his performance at the Dodge City Depot Theater presented an original live radio production written by Mark Vierthaler. Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty and other favorite characters came to life on air. Audiences watched how the sound effects were made and how actors "personify" different characters as they developed a complete radio show.
This performance at the Dodge City Depot Theater in August 2019 portrays a nursery rhyme justice system. Representing the people are detectives who investigate crime and the magistrates who prosecute defenders. These are their rhymes. The investigation involves a crime scene where Mister Humpty Dumpty has been found shattered. With lots of puns and plot […]
A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas By Laurie Brooks Directed by Christopher King Stage Manager: Hannah SchroederCostuming: Deedee MillerProduction Assistance: Dustin McCullough & Autumn Blitz Show Sponsored by Western Plains Medical Complex. A Christmas tale featuring the characters from the much-loved Little House books. Told with period songs, humor and depth of character, this work tells […]
Directed by Christopher King, the play is set in Alabama in the 1880’s and tells the story of young Helen Keller who could hear and see until she was about 18 months old, when an illness left serious and lasting damage. Although she could use some signs, it was up to the extraordinary woman, Anne […]
After nearly 18 months off stage, we are ready to relight The Dodge City Depot Theater Stage! We’re returning with a two-weekend Soft Opening Legend of Sleepy Hollow in October. Dinner Theater Presentations are scheduled for the weekends of October 22, 23, & 24 and again on October 29, 30 & 31.
The Play That Goes Wrong begins before the curtain has even been raised, as the audience are present while the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society prepare to stage their new production – the 1920s murder mystery 'Murder at Haversham Manor'. However the set is not yet complete and there is no time to finish it off…..the […]
Mowgli is rambunctious and curious, scrappy and silly. Sound like a kid you know? This new adaptation of the beloved Rudyard Kipling story finds a child lost in the Indian jungle, where he is adopted by Baloo the Bear, Bagheera the panther, and all the beasts who call the mysterious wilderness home. This fast-paced retelling […]
In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood - a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full […]
Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but mostly humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength - and love - which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Actors all have those roles they love, but will never have the chance to perform onstage – whether because they are of a different gender, age, race, or have different physical characteristics. It doesn't mean they haven't dreamed of what it would be like to get a crack at it – just once! Well, here's your chance to hear them present the dream roles they will never perform in a staged production!
MisCast Cabaret is a three-performance event featuring Depot Theater talent performing songs from roles, in which, they would never be cast. Changing the roles can alter the dynamic or meaning of a song, which creates a new perspective for the audience. The results are sometimes thought-provoking and often hilarious.
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that's so far north, it's almost not in the United States. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are […]
