Support Local Art; Become A Season Ticket Holder At Meadow Brook Theatre

Art is alive and thriving in Oakland County with Meadow Brook Theatre, Michigan's largest producing professional theatre located on Oakland University's campus in Rochester. The theatre operates as a non-profit and employs a staff of over 40 local artists. Each season, sets, costume, lighting and sound are designed and executed in house for a truly unique theatre experience.

Support the local arts by becoming a Season Ticket holder. Season Ticket holders receive priority seating for each show of the regular season, exclusive discounts, special access to A Christmas Carol and The Children's Series and free ticket exchanges.

The box office is now open for single and season ticket sales for the 2018-2019 season, opening this October with the madcap comedy Arsenic and Old Lace presented by Waltonwood Senior Living. Tickets range from $30 - $45 for individual plays.

Meadow Brook Theatre's 2018-2019 season promises to please with a selection of shows featuring, a Michigan Premiere, two hilarious comedies, a nostalgic musical and more. "This is going to be an amazing season," said Cheryl Marshall, Managing Director. "We're so excited to kick off our 53rd Anniversary with a such a wonderful line-up of shows!"

The season opens October 3rd with Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring presented by Waltonwood Senior Living, which will run through October 28, 2018. This classic comedy involves two spinster sisters who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with arsenic laced elderberry wine.

The regular season then breaks for the special 37th holiday production of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Charles Nolte, running November 9 - December 24, 2018. Subscribers to the MBT season receive a 20% discount for tickets to A Christmas Carol.

January 9 - February 3, 2019 MBT brings audiences Ken Ludwig's A Fox on the Fairway presented by Oakland University Gold & Learning Center. The farce is filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with...golf.

The third production of the 2018-2019 season is the musical The Spitfire Grill, the story of a feisty parolee who follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. The Spitfire Grill runs February 13 - March 10, 2019.

Detroit native Lydia R. Diamond's drama Stick Fly is the next show in the 53rd season. The affluent, African-American LeVay family is on stage March 20 - April 14, 2019, is full of family conflict, romance and gasp-worthy revelations.

Running April 24 - May 19, 2019, the musical comedy, The Marvelous Wonderettes, written and created by Roger Bean, takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts!

The season will conclude May 29 - June 23, 2019, with the 1920's musical, The IT Girl by BT McNicholl, Michael Small and Paul McKibbins. A lighthearted tribute to silent movies and Clara Bow.

Season tickets and Flex-Tix are currently available by calling the Meadow Brook Theatre box office at 248-377-3300. They range from $161 - $234 per seat for the six-play season. When you subscribe to the 2018-2019 season, you may also purchase tickets for A Christmas Carol at a 20% discount.

Meadow Brook Theatre is also proud to present their annual Children's Series presented by Genisys Credit Union, beginning in February with Once Upon a time: Cinderella and Jack & the Beanstalk, Patrick Garner's History's Alive, Pete the Cat, Madeline and the Bad Hat, Guy Louis: The World of Music, and Magician Gordon Russ. Children's Series tickets make great Christmas gifts. Don't miss out on this wonderful chance to share live theatre with the ones you love. Subscribers to the MBT season receive a 20% discount for tickets to the Children's Series.

For additional information on Meadow Brook Theatre, please visit www.mbtheatre.com. Meadow Brook Theatre is a non-profit, cultural institution serving southeast Michigan for over 50 years.

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