Las Cruces Community Theater is proud to announce the 2010 - 2011 LCCT Season!

HELD OVER! NUNSENSE WILL HAVE TWO EXTRA PERFORMANCES AUGUST 27 AND 28 AT 8:00 PM! Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently set up for the eighth grade production of Grease. Here we meet Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus performer; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and comic surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon. With more than 5000 productions worldwide, it has been translated into 21 languages.

Las Cruces' Premier Illusionist Duo are at it again! Daniel McKinley and Robert Lopez present their newest stage magic show, for two nights only!

Anything is possible when these two are on stage and in your mind. You will see illusions unlike any you have seen before. They will be doing anything from walking barefoot on broken glass to reading your minds. There will be magic for kids and adults alike. This isn't your everyday "magic show"; this is truly a must see for the whole family.

Throughout the show, you will be taken on a journey from excitement to fear, sadness to joy, and wonder to laughter. This show really has it all!

Note: due to the special nature of this production, seating will be on a first-come first-served basis.

Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play is an evening of adaptations of three early films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: "The Lodger," "Sabotage" and "The 39 Steps." These stories come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast, with five actors playing dozens of characters, live sound effects and musical underscoring.

The Lodger: A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger.

Sabotage: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.

The 39 Steps: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence.

Synopses copyright IMDB

Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and a severely retarded younger brother named Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow ups are realized. But Mickey, whose entire vocabulary is "oh boy" and "wow," suddenly says "Greetings!" An ancient, wise and witty spirit who is set upon healing the family has borrowed Mickey's body.

"Hilarious." New Yorker.

"A comic jewel.... Stunning and touching. ... A joyful holiday lift." N.Y. Newsday.

"A loving holiday wonder.... Deserves a shelf life long after Christmas." N.Y. Post.

"Glows with ... warmhearted emotion." AP.

"A winner." Albany Times Union. " Greetings! should become as much a part of the fabric of the winter holiday season as It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol." Berkshire Eagle.

The Las Cruces Community Theatre (LCCT) is now accepting submissions for our One-Act Play Festival. The Festival is part of the LCCT 2010-2011 Season and will have the full support and resources of the LCCT and its board of directors as do all other LCCT productions of the season. Plays should be family oriented and no longer then thirty (30) minutes in running time. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2010. Interested directors should send submissions with their name and contact telephone number to

Las Cruces Community Theatre
P. O. Box 1281
Las Cruces, NM 88004
ATTN: One-Act Play Selection Committee

Submissions can also be dropped off at the Theatre at 313 Downtown Mall (next to COAS Book store). If no one is at the theatre, you may leave it next door with Flo at the Blue Gate Gallery. You can email southam97@gmail.com with inquiries.

Please submit scripts (synopses will not be accepted). Directors are encouraged to make multiple submissions. Each committee member will read all plays. Selected plays will be announced no later than November 30, 2010. Production performance dates are scheduled for 2 weekends, January 7.8,9 and 14, 15, 16. Each play selected will perform on all days scheduled.

Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened to him...

"A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic humor...A talent for writing a wonderful funny line...full of humor and intelligence. Fine fun."-New York Post

"Creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor from the city's manholes."-Time

It's 1909 and Herbert Bracewell has retired to the attic of his New York home with plans to stage a comeback in a one-man review of his long, if undistinguished career. He assembles five antique match-lit footlights to mark a playing area and proceeds to ad-lib ideas for his show, straining to pull down dusty manuscripts from atop overflowing shelves of vintage souvenirs, using a stunt dummy to play off of, and conferring often with his pet, a stuffed crow. Herbert's wife, Florence, thirty years his junior and once a great success as an actress, comes to call her husband to bed and is caught up in his production plans, first with good-humored derision, then with the suggestion that she join him in the comeback attempt.

Sandy Claiborne is a young American businessman in Rome on a sad errand: his father was killed in an automobile accident while on his annual one-month "sabbatical" in Italy, and Sandy needs to bring the body home for burial. Unfortunately, Italian red tape is insurmountable... enter Alison Ames, a young British woman whose mother was killed in the same accident (wait, what?), and Baldo, an Italian who can provide anything — anything — for a price. Avanti! is a witty comedy where what happens in Rome needs to stay there!