200 Past Events at Muncie Civic Theatre

Muncie Civic Theatre presents Oliver! on the Mainstage Theatre, December 3rd-4th, 10th-12th, & 16th-18th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on December 12th is at 2:00pm. 

After running away from the orphanage run by the heartless Mr. Bumble, Oliver meets the Artful Dodger and is recruited to pick pockets for Fagin. There, Oliver finds a friend in Nancy, but neither she nor the boy are fit for a life of crime. Adapted from "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens and featuring Brownie from WERK-FM Oldies 104.9 in the role of Fagin.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students. Call 765.288.7529 to purchase over the phone or stop by the Box Office Tuesday-Friday, Noon-6pm. Walk-in sales open one hour before the show.

The theatre will be accepting "Food, Glorious Food" donations for the Boys & Girls Club at each performance in honor of the hit song in the show. Please bring non-perishable food items to the show and help support the effort.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents Oliver! on the Mainstage Theatre, December 3rd-4th, 10th-12th, & 16th-18th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on December 12th is at 2:00pm. 

After running away from the orphanage run by the heartless Mr. Bumble, Oliver meets the Artful Dodger and is recruited to pick pockets for Fagin. There, Oliver finds a friend in Nancy, but neither she nor the boy are fit for a life of crime. Adapted from "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens and featuring Brownie from WERK-FM Oldies 104.9 in the role of Fagin.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students. Call 765.288.7529 to purchase over the phone or stop by the Box Office Tuesday-Friday, Noon-6pm. Walk-in sales open one hour before the show.

The theatre will be accepting "Food, Glorious Food" donations for the Boys & Girls Club at each performance in honor of the hit song in the show. Please bring non-perishable food items to the show and help support the effort.

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Come to this Formal Wear (Black tie optional) Fundraiser for the 
non-profit Muncie/Delaware Clean and Beautiful!

Presenting:

A Red Carpet Entrance
Light Appetizers from The Downtown Farmstand
Cash Bar
Silent Auction
Celebrity Look-a-Like Contest
Paparazzi Pictures

The 83rd Academy Awards Show will be shown on a Giant Screen.

Community awards will be given out during commercials to outstanding locals for their dedication to Muncie/Delaware County.

Tickets are:
$20 per individual/$35 per couple in advance at these locations:

The Fickle Peach
420 Underground on Campus
Ink Solutions
Ford's Menswear
G&M Garden Center
Tonne WInery

$25 per individual/$40 per couple at the door

All proceeds benefit the programs of MDCB which strives to keep our community Clean & Beautiful by continually supporting our median adoption programs, leading community clean-ups, building a stronger network of community gardens and initiating vacant lot beautification.

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman

First Thursday September is Jean McCauley, a talented local artist who paints in oils, pastels, and is also a very gifted photographer. She is a member of the Muncie Artist Guild and was a featured artist at Art and Soul by Phoebe Gallery. 

Sean Orlosky will also be showing a few of his paintings. Sean has become a resident artist at Muncie Civic. Sean is not only an artist, but also a thespian and has appeared in Civic productions through the years. 

Vera Mae's Bistro always caters these events with their delicous food and wine will be served. It is free to the public. Board members will be on hand to tell about the new Season that Civic is offering and explain the upcoming auditions for "RENT" and "Marvin's Room." Tickets will be on sale for "Steel Magnolias" and "In the Next Room or (the vibrator play), which open September 16th and September 23rd respectively.

Come join the Middletown Theatre Project as we present the world premiere of a brand new play exploring and celebrating life in Muncie and middle America. Using real voices from the Muncie community, this new work will be performed for the first time featuring a cast of both student and community actors as a fundraiser for Muncie Civic Theatre. Come experience the first public reading of the next piece of Muncie history!

$5 at the door or reserve in advance by calling (765) 288-PLAY or purchasing online at http://www.munciecivic.org/.
All proceeds benefit Muncie Civic Theatre.

Please stay for a discussion following the performance!

The Student Writers
Rebecca Austin
Josh Baker
Hannah Drake
Melody Ekstrom
Craig Ester
Jessica Hoffmann
Erica Kesling
Andrew Neylon
Sarah Paradise
Laura Pittenger
Bradford Reilly
Blake Ricciardi
Kristen Vincenty

The Faculty Advisors
Jennifer Blackmer
Melinda Messineo

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsSteel Magnolias on the Mainstage Theatre, September 16th-17th, 23rd-25th & 29th-October 1st. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on September 25 is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Robert Dirden

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsSteel Magnolias on the Mainstage Theatre, September 16th-17th, 23rd-25th & 29th-October 1st. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on September 25 is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Robert Dirden

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsSteel Magnolias on the Mainstage Theatre, September 16th-17th, 23rd-25th & 29th-October 1st. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on September 25 is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Robert Dirden

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsIn the Next Room or The Vibrator Play in the Studio Theatre, September 23rd-24th, 30th-October 2nd & 7th-8th. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00pm and the Sunday matinee on October 2nd is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10 for all ages.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new “hysterical” patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor’s home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means
to love someone.

Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Bill Wilkison

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsSteel Magnolias on the Mainstage Theatre, September 16th-17th, 23rd-25th & 29th-October 1st. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on September 25 is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Robert Dirden

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsIn the Next Room or The Vibrator Play in the Studio Theatre, September 23rd-24th, 30th-October 2nd & 7th-8th. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00pm and the Sunday matinee on October 2nd is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10 for all ages.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new “hysterical” patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor’s home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means
to love someone.

Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Bill Wilkison

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsSteel Magnolias on the Mainstage Theatre, September 16th-17th, 23rd-25th & 29th-October 1st. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on September 25 is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Robert Dirden