Spring Academy Classes are Enrolling Now!

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Bluff City Theater Academy is a fun and educational way for children and teens interested in theater to gain experience and skills on stage.  For younger children, our Introduction to Theater programs help your son or daughter (ages 7-11) gain confidence through using their imagination to play out themes and ideas.  We offer classes in […]

The 2020 Season is On Sale Now!

Long Day’s Journey into Night

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whatever you do for yourself dies with you but what you do for others will be remembered even after you are long gone… Our 2020 Season Theme is “Legacies”, four plays about ordinary people  who created remarkable legacies that withstood time.  Whether we’re talking about Vincent Van Gogh, Justice Francis Biddle, Eugene O’Neill or university […]

Audition Notice-2020 Season

Bluff City Theater today announced that the 2020 Auditions Will be Held at The Zack Theater 3224 Locust, St. Louis. Saturday, January 18th 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bluff City Theater will be holding open auditions for 3 of 4 plays in the 2020 Season this January.  Equity and non-equity actors are welcome to audition. Following are […]

Notice of Annual Meeting

  Bluff City Theater Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of Bluff City Theater will be held on Wednesday, November 27th in the theater located at 212 Broadway in Hannibal starting at 6 p.m.  All interested parties are invited to attend. The bylaws of Bluff City Theater stipulate that any member, described […]

Get Tickets Now for The Big Reveal 2020!

Join us for The Big Reveal 2020 Saturday, November 16th 7-9 p.m. Karlock’s Kars and Pop Culture Before you know it, 2020 will be here and along with it, an exciting new season of professional theater right here in Hannibal.  Come join us for the Second Annual Big Reveal Event and be among the first […]

Fall BCT Academy Sessions Begin Soon!

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Register Now! One of the most important things we do here at Bluff City Theater is incubate local talent with the aim of creating a lasting theater culture in the Greater Hannibal Region.  Theater arts enriche the quality of life for our residents young and old and BCT Academy is one way that youth gain […]

Madam-The Musical Features an Array of Historical Female Characters

While researching the background for his new musical Madam, based loosely on Eliza Haycraft, the infamous St. Louis Madam who died in 1871 as the richest woman in Missouri, playwright Colin Haycraft came across remarkable stories of women who bucked the hierarchy of male dominance that held women down and blocked them from fulfilling their […]

Here it is! A Sneak Preview of “Empire”

Hint:  Turn up your volume.  You’re going to love this! Score, book and lyrics by Colin Healy. Directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga.  Madam-The Musical opens in preview this Thursday.  Official Opening is Friday, August 16th. Buy Tickets Here!

Why We Chose to Program a Play About Eliza Haycraft…

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Madam-The Musical is a totally new play we commissioned to end our 2019 season dedicated to the theme of The American Experience.  Back in March, we performed David Stanley Ford’s intense work The Interrogation of Nathan Hale as a way of exploring the idealistic aspirations of those who founded America- a nation that would treat […]

Reputation! Reputation! Reputation!

                                                                                                  I have lost my reputation! Good […]