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 […]
Tom Kerwood and his wife, Linda, are on the verge of adopting a baby. It should be the happiest day of their lives — and it might be except Tom's brothers have decided to lend a hand. When Dick and Harry get involved, Tom and his wife find themselves mixed up with two illegal immigrants, […]
Eight sisters coming together every other week for bridge, sisterhood and gossip, The Octette Bridge Club takes us into the living room of one of eight sisters separated in ages by seventeen years, hidden secrets and personal desires. PERFORMANCE DATES: June 17 - 26, 2011 CAST: Martha - Dona Lancaster, Mary - Angie Hatton, Nora - Darleen […]
High energy, light-hearted, plenty of opportunity for the audience to laugh. A traveling vacuum salesman wanders into a marriage counselor's office. Susan and Tiger burst in, arguing so fiercely that the salesman can't get a word in edge wise. They mistake him for the counselor and he never gets a chance to enlighten them. And […]
