Humble Beginnings
This man is the founder of TheaterWorks.
Who is David Wo?
TheaterWorks premiered The Last Wallace and Ladmo Show a play written by this local playwright and one-time managing director of TheaterWorks.
Who is Ben Tyler?
In this year Peoria announced its plan to construct a cultural and performing arts center that would become the PCPA.
What is 2001?
After a previous program director was convicted of a crime Kids Alive rebranded to this.
What is Theater Alive?
This man became the Executive Director of TheaterWorks in 2022.
Who is Christopher K. Hamby?
The year that TheaterWorks was founded.
What is 1986?
TheaterWorks has put this show on more than any other, eight times.
What is a Christmas Carol?
The studio spaces at the PCPA are named after these two TheaterWorks donors.
Who are Bob and Nancy Root?
In 1997, this city offered TheaterWorks free use land to be used for a permanent theater as part of their cultural center. The theater turned them down.
What is Surprise?
TheaterWorks was the first theater to perform this show in the Phoenix Metro Area in 2025.
What is Prince of Egypt?
TheaterWorks put on this number of shows in its first season.
What is 7?
This non-holiday musical has been produced four times by TheaterWorks, the only show currently with that number.
The Music Man
This one woman show was TheaterWorks' first in its new home at the PCPA.
After being forced out of their location by the Peoria Fire Marshall, TheaterWorks temporarily moved their operations here.
What is the Lakes Club in Sun City?
This 2020 production immersed theatergoers in a world "down the rabbit hole," and a documentary about the show earned a Rocky Mountain Emmy.
What is Curiouser and Curioser?
These cross streets are where TheaterWorks found its first home.
What are 67th Avenue and Thunderbird Road?
This season two more shows will reach the milestone of being produced for a fourth time.
What are Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts was completed in this month and year.
What is December 2006?
In March of this year, TheaterWorks was forced to shut its doors after an inspection found numerous fire violations and concerns.
2004
This Stephen Schwartz musical was the first show following the Covid-19 pandemic and the experimental Curiouser shows.
What is Children of Eden?
David Wo and many of the other founding members of TheaterWorks did theater here, and moved their resources to the new theater.
What is Shadow Rock Congregational Church?
This show was TheaterWorks' first, opening on February 6, 1987.
The Mary Jane Gyder "mainstage" Theater has a seating occupancy of this.
What is 274?
This was the last production David Wo directed before his death in May 1997.
What is the Secret Garden?
During the 2023-2024 season, TheaterWorks mounted this show paying homage to a Broadway composer that the theater has produced 18 shows from throughout their history.
What is the Sondheim Tribute Review?