Venture Theatre

Green Bay Press-Gazette theatre critic Warren Gerds gave the first show on the 2009/10 season 4 stars out of 4! He called the show “a lovable adventure.”

About the cast of “The Movie Game,” he says “the players, who have honed skills at Comedy-City next door and under the same roof, are accustomed to reaching to the beyond in developing characters.”

Read the full review on the PG website.

Two other great reviews to check out…
The Appleton Post Crescent had very nice things to say about us.

As did the 4th Estate, the UWGB newspaper.

Sometimes words and pictures can’t do justice. Here’s a video trailer to help set the mood.

“The Movie Game” runs Fridays & Saturdays, September 18-October 10 at 8pm. Click here for info on how to make reservations.

“The Movie Game,” the first show on the 2009/10 Venture Theatre season, is an original romantic comedy about Jack Goldberg, an obsessive movie lover who can’t keep a job and still lives with his parents. Things spiral out of control when his shrink advises him to play the leading man in the movie of his life.

The play was written by Adam Hummel, an Eau Claire native, while he was a student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Hummel won the Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting at the American College Theatre Festival in 2001 for this play.

The cast features a mix of Venture veterans and newcomers including: Tony Mayer, Scott Roemaat, Gary Radke, Sarah Goltz, Kristen Barbiaux, Marty Chapman, Karen Meyer, Ken Goltz and Maria Bartholdi (who is also directing the production).

When – 8:00 pm every Friday & Saturday, September 18th through October 10th
- Fridays – September 18, 25, October 2, 9
- Saturdays – September 19, 26, October 3, 10

How Much – $12 for adults, $10 for students