Stan State Theatre 2026-2027
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Based on the date chosen, plays start promptly at 2 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. To ensure an excellent experience, we cannot admit late arrivals after the play begins. If you miss the start time, we can help you reserve another performance time.
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Big Love
Based on Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women from 450 BC, Big Love is still one of the most shocking plays to ever be staged. Reimagined by Charles L. Mee, Big Love is less a play than a complete theatrical experience. It is at once an art installation, a poetry slam, and a comedy with songs, ultimately culminating in an incredible over-the-top cinematically violent climax.
50 brides are being forced to marry their cousins in Greece when they escape to Italy. The grooms follow. What happens next is stunning. Big Love was one of the most produced plays of the 2000’s and resonates even more today.
Performance Dates and Times
7:30pm Showtime
- 10/2/2026
- 10/3/2026
- 10/8/2026
- 10/9/2026
- 10/10/2026
2pm Showtime (matinee)
- 10/4/2026
- 10/11/2026
Mr. Burns
A three-act dystopian theatrical tale extending to 75 years after the apocalypse. It’s a world where pop culture, myth, and legend are all based on a TV episode of The Simpsons that revolved around the film Cape Fear. You read that right. A new take on The Theatre of the Absurd, playwright Anne Washburn asks the question, “If there was a prolonged period of no electricity, what stories would we remember and tell around the campfire? And then, what myths, religions, and fragmented operas would sprout from those stories? And disturbingly, what absurd capitalism would continue?” The New York Times lists Mr Burns: a post-electric play as one of “The 25 Best American Plays since Angels in America”.
Performance Dates and Times
7:30pm Showtime
- 12/2/2026
- 12/3/2026
- 12/4/2026
- 12/5/2026
2pm Showtime (matinee)
- 12/6/2026
Winnie the Pooh (Winter Children’s Show)
The 1926 public domain Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne will be adapted by our own students with the guide of professors Nick Zagone and Carin Heidelbach. This is an exciting new approach to the ever popular and growing Stan State Theatre Children’s Show in January.
For K-12 educators who wish to have their class attend exclusive school field trip showings, please complete this form Stan State Theatres 2027 Children's Play – Fill out form
Performance Dates and Times
7pm Showtime
- 1/23/2027
- 1/29/2027
- 1/30/2027
2pm Showtime (matinee)
- 1/31/2027
Alice by Heart
In Spring, we go down the rabbit hole! This remarkably creative musical incredibly synthesizes a World War II London bomb shelter with Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland to create a beautiful story of escapism, first love, and loss. The team behind Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik (music) and Steven Sater (lyrics and book), return in this theatrically fantastical piece. Sater says, “Alice by Heart… is about the power of books to help us through the hardest times—to help us restore to our innermost selves what has been lost and found and lost again.” New York Stage Review described the show as "a darkly whimsical, utterly transporting musical that recalls [Spring] Awakening both in its general focus - on anxious, pining youths who must pay the price for their elders' folly - and the lush, often melancholy but exhilarating beauty of its score.”
Performance Dates and Times
7:30pm Showtime
- 3/12/2027
- 3/13/2027
- 3/18/2027
- 3/19/2027
- 3/20/2027
2pm Showtime (matinee)
- 3/14/2027
- 3/21/2027
The Country Wife
A bawdy comedy of manners! The Country Wife by William Wycherly was huge hit in 1671 and is still the quintessential Restoration Comedy. An English rogue attempts to cuckold the rich aristocrats and the wives are all on board! Big wigs and big farce will rule in a play where, even after hundreds of years, sticking it to billionaires never goes out of style!
I’m extremely excited for this season! I think it shows all the eclectic ways theatre can entertain and intellectually excite! For performers and technicians it covers a broad range of styles. And there’s incredibly diverse creative opportunities in acting, design, musical theatre and playwriting. Onward and Upward!
Performance Dates and Times
7:30pm Showtime
- 5/5/2027
- 5/6/2027
- 5/7/2027
- 5/8/2027
2pm Showtime (matinee)
- 5/9/2027
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