Previous Shows
Quality theatre for the waco community
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What's A Knucka?
Summer 2024 Four climbers from four completely different backgrounds reach the top of a mountain. At the same time. In this original work by Rob Bell, tensions burst and flashbacks race as these zany characters try to reconcile what the heck is actually happening. When a 5th climber shows up, more questions are raised and the answers get blurred. Don't even get me started on explaining what a "Knucka" is.
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The Boys in the band
Summer 2024 Set in a chic New York City apartment in 1968, The Boys in the Band very well be one of the most historic gay plays in all of theatre. With 8 out of the 9 characters being homosexual (and the 9th left uncertain), this tale about a birthday party gone sour intersplices comedy and tragedy to display a snapshot of a pre-stonewall, gay community of men. The play’s protagonist, Michael, turns from cheeky party host to emotional terrorist as the guests’ self-loathing become more abundant. It certainty doesn’t help that the alcohol flows like water at this function.
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Spring Awakening
Summer 2024 In this modern-age rock adaptation of the late 19th century classic coming-of-age play, a group of school children in provincial Germany must come to terms with rebellion, sexual desire, and most importantly, death. This musical’s exploration of tough topics has earned its notoriety as being one of the first musicals to embrace sexuality on the big stage - causing this adaptation to stir up just as much controversy as its source material.
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BETRAYAL
Spring 2024 Time doesn’t work like normal in this story. The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma’s marriage to Robert, Jerry’s best friend, is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to. Their reminiscences reveal that Robert knew of their affair all along. In a series of contiguous scenes, the play moves backward in time, from the end of the Emma-Jerry affair to its beginning, showing all the twists and turns along the way.
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Moon Over Buffalo
Winter 2024 In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. With drunken madness, romance, and disasterous situations, do these two have any hope of rising back to the top? Whatever the case… it won’t be easy. Don’t even mention George’s alcoholism.
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Cabaret
Fall 2023 Cabaret takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. What ensues is a magical journey from the Kit Kit Klub to the fruit stand to trains over Europe, leading to Clifford’s discovery of multiple terrors.
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Machinal
Summer 2023 A young woman works as a low-level stenographer and lives with her mother. She follows the rituals that society expects of a woman, however resistant she may feel about them. She subsequently marries her boss, whom she finds repulsive. After having a baby with him, she has an affair with a younger man who fuels her lust for life. Driven to murder her husband, she is convicted of the crime and is executed in the electric chair.
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Second Chair
Summer 2023 An original work by Seth Sutton, Second Chair transports its audience right into a court room drama. The play’s protagonist, Ben Collins, must grapple with his father’s death while also trying to keep the family practice running. The death of a local boy shakes the already difficult situation, leading to a game of hearsay and deceit. Who killed the boy? Can Ben find the real killer?
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Crimes of the Heart
Spring 2023 The quaint story of three sisters reuniting after years apart, featuring affairs, secrets. love, and most of all, heart. After Babe Botrelle, the youngest of the trio, shoots her husband, chaos and drama ensue as the rest of the family tries to pick up the pieces without drowning in the anvils of the past. Will the sins of before ever face remission?
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Heathers: The Musical
Winter 2023 Cult comedy classic in MUSICAL form. “Heathers: The Musical” brings to life the characters from the iconic film, plus all the buzzing life of a dark musical comedy! Filled with raunchy jokes, witty dialogue, impressive choreography, and amazing music, this show has an energy like no other. Think “Mean Girls” but transported to 1989. With murder. And bombs. Suicide? A gay funeral? What could go wrong?
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Company
Fall 2022 Door rings. Phone chimes. In comes COMPANY! On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor, Robert, contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his friends – "those good and crazy people [his] married friends" – explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.
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Hedda Gabler
Fall 2022 One of the first plays featuring a modern female protagonist, Hedda Gabler tells the story of a woman whose dull and tedious life drive her mad. Out of desperation, terror and chaos is unleased on the simple living room of a seemingly happy family unit.
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Godspell
Summer 2022 Based on the Gospel according to Matthew, Godspell is the first musical theatre offering from composer Stephen Schwartz who went on to write such well-known hits as Wicked, Pippin, and Children of Eden. The show features a comedic troupe of eccentric players who team up with Jesus to teach his lessons in a new age through parables, games, and tomfoolery.
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God of Carnage
Summer 2022 Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of two couples, residents of a tony Brooklyn neighborhood, who meet to discuss a playground incident. Alan and Annette’s son hit Michael and Veronica’s son in the face with a stick, resulting in two broken teeth. The four of them agree to discuss the incident civilly, but, as the night wears on and drinks are imbibed, the polite veneer breaks down. Reza’s play suggests that our civilized trappings do a poor job of hiding our venality and bile.
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The Crucible
Spring 2022 The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
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This Is Our Youth
Winter 2022 This Is Our Youth is a brilliant, darkly humorous, bittersweet portrait of youth poised on the cusp of the scary, disillusioning path to adulthood. In Reagan Era New York City, three privileged Upper West Side kids — the swaggering, drug-dealing Dennis; his dispirited, free-thinking best friend and whipping boy, Warren; and confused, self-conscious fashion student Jessica — hang out, smoke pot, scheme for cash, challenge each other, and make tentative steps towards authentic, vulnerable connection, all in a period of less than twenty-four hours in Dennis’ apartment.
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Reckless
Winter 2021 Rachel is at home with her husband, Tom. Rachel waxes rhapsodic about her overwhelming love of Christmas and how much she wants to go to Alaska, thinking it an idyllic place where it must always be Christmas. Life turns upside down for Rachel once Tom reveals that he has taken out a contract on her life.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Summer 2021 Our first show. A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams that tells the story of Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle who arrives at the New Orleans apartment of her younger sister Stella and her brutish husband Stanley Kowalski, where her delicate, illusion-filled world clashes with the harsh realities of Stanley's working-class life, ultimately leading to her mental breakdown and tragic downfall; the play explores themes of desire, delusion, and the conflict between social classes, all set against the backdrop of a steamy New Orleans atmosphere.