Carthage College Theatre

10/12/2026

There’s a haunting wind of the moors tonight… 🍂💨

In honor of Spooky Season we are throwing it back to THE MOORS, a play filled with murder, mystery, and madness. 🌙🖤

10/11/2026

Tech rehearsals are underway for Carthage Theatre’s next production, THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS! You do NOT want to miss it. Tickets are available now for performances Oct 23-31.

10/05/2026

Get your first look at THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS

The 18th installment in Carthage Theatre’s New Play Initiative, “The Theory of the Leisure Class” collides two major events of the Gilded Age — the Vanderbilt ball and the Haymarket Riots — into a single evening. Is this a society comedy of manners, a high-stakes clash between robber barons and anarchists — or is it all an AI hallucination? This funny and incredibly timely play explores the invention of bling culture in America, how we construct reality, and the end of history as we know it.

Oct. 23, 29-31 | 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 24, 25 | 3 p.m.

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08/26/2026

Lights up on a new year!! 🎬✨

Celebrating first day of class with a flashback to fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life.

Here’s to a year of building friendships, creating art, and telling stories that matter!!

08/26/2026

Lights up on a New Year 🎬🌟

Celebrating First Day of Class with a flashback to fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life

Here’s to another year of building friendships, creating art, and telling stories that matter!! ❤️

08/01/2026

Tickets for our 2026-27 Theatre & Dance Season are now available!

Featuring Elegies, Theory of the Leisure Class, Walden, Twelfth Night… and one more show-stopping musical (stay tuned 🌹👀) as well as our two dance concerts: What Flows & Away From The Mirror.

Get your Tickets Now 🎟️

06/29/2026

It has been a week since our J-term study trip returned from NYC 🗽✨

Swipe through to see some highlights from their adventures in the Big Apple 🍎

06/19/2026

We’re very excited to announce our distinctive BFA programs, a new academic pathway for aspiring theatre artists.

At Carthage College, students interested in studying theatre can choose between a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.).

05/18/2026

Last night we celebrated the World Premiere of TERMINAL EXHALE the movie. After the showing, Martin McClendon, the director & Terrell Franklin, the producer and one of the actors did a talk back along with some of the other actors at the showing.

The movie is looking to be released later this summer so keep an eye out for it 👀

So proud of all the amazing humans who worked on bringing these stories to life 👏🏻