2024 Season
Insertion
Maisie has finally landed an apprenticeship at the prestigious Red Key Publishing House, with the acclaimed fiction writer Gilda Tarrington assigned as her mentor. But posh, ancient Gilda has a secret: she’s really the mind behind the famous pseudonym of an erotic paperback empire, and she believes Maisie has the potential to be her successor. Determined not to lose her first major writing opportunity, Maisie sets out to learn everything she can about sex in a series of hilarious, harrowing, and heartwarming escapades.
Sarah Groustra’s INSERTION was the winner of B Street Theatre’s 2022 New Comedies Festival.
SUMMER ON STAGE
MCT'S Summer Youth Performing Arts Immersion Program
MCT brings theatre education (and more) to the Murphys community with an intensive five-week Summer Program for youths aged 9-16. Classes range from acting techniques and voice work to set and costume design and much, much more. In partnership with the Vallecito Unified School District, this program strives to support our local families with a resource for their children to pursue a fun and professional appreciation of the arts.
Applications open on February 1st.
The Cake
From the writer of NBC's hit show "This is Us" comes a hilarious and compelling stage experience. A vivacious, North Carolina baker named Della dreams of making her splash in the world as a contestant on a famous baking show, faces a crisis of conscience when her goddaughter, Jen - whom she loves like a daughter - asks her to bake a cake for a wedding. A wedding for Jen and her fiancée.
Quill to Act
MCT'S NEW PLAY FESTIVAL RETURNS!
MCT’s New Play Festival Returns! Playwrights submit their new works to MCT, where a panel of judges selects three plays to be performed as staged readings before an audience. After each reading, a real-time feedback session is held to help us select a winner to be included as a full, mainstage production in our 2025 Season!
Submissions Open: February 1, 2024
Submissions Close: July 1, 2024
Finalists Announced: August 1, 2024
Finalist Staged Readings: October 10, 17, and 24, 2024
Winner Announced: November 1, 2024
Submissions Open: February 1, 2024
Finalists Announced: August 1, 2024
Finalist Staged Readings: October 10, 17, and 24, 2024
Winner Announced: November 1, 2024
A Sign You Were Alive
Winner of the 2023 Quill to Act new play festival.
A father, James, desperately seeks supplies and knowledge for his daughter, Chelsea, who’s hiding in her bedroom after a traumatic incident that seems to be linked to a mysterious illness, possibly a pandemic, and has turned Chelsea into a vampire. Internet research is getting James nowhere, and he wants to make sure his daughter doesn’t feel the need to isolate for his protection, so they tackle the issue by marathoning as many vampire movies as possible to get an idea of how their lives will need to change. As they watch movies, they share opinions, bicker, shout, and bond over the dire circumstances and establish a stronger connection than ever – even as the threat of mortality looms for one of them in unexpected ways.
Launch Day
(Love Stories from the Year 2108)
A brilliant engineer has decided to leave our ailing planet on a mission to colonize another world. Her ex-boyfriend believes the Earth—and their relationship—can be saved, but first he must convince her to stay … and hope his new robotic arm doesn’t ruin everything. Told through a series of two-actor scenes, Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. Other characters include a starving artist who has agreed to let an advertising firm insert a computer chip in her head; a devoted zookeeper fighting to protect Sandy the pandaroo, her favorite genetically engineered creature; and a lonely construction worker enlisted to help a desperate woman with a task that may or may not be murder—killing her AI supervisor.
TICKET PRICES
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
All productions and programs produced by MCT in 2024 will run on our new Pay-What-You-Can / Pay-It-Forward platform. Season subscribers receive early access to tickets.
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Murphys Creek Theatre is a professional, regional theatre located in the charming and historic goldrush-era town of Murphys, California.
With our year-round venue at 580 S. Algiers St in downtown Murphys, everyone can enjoy great live theatre in Calaveras County throughout the year!
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580 S. Algiers St.
Murphys, CA 95247
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