2023 Season

2023 Season

Encore 2023 – Season Reveal

Join the party, be entertained, and get the first look at the 2024 Season!

Includes catering by Jimmy Meredith, complimentary wine and beer, entertainment throughout the evening from some of Denton’s most talented musicians and vocalists.

The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run at Westside Theatre. The play explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Set in the plantation home of “Big Daddy” and “Big Mama” Pollitt in Mississippi of the 1950’s. The family has gathered for Big Daddy’s birthday celebration and family deceits and long held resentments are exposed in a tension filled evening. Central to the story is the alcohol fueled youngest son, Brick, and his wife, Maggie who is desperate to secure her place in the family. Adult themes.

Something Rotten

Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick

Little Women

Four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, and their journey to adulthood. Set in Civil War-era Massachusetts, they are faced with the challenges of growing up, forging their own paths, learning to accept themselves, and finding true love. The girls are guided by their wise and loving mother, Marmee, who helps them to overcome their struggles. Through the highs and lows of their lives, the March family learns to embrace the importance of love, courage, and loyalty.

Motherhood 2 – No Place Like Home

This musical romp is a salute to the places we love most – Act I to Texas, and Act II to Denton and its history.  Talented folks from all parts of the Denton community come together to celebrate our home state and hometown with hilarious musical parodies that only Donna Trammel could write.

Creativity Camp

Students will explore the world of the musical, make fun crafts, play theatre games, and learn the fundamentals of acting, singing, and dancing on stage. The three-week camp will culminate in a free showcase performance for family and friends on the final day of camp.

She Kills Monsters

Drama and comedy mark the story about Agnes Evans, an average American woman who loses her parents and younger sister, Tilly in a car accident.  Agnes’ life becomes quite an unexpected adventure when she enters the world of Dungeons and Dragons that her sister had written a module for. Adult language.

Singing in the Rain

Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc, Music published  by EMI, all rights administerd by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.  (Original Movie Choreography by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen), Produced by Arrangement with Maurice Rosenfield, Lois F Rosenfield and Cindy Pritzker, Inc

The Lightning Thief

As a son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail, and is on a quest to find Zeus’ lightning bolt to prevent a war between the Greek gods. Featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical has fans of all ages “cheering like the ball is being dropped on New Year’s Eve!” (New York Magazine) After all, in this “action-packed, mythical adventure,” (City Dads Group) “Percy Jackson is a rock star!” (NY Daily News).

Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat, and Betty

This witty, sly and deeply moving script explores the hopes, fears and loves of Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford. In three scenes taking place in the family quarters of the White House just prior to the end of living there as the wife of a president, each of the women confides alone to the audience.

Harvey

This gentle comedy centers around Elwood P. Dowd, a kind, eccentric man who lives with his social climbing sister, Veta, and her grown daughter.  Elwood has a special friend that only he can see, but he describes him as a 6’3” tall white rabbit named Harvey.  Veta is convinced that Elwood needs to be committed and upon arrival at the sanitarium, a zany comedy of errors ensues. Suitable for all ages.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

This musical comedy features Monty Navarro who is eighth in line for an earldom and sets out to move up in the line of succession with much charm and a little murder. Suitable for all ages.

The Play That Goes Wrong

In this hysterically funny play within a play, absolutely everything that could go awry goes totally off the rails. Missed lines, defective props, and collapsing set pieces are just a few of the disasters that befall this struggling cast.

Trapped: Stories of Transformation in the Time of Covid

Trapped: Stories of Transformation in the Time of Covid is a unique, devised theatre performance in which the entire cast collaborated to create this original piece. We weave our own monologues with scenes and movement to illustrate our experiences with isolation, loss, discovery, and transformation.

Beaujolais & More 2023

Join us November 16, 2023 for Beaujolais & More. Denton’s best restaurants set up and offer attendees their delicious food. The food is joined by wine and beer vendors. One price covers everything with lots of raffle opportunities etc. It’s a really good time and every single penny raised goes toward maintenance and upkeep of our beloved Campus Theatre.

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film, Written for the screen by Norman Drasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, Book by David Ives and Paul Blake, Original stage production directed by Walter Bobbie, Orchestrations: Larry Blank, Vocal and Dance Arrrangements: Bruce Pomahac