On Stage

2010 SEASON

Welcome to our 2010 Season, the first in AVT’s operation.

General admission tickets for the 2010 season are all $8. Box seats may be purchased for any show by our guests 21 and older. Box seats are $30 for the pair, are front-and-center, and include a bottle of your choice of several red, white, or dessert wines.  Wine is provided courtesy of our host, and not through AVT.

Check out upcoming live music and arts events on our Appearing Live! page.

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SUBSCRIPTION

Online individual ticketing will be available roughly one month prior to the opening of a production.  If you will be coming with a group or plan to attend several shows this year, you might consider purchasing a subscription.  Save by using flexible ticket credits that can be applied to any show of any production in 2010.  You can use them on yourself, your friends, or your family!

Subscriptions are non-refundable.

AVT 2010 TICKET SUBSCRIPTION (6 CREDITS)
$40.00 (save 17% per ticket)

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JANUARY 16, 17, 22, 23, 24

Crime and Punishment, By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Adapted to the stage by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

Antelope Valley Thespians presents this new, award-winning stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment.  In 1860’s St. Petersburg, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov relives the thoughts, ideas and feelings that drove him to his horrible crime.  This 90-minute “conversation on the nature of evil” becomes a dark journey into the mind of a killer and his search for redemption. This is an intense psychological and spiritual journey which seeks to unveil hidden dimensions of the human condition, and the power of faith to heal even the gravest and most disturbing wounds of the soul.

Note: This play contains dark themes, stage violence, and instances of strong language.  It is not recommended for young children.

Producing Director: Nalin A. Ratnayake
Stage Manager: Karen Gruca
Technical Director: Jeremy Bryon Gruca

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JUNE 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, By Nathan Mayer

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

Two dynamic lawyers are locked in a clash of wills and morality. Ruth Ballard is an embittered radical, now in jail, accused of participating in a bank robbery and a subsequent killing.  She chooses to represent herself as attorney. Kenneth Hayes is the assistant district attorney assigned to prosecute her. Once, they were classmates, and more,  in law school—now they are two lawyers with very different views on the nature of justice. Their conflicts, legal and personal, probe the nature of our criminal justice system and the  dichotomy between logic and compassion.

Note: This production contains instances of strong language. We do not recommend it for young children.

Producing Director: Nalin A. Ratnayake
Stage Manager: Karen Gruca
Technical Director: Jeremy Bryon Gruca

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SEPTEMBER 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

The Interrogation of Nathan Hale, by David Stanley Ford.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

It is the morning of September 22, 1776. Nathan Hale is waiting to be hanged as a spy. A British captain, John Montresor, invites him to spend his remaining time in the captain’s tent.  Hale, a rifleman and spy for the American Revolution, was captured and executed by the British almost exactly 233 years before our opening night.  What is freedom? What is courage? What is the value of a life? Touching on lofty themes through a startlingly raw portrayal of these historical figures, this is a play that seeks to understand the values of our nation—their flaws, as well as their wondrous virtues.  Mr. Ford has taken the circumstances of Hale’s last hours and used them to probe our country, using both points of view -that of cynic and idealist – to try to understand who we are.

Producing Director: Nalin A. Ratnayake
Artistic Director: Kara McCollum
Stage Manager: Juliana Katzman

Fridays and Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 2pm. This production is in rehearsal.  Ticket reservations are not available at this time.

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NOVEMBER 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14

Crossings, by Barbara Schneider.

“Crossings” presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

In postwar Germany, a father tells his young daughter the old and familiar story of his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp. In ensuing scenes, we progress through time as the daughter grows up and begins to question her father’s passive behavior during the war. Though he tries to defend his actions as a rational response to the time and place he lived, his daughter remains skeptical. It is only when the daughter realizes her own vulnerability to the easy habit of indifference in present-day America that she truly begins to understand her father.

Producer: Nalin A. Ratnayake
Stage Director: Karen Gruca
Artistic Director: Kara McCollum
Stage Manager:  Courtney Marietta

There will be six shows. Auditions have not yet been announced.  Ticket reservations are not available at this time.