Spectrum Theater Calendar 2024-25
Winter 2025 Productions
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Presented by GRCC Players
A grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no strings attached fun". But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, *boom* explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one’s life, and life as we know it on the planet.
January 15-18, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Esther, The Musical by Lori Jacobs
Presented by Jewish Theatre of Grand Rapids
Esther, The Musical is written and composed by local playwright Lori Jacobs. It is the classical Biblical story with a twist and a true fun-filled Purim Speil. With original songs based on Kletzmer Songs, Rap, Showtunes, Country, Ragtime and Pop, this show is a rapid, surefire, farcical, tongue-in-cheek-retelling of the rise of Esther and her salvation of the Jews in Persia in 483 B.C.E. Come join the party!
January 30-February 9 at 7:30 p.m. or 3 p.m.
Alabaster by Audrey Cefaly
Presented by Actors' Theatre of Grand Rapids
A darkly comic Southern drama about love, art, and the power of women. After a tornado barrels through town leaving nothing but death and destruction, June has isolated herself, along with her goats on what remains of her family farm. June, who suffers from agoraphobia and crippling PTSD, is covered, from head to toe with scars. She gets up every day and feeds the goats, weeds the garden, and picks up her paintbrush. Alice, a world-renowned photographer, has come to take pictures of June for a series on women with scars, but what it turns out they need from each other is transcendent.
February 27-March 8 at 7:30 p.m. or 3 p.m.
John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Bellflower
Presented by GRCC Players
At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, they begin to question who is really the hero and what is the truth, discovering their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy captures a generation in mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, writing their own coming of age story.
April 3-5 at 7:30 p.m.
Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill
Michigan Premiere, Presented by Actors' Theatre of Grand Rapids
A hot-blooded contemporary queering of Renaissance Italy which questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails. Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But while he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival...
April 3-5 at 7:30 p.m.
Kindred Transport by Diane Samuels
Presented by Jewish Theatre of Grand Rapids
She survived the Holocaust. Bust can she handle her daughter's probing of the past?
June 5-16 at 7:30 p.m. or 3 p.m.
Spectrum Theater Information
Address
Spectrum Theater
160 Fountain St NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
*Located on the Main Campus of Grand Rapids Community College, Downtown Grand Rapids
Box Office Phone Number
Box Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1-3:30 p.m.
Curtain for all productions
Evening Performances - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Matinees - 3 p.m.
Ticket Prices
Vary - prices can be found on each theater company's Ludus page.
If any additional questions or rental inquiries regarding Spectrum Theater, please contact Jonathan Wheeler, Theater Manager, at (616) 234-3387 or send an email to jonathanwheeler@grcc.edu.