Join us for our final class performances of “We Are Monsters”…this is for our Kids Company (Grades 1-4).  Come celebrate their hard work with us!!

We Are Monsters is a hilarious new musical that follows human kids into a monster cabaret filled with quirky monster characters. The adventurous humans uncover vegetarian vampires and rock n roll werewolves, gradually realizing there may be more to these monsters than meets the eye! Most importantly these monsters and kids discover the importance of friendship and celebrating in the attributes that make each of us different and unique.

Broadway Bootcamp Kids Company is an introductory theater program offered seasonally at Premier Performance, Northwest Indiana’s Premier Performing Arts Studio. For more information and sneak-peek videos, find Premier Performance on Facebook & Instagram.

*We Are Monsters is produced through special arrangement with Beat By Beat Press.

Join us for our final class performances of “We Are Monsters”…this is for our Kids Company (Grades 1-4).  Come celebrate their hard work with us!!

We Are Monsters is a hilarious new musical that follows human kids into a monster cabaret filled with quirky monster characters. The adventurous humans uncover vegetarian vampires and rock n roll werewolves, gradually realizing there may be more to these monsters than meets the eye! Most importantly these monsters and kids discover the importance of friendship and celebrating in the attributes that make each of us different and unique.

Broadway Bootcamp Kids Company is an introductory theater program offered seasonally at Premier Performance, Northwest Indiana’s Premier Performing Arts Studio. For more information and sneak-peek videos, find Premier Performance on Facebook & Instagram.

*We Are Monsters is produced through special arrangement with Beat By Beat Press.

Director: Lee F. Orchard

Location: University Theatre

Performances: Nov. 1 and 2 at 8 p.m., Nov. 3 and 4 at 2 p.m.

About the Performance:
Lady Windermere has her suspicions that her husband of just under two years is having an affair with another woman. After he denies her allegations, she decides to invite the woman in question to her 21st birthday party.

Oscar Wilde’s comedy is set in 19th-century London, and sees Wilde poke fun at the social upper classes, and their moral attitudes, of the period. It’s a play about relationships and infidelity in English high society.

Join us as Premier Theatre presents the Tony-award winning musical, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF JR!

This special adaptation of the nine-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof JR. follows Tevye the milkman as he tries to protect his daughters and his way of life from a changing world.  Created by Broadway legends Jerome Robbins, Harold Prince, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein, Fiddler on the Roof JR. tackles the universal theme of tradition in ways that reach across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion.

Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor dairyman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to marry off his daughters and instill in them a sense of tradition in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia.

This Broadway musical is sure to impress!!  Premier Performance is Northwest Indiana’s Premier Performing Arts Company!  For more information and sneak-peek videos, find Premier Performance on Facebook.

This year both the Munster Theatre Company and the Wilbur Wright Theatre Company will be competing in the Indiana Thespians Regional Play competition. But before they do, they want to share their works with you!

Wilbur Wright will kick the night off with their production of I Never Saw Another Butterfly, about the children that went through the Terezin camp during the Holocaust. MTC will follow with The Refugee Women, a drama that tells the stories of women who are enduring the hardships of exile in a refugee camp.

Tickets are $6 in advance online, and $8 at the door.

Please come support our competitive theatre productions before we head off to Regionals!

• Performance Dates – Thursday, Nov. 1st, Friday, Nov. 2nd, Saturday, Nov. 3rd, Thursday, Nov. 8th, Friday, Nov. 9th, & Saturday, Nov. 10th at 7:30pm and a Matinee Performance on Sunday, Nov. 4th at 2:30pm
• Theatre Northwest Mainstage – located in the new Arts & Sciences Building

A unique theatrical experience, this play attempts to convince the audience that they are watching the performance breakdown before their very eyes.  The “playwright” Lisa explains that she has written a “multi-character exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community.”  She has hired actors to play the other characters and has even brought her mother, Ann, to observe and participate.  But from the very beginning, Ann second guesses Lisa’s telling of the story, and as the evening progresses, the other actors join in the criticism.  Ultimately Lisa is forced to confront her own biases and acknowledge the heartbreaking challenge of true empathy, even toward those we love the most.

Friday & Saturday – Dinner at 6:30, Show at 8

Sunday – Dinner at 12:30, Show at 2

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.

A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

• Performance Dates – Thursday, Nov. 1st, Friday, Nov. 2nd, Saturday, Nov. 3rd, Thursday, Nov. 8th, Friday, Nov. 9th, & Saturday, Nov. 10th at 7:30pm and a Matinee Performance on Sunday, Nov. 4th at 2:30pm
• Theatre Northwest Mainstage – located in the new Arts & Sciences Building

A unique theatrical experience, this play attempts to convince the audience that they are watching the performance breakdown before their very eyes.  The “playwright” Lisa explains that she has written a “multi-character exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community.”  She has hired actors to play the other characters and has even brought her mother, Ann, to observe and participate.  But from the very beginning, Ann second guesses Lisa’s telling of the story, and as the evening progresses, the other actors join in the criticism.  Ultimately Lisa is forced to confront her own biases and acknowledge the heartbreaking challenge of true empathy, even toward those we love the most.

HARVEY

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.

A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

HARVEY

A comedy collision is going down in Crown Point, IN! 3 stand-ups comedians will perform with improvisers performing scenes inspired from the jokes they’ve just heard!

Stand-up comedians include Don Bernacky, Shannon Rostin, & TBD.
Improvisers include Nelson Velazquez, Lori Cunningham Ryser, Ron Szanyi, Lisa Szanyi, Giovanni Alberto and more.

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.

A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

A Charlie Brown Christmas – By Charles M. Schulz, based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson
Stage adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
By special arrangement with Arthur Whitelaw and Ruby Persson
Directed by Lisa Formosa-Parmigiano and Kathleen Erny
Experience the Peanuts characters everyone knows and loves brought to life on stage. Featuring the song “Christmas Time is Here” and the music of Vince Guaraldi. A perfect way to ring in the holidays.

A Charlie Brown Christmas – By Charles M. Schulz, based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson
Stage adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
By special arrangement with Arthur Whitelaw and Ruby Persson
Directed by Lisa Formosa-Parmigiano and Kathleen Erny
Experience the Peanuts characters everyone knows and loves brought to life on stage. Featuring the song “Christmas Time is Here” and the music of Vince Guaraldi. A perfect way to ring in the holidays.

Christmas Favorite to Return
4th Street Theater in Chesterton proudly presents Grant Fitch in the Charles Dickens holiday classic “A Christmas Carol.” This family favorite kicks of the holiday season on Saturday, November 24th at 7pm.
Grant Fitch, an award winning local actor and professional storyteller will perform his one-man version of the Dickens tale for one performance only on the 4th Street stage. Now in his 21st year of performing this timeless story, Fitch brings all the characters vividly to life. Meet the loveable Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, as well as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge along with Marley’s Ghost and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Even if you’re familiar with the many screen versions, Fitch includes scenes from the original novella rarely depicted on film.
Grant first developed his text for “A Christmas Carol” in 1997, and it has grown in performance with each passing year. It was the first story of many; he is today a professional storyteller, bringing picture books and silly stories to school kids, and giving dramatic readings of the works of authors from Mark Twain to Edgar Allan Poe. He has been acting on area stages nearly as long as he’s been storytelling. He has starred in, among others, “The Foreigner.” “My Fair Lady,” “Same Time, Next Year,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” and “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
Tickets for this one night only performance on Saturday, November 24th are available through Brown Paper Tickets as well as at the door. Tickets are $10 adult and $5 of children/students. 4th Street Theater is located at 125 N. Fourth Street in Chesterton, Indiana. Bring the family and begin your holiday season with this timeless classic.