Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull "respectable" life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll's middle-aged normalcy continues -- until Hyde's passions begin to turn up a […]
In honor of our Veterans PERFORMANCE DATES: November 6-7, 2009 JAZZ BAND: Directed by Dr. Sarah Turley, MUSICIANS: Jennifer Kephart, Dianna Kuhlman, Catie Gilbert, Julian Rodriguez, Randy Vidales, Adam Fant, Seth Bush, Nick Brown, Frank Gomez, Kristina Mortimer, Dwight Imel Madison Reed, Dacid Fisher COLLEGE CHOIR: Directed by Dr. Charles Turley, SINGERS: Emily Berry, David […]
(Original: December 1998; First Reprise 2005). The Company again reprised The Best Christmas Pageant Ever which tells the story of 6 children (The Herdmans) who are poorly behaved and not exposed to church. They go to church for the first time merely because they find out snacks are offered at Sunday School. Instead, they find […]
If you have ever taken any sort of literature or dramatic literature course there is a good chance you are familiar with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. When the show opened for the first time in Denmark in 1879 it was a highly controversial piece. In an age where women were little more than dolls for […]
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He 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 […]
Shelly Martin has it pretty good. He owns a half-way decent hotel in downtown Kansas City and lives there with his poker playing buddies and his memories of the heyday of the Kansas City jazz scene. When the granddaughter he never knew he has shows up at his doorstep homeless, penniless and six months pregnant, […]
The show is a satirical look at beauty pageants and the contestants who enter them. A talented group of eight actors portray seven contestants and the master of ceremonies, and the audience decides the winner at each performance. PERFORANCE DATES: June 18-27, 2010 CAST: Daniel Weller, Casey Ross, Mark Vierthaler, Seth Eckelman, Kent Ross, Adam Keda, […]
A musical review based upon the idea that the Theater is a place to expose new ideas, thoughts, creativity, to step outside the box, and hopefully spark a conversation and sometimes controversy. PERFORMANCE DATES: July 16-August 1, 2010 CAST: Daniel Weller, Karen Dunn, Cale Morrow, Robert FLetcher, Mariel Ferreiro, Amanda Dahna, Emilyjane Pyle, David Fisher, Kara […]
'Love Is All Round' is a feminist publishing house where Harriet Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction; their motto is 'For Women By Women'. To avoid this gender bias, Leonard Loftus is forced to submit his novel under a female pseudonym. So when Lulabelle Latiffa wins the first prize, Leonard begins […]
Christmas Dreams: A World of Wonder was the brain child of director and creator, Doug Austen. Christmas has always been a big deal in the Austen house, whether it was lots of decorations (Clark Griswold would be proud), or Mom's crocheted stocking (which Santa still fills e;very year), or lots of great comfort food (macaroni & […]
The complexities of relationships are oftentimes hard to convey. This show is brilliantly composed of mostly musical monologues, with the husband of a failed marriage telling his side of the relationship from the beginning to the end and the wife telling her story from the end to the beginning. PERFORMANCE DATES: January 21-30, 2011 CAST: […]
The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill and adapted for stage by Stephen Mallatratt. Hill set out to write a classic ghost story that included a haunted place like a lonely house or church, an appropriate atmosphere, weather, a ghost, and a reason for the ghost to haunt people. Mallatratt created the script for […]
