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The oldest continually running community theatre in the state of Tennessee, currently in our 99th season!
600 East Maple Street, Johnson City, TN 37601
(423) 926-2542
The Johnson City Community Theatre is the oldest continually running community theatre in the state of Tennessee. Please support the theatre by attending one of the latest productions.
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Productions
Rollicking Comedy
Closed February 20
In this hilarious Neil Simon comedy, several affluent couples gather in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their host’s tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host – the deputy mayor of New York City – has shot himself through the earlobe. Comic complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media.
“Light, frothy and fun.”-New York Post
“Has nothing on its mind except making the audience laugh.”-The New York Times
Epic Romance
Closed April 17
If Romeo and Juliet is a play of young love, Antony and Cleopatra is a play of mature passion. A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting romantic tragedy tells the true tale of the earth-shattering romance between the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra and Roman leader Mark Antony. Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty – between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony and Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare’s supreme achievements.
Heartwarming Stories
Closed June 19
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.
Musical Magic
Closed August 21
This highly acclaimed musical revue by Jason Robert Brown takes the audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet an array of characters ranging from a youth who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a certain woman in 1775 whose only distraction from the reality of war is to stitch together a familiar flag…
Classic Mystery
Opens October 7
In this classic Agatha Christie whodunit, Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham-Brown is known for spinning tales of adventure, but when a murder takes place in her own drawing-room at Copplestone Court, she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects that the murderer might be her young stepdaughter, Pippa.
“So closely woven with thrills and comedy that shocks and laughs are about fifty fifty.”-London Guardian
Holiday Hilarity
Opens December 2
It’s four days before Christmas in the tiny town of Tinsel, Texas, and a colorful parade of eccentric guests arrive at the Snowflake Inn and deck the halls with holiday hilarity! Trina, the harried, yet upbeat inkeeper of this B&B has more than she can handle coping with these nuttier-than-a-fruitcake lodgers. Hoyt and his sister, Donna Jo, make the mistake of trying to end a thirty-year feud between their curmudgeonly aunts, Ennis and Della, with sidesplitting results. Ainsley and Lenora, self-involved actors from a lower-than-low-budget touring production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, descend on the Inn to fulfill a promise, leaving comedic chaos in their wake. Add to this Yuletide mayhem an ill-advised romantic rendezvous between Mrs. Claus and one of Santa’s elves, a demanding guest who refuses to leave, not to mention a tipsy housekeeper, and it’s clear it will take more than a kiss under the mistletoe to keep Trina’s spirits merry and bright. But a spur of the moment Christmas Eve wedding that brings together the Futrelle sisters – Honey Raye, Twink, Frankie and Rhonda Lynn – and their best friend, Raynerd takes a surprising and delightful turn that leads to a laugh-til-your-sides-ache climax, changing all their lives forever. You’ll swear this family-friendly Jones Hope Wooten Christmas comedy is more fun than a joy ride in a one horse open sleigh!
A Look Back To The 2010 Theatrical Season
Doubt, a Parable
By John Patrick Shanley
Feb 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams
April 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 30 and May 1
Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit
June 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27
Belles on Their Toes (Sequel to Cheaper By the Dozen)
By Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
July 30, 31, Aug. 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
The Red Velvet Cake War World Premiere!!
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
October 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24
Chess
Book by Richard Nelson, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
Dec 3, 4, 10, 11, 12
Johnson City Community Theatre is proud to present Chess, the final show of the 2010 Season
The collaborators on Chess are giants of free bets, rock music, and rock musicals – Tim Rice, award-winning lyricist of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the male half of the Swedish pop group ABBA. Chess is a complex musical romance that played to standing ovations in London, full houses on Broadway, and has earned rave reviews worldwide from Sydney to Stockholm. It is a show that, even today, continues to reinvent itself with every new production.
Set in the mid 1980s, Chess is a love story set against a backdrop of Cold War tension. The players assemble for the World Chess Championship: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Soviet Champion, and the American’s female assistant – but soon all become pawns in a much larger game of international intrigue set to the pulse of a monumental rock score that includes “One Night in Bangkok”, “Anthem”, and “I Know Him So Well.”