August 15 is Rockford Day (also known as 815 Day) and on this day Season Flex Passes (4 tickets good for any performance in our fabulous 20th season) are on sale for $81.50. Click HERE!
Tickets On Sale Now for Season 20!
Now playing: THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT
Don’t miss this world premiere Agatha Christie adventure/mystery/romance now playing at AET through May 28. Anne Beddingfeld has lived her whole life in the village of Little Hampsly, where nothing exciting EVER happens. Now, within a matter of days, she’s involved in a murder investigation and boarding a ship bound for Africa. And that’s just the beginning!
FINAL WEEK for JUMPING TO DELUSIONS
Wild and wacky, hilarious, and heartbreaking — JUMPING TO DELUSIONS veers from vaudeville shenanigans to searing anguish to sketch comedy. This play is a freewheeling look at people coping with mental illness. it shines a compassionate light on their struggles and pokes a LOT of fun at some of society’s misconceptions. Co-directed by Stephen F. Vrtol III and Richard Raether, this play closes April 2. Get tickets HERE.
Auditions for AET's 20th Season
For the first time in two years, AET is holding local in-person auditions!
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 28 from 1-4 pm
WHERE: Cheek Theatre at Rockford University
APPOINTMENT: E-mail: rraether@artistsensemble.org
Prepare one or two monologues, no longer than two minutes OR material will be provided to read. Auditions are for roles in all productions in AET’s 2023-24 season.
Actors Equity auditions are Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the Equity Center in Chicago.
MYSTERY THEATER • Oct. 21-22
October is Mystery Month at AET, which presents two very different detectives in a faux broadcast from the Golden Age of Radio. In the first episode, Hercule Poirot exercises the little gray cells to unravel a series of deaths attributed to a curse. In the second episode, a glamorous private eye tracks a killer who strikes without making a sound.
Performances are at 7:30, Oct. 21-22 in the Cheek Theatre in the Clark Arts Center. This is a pay-what-you-can event. No tickets, just a donation jar.
JULIE & JANE plays Oct. 14-15
JULIE & JANE performs at 7:30 on Friday & Sat. Oct. 14-15 in the Cheek Theatre at Rockford University.
AET partners with the League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford to present JULIE & JANE, a staged reading of a new play by Margaret Raether about Julia Lathrop and Jane Addams, two women who met as schoolgirls and, throughout the course of nearly 60 years of friendship, changed the world.
This play celebrates these remarkable women and marks the 100th anniversary of the League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford, as well as the 175th anniversary of Rockford University, where Julie & Jane met. This is a pay-what-you-can event. No tickets, just a donation jar.
THE OUTSIDER is now playing!
THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith opens Artists’ Ensemble Theater’s 19th season. This hilarious political satire follows an election campaign the veers quickly (and hilariously) out of control. This laugh-out-loud comedy runs through September 25. Tickets: (815) 394-5004 or visit tinyurl.com/outsidertickets .
AET's 2022-2023 Season!
Season One Finale of Mysterious Journey
New episode of AET’s podcast is out! Two self-described "gen-u-wine desperados" abduct a young boy from a small town in Alabama. The boy, who insists he is an Apache warrior named Red Chief, proves to be more than they can handle. Nothing goes as planned for the hapless kidnappers in this holiday treat from O. Henry, "The Ransom of Red Chief." This episode marks the finale of season one of Mysterious Journey.