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Academic Theater


The Academic Theater Department stages a variety of shows including Broadway musicals, classics and comedies. Each production begins with an open audition process for Moraine Valley students and interested community members.

Arsenic and Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring

Oct. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m.,
Oct. 31, 3 p.m.
Dorothy Menker Theater

Beware the Brewster sisters of Brooklyn, New York…especially if you’re a lonely, older bachelor. One drink of these elderly eccentrics’ arsenic laced elderberry wine could land you buried in their basement! Meet Martha and Abby, a dangerous dynamic duo with a chilling sense of “charity” and an outrageously eclectic supporting cast in a magnificently macabre and madcap masterpiece.
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AUDITIONS - SEPT. 13, 6-9 p.m.
Arsenic and Old Lace Auditions Flyer (pdf)


The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics
by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Feb. 24-26, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 27, 3 p.m., March 3-5, 7:30 p.m., March 6, 3 p.m.
John and Angeline Oremus Theater

Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grownups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. This hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago
A Play by David Mamet

April 28-30, 7:30 p.m., May 1, 3 p.m., May 6-7, 7:30 p.m.,
John and Angeline Oremus Theater

The Obie award winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago “takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game,” according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem to have the politics of sex down pat but are as confused as their more naive counterparts. After much comic drama, the two men end as they started - talking a good game.
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King Lear
By William Shakespeare

July 28-30, 7:30 p.m.
Outdoors at the Gateway
Admission is FREE.

King Lear tells a poignant tale of tragedy, murder, greed, power, madness and ungrateful children. Can a man of power give away that which makes him powerful and still rule? Bring a chair or a blanket and your favorite food to snack on while you enjoy a Shakespearean classic under the stars.

 


Tickets on sale now.  Call the Box Office at (708) 974-5500 for details.


Performances are general admission. Tickets for all Academic Theater productions are:
  • General Public $12 Seniors, Students and Staff $10, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday - Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday matinee at 3 p.m.

Programs, dates, times, prices and artists are subject to change without notice. 


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INTERESTED IN MAKING MUSIC OR ACTING CENTER STAGE?

The Academic Music and Theater departments welcome students, musicians, and thespians of all ages to be involved in music ensembles or theatrical productions. For more information, visit morainevalley.edu/ensemble.

Choral Ensembles
Nicholas Thomas thomasn@morainevalley.edu

Concert Band, Jazz or Percussion Ensembles
Douglass Bratt bratt@morainevalley.edu

Academic Theater
Craig Rosen
rosen@morainevalley.edu



 
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