Clear your calendars for May 16 & 17 because both ComedyCity and Venture Theatre will play host to 28 straight hours of comedy goodness, and we’re bringing you along with us. Plus, it’s all for a great cause - the fight against children’s cancer.

So, visit the Marathon website and come for as many hours as you can. Oh, and check out the groovy raffle stuff (even if you can’t make it).

Click Here for the Marathon site

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Warren Gerds, theatre critic for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, gave “DreamBound” 3 1/2 stars in his review this week.

“Inventiveness and imagination rule in Venture Theatre’s new, original and quite bizarre musical, “DreamBound.”

“…wow – wonderful stuff abounds (in a Venture Theatre/makeshift kind of way).”

“It’s a technically difficult show to do, which makes the production all the more impressive.”

Click here to read the full review.

“DreamBound,” the final show on the 2007/08 Venture Theatre season,  opens Friday April 4th, and runs through Saturday, May 10th.

“DreamBound” is an original surreal musical theatre experience written, conceived and composed by an ensemble of Venture Theatre members.

The cast features a mix of Venture veterans and newcomers including:  Joe Abrahamson, Ben Schoenebeck, Kristin Abrahamson, Cassie Beyer, Ken Goltz and Nick Sentowski.

When? – 8:00 pm every Friday & Saturday, April 4th through May 10th
- Fridays – April 4, 11, 18,  25, May 2, 9
- Saturdays – April 5, 12, 19, May 3, 10

How Much? - $12 for adults, $10 for students

Reservations - 920-983-0966, email mike@comedycityonline.com

“While the plays tell a variety of tales (most comical), the presentations are not a hodgepodge but disciplined theater.”

“How cool is it to have a theater with fresh, well-played, imaginative productions as this? Way cool.”

“The plays are often single ideas that wouldn’t make a full-length play, but they’re worthy to unfold in 5 to 20 minutes. They create an impressive collection of hoots.”

Click here to read the full article.

Local theatre critic Warren Gerds gave the Marx Brothers homage ‘Slaphappy’ four stars in his recent review.

“The play is a fast-paced, high-energy romp that teases presidential politics to the hilt. It’s funny.”

“Venture Theatre’s shows are fresh and original, and this run again is technically a world premiere. Definitely, you’d have to go a long way to find anything like “Slaphappy.”

Click here to read the rest of the review.

Have you seen a show at Venture Theatre and said to yourself, “Self, that would be a great show for my school, theatre group, church group, forensics competition or gaggle of random strangers to put on. I wonder where I can get my hands on the script.”

Well wonder no more. www.VentureScripts.com has many of the shows you’ve come to know and love from the Venture stage (and even some you haven’t seen). And more will be added as they come available.

All of the scripts available are written by professional writers, and most are available under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. That means you get the entire script immediately, for free. Others are available at a very reasonable cost. All files are unprotected PDF - so you can print them out as you need them.

Some are full-length plays and others are shorter sketches. Some are funny. Some are dramatic. You get the point. Check out www.VentureScripts.com today.

Click Here to read the rest of Warren Gerds’ review.

Now… on with the shows! Click any of the logos below to get more info on the third season of all original Venture Theatre productions.