A Kind of Love Story
by Jenelle Riley
August 26 – September 4, 2021
This hilarious and heartfelt play both skewers and pays homage to the romantic comedy genre. Mark is a nice guy who never gets the girl, while Ally can’t seem to shake the world’s worst boyfriend. Both have built their romantic ideals on Disney heroes, fairy tales, and Cameron Crowe movies. They’re perfect for each other, but there’s just one problem: they’ve never met. As we follow their overlapping lives, we see all the ways these two are true soulmates and wait for the moment they will find each other… if they find each other.
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Picnic
by William Inge
October 1 - 10, 2021
On a sweltering Labor Day morning, the women of a quiet neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks are preparing for the annual picnic. Watchful mother Flo Owens has hopes that her beautiful daughter Madge will get a proposal from Alan, the local millionaire’s son. Younger sister Millie, the “smart one”, yearns to grow up and leave her small town behind. Good-natured Mrs. Potts is happy to get a break from taking care of her aged mother. And spinster schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney cheerfully keeps her boyfriend Howard at arms’ length. This seemingly placid feminine environment is disrupted when Hal Carter, a muscular and charming young drifter who happens to be a former fraternity brother of Alan’s, hops off the freight train, and straight into Mrs. Potts’ hospitable home. Hearts are broken and lives are changed in the following twenty-four hours, as Hal’s lively, dangerous, masculine energy wakes up the sleepy community. A small Kansas town in the 1950s is the setting for William Inge’s bittersweet melodrama Picnic, which explores themes of sexuality, repression, rites of passage, and disappointment.
Friday & Saturdays - 7pm, Sundays – 2pm
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
Sunday Matinees - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
by Frank Wildhorn & Leslie Bricusse
October 29 – 31, 2021
Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll & Hyde has mesmerized audiences the world over.
Friday & Saturday - 7pm, Sunday – 2pm
Tickets Sold by Central Arizona College
Pence Center - Signal Peak Campus 8470 N Overfield Rd, Coolidge
Alice in Wonderland
by Jason Pizzarello
November 6 - 14, 2021
Based on the beloved classic by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland is a reimagining of Wonderland, with an unexpected twist ending. When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole, she is immersed into a fantastical, wacky land. Filled with zany characters, Alice in Wonderland is the perfect play for young and old audiences alike. Get lost in Wonderland with Pizzarello’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. You’ll never want to leave the tea party!
Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm
Tickets: $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Miracle
by Frank Maguire
December 10 - 18, 2021
Original musical based on Miracle on 34th Street.
Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Plan 9 From Outer Space
by Mark Landon Smith
January 21 - 29, 2022
This is it! The stage adaptation of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, considered by many to be the worst movie ever made! Packing B-Movie thrills into 65 hair-raising minutes, the story goes something like this: visiting space soldiers use a magic-electro-space-ray-gun to resurrect a recently deceased (and perfectly ghoulish) human couple, putting ‘Plan 9’ into action. The aliens must stop mankind from developing ‘Solaramite,’ a substance that could set off a chain reaction of cosmic explosions that would destroy the entire universe. With ‘Plan 9’ activated, the space aliens step up the action. Flying saucers invade! Hollywood reacts! The Pentagon responds! Even Colonel Sanders tries to stop the aliens and, well, this was absolutely the worst movie ever made.
Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm
Tickets: Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Casa Grande’s Dirty Laundry A Melodrama
February 11 - 27, 2022
Fridays & Saturdays - 7pm, Sundays – 2pm
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
Matinees - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Death of Robin Hood
by J.S. Puller
March 11 - 26, 2022
When the life of Will Scatheloke is in danger, the minstrel Alan-a-Dale invents a character, Robin Hood, to take the fall for his friend’s crimes. But when the Sheriff and his wife Lady Marian become convinced that their lies are reality, Alan realizes that the only way to escape the story is by making it into a legend. And there’s only one way a legend can end.
Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm,
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
April 8 -9, 2022
A story of order and disorder, reality and appearance and love and marriage. Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons are to be married and great celebrations are planned.
Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm
Pence Center, Central Arizona College, 8470 N Overfield Rd., Coolidge, AZ
Tickets: sold by Central Arizona College
Spamalot
Book and Lyrics: Eric Idle, Music: John Du Prez
May 13 - 21, 2022
Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail. Inspired by the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical also diverts a bit from more traditional versions of the legend. Instead, Spamalot features shenanigans including a line of beautiful dancing girls, flatulent Frenchmen, and killer rabbits. Outside, there is plague with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine. Throughout the show, Arthur, traveling with his servant Patsy, recruits several knights to accompany him on his quest, including Sir Bedevere, Sir Robin, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad. Besides the rabbits and farting Frenchman, they meet such characters as the Lady of the Lake, Prince Herbert, Tim the Enchanter, Not Dead Fred, the Black Knight, and the Knights who say Ni.
Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm
Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each
Children - $10.00 each
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St.
