Spectrum Theater Calendar 2026-27
Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg - September 10-19, 2026
presented by Actors' Theatre
What happens when empathy becomes another workplace skill some people are allowed to fail?
Sofia has been hired as an empathy coach at a debt-collection agency, and the job is going about as well as you might expect. Her new clients can barely identify an emotion, much less practice compassion (and let’s just disregard the fact that someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen), and the office culture is a nightmare wrapped in corporate language and dead-eyed professionalism. While the employees stumble through lessons in feeling, listening, and basic human decency, something more sinister keeps breaking through the absurdity.
Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s outrageous dark comedy is sharp, bizarre, and deeply unsettling - exposing the danger of a world where harm is normalized, accountability is optional, and some people’s feelings matter far more than others.
The Singularity Play by Jay Sill - October 8-17, 2026
presented by Actors' Theatre
What happens when machines and corporations take control of our stories before we have a chance to tell them ourselves?
In an unused room inside the Google offices in Manhattan, a theatre troupe gathers to rehearse a new play written by an advanced artificial intelligence named Denise. What begins as an experiment in performance quickly slips into something stranger, darker, and far less controllable. The actors try to make sense of a script written by a machine, but the deeper they go, the more the lines blur between rehearsal and simulation, creator and creation, art and algorithm.
Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play is an existential comedy, a sci-fi horror story, and a slippery theatrical puzzle about creativity, control, desire, and the unsettling future we may already be living inside.
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The Oregon Trail by Bekah Brunsetter - November 5-7, 2026
presented by GRCC Players
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.
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Parade by Alfred Uhry & Jason Robert Brown - December 3-13, 2027
presented by Jewish Theatre
Chronicles the wrongful conviction of Leo Frank for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan—and the heroic efforts by his wife Lucille to save her husband. Set in Georgia between 1913 and 1915, this Tony Award-winning musical features a large cast, spectacular music, and issues all too relevant a century later.
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Spectrum Theater
160 Fountain St NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
*Located on the Main Campus of Grand Rapids Community College, Downtown Grand Rapids
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Box Office Hours
Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Curtain for all productions
Evening Performances - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Matinees - 3 p.m.
Ticket Prices
Vary - prices can be found on each theater company's Ludus page.
If any additional questions or rental inquiries regarding Spectrum Theater, please contact Jonathan Wheeler, Theater Manager, at (616) 234-3387 or send an email to jonathanwheeler@grcc.edu.