McCoy Theatre

Upcoming Events

Sunday matinees at 2 pm. All other peformances begin at 7:30 pm.

An August Wilson Celebration
His Life and His Work: The 20th Century On Stage

Wednesday, September 19 through Saturday, September 22

Rhodes welcomes guest artist Charles S. Dutton, opening the celebration with a special performance. Also featuring Dr. Sandra Shannon (Howard University), Dr. Yolanda Williams Page (University of Arkansas), Dr. Ladrica Menson-Furr (University of Memphis), Joyce Cobb, Hattiloo Theatre′s August Wilson Songbook and a staged reading of Joe Turner′s Come and Gone.

This event is a collaboration between the Curb Institute of Music at Rhodes, McCoy Theatre, The University of Memphis and Hattiloo Theatre.

Season 27

Richard O′Brien′s The Rocky Horror Show

Opening Halloween Night, Wednesday, October 31
Additional performances November 1-3, 8-11

Book, music and lyrics by Richard O′Brien
Directed by Chris Davis

Rocky Horror is the original glitter rock nightmare. The Brothers Grimm meet Frankenstein′s monster and Ed Wood in a sex drenched sci-fi morality play about coming of age in an age of excess. Think you know Rocky? Think again!

How I Learned to Drive

February 15 & 16, 21-24

By Paula Vogel
Directed by Wes Meador

How I Learned To Drive tells the story of Li’l Bit, a young woman growing up in rural Maryland with a large extended family, including Uncle Peck.  In a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, the play chronicles an uncle-and-niece relationship as it progresses, during the course of a number of driving lessons, from friendship to unhealthy closeness.  Smart, funny and moving, the Pulitzer Prize winning play deals with charged issues of sexuality and sexual abuse with remarkable grace, exploring themes of control and manipulation told through the metaphor of driving. The thrill of the open road was never paved with such complexity.

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Lysistrata

April 4 & 5, 10-13

Based on the play by Aristophanes
Adapted and directed by Kyle Hatley ‘03

The time is now.
The Conflict, however, is as old as the dust
And the ashes of the first Human Being
Ever to walk the Earth.
As old as war and the idea of Peace.
But the Resolve is ridiculously clear and equally as old:

Laughter.
Song.
Dance.
Celebration.
Reconciliation.

In the face of War
Lysistrata and her followers
Take matters into their own hands…

“I’d rather celebrate the Human Potential
With Peace and Sex, with Song and Dance,
Than destroy it with weapons and assimilation.”
      -Lysistrata

McCoy theatre is a member of Heart of the Arts

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