Theatre Productions
The 2025-26 Season
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
by Paul Zindel
Directed by Mark Owsley
November 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 2025
For this show only: Walk-up patrons - No reserved seating. First-come, first-served. The box office will not be open for ticket sales at the door.
- Tickets are FREE for students, faculty, and staff of Clark College who can provide ID at the door.
- General Admissions: Accepting cash donations at the door.
- Senior Citizens (60+): Accepting cash donations at the door.
“Supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, acid-tongued Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everyone around her. Her older daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions, while her younger girl, Tillie, plain and almost pathologically shy, demonstrates an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie conducts a botanical experiment, winning a prize at her high school. Proud but jealous, too filled with her own hurt to accept her daughter's success, Beatrice can only maim when she needs to love and deride when she intends to praise. Yet, as Tillie's experiment proves, something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil”. (Concord Theatricals)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Lila Soelberg
February 27, 28, March 5, 6, 7
“An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who
has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell
Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer
Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that
remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions
about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed
world”. (Concord Theatricals)
[title of show]
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen, Book by Hunter Bell
Directed by Lisa Bishop
Dates to be announced.
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival.
However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to
lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends
Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. With the cast in place, Jeff and Hunter
begin a conversation about what to write about. Eventually, Jeff suggests they write
about what to write about. They make a pact to write up until the festival's deadline
and dream about the show changing their lives. [title of show] -- taken from the space
on the festival's application form which asks for the "[title of show]" -- follows
Hunter and Jeff and their friends on their journey through the gauntlet of creative
self-expression. In the span of 90 minutes they write and perform their show at the
festival and learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists.
[title of show] is, above all, a love letter to the musical theatre — a uniquely American
art form — and to the joy of collaboration.
Tickets are FREE for students, faculty, and staff of Clark College who can provide ID.
General admissions: $12.00
Senior Citizens (60+): $10.00
Clark Students, Faculty and Staff: Free with ID
Decker Theatre
All shows at 7:30 p.m. in the Decker Theatre
The Decker Theatre is located in the Frost Arts Center.
Please enter through the front entrance, go through the lobby and the theatre entrance is located in the southeast corner of the courtyard.
To secure your preferred seats, purchase online today! Unsold tickets will be available for purchase at the Decker Theatre, 30 minutes
prior to each performance.
Commitment to Diversity
Clark Theatre embraces its role as part of an educational institution that is strongly committed to diversity. Our script selections reflect our mission to educate students and to initiate dialog about important topics. As a result, they may include violence, strong language, or overt sexuality that some audience members may find provocative. If you have questions about our production, we encourage you to research the play in advance or to contact our box office staff.