and presented in all black and white, it literally feels like the film has been brought to life and placed onstage. Through a series […]
In the play, Father Pat’s parishioners are a bit fuzzy on the commandments, so when a rumor starts that the Pope is visiting their congregation, folks are lining up to confess their sins. But the only John Paul in this confessional box is John Paul Fitzpatrick, the janitor. Fitz has been trapped in there for […]
This hilarious tale of love, divorce and marriage illustrates that no matter how confused someone thinks they are, someone out there will love you. Skeeter still loves his ex-wife. When he hears she is about to remarry, he dons a belt of dynamite and barges into the judge’s chambers to disrupt the ceremony. He is […]
The award-winning musical that takes the fairy tales we all know and turns them upside down! As the result of the curse of a once-beautiful witch, a baker and his wife are childless. Three days before the rise of a blue moon, they venture into the forest to find the ingredients that will reverse the […]
Two unlikely characters, Nick and Jenna, are thrown together as two angels in training sent back to earth to help Dave, who is having cold feet on his wedding day. But are they there to talk him into the wedding or out of it? The journey is hilarious, and the fact that not everyone can […]
This area wide all high school performance was a classic musical that is a nonstop laugh-fest in which Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his young master, Hero, in exchange for his own freedom. The plot twists and turns with multiple cases of […]
This performance presented an original live radio production written by Mark Vierthaler. Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty and other favorite characters came to life on air. Audiences watched how the sound effects were made and how actors "personify" different characters as they developed a complete radio show. PERFORMANCE DATE: July 26 & 27, 2019 CAST: Jacob […]
This performance portrays a nursery rhyme justice system. Representing the people are detectives who investigate crime and the magistrates who prosecute defenders. These are their rhymes. The investigation involves a crime scene where Mister Humpty Dumpty has been found shattered. With lots of puns and plot twists, this Law and Order spoof surprised audiences by […]
In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls backtracks his family to Burr Oak, Iowa, to take over the running of a hotel. This original play presents the poignant story of the "missing" two years in the […]
In Tuscumbia, Alabama, an illness renders infant Helen Keller blind, deaf, and mute. Pitied and badly spoiled by her parents, Helen is taught no discipline and, by the age of six, grows into a wild, angry tantrum-throwing child in control of the household. Desperate, the Kellers hire Annie Sullivan to serve as governess and teacher […]
After nearly 18 months off stage, we are ready to relight The Dodge City Depot Theater Stage! America’s first great ghost story, Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows the quirky and superstitious antics of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who is haunted by the dreaded Headless Horseman. This imaginative adaptation stays true to the world that […]
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll […]
