Current Season

  • Heads by EM Lewis
  • October 3 - 6 at 7:30 p.m.
  • A British Embassy worker, an American engineer, a network journalist and a freelance photographer are held captive in Iraq; as death draws close, each hostage must decide what he'll do to survive.
  • "EM Lewis' beautifully acted hostage drama, set in war-torn Iraq, left out the political preaching but slowly opened up into a metaphor suggesting both the necessity and futility of hope." - Charles McNulty (LA Times)
  • HEADS - A hostage drama set against the war in Iraq - played at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles in August/September 2007. It was Critics' Pick in the LA Times, and they named it one of the top ten productions of 2007 at the end of the year. Deborah Klugman, in the LA Weekly, said about the play that "...the question of who we are beneath our posturing lands with such force, it jangles the nerves long after the play has ended." Edward Albee called the play "Provocative and wonderfully threatening."

  • The Nosemaker's Apprentice
    Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon by Nick Jones / Rachel Shukert
  • November 7 - 10 at 7:30 p.m.
  • A young girl asks her father, where do plastic surgeons come from? What follows is a fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, and the medieval art and science of nosemaking. Our hero is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched.

  • Sing, Sing, Sing!
    A 1940s Musical Revue
  • February 13 - 16 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Collaborating with the Music and Dance Department, Missouri Valley Theatre will present an original staging of classic music from the Big Band era. Join us in the USO club for dancing, singing, and remembering those songs that made American music known around the globe.
  • Please help us in illuminating the stars of tomorrow by brining your tax deductable donation which will go toward improving the lighting in the Eckilson-Mabee Theatre.

  • Zombies from Uranus
  • April 3 - 6 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Two ill-fated lovers are doomed from the start, because they come from different backgrounds. Everyone is opposed to the forbidden love of a zombie and a human. Through their journey we find out if “love can prevail over bigotry”. This social satirical tale will be an original creation of Wade Hughes and the students at Missouri Valley. Students will be given the script structure and will develop the dialogue through improvisations. The final product will be a scripted play that is submitted for publication to several outlets.