PRT 2022 Season welcomes you to have rollicking laughs, adventure, and music for the whole family!
The Play That Goes Wrong
by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sawyer & Henry Shields
June 8-10, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
June 11, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Oscar Larson Theatre
Welcome to the opening show of Prairie Repertory Theatre season! This play is a perfect, hilarious mix of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. The play starts with the murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show -- an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything. . . including their lines! Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences.
Winner of the Best New Comedy at 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards and been running in the UK since 2012. Entertainment Weekly declares The Play That Goes Wrong is " ... hilarious... nonstop pandemonium ... a ridiculously entertaining disaster!"
Mamma Mia!
The Smash Hit Musical based on the Songs of ABBA.
Music and Lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Book by Catherine Johnson
June 15-17, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
June 18, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Oscar Larson Theatre
This 9th longest running musical incorporates the story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs, which propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, creating an unforgettable show. A large cast, non-stop laughs and explosive dance numbers combine to make Mamma Mia! a guaranteed smash hit. A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget!
The Cemetery Club
by Ivan Menchell
June 22-24, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
June 25, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Oscar Larson Theatre
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life; Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart.
Peter and the Starcatcher
A Play by Rick Elice, Music by Wayne Barker. Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.
July 6-8, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
July 9, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Oscar Larson Theatre
Provides the backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs. Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook.
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.
