Who are the GRCC Players?
The GRCC Players are any students who participate in our theater productions either on-stage or behind the scenes. We pride ourselves on producing thought-provoking theater that challenges, educates, and entertains while giving our students the chance to gain experience in step of the process.
Students have the option to earn college credit by enrolling in one of our College Players courses while actively participating in GRCC Players productions throughout the year. You don’t have to register for credit to be involved, but if you’re enrolled in College Players, you’re automatically part of the GRCC Players community.
Each GRCC Players season features two faculty-directed main stage productions and one faculty-directed Lab Theater production. Students are involved in every aspect of production, from acting and assistant directing to building sets, running lights and sound, and much more.
No matter your experience level, there’s space for you to explore, create, and grow with the GRCC Players. The stage is set. All that’s missing is you.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players..." -William Shakespeare
2026-2027 Season
The Oregon Trail by Bekah Brunsetter
November 5-7, 2026
Jane’s trapped in her middle school computer lab playing “The Oregon Trail” for what feels like hours. The game becomes life and rips us back to the trail, 1848, where we travel in a covered wagon with Jane’s great-great-grandmother. As Game moves us, back, forward, and back again, Now-Jane and Then-Jane’s sadnesses are delicately juxtaposed in this play-meets-video-game about depression, Then and Now.
anthropology by Lauren Gunderson
January 21-23, 2027
Merril has been spending more time with her sister, Angie, but she isn't ready for anyone to know about it. At least, not until Merril has decided that Angie is ready to see other people – but it is going to take a little more finessing, and definitely less fighting. After Angie, without permission, arranges for Merril’s ex Raquel to come over, the truth comes out: Angie is an A.I. creation that Merril has developed to cope with her sister's death. But as the virtual Angie begins to demand more presence in Merril and her mother’s lives, reality and consciousness blur, and new moral questions arise about the right, safe, and acceptable ways to grieve.
The Play That Goes Wrong by Jonathan Sayer, Henry Lewis, and Henry Shields
April 8-10, 2027
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes this smash-hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show: an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award-winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical, murder mystery, play-within-a-play, conceived and originally performed by award-winning company Mischief.
Questions?
Send email to theater@grcc.edu or call (616) 234-3387.