This Season

Heartland’s 2024-2025 Season Shows:

Season Tickets (Flex Passes) Apply:

Add-On Events: 2023-2024 Special Shows

Flex Passes Do Not Apply:

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HEARTLAND THEATRE COMPANY’S 2024-2025 SEASON

Heartland Theatre Company’s 2023-2024 Season begins August 29, 2024 with THE MINUTES, ending in June 2025 with the 10-Minute Play Festival.

The Minutes

DIRECTED BY SANDRA ZIELINSKI

Beneath the absurd back-and-forth of a city council board meeting lies the whiff of something distinctly sinister. The newest member of the Big Cherry City Council, having just returned from a leave of absence, learns that while he was away, another council member disappeared under mysterious circumstances … and no one seems to want to talk about it. [Mature Audiences – Adult language and themes]

SPONSORED BY MARILYN TOWNLEY & CAROL SCHRANTZ

Performances: August 29,30,31 & September 6,7,8 | 13,14 – 2024

The Lion in Winter

DIRECTED BY JOHN D. POLING

Sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons – The Lion in Winter is a modern-day classic. Comedic in tone, yet dramatic in action, the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1968, the film adaptation featured Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. [Mature Content] 

SPONSORED BY MARILYN & ROBERT SUTHERLAND

THE DRAKE ZIMMERMAN GROUP, UNDERWRITER

Show playlist by John D. Poling

Performances: November 7,8,9 | 15,16,17 | 22,23 – 2024

The Play’s the Thing

Selected Play: JUMBLE OF BONES and Guest Playwright: JENNI LAMB

DIRECTED BY RHYS LOVELL. A full-length new play is read from scripts, on stools, by talented actors with professional response. The play features veteran Heartland actors selected by Lovell. Three invited respondents provide comments to help the playwright further develop their play after the matinee on Sunday, December 8. 

SPONSORED BY LYNDA & JOHN RETTICK

Performances: December 7 (7:30 pm) and December 8 (2:00 pm) – 2024 $10 Donation at the Door or Book your ticket Online. Reservations are taken!

Alias Grace

DIRECTED BY DON LACASSE

Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, this stage adaptation of Alias Grace takes a look at one of Canada’s most notorious murderers. In 1843, 16-year-old Grace Marks was accused of brutally murdering her employer and his housekeeper. Imprisoned for years, Grace still swears she has no memory of the killings. [Mature Content]

SPONSORED BY ANNIE & TIM WYMAN

UNDERWRITTEN BY CHRIS TERVEN

Performances: February 6,7,8 | 14.15.16 | 21,22 – 2025

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

DIRECTED BY LEN CHILDERS

In this outrageous comedy, middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. When their movie-star sister swoops in with her new boy toy and announces her intention to sell the family’s estate, old resentments quickly flare up. 

SPONSORED BY CINDY & MIKE KERBER

Performances: April 3,4,5 | 11,12,13 | 18,19 – 2025

2025 Annual 10-Minute Play Festival: The Rummage Sale

DIRECTED BY MIA KATZ, IAN GUTHRIE, DAVE MONTAGUE, RICH TINAGLIA & JASON VALES

When Summer comes around there are two things you can count on—Heartland Theatre’s long-running annual 10-Minute Play Festival and people having sales to get rid of stuff. In 2025, Heartland brings these summertime staples together on stage for “The Rummage Sale”.

If one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, what happens when those people come together? The Rummage Sale—Heartland Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival for 2025. [General Audiences]

SPONSORED BY DEANNA FRAUTSCHI & ALAN BEDELL

21 YEARS OF 10-MINUTE PLAY WINNERS

2024 – SHOW MUSIC PLAYLIST (GHOSTS)

Performances: May 29,30 31 & June 5,6,7,8 | 12, 13,14,15 – 2025

The 2025 Mike Dobbins Memorial New Plays from the Heartland

Three new one-act plays from the Midwest in enhanced staged readings July 11,12,13 – 2025. Visiting Playwright Forum July 10. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPONSOR THIS EVENT?

DIRECTORS: DARLENE LLOYD, LYNDA RETTICK & NATASHA WARLOE

Enhanced Staged Readings Performances: July 11,12,13 – 2025

 

Young at Heartland Showcases

Young at Heartland Showcases: October 16 (7:30 pm) & 18 (2:00 pm), 2024 and June 25 (7:30 pm) & 27 (2:00 pm) – 2025

A donation at the door is requested for this special event. Booking online is unavailable.

INSTRUCTORS SANDRA ZIELINSKI, RICH TINAGLIA. PROGRAM DIRECTOR ANN B. WHITE

Our Season appeal packet, with Flex Pass offers and Donation opportunities, will be in your mailbox late July /early August if you are on our mailing list, with a deadline to reply by AUGUST 25, 2024. If you want to receive a packet and are not on our mailing list currently, email your address to [email protected]. 

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Mailing Address: PO Box 104, Bloomington IL 61702

Physical Address: 1110 Douglas St, Normal IL 61761

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