On Nov. 22, the immersive live experience Pink to Black, a collaborative project between Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) and El Dorado, returns and is sure to get the audience moving to the sounds of electronic music, with Heady Hooligan opening for Magic Beans on TRTC’s black box stage. On down the line, Pink to […]
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TRTC gears up for 2025-2026 season
Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) had a jampacked and well-received summer season of peripheral programming events. They now approach the debut of their 2025-2026 mainstage season, which aligns with the TRTC’s 30th anniversary. The community theater nonprofit will harken back to its earliest days by opening with “True West,” Aug. 29 through Sept. 14, which […]
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TRTC invites audiences to learn from the past
On May 2, Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) will premiere its final mainstage production of the 2024-2025 season: Melanie Marnich’s “These Shining Lives.” The play is based on a true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company in Illinois in the 1920s, and subsequently faced dire challenges due to radium poisoning. […]
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TRTC captures human essences in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’
Content warning: This article mentions the topics of child sexual abuse, rape, child loss and drug use. On Valentine’s Day, Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) debuted its third main stage show, “Tiny Beautiful Things.” It runs 82 minutes total with no intermission and takes audiences on a journey through the spectrum of the human condition, […]
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TRTC opens two new series in one weekend
Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) doesn’t keep its ghostlight on for too long and has a lot coming up. On Friday, Jan. 24, TRTC along with its newest collaborator, El Dorado, will launch an immersive concert series, “Pink to Black.” The cosmic Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock group, the Triptides, is the first headliner. Then, on […]
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TRTC brings ‘“Ghostlight’” to life
From Oct. 25 until Oct. 31, Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) will present the immersive theater experience of “Ghostlight” by Michael Duran. This truncated run will have 13 total performances of monodramas with multiple showings per night, each running about 90 minutes. The production will utilize spaces in the theater that audiences have never before […]
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TRTC gears up for 2024-2025 season
Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) is on the precipice of its 2024-2025 season. It opens on Sept. 13 with “What the Constitution Means to Me.” Written by Heidi Schreck, a 2019 Pulitzer finalist, “What the Constitution Means to Me” highlights a debate between a woman and a 15 year old about whether the Constitution is […]
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Thunder River Theatre Company leans into a co-leadership model
At the end of April, Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) announced in its newsletter that it is embracing a new paradigm in its leadership. Following former executive director Sean Jeffries’ departure, Missy Moore and Danielle Taylor-Moxon will now lead the theater-nonprofit in partnership. “I have a lot of faith in those two wonderful women. They’re […]
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Theatre Review: TRTC strikes balance between comedy and conscious in ‘The Minutes’
Editor’s Note: This review contains plot spoilers At its best, theater is an art form that, in the same breath, provokes delight and debate in equal measure. So far this season, Thunder River Theater Company (TRTC) has demonstrated mastery in both. In September, TRTC opened its season with “Rabbit Hole,” a play that probes the […]
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TRTC invites audiences to 2023-2024 season
Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) opened its 2023-2024 season on Sept. 15 with “Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. Directed by TRTC Artistic Director Missy Moore and running until Oct. 1, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama tells the story of the Corbett family, a couple who are living the dream until a tragic accident claims the life […]