Purchasing this pass allows you one ticket per each performing art event for the Fall 23 & Spring 24 season! (note: this is one ticket per event, not one ticket per each recurrence of the event. Events subject to change).
Our current lineup includes:
Fall 2023 Performances
Exit the King
September 21-24, 2023 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm)
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Prof. Deborah Mogford
King Berenger has a problem. He does not want to leave the stage. He is enjoying the spotlight even though he is caught in a tug-of-war between his two Queens. One wants him to face reality in a true kingly manner and behave well, while the other younger Queen is ready to “Party Hardy” and forget the concerns of the world. Which Queen will win? Will Berenger gracefully exit the stage or will he refuse to leave? Exit the King is from the imagination of Eugene Ionesco, one of the foremost playwrights from the genera of Theatre of the Absurd, and in true Absurd fashion Ionesco deals with this dilemma through outrageous comedy using vaudeville routines, slapstick, prat falls, clowning, and other comic turns. Ionesco is the master of an important idea seen through the lenses of comedy. The play is even more relevant today than it was when it opened in 1963.
Lucky Stiff
November 9-12, 2023 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm)
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Prof. Timm Adams
Based on the novel, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds and a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn... or else his uncle's gun-toting ex!
Choir Concert
December 8, 2023 (Friday, 7:30 pm)
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Prof. Timm Adams
A performance featuring Rockford University choirs.
Spring 2024 Performances
Songs For A New World
February 22-25, 2024 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm)
Cheek Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Stephen Schellhardt
Writer and composer Jason Robert Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge, 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, to meet a startling array of characters that range from a young man who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams... and a soulless marriage.
Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot
April 18-21, 2024 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm)
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Prof. Deborah Mogford
It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous.
Choir Concert
May 3, 2024 (Friday, 7:30 pm)
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center
Director, Prof. Timm Adams
A performance featuring Rockford University choirs.
Enjoy the Show!
