OUR 2023-2024 Season
TWELFTH NIGHT
April 19 - May 4, 2024
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bri Baltes
A classic tale that has been exploring gender lines and bisexuality for centuries, StageQ brings a non-binary perspective to Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks: Viola is washed ashore but their twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on their own, Viola steps out to explore a new land. They are soon caught between a lovelorn duke and lovesick lady. Get ready for twists, turns, and love triangles only The Bard himself can concoct!
Performance Venue: Evjue Stage, Bartell Community Theatre
General Seating
Run Time: TBD
Recommended Ages: 10+
StageQ Sliding Scale Ticket Prices: Choose the price that is right for you!
Access Level: $15
Suggested Level: $20
Superstar Level: $30
Legend Level: $45*
*All Legend Level patrons will be automatically added to the Friends of StageQ roster for this current season and receive all the benefits of at the Friend level.
CAPITALQ THEATRE FESTIVAL
June 21 - June 23, 2024
ONE WEEKEND ONLY
Written & Directed by Various Artists
Join us for our annual Pride Month celebration when StageQ takes over both Bartell Theatre stages for one weekend to present brand new play readings, 10-minute shorts, and one-act plays by up-and-coming queer playwrights from around the country. Along with FREE workshops and masterclasses where you can learn about all aspects of theatre, we will celebrate Pride the best way we know how: highlighting new, queer voices telling their stories.
Performance Venue: Drury & Evjue Stage, Bartell Community Theatre
Festival Pass Prices: see up to 4 shows throughout the weekend!
Single Showcase pass: $15
Two Showcase pass: $20
Three Showcass pass: $25
Four Showcase pass: $30
THE SECRETARIES
November 3 - November 18, 2023
Written by Lisa Kron, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Maureen Angelos
Directed by Beck Keller
Patty is thrilled to join the secretarial pool at the Cooney Lumber Mill, but she soon begins to feel that all is not right—the enforced diet of Slim-Fast shakes, the strange clicking language between the girls, the monthly disappearance of a lumberjack. By the time Patty discovers murder is part of these office killers’ skill set, it’s too late to turn back! In the guise of satiric exploitation-horror, The Secretaries takes an unflinching look at the warping cultural expectations of femininity.
"The Secretaries is a sustained, amusing look at the fine line between aggression and assertiveness."
-- The New Yorker
Performance Venue: Evjue Stage, Bartell Community Theatre
General Seating
Run Time: 105 minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Content Warnings:
Diet culture, eating disorders, purging, and excessive exercise, fatphobia, coercive sexual conduct, workplace sexual assault, sexual harassment. Mention of/implied suicide, blood, death, violence.
StageQ Sliding Scale Ticket Prices: Choose the price that is right for you!
Access Level: $15
Suggested Level: $20
Superstar Level: $30
Legend Level: $45*
*All Legend Level patrons will be automatically added to the Friends of StageQ roster for this current season and receive all the benefits of at the Friend level.
Torch song
February 16 - March 2, 2024
Written by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Scott Albert Bennett
Co-Produced with Oh, My Stars! Productions
A two-act revival based on the award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.
"Torch Song brings laughter and tears simultaneously. It's impossible not to feel electricity in the theater." -- Entertainment Weekly
Performance Venue: Drury Stage, Bartell Community Theatre
Reserved Seating, Pick-Your-Own!
Run Time: 2 hours
Recommended Ages: 14+
StageQ Sliding Scale Ticket Prices: Choose the price that is right for you!
Access Level: $20
Suggested Level: $25
Superstar Level: $35
Legend Level: $50*
*All Legend Level patrons will be automatically added to the Friends of StageQ roster for this current season and receive all the benefits of at the Friend level.