Venture Theatre

February 5th - February 27th, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm

written by several, directed by Mike Eserkaln

Venture Theatre’s One-Act Theatre Festival returns for a fifth year to delight audiences once again with another eclectic anthology of comedy, drama and romance. This year will be a retrospective of some of the top scenes and short plays from the first four-plus seasons in the history of Venture Theatre. This “best of” show runs four weekends.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students.

Ok. We’re really truly 100% for sure on this one… seriously, stop snickering.

As of March 1st, 2010, The Sports Corner in downtown De Pere will be our new permanent home. The first shows at the new venue, will be Friday & Saturday, March 5th & 6th.

Pretty much everything you know and love about our shows - the format, the players, the showtimes, the prices and the family-freindly hilarity - will stay the same. Just the place we’re doing them will change. And it’s not really that big of a change - we’re only moving about three blocks or so.

The address of the new venue is 500 Grant Street, De Pere, WI 54115 on the corner of 5th & Grant, next to the Nicolet Restaurant.

So, after March 1st, don’t go to the old theatre because you’re going to be there all alone.

Please Note: We’re moving to the Sports Corner, not to be confused with Coaches Corner off of highway 41.

Click here for more details.

Calling the show “Freewheeling fun” and “Fresh and Original,” Press-Gazette theatre critic Warren Gerds gave “The Big Idea” three-and-a-half stars.

Read the full review on the PG website.

The show runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm through November 28 - see posts below for more information.

Green Bay Press-Gazette theatre critic Warren Gerds gave the first show on the 2009/10 season 4 stars out of 4! He called the show “a lovable adventure.”

About the cast of “The Movie Game,” he says “the players, who have honed skills at Comedy-City next door and under the same roof, are accustomed to reaching to the beyond in developing characters.”

Read the full review on the PG website.

Two other great reviews to check out…
The Appleton Post Crescent had very nice things to say about us.

As did the 4th Estate, the UWGB newspaper.

Sometimes words and pictures can’t do justice. Here’s a video trailer to help set the mood.

“The Movie Game” runs Fridays & Saturdays, September 18-October 10 at 8pm. Click here for info on how to make reservations.

“The Movie Game,” the first show on the 2009/10 Venture Theatre season, is an original romantic comedy about Jack Goldberg, an obsessive movie lover who can’t keep a job and still lives with his parents. Things spiral out of control when his shrink advises him to play the leading man in the movie of his life.

The play was written by Adam Hummel, an Eau Claire native, while he was a student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Hummel won the Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting at the American College Theatre Festival in 2001 for this play.

The cast features a mix of Venture veterans and newcomers including: Tony Mayer, Scott Roemaat, Gary Radke, Sarah Goltz, Kristen Barbiaux, Marty Chapman, Karen Meyer, Ken Goltz and Maria Bartholdi (who is also directing the production).

When – 8:00 pm every Friday & Saturday, September 18th through October 10th
- Fridays – September 18, 25, October 2, 9
- Saturdays – September 19, 26, October 3, 10

How Much - $12 for adults, $10 for students

Venture Theatre is proud and excited to announce the slate of shows for our Fifth season of providing all original, locally produced theatre to Northeast Wisconsin.

Movie Game
September 18th - October 10th, 2009
written by Adam Humel; directed by Maria Bartholdi

The Big Idea
November 6th - November 28th, 2009
written by Jon Bruinooge, John Egan, and Ken Goltz; directed by Matt Worzala

One Act Theatre Festival
February 5th - February 27th, 2010
written and directed by many

APS: Aerial Port Squadron - The Stageshow
April 9th - May 1st, 2010
written by Joe Abrahamson; directed by Tessie Micke

Click here for more info on the upcoming shows.

Calling the show “clever” and saying “there’s nothing else quite like it on the planet,” local theatre citic Warren Gerds gave the final production on the 2008/09 three and a half stars.

Click here to read the full review at GreenBayPressGazette.com.

Check out the preview video for the 2009 One Act Theatre Festival… running through February 7th.

Scott Roemaat, Sean Yahn & Jared Knabenbauer rehearse a scene from the 2009 One Act Theatre Festival.

Warren Gerds, theatre critic for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, calls the 2009 One Act Festival a “burst of imagination” in his review of opening weekend.

“The plays are myriad forms of comedy, silly and laced with sight gags on one end to dark and even a bit mean on the other. All the material in this fourth annual festival is new and from local talent with a lot of gumption.”

Click here to read the complete review.

Green Bay Press-Gazette theatre critic Warren Gerds gave “Vampire Variations” 3 out of 4 stars in his review. Notable quotes include:

“…bizarre, physical, wild and imaginative…”

“…lots of wordplay, some stake-in-the-heart stuff but no bloodsucking. The whole is comic creepiness or creepy comedy – your choice.”

Click here to read the full review in the Green Bay Press-Gazette.