Who are the GRCC Players?
GRCC Players is our name for all students who participate in GRCC productions, either onstage or behind the scenes. We in the theater department pride ourselves on offering stimulating theater that challenges and educates (and hopefully entertains) our students and audience. We offer college credit for participation in student productions (kind of like "pay to play", except you don't have to pay if you don't need the credit). Every fall and winter the faculty direct main stage productions, and every winter we select a few students to direct an evening of one act plays. Students have designed lighting, costuming, scenery, and sound for a number of our productions.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players..." -William Shakespeare
2024-2025 Season
Fall Mainstage - The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith
Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for... the worst candidate to ever run for office. A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.
Directed by Tom Kaechele
November 14-16, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Spectrum Theater Main Stage
Winter Lab Theater - boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
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.
Directed by Jason Flannery
January 15-18, 2025
7:30 PM
Spectrum Theater, Lab Theater*
*Limited seating available each performance
Winter Main Stage- John Proctor is the Villain - Kimberly Bellflower
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.
Directed by Emily Diener
April 3-5, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Spectrum Theater Main Stage
Tickets for the GRCC Players 2024-2025 season can be purchased at: grcctheater.ludus.com or call the Spectrum Theater Box Office at (616) 234-3496
Questions? Send email to theater@grcc.edu or call (616) 234-3387.