Meramec Theatre

There you have it! 🪽✍️💵📉❤️👀🕺🚫

Meramec Theatre’s 2026-2027 Theatre Season.

We hope to see you onstage, backstage, or in the audience!

Auditions are open to all STLCC students and community members. Keep an eye out on our Facebook and Instagram pages for audition notices and performance updates.

Admission to all shows is free! There is no reserved seating. House opens 30 minutes prior to every performance. All this information and more can be found on our website: https://stlcc.edu/campus-life-community/cultural-arts/theatre/meramec-theatre/

Meramec Theatre Season Announcement!

SHOW 4! 🕺🚫

THE GUY WHO DIDN’T LIKE MUSICALS
Book by Matt Lang & Nick Lang
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Blim
Music Direction by Dr. Grant Unnerstall
Director: TBD

SYNOPSIS: Everything in Hatchetfield seemed normal until people began singing... Then, they began dancing... And now, a musical pandemic is sweeping the entire city. It’s up to Paul (an average guy who doesn’t like musicals) and his friends to stop this musical apocalypse and fight for humanity’s future.

AUDITIONS: TBD
SHOW DATES: April 14-17, 7:30 p.m. & April 18, 2:00 p.m.

Admission to shows is free!

Meramec Theatre Season Announcement!

SHOW 3! ❤️👀

THE MOORS
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Kayla Lindsay

SYNOPSIS: Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.

AUDITION DATES: December 8 & 9, 7:00 p.m. in the Meramec Theatre
SHOW DATES: February 17-20, 7:30 p.m. & February 21, 2:00 p.m.

Admission to shows is free!

Meramec Theatre Season Announcement!

SHOW 2! 💵📉

SWEAT
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Rebecka Jackson

SYNOPSIS: In 2008 in Reading, PA, one of the poorest cities in America, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. The powerful crux of this new play is knowing the fate of the characters long before it’s even in their sights. Based on Nottage’s extensive research and interviews with real residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and the poignant outcome of America’s economic decline.

AUDITION DATES: October 7 & 8, 7:00 p.m. in the Meramec Theatre
SHOW DATES: November 18-21, 7:30 p.m. & November 22, 2:00 p.m.

Admission to shows is free!

Meramec Theatre Season Announcement!

SHOW 1! 🪽✍️

Our first production of the season features two one acts by David Ives, directed by two of our STLCC Theatre Students!

EMILY DICKINSON ENTERS INTO HEAVEN
By David Ives

Directed by Carrington C. Davis*
Directing Mentor: J. Michelle Rebollo

SYNOPSIS: The play imagines Emily Dickinson arriving in heaven and meeting Shakespeare and Sappho. Instead of a peaceful afterlife, heaven becomes a literary gathering where three writers debate poetry, immortality, fame, love, and artistic expression.

LOCKED AND LOADED, CAN I HELP YOU?
By David Ives

Directed by TJ Shay*
Directing Mentor: J. Michelle Rebollo

SYNOPSIS: A short dark comedy set in a small-town gun shop. The play follows Wayne, the enthusiastic owner of the store, whose ordinary workday is interrupted when an unusual customer (Jesus) comes in asking about buying a gun. What begins as an absurd encounter gradually becomes a thoughtful and ironic exploration of faith and human behavior.

AUDITIONS: August 25 & August 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Meramec Theatre
SHOW DATES: September 30-October 3, 7:30 p.m. & October 4, 2:00 p.m.

All shows are free admission!

*Indicates STLCC Student

Over the next four days we will be announcing the four shows that will make up our 2026-2027 Meramec Theatre Season! Get excited and stay tuned...🪽

Fall Auditions!

Today we closed our summer children’s show, THE RELUCTANT DRAGON. Thank you to every kiddo, school, daycare, summer camp, friend, and family member who sat in our audience this week. This has been a great way to kick off the summer!

From all of us at Meramec Theatre, we wish you a safe and happy summer. See you in the fall! ♥️⚔

We are two weeks away from our summer children's show THE RELUCTANT DRAGON, directed by Molly Bene.

We still have reservation slots open! Save your spot today. Reservations are required for all 10 a.m. performances! Scan the QR code or follow this link: https://forms.office.com/r/y58Q0yAtwW

Meramec Theatre is thrilled to present our summer show for children!

THE RELUCTANT DRAGON
By C. Edward Wheaton
Directed by Molly Bene

AUDITIONS:
Thursday, May 14th & May 15th at 2:00 p.m. in the Meramec Theatre. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

PERFORMANCE DATES:
June 8 (10 a.m.), June 9 (10 a.m./6 p.m.), June 10 (10 a.m.).

Reservations are REQUIRED for all 10 a.m. performances. Reservations can be made here: https://forms.office.com/r/y58Q0yAtwW