Directed by Karrie Waarala
August 13-16 & 19-22
Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sunday 8/16 & Wednesday 8/19 matinees at 2pm

Based on a true story! The year is 1996 and a Southern theatre company has somehow obtained the rights to perform the award-winning theatrical epic Rapture In America.
The play is due to open in 4 days, and citizens are so alarmed about the gay content, strong language, and brief male nudity that the entire city is in an uproar.
A battle of wills, morals, the press, the church, the government, the arts, the law, the playwright, the police, and a one-winged angel armed with pepper spray ensues.
And thanks to a disastrous live TV interview, the whole nation is watching to see if
the show will indeed go on…  

CONTENT WARNING: Like the play it is about, Southern Rapture contains
mature themes and language, and brief, non-sexual male nudity.

THE CAST:

Laura Mandernack as Marjorie Winthrop

Shelly Smith as Allissa Marquand / Julia Overmyer

Bryan Shane as Winston Paxton

Cindy Franklin as Laverne Jackson / Clarice Paxton

Ken MacGregor as Donald Sherman

Adam Weakley as Simon Larisher / Emmett Whipple / Nightline Host

Jacob Gorski as Reverend DuPree / Anton Finewitz

Abby Lanham as Nyla-Jean Geisy

Jacob Maher as Mickey Stedman

Kimberly Ellerthorpe as Pam

Mark Bernstein as Franklin McManus

Southern Rapture is produced by special arrangement with THE GERSH AGENCY, 9465 WILSHIRE BLVD, SUITE 600, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212