Whodunit Comes Alive – Buy Your Tickets Today for 'Clue: On Stage'

Tickets go on sale Monday, Feb. 12, for Pierre Players Community Theatre's production of “Clue: On Stage,” a comedy adapted from the Paramount Pictures film written by Jonathan Lynn and the board game from Hasbro, Inc., written by Sandy Rustin. Shows will run Feb. 23-25 and Feb. 29-March 2, 2024, at the Grand Opera House in Pierre.

It's a dark and stormy night, and you've been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well...dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, "Clue: On Stage" is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.

Doors open at 7 p.m. CST, with performance at 7:30 p.m. CST. Sunday matinee doors open at 1:30 p.m. CST, with performance at 2 p.m. CST.

A preview performance will be held Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. CST. Preview tickets are $5 at the door.

Please note, PPCT is increasing the cost of individual ticket prices (something which hasn't happened in nearly 20 years). This change will allow us to further our mission of enriching, educating, and entertaining central South Dakota through providing quality theater. The increase reflects trends across the state, but will also allow us to enhance patrons' experiences, with benefits like the soon-to-come online ticketing system.

Tickets are $20 in advance for adults and $15 in advance for senior citizens (age 62 and older) and students (high school and under). Tickets at the door are $25 per person.

Learn more about purchasing your season membership online. This option is the best value, as season ticket holders get tickets at a discount and postcard reminders so they never miss a show. 2024 season memberships are still available!

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Storybook Land Theatre to Present 'The Perfect Dog' at Grand Opera House

An Experiment With an Air Pump

“An Experiment With an Air Pump” by Shelagh Stephenson is the next installment of Pierre Players Community Theatre's new Outside the Box series. Enjoy a readers' theater style performance at the Grey Goose Store & Social Club on Saturday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m. CDT.

1799—On the eve of a new century, a Northern English house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance, and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999—In a world of scientific chaos and genetic engineering, the same house reveals a dark secret buried for 200 years.

The performance will be open to the public, with a free will offering requested to help cover costs. Come at 7:30 p.m. to enjoy a drink and mingle. The show will start at 8 p.m.

Outside the Box is a new series for PPCT to perform scripts not chosen for the main stage, gauge audience feedback on new scripts or those by local playwrights, give more people an opportunity to be involved in community theater, and broaden PPCT's reach into the community.

To learn more about the new series, visit https://pierreplayers.com/shows/outsidetheboxseries.

Auditions for Jake's Women on March 6

Pierre Players Community Theatre will hold open auditions for "Jake's Women," a dramatic comedy by Neil Simon, on Monday, March 6, 2023, 7 p.m. at the Grand Opera House. There are parts for one male and seven females (one character is a 12-year-old girl).

Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife. 

Show dates for "Jake's Women" are April 28-30 and May 4-6, 2023. Learn more about the characters. For more information contact Director Scott Lee. Or visit pierreplayers.com.

A Prairie Christmas on Stage with Jeff Gould

Auditions for "Cookin' With Gus'

Pierre Players will hold auditions for the comedy "Cookin' With Gus' by Jim Brochu on Monday, March 5, 2018, 7 p.m. at the Grand Opera House. There are parts for two males and two females.“Cookin’ With Gus” brings together four unlikely characters in a stew of hijinks and hilarity.

Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she’s been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her boyfriend, Walter, is dead set against it, and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can’t open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her get over it . . . Walter through hypnotism, Bernie her agent by threats; and even wacky Gypsy Carmen from next door casts spells. Just when she thinks she's cured, the taping turns into a comic nightmare concluding in an all out food fight that almost ends the show and her relationship.

Show dates are April 27-29 and May 3-5, 2018, with a preview performance on April 25, 2018.

For more information, contact Director Katie Duenwald at cduenwald@msn.com. Learn more. 

Cinderella Twist Summer Workshop: June 15-20

Cinderella Twist Summer Workshop: June 15-20

Pierre Players is offering a theater workshop for students entering third through fifth grades June 15-19, 3-5 p.m., at the Grand Opera House. The workshop offers instruction in expression, movement, costume, and set design and will conclude with a readers’ theater production at the Steamboat Park Amphitheater on June 20, 2015, 10:00 a.m. during Oahe Days. The children will present Cinderella Bigfoot and Bubba, the Cowboy Prince along with a couple of poems. These creative interpretations of the classic story will have you rolling with laughter!

Fliers will be sent home with the eligible students in May. For more information, contact Michele Beeler at info@pierreplayers.com or 605.999.8503. Learn more.

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