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The Ephrata Performing Arts Center takes a step outside of the community theater comfort zone with their recent production of Hedda Gabler. While many theaters are catering to the greatest common denominator, EPAC continues to take risks and prioritize quality over quantity. This production is a perfect example of that mission.

The Ephrata Performing Arts Center (EPAC) will be kicking off its 2022 season with Henrik Ibsen's classic play, Hedda Gabler, March 17th through 26th, 2022.

Step behind the scenes of Denver's favorite holiday tradition with DCPA Properties Director Robin Payne as she walks through the process of pulling props out of storage and prepping them for their onstage appearance.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a fun and funny, old-fashioned romp. Led by Ed Fernandez, the seasoned cast of 20 present an energetic and dynamic night of theater. Fernandez stars as radio personality and houseguest from Hell, Sheridan Whiteside. Whiteside slips on the ice outside the Stanley residence and is forced to recuperate among the 'common folk'. Fernandez plays a great curmudgeon yet knows when to pull it in to make the character more well-rounded and less cartoonish.

A classic comedy is coming to Ephrata Performing Arts Center, September 5-14, 2019, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

It's the Middle Class versus the Elites in Kaufman and Hart's uproarious comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner. An instant hit when it opened on Broadway in 1939, the play has gone on to be one of the most performed American comedies.

A classic comedy is coming to Ephrata Performing Arts Center, September 5-14, 2019, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Ephrata Performing Arts Center will present RAGTIME, April 25 - May 11, 2019, at the Sharadin Bigler Theatre. RAGTIME is the Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty.

The Reading Theater Project, whose mission is to create original theater productions, will produce its fourth Five-Minute Fringe Theater Festival, Feb. 22-24, 2019, at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education's Schumo Theatre, 3000 Penn Ave., West Lawn, Pa.

A classic Henry James novel became a classic Broadway drama, now on stage at EPAC.

Director John Goncar and a talented cast bring the chilling story of nuns and infanticide to the Ephrata stage

Before Dan Brown began writing his provocative thriller The DaVinci Code, there was the stage play Agnes of God. Now this masterful piece of theatrical mysticism, directed by EPAC First Time Director John Gancar makes its way to EPAC's Sharadin Bigler Theatre June 12-28.

Fiddler on the Roof- Ephrata Performing Arts Center's 2013 holiday production-is exotically set in a small Jewish village in Tsarist Russian in 1905, but the Tony Award-winning musical is beloved around the world for its universal appeal.

Fiddler on the Roof- Ephrata Performing Arts Center's 2013 holiday production-is exotically set in a small Jewish village in Tsarist Russian in 1905, but the Tony Award-winning musical is beloved around the world for its universal appeal.

Ephrata Performing Arts Center's Oct. 17- Nov. 2 production of Assassins frames portraits of nine presidential assassins and wannabes-from John Wilkes Booth through Lee Harvey Oswald-in the garish setting of a carnival shooting gallery. Rather than offend by glorifying these misfits and misguided 'patriots,' Assassins personalizes them with piercing insight, comedy and pathos.

Ephrata Performing Arts Center's Oct. 17- Nov. 2 production of Assassins frames portraits of nine presidential assassins and wannabes-from John Wilkes Booth through Lee Harvey Oswald-in the garish setting of a carnival shooting gallery. Rather than offend by glorifying these misfits and misguided "patriots," Assassins personalizes them with piercing insight, comedy and pathos.

EPAC presents a delightful production of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical childhood tale

Welcome to the comically heartwarming hearth of the Broadway and Hollywood hit, Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play in Neil Simon's famous semi-autobiographical trilogy and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of 1983.

Welcome to the comically heartwarming hearth of the Broadway and Hollywood hit, Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play in Neil Simon's famous semi-autobiographical trilogy and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of 1983.