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The Purple Rose Theatre Company
The Purple Rose Theatre Company is the home of world-class, original American theatre in Chelsea, MI.
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Production Archive

2024-2025: Season 34
Office Christmas Party Grinch in Fight with Rudolph Police Called
Fourteen Funerals
My Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War
Bert & Trixie Visit the Vet

2023-2024: Season 33
Diva Royale
The Antichrist Cometh
What Springs Forth

2022-2023: Season 32
Pickleball 
Human Error
In Common
A Jukebox for the Algonquin

2021-2022: Season 31
Under Ceege
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ghost Machine

2020-2021: Season 30
Zoom Play Readings

2019-2020: Season 29
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé
Roadsigns

2018-2019: Season 28
Diva Royale
Never Not Once
All My Sons
Welcome to Paradise

2017-2018: Season 27
God of Carnage
Flint
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear
Willow Run

2016-2017: Season 26
Morning After Grace
Smart Love
Vino Veritas
Harvey

2015-2016: Season 25
Casting Session
The Odd Couple
Gaps in the Fossil Record
Morning’s at Seven

2014-2015: Season 24
Annapurna
Steel Magnolias
Talley’s Folley
2AZ

2013-2014: Season 23
The Vast Difference
Redwood Curtain
PRTC Spring Comedy Festival: Lovers, Liars, & Lunatics
The Last Romance

2012-2013: Season 22
Superior Donuts
The Meaning of Almost Everything
33 Variations
Miles & Ellie

2011-2012: Season 21
Escanaba in da Moonlight
A Stone Carver
White Buffalo
On Golden Pond

2010-2011: Season 20
Best of Friends
Corktown
Some Couples May…
Consider the Oyster

2009-2010: Season 19
Escanaba
Gravity
Our Town
Boeing-Boeing

2008-2009: Season 18
Apartment 3A
A Streetcar Named Desire
Bleeding Red
Wake

2007-2008: Season 17
The Poetry of Pizza
Vino Veritas
Growing Pretty
Panhandle Slim & the Oklahoma Kid

2006-2007: Season 16
Escanaba in Love
The Subject of Roses
When the Lights Come On
Sea of Fools

2005-2006: Season 15
The Glass Menagerie
Guest Artist
The Late Great Henry Boyle
Honus and Me

2004-2005: Season 14
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Norma & Wanda
Bus Stop
And the Winner Is

2003-2004: Season 13
The Good Doctor
Leaving Iowa
The Underpants
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel

2002-2003: Season 12
Across the Way
Stand
Hope for Corky
Blithe Spirit

2001-2002: Season 11
Guys on Ice
Months on End
Born Yesterday
Let It Be

2001: Season 10
Rain Dance
Orphan Train: An American Melodrama
Completing Dahlia

1998-1999: Season 9
Boom Town
The Hole
The Big Slam
Criminal Genius

1997-1998: Season 8
Escanaba in da Moonlight
Julie Johnson
Book of Days
Marcus is Walking

1996-1997: Season 7
Apartment 3A
Labor Day
The Hot L Baltimore
Off The Map

1995-1996: Season 6
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
Beast on the Moon
PRTC Spring Comedy Festival: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Lust 
The Harmony Codes

1994-1995: Season 5
Thy Kingdom’s Coming
Only Me and You
Hang the Moon
Weekend Comedy

1993-1994: Season 4
The Vast Difference
Two Sisters
Keely and Du
Stanton’s Garage

1992-1993: Season 3
Possessed: The Dracula Musical
Necessities
National Anthems
Nooner

1991-1992: Season 2
The Tropical Pickle
Ties That Bind
More Fun Than Bowling

1991: Season 1
Shoe Man
Blush at Nothing
Kuru

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137 Park Street Chelsea, MI 48118

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