Sunday, January 29 at 7:00pm

Venture Theatre will hold an audition for the play, My First Love, by Ryan Penneau.

We need 3 women & 2 men to play ages 25-30

Come see some of your old favorites as well as some exciting new sketches!

This show is rated VT-MA for language & adult situations

The darkly comedic musical holiday tale “Black Peter” begins a three weekend run on December 2nd at Venture Theatre in downtown De Pere.

The musical follows the rise and fall of Black Peter, Santa’s dark dealing elf. Nowadays, the “naughty” kids don’t realize how good they’ve got it. They don’t even get coal anymore. Hundreds of years ago, they would get a visit from Black Peter. He would dole out punishments in the form of whippings, abductions or possibly even take you into the woods and eat you! Hilarity ensues.

“Black Peter” was written by Pat Quigley and debuted at Venture Theatre in 2005. The show has since been produced in New York and Chicago.

Video Trailer

The new location is 353 Main Ave. in downtown De Pere (across the street and a few doors East of our old location). The main entrance is located off the parking lot on the Reid Street side of the building.

Please note: The show is rated PG-13 for language.

This sign marks the Public Entrance from the Reid St parking lot

You read that right… Venture Theatre is in the process of relaunching in De Pere. After a nearly two year hiatus, the original scripted plays that you’ve come to know and love are returning, along with plans for sketch comedy, stand up comedy, music and more.

More details will be coming soon. In the meantime, if you are interested in performing, writing, directing, stage managing, donating, volunteering or being involved in any other way, please contact Mike Yoder at venturetheatreonline@gmail.com or 920-412-7119.

As of March 1st, 2010, The Sports Corner in downtown De Pere is our new permanent home. The first shows at the new venue were 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