2023 SEASON
The Second City: SWIPES RIGHT
CO-PRESENTED WITH THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
January 14, 2023 | The Center Theater
It’s love at first laugh with The Second City! Bring your partner, lover, significant other, spouse, friend with benefits, friend with EXTRA benefits, platonic BFF, or your spectacularly single self to The Second City Swipes Right: An Incomplete Guide to The Ultimate Date Night, the brand-new experience you’ve been aching for. Spend a naughty 90 minutes with our caliente cast of comedians as they (consensually) annihilate everything that turns us on—and off—about love, dating, and relationships.
LEONARDO! A WONDERFUL SHOW ABOUT A TERRIBLE MONSTER
January 20th, 2023 | The Center Theater (Presentation)
Center for the Arts, co-presented with Off Square Theatre Company, welcomes the production Manual Cinema: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster. Manual Cinema is an Emmy award-winning performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live-feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality.
This family-friendly show will wow children and adults of all ages with a heartfelt tale of Leonardo the Terrible Monster.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
February 24-25, 2023 | The Center Theater
2023’s Thieme Youth Musical is one of the most beloved shows of all time! In Austria, 1938, an exuberant young governess brings music and joy back to a broken family, only to face danger and intrigue as the Nazis gain power.
RED RIDING HOOD
Presented by Missoula Children’s Theatre
April 10-15, 2022 | The Center Theater | Free
Stay tuned for more information and to sign your K-5 students up for MCT’s residency with Off Square. They’ll need to be ready for a week jam-packed with fun, theatre, and hard work, all leading up to a live, free performance of Red Riding Hood that’s fun for the whole family.
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
May 11-21 | The Black Box
Heidi Schreck’s hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Join Off Square Theatre Company for a timely exploration of the rights and protections of the Constitution.
RICHARD III
July 7-16 | The Center Amphitheater
Get your picnics ready and join us for an evening on the lawn with one of Shakespeare’s most nefarious characters. Prepare to gasp as the villain you love to hate makes his way to the throne of England.
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
October 14 | 7:00 | The Center Theater
Join Off Square Theatre Company in the Center Theater as we celebrate 25 YEARS of bringing live theatre to Jackson! The evening’s concert will feature the talents of all your favorite local, visiting, and student artists in the Off Square Theatre family as well as the impressive vocal stylings of two Broadway stars.
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