2007-08 Mainstage Season

For ticketing information, reservations, and directions to our theatres, please contact the Cornell College Box Office.

Directed by Mark Hunter
Co-produced by the Cornell College Theatre Department and Riverside Theatre

Kimmel Theatre: 
October 11 & 13 at 8:00 p.m., October 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Riverside Theatre (Iowa City):
October 18 – November 4

Inspired by Thornton Wilder, traditional Japanese theatre, and an abiding conviction that there is a kind of wisdom in beauty, even in terrible circumstances, this extraordinary play uses puppetry, language, music and drama to investigate the journey of an American family through time. Despite the “Christmas” in the title and the use of puppets, this is not a “Christmas play,” nor is it appropriate for children.  It is a unique and moving theatrical experience.

As Bees in Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter Beane 

Directed by Ron Clark
Plumb-Fleming Studio Theatre:
December 6-8 & 13-15 at 8:00 p.m.

 A comedy about the pitfalls of the unquenchable hunger for fame. The New York Times described this delightful satire as “a wryly confectionary, extremely entertaining fable for an age that always chooses image over substance.” The play earned Beane the prestigious Outer Critics Circle John Gassner playwriting award (1998) and a nomination for the Drama Desk Best Play.

Directed by Mark Hunter
Musical Direction by Jonathon Thull
Kimmel Theatre: 
February 7–10 at 8:00 p.m.
February 9 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

This well-loved 1982 Off-Broadway musical comedy about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood has achieved enduring status as a campy classic. The musical was based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman.

Directed by Jim VanValen
Kimmel Theatre: 
April 24–26 at 8:00 p.m,
April 27 at 2:00 p.m.

In Sam Shepard's exhilarating play, two families are divided against themselves and armed against each other. However, this mythic western story is not really a tale of rivalry, but of interior domestic violence, the damage that one does to filial, fraternal and marital bonds - and the love that lingers in the air after the havoc has run its natural course.