November 2, 3, 4 2023
Play Production Class
For Tickets, please click the main heading “TICKETS” on the home page and follow the link.
Poster Art by Marielle Russell
Ready to tackle a murder mystery that really teases the brain? With a fun play-within-a-play plot that challenges both the mind and the metaphysical, this comic mystery is certain to have your audiences coming back for more.
The players at The Murder Mystery Playhouse are rehearsing a new show, Putting a Little English on It. It’s a not-so-good attempt at a British murder mystery, complete with cheesy dramatic music and British accents. As expected at the final dress rehearsal, the lights go out and a character dies onstage — only this murder wasn’t in the script! It all culminates in a wild surprise ending in which the actors must work together to defeat the murderer before he murders them all.
This is the 7th year of an annual event. Class winners compete for a cash prize with the rhythm, emotion, and wordplay of Slam Poetry, punctuated by Poly’s award-winning instrumental jazz ensemble. Qualified judges determine the winner.
Admission Money goes to the prizes for the student poets!
January 12, 2024
Featuring Poly’s Resident Award-Winning* Improv Team:
“THE POLYESTERS”
A suggestion from the audience sets the wheels spinning and you won’t believe the hilarious results! "THE POLYESTERS" V Alumni!
This hilarious, fresh, exciting and interactive show starts
December 15th at 6:30pm at the Poly Playhouse!
$5 Tickets. LINK HERE
*Roleabout competition 1st place 2022!
New Plays
Student-Written one-act plays
Advanced Students have the unusual opportunity to work with a professional screenwriter and actor from the National High School Institute of Northwestern University, one of the top theatre/film universities in the nation. Students are guided to write their own original one-act plays. Several are selected to be produced each year. We call this "Poly Productions".
April 12-13 2024
Welcome to the Renaissance, where the Black Plague has ceded power to the Puritans, farthingales and codpieces are the latest fashion trend, and the biggest celebrity in England is a playwright named William Shakespeare. In the midst of all this excitement, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are trying to keep their acting company afloat. In a desperate attempt to out-Bard the Bard, Nick consults with a soothsayer, who informs him that the future of theatre involves acting, singing, and dancing -- sometimes all at once! As the Bottom brothers strive to write the world’s very first “musical”, they find themselves caught in a bitter battle with the Bard and the play's the thing. Something Rotten! is a hysterical, joyous celebration of everything you love about Broadway.
February 22-24, 2024 in the Poly Auditorium!
Featuring Shakespeare's classic comedy,
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”!
by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Linda Bon
and Play Production Class
May 24, 2024 6:30, and during the day May 28-29th