06/10/2025
Award-winning Golden West College Theater Arts Department announces their 2025-2026 season of plays and musicals
The Golden West College Theater Arts department 2025-2026 theater season promises to be one of its most exciting seasons to date, offering an excellent lineup of productions featuring a talented and diverse group of authors, performers, directors, and designers.
This outstanding collection of plays and musicals will be presented live in the 326-seat Mainstage Theater on the GWC campus beginning in October 2025.
Tickets to the 2025-2026 season are available at www.gwctickets.com.
2025
THE DIVINERS
By Jim Leonard Jr.
Directed by Tom Amen
October 10 - 19. 2025
This award-winning American drama explores the unlikely friendship between a disturbed young man and a disenchanted preacher. Set in rural Indiana in the 1930’s, The Diviners is a story of friendship, faith, family, and community told in a spare, hauntingly poetic voice that speaks to the heart. As playwright Jim Leonard Jr. puts it, “These are good and simple people, they have only the best of intentions.” Don’t miss this deeply moving and profoundly human play.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Martie Ramm
November 14 - 23, 2025
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is the original romantic comedy, packed with snarky banter, ridiculous misunderstandings, and a love story that only happens because of some well-placed eavesdropping. Watch as sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick—two experts in the fine art of mockery—get tricked into falling head over heels in love, while another plot threatens to tear young lovers Hero and Claudio apart. With gossip, disguises, and just the right amount of chaos, this timeless tale of love, deception, and redemption proves that in matters of the heart, nothing is ever quite as it seems! This is Shakespeare at his funniest.
2026
EIGHT SECONDS
World Premiere production
By Tim Mueller
Directed by Tom Amen
March 6 - 15, 2026
In 2015, a study was conducted that proved that a simple goldfish has an attention span longer than the average human, which is just eight seconds. Can that actually be true? Ellie spends most of her waking hours fishing. Not for actual fish of course. She spends her time online, connecting with some of the scariest people on the internet, hoping to expose the real people behind the hate and misinformation they spread. Eight Seconds will make you think about how you see the world, the information you absorb and believe, and how we relate to each other as a result of those beliefs. Part exploration of the darkest side of humanity and part crime drama, the story will leave you asking, “What will I do with my eight seconds?”
NOTE: This production contains adult language and situations and is intended for mature audiences.
A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
Books and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman
Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak
Based on A Novel by Roy Horniman
Directed and staged by Martie Ramm
April 24 – May 3, 2026
Step right up for a night of devilish fun and high-society hijinks! A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is the outrageously funny, Tony Award-winning musical that took Broadway by storm—snagging 10 Tony nominations and 4 wins, including Best Musical!
When the low-born Monty Navarro discovers he is eighth in line for a grand earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he decides to speed up the process in a most wickedly hilarious way. Can he outwit and outlive his unsuspecting relatives without getting caught? And what about love? Because murder isn't Monty’s only mischief! With show-stopping music and dazzling costumes, this award-winning and playfully funny masterpiece is a theatrical triumph!
For more information, visit www.gwctheater.com.
