By Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone

Before there was Hamilton, there was 1776 – a musical as erudite as it is witty. “It’s hot as hell in Philadelphia…” and the fractious members of the Continental Congress are fed up with John Adams and his radical ideas about American independence during the broiling summer of 1776. It takes the combined wiles of Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson to work on the Congress and push for a vote on a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

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“One republic falls, another rises…”

The story of Julius Caesar’s assassination by the associates who fear his dictatorial ambitions, and the rise of his nephew Octavius, who leads the subsequent hunt for the assassins – all of which helps to bring about the fall of the Roman Republic the conspirators had hoped to forestall – forms one of Shakespeare’s most notable historical tragedies.

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The return of the WCPA Ten-Minute Play Contest means the return of the Ten-Minute Plays to the Jones Theater stage! The winning plays get a full staging. Usually funny, often thought-provoking, and always popular with the audience, don’t miss the Ten-Minute Plays on Labor Day weekend!

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By C.S. Lewis, adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette

The WCPA and the Custer County High School present a joint production of this stage adaptation of the classic fantasy work. Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz and sent to a huge old house in the country. And in this house there is a wardrobe…and in this wardrobe…a whole other country, where the Pevensie children find themselves joining forces with Aslan the Great Lion against the White Witch. A visual treat for all ages!

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