ABOUT KCP

Mission Statement

To entertain, educate, enlighten, and stimulate the community through quality live theatre, including related theatre arts. Read about the history of KCP by clicking the button below.

Our Aim is to…

Encourage the community to enjoy and participate in live theater
Study, share, teach, and improve techniques of theater production
Assist and promote other theater-oriented organization
Provide & enable community theater to endure in perpetuity
Encourage, promote, and conduct educational, cultural, literary, and dramatic pursuits for the general welfare of, and enjoyment by, the community.

Past Productions

2020's
2010's
2000's
1990's
1980's
1970's

YEAR

2023

SHOW

  • The Gin Game
  • All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
  • Private Lives

PLAYWRITE

  • Donald L. Coburn
  • Robert Fulghum & David Caldwell
  • Noel Coward

DIRECTOR

  • Jessica Brown
  • George James
  • Jim Ballantine

2022

  • All My Sons
  • Mama Won't Fly
  • The Roommate
  • Company
  • Arthur Miller
  • Jones Hope Wooten
  • Jen Silverman
  • Steven Sondheim
  • Sade Reuarin
  • Jo Grande
  • Faith Harding
  • Dennis McGraw

2021

  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Edges: A Song Cycle
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
  • Arnold Meister
  • Chris Alderate

2020

  • The Rocky Horror Show
  • She Kills Monsters
  • Richard O'Brien
  • Qui Nguyen
  • Jennifer Downs
  • Jenna Cedusky

YEAR

2019

SHOW

  • Arsenic and old Lace
  • The Shadow Box
  • The Complete works of Wm Shakespeare
  • Sweeney Todd

PLAYWRITE

  • Joseph Kesselring
  • Michael Cristofer
  • A. Long, D. Singer, and J. Winfield
  • Steven Sondheim

DIRECTOR

  • Dennis McGraw
  • Jo Grande
  • Ross Martineau
  • Rebecca Hanson

2018

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Lovers, Wives, and Tennis Players
  • Dog Sees God
  • Angel Street
  • Steven Sondheim
  • Richard E. Peck
  • Bert V. Royal
  • Patrick Hamilton
  • Arnold Meister
  • Richard E. Peck
  • Lori Benkert
  • Cass Foster

2017

  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Going Home
  • The Savannah Sipping Society
  • Talley's Folly
  • Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
  • Alma de Groen
  • Jesse Jones
  • Lanford Wilson
  • Rebecca Hanson
  • Steve Whitney
  • Jo Grande
  • Nellie Foster

2016

  • The Rainmaker
  • It's Only A Play
  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
  • Title of Show
  • N Richard Nash
  • Terrence McNally
  • Christopher Durang
  • Jeff Bowen
  • Bard Widner
  • Arnold Meister
  • Faith Harding
  • Chris Alderete

2015

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
  • Prodigal Father
  • Matilda's Waltz
  • The Last Five Years
  • Edward Albee
  • Richard E. Peck
  • David Penhallow
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Cass Foster
  • Richard E. Peck
  • David Penhallow
  • Jennifer Downs

2014

  • Closer
  • Other Desert Cities
  • Dixie Swim Club
  • A Few Good Men
  • Patrick Member
  • Jon Robin Baitz
  • J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten
  • Aaron Sorkin
  • Faith Harding
  • Arnold Meister
  • Jo Grande
  • Dennis McGraw

2013

  • Working
  • Dixie Swim Club
  • Stude Terkel, et al
  • J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten
  • Ross Martineau
  • Jo Grande

2012

  • My Three Angels
  • God of Carnage
  • Murder at the Howard Johnson's
  • August: Osage County
  • Sam & Bella Spewack
  • Yasmina Reza
  • Ron Clark, Sam Bobrick
  • Tracy Letts
  • Jonel Rial
  • Laurel Petterson
  • Jeff Elkins
  • Arnold Meister

2011

  • Dearly Beloved
  • The Language Archive
  • Laughter on the 3rd Floor
  • Christmas Belles
  • J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten
  • Julia Cho
  • Neil Simon
  • J. Jones, N. Hope, J. Wooten
  • Jo Grande
  • Laurel Petterson
  • Arnold Meister
  • Jennifer Downs

2010

  • Blood Brothers
  • Art
  • True West
  • Sugar, Oh Sugar
  • Willy Russell
  • Yasmina Reza
  • Sam Shepherd
  • Wil Welsh
  • Michelle Hood Beck
  • Laurel Petterson
  • Faith Harding
  • Wil Welsh

YEAR

2009

SHOW

  • Cinderella (w/ HCT)
  • Parallel Lives

PLAYWRITE

  • Rogers & Hammerstein
  • Georges Foss

DIRECTOR

  • Ed Eaton
  • Ross Martineau

2008

  • All My Sons
  • The Wiz
  • Arthur Miller
  • Charlie Sims
  • Dennis McGraw
  • Jennifer Downs

2007

  • Big River
  • Roger Miller
  • Ed Eaton

2005

  • Beauty & the Beast (w/ HCT)
  • Grease
  • A. Menken, H. Ashman, T. Rice
  • Jim Jacobs/Warren Casey
  • Arnold Meister
  • Carol Culver

2004

  • Fiddler On The Roof (w/ HCT)
  • Sheldon Hamick/Jerry Bock
  • Mary MacDermott

2003

  • PVT Wars
  • Honk!
  • Music Man (w/ HCT)
  • James McClure
  • Drewe/Stiles
  • Meredith Wilson
  • Melonie Magruder
  • Mary MacDermott
  • Arnold Meister

2002

  • Sweeney Todd
  • Blood Brothers
  • Damn Yankees
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Willy Russell
  • Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
  • Bobbee Downs
  • David Conrad
  • Matthew Pederson

2000

  • Time Share
  • Wil Welsh
  • Wil Welsh

YEAR

1999

SHOW

  • The Miracle Worker
  • Olde Time Radio Hour
  • Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

PLAYWRITE

  • William Gibson
  • Based on various radio shows
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber

DIRECTOR

  • Steven Simpson
  • Freden Alfonso
  • Jim Selbel

1998

  • An Evening of Absurd One Acts
  • Tender Offer
  • Sure Thing
  • Variations on the Death of Trotsky
  • The Sandbox
  • Driven
  • Words, Words, Words
  • Mud Bone
  • Par 4 Murder
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Our Life Under the Sea
  • Parallel Lives
  • Black Box
  • Breakfast with Santa
  • Various
  • Wendy Wasserstein
  • David Ives
  • David Ives
  • Edward Albee
  • Donna Hinkle Lagerquist
  • David Ives
  • Paul Alvarado
  • Katie Hasset
  • William Shakespeare
  • Dianne Ray & KKAP
  • Mo Gaffney & Kathy Najimy Eduardo
  • Valenciana
  • Various
  • Supervised by Natalie Goss
  • Steven Simpson
  • Adam Roversi
  • Various
  • Darlene Babbin
  • Steven Simpson
  • Adam Roversi
  • Various
  • Natalie Goss & K. Hasset
  • Paul Alvarado & Natalie Goss
  • Dianne Ray
  • Georges Foss
  • Arnold Meister
  • Dolly Kanekuni

1997

  • Jake's Women
  • Bid for Murder (Dinner Theatre/ Auction)
  • Fruits
  • Olde Time Radio Hour
  • Two by Two
  • Under the Big Top
  • Tony 'n Tina's Wedding
  • Don't Dress for Dinner
  • Neil Simon
  • Katie Hassett
  • Michael Barretto
  • Based on various radio shows
  • Rodgers, Chamin, & Stone
  • Martin Follose
  • Conceived by Nancy Cassaro
  • Camoletti
  • Sandi O'Shaunessy
  • Katie Hassett & Natalie Goss
  • Michael Barretto
  • Natalie Goss
  • Natalie Goss
  • Natalie Goss
  • Natalie Goss
  • Natalie Goss

1996

  • Lover's Leap
  • Old Time Radio Hour
  • Making Waves
  • Annie
  • Greater Tuna
  • The Nutcracker
  • Bill Daily
  • Compiled by Bob Magruder
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Meehan, Chamin, & Strouse
  • Williams, Sears, & Howard
  • Tchaikovsky & Hoffman
  • Sandi O'Shaughnessy
  • Bob Magruder
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Glenda Gerde
  • Arnold Meister
  • Doug Cyr

1995

  • The Sunshine Boys
  • Into the Woods (w/ KPAC)
  • Live a Little
  • Chibariyo (Kumu Kahua)
  • Godspell
  • Splash
  • The Boys Next Door
  • KKAP performs Broadway '95
  • Neil Simon
  • Sondheim & Lapine
  • Kelly, Christiansen, & Kittleson Edward
  • Sakamoto
  • Schwartz & Tebalak
  • Various
  • Tom Griffin
  • Various
  • Jo Grande
  • Arnold Meister
  • Bobbee Downs
  • James Nakamoto
  • Arnold Meister
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Bobbee Downs

1994

  • Banzai Darling
  • Krazy Kamp
  • An Evening of Mozart
  • A Couple White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'
  • I Do, I Do
  • Nunsense II
  • Kamau (Kumu Kahua)
  • An Evening of Scenes
  • Peter Pan
  • Loot
  • Babes in Toyland
  • David Penhallow
  • Kelly & Francoeur
  • W.A. Mozart
  • John Ford Noonan
  • Schmidt & Jones
  • Dan Goggi
  • Alani Apio
  • Various
  • Barrie, Leigh, Comden, & Green
  • Joe Orton
  • Victor Herbert
  • David Penhallow
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Mario Ramos
  • Mike Taylor
  • Judi Floyd
  • Alan Keith
  • Harry Wong III
  • David Edwardson
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Gabriel Oberman
  • Bobbee Downs

1993

  • Iniki Follies
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • How to Eat Like a Child
  • The Twelve Marias
  • Romeo & Juliet
  • South Pacific
  • Bullshot Crummond
  • The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever
  • Hurricane Iniki-related acts
  • Dale Wasserman
  • Ephron, Forester, & Kahan
  • Martha Ebersole
  • William Shakespeare
  • Rogers & Hammerstein
  • House, et al
  • Barbara Robinson
  • Meister & Valentin
  • Gabriel Oberman
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Martha Ebersole
  • Arnold Meister
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Bill Durkin
  • Bobbee Downs

1992

  • The Foreigner
  • Twelfth Night or Whatevah
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • The Baddest Angel Band
  • Larry Shue
  • James Grant Benton
  • Tim Kelly
  • Various
  • Gale Gabbard
  • James Grant Benton
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Bobbee Downs

1991

  • Captain Cook and the Hawaiians
  • Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
  • Fiorello
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Maestro of Melody Valley
  • Steel Magnolias
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Roger Potter
  • Lee Blessing
  • Jerry Bock & Seldon Harnick
  • William Shakespeare
  • Ira Mendlowitz
  • Robery Harling
  • Charles Dickens
  • Nancy Carolan
  • Jerry Tracy
  • Lee Murray
  • David Perry
  • Bobbee Downs
  • Arnold Meister
  • Jonel Langenfeld

1990

  • Desk Set
  • Three One Acts
  • Click, The Super Salesman, Th-That's All
  • F-Folks Nunsense
  • Gypsy
  • Dracula
  • The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever
  • William Marchant
  • Wil Welsh
  • Various
  • Dan Goggin
  • Laurents, Styne, & Sondheim
  • H. Dean & J. Baldwin
  • Barbara Robinson
  • Harald Bouton
  • Wil Welsh
  • Various
  • Jerry Tracy
  • Arnold Meister
  • Gerry Alberti
  • Bobbee Downs

YEAR

1989

SHOW

  • Laura
  • The Odd Couple
  • Blithe Spirit
  • Beauty & the Beast

PLAYWRITE

  • Caspary & Sklar
  • Neil Simon
  • Noel Coward
  • Jesse Beers, Jr.

DIRECTOR

  • Gerry Alberti
  • Harald Bouton
  • Gerry Alberti
  • Pam Zirker

1988

  • You Can't Take It With You
  • A Shortcut to Heaven
  • The Fantasticks
  • Noises Off
  • George S. Kauffman
  • Ivy Gabbard
  • Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
  • Michael Frayn
  • Jo Grande
  • Gale Gabbard
  • Randy Snyder
  • Arnold Meister

1987

  • Death Trap
  • The Curious Savage
  • Guys & Dolls
  • Listen to the Stars
  • Ira Levine
  • John Patrick
  • Frank Loesser
  • David Penhallow
  • Harald Bouton
  • David Penhallow
  • Sally Holbrook
  • David Penhallow

1986

  • The Night of January 16
  • The Seven Year Itch (North Shore Players)
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • Bed and Breakfast
  • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • Time Share
  • Ayn Rand
  • George Axelrod
  • Beth Henley
  • Wil Welsh
  • Larry King & Peter Masterson
  • Wil Welsh
  • Jay Haas
  • Pete Groesbeck
  • Arnold Meister
  • Wil Welsh
  • Arnold Meister
  • Wil Welsh

1985

  • Don't Drink the Water
  • Arsenic and old Lace (North Shore Players)
  • Time Share
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Who's Afraid of Virgnia Woolf
  • Woodey Allen
  • Joseph Kesselring
  • Wil Welsh
  • Irving Berlin
  • Edward Albee
  • Jo Grande & Jay Hass
  • Pete Groesbeck
  • Wil Welsh
  • Courtney Kahr
  • Glenn Habermaan

1984

  • Harvey (North Shore Players)
  • The Shadow Box
  • The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • Finishing Touches
  • The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (North Shore Players)
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Mary Chase
  • Michael Christofer
  • John Patrick
  • Jean Kerr
  • Neil Simon
  • James Goldman
  • Pete Groesbeck
  • Arnold Meister
  • Glenn Habermaan
  • Ted Scott
  • Joan Miller
  • Glenn Habermaan

1983

  • A Thurber Carnival (North Shore Players)
  • All the King's Men
  • The Owl and the Pussycat
  • KCP...Alive and Well
  • Everybody Loves Opal (North Shore Players)
  • A Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • James Thurber
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • Bill Manhoff
  • Various scenes from past shows
  • John Patrick
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Joan Miller
  • Ted Scott
  • Pam Zirker
  • Jo Grande, Chrnn
  • Pete Groesbeck
  • Arnold Meister

1982

  • Butterflies Are Free
  • The Good Doctor (North Shore Players)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Wake Up, Darling (North Shore Players)
  • Leonard Gershe
  • Neil Simon
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Alex Gottlieb
  • Pam Zirker
  • Joan Miller
  • Arnold Meister
  • Pete Groesbeck

1981

  • Oliver
  • The Electric Rainbow
  • Lionel Bart
  • Ira Mendlowitz
  • Ron Spitz
  • Ira Mendlowitz

1980

  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Cinderella
  • Bouja
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Various
  • George Herman
  • Sherry Matias
  • Courtney Kahr
  • Wil Welsh

YEAR

1979

SHOW

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • And the Soul Shall Dance
  • Skin
  • Promenade, All

PLAYWRITE

  • Various
  • Wakako Yamauchi
  • Welsh & Spitz
  • David Robison

DIRECTOR

  • Joyce Brown
  • Jose Bulatao, Jr.
  • Wil Welsh
  • Joan Miller

1978

  • Momotaro and Other Pacific Tales
  • The Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Peter and the Wolf (Ballet)
  • Macbeth
  • The Lost Princess of Kauai
  • Gypsy
  • Folk Tales
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Serge Prokofiev
  • William Shakespeare
  • Hawaiian Legend
  • Laurents, Styne, & Sondheim
  • Honolulu Theatre for Youth
  • Sheilah Topp
  • Joyce Brown
  • Courtney Kahr
  • Ken Kulp
  • Ron Spitz

1977

  • The Seven Year Itch
  • Twelfth Night or Whatevah
  • The Real Inspector Hound
  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
  • Charley's Aunt
  • The Grubb Street Players Puppet Show
  • George Axelrod
  • James Grant Benton
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Jacques Brel
  • Thomas Brandon
  • Various
  • Sheilah Topp
  • Sheilah Topp
  • Jay Haas
  • Jose Bulatao, Jr.
  • Chris Bailey
  • Glen Corlin

1976

  • Yes!
  • Our Town
  • The Calabash Theatre Company
  • I Do, I Do
  • The Mousetrap
  • A Farewell to Hawaii
  • The Odd Couple
  • The Drunkard
  • Paradise, Paradise
  • Wil Welsh
  • Thornton Wilder
  • Reader's Theatre/ Various
  • Jones & Schmidt
  • Agatha Christie
  • Duo Piano Concert
  • Neil Simon
  • Brian Burton
  • Wil Welsh & Ron Spitz
  • Wil Welsh
  • Sherry Matias
  • Joan Miller
  • Mary Levine
  • Courtney Kahr
  • Various
  • David Stern
  • Joan Miller
  • Wil Welsh

1975

  • The Two Faces of Love
  • Three for the Show
  • A Thurber Carnival
  • The Footsteps of Doves
  • Supressed Desires
  • The Man of La Mancha
  • Shakespeare Scenes
  • Various
  • James Thurber
  • Robert Anderson
  • Susan Glaspell
  • Wasserman, Leigh, & Darion
  • Sherry Matias
  • Various
  • Joan Miller
  • Charlotte Mitchell
  • Jan Rudinoff
  • David Stern

1974

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Courtney Kahr

1973

  • Barefoot in the Park
  • Neil Simon
  • Sherry Matias

1971

  • The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • Dracula, Baby
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors
  • Ah, Wilderness!
  • Rain
  • An Evening of One Acts
  • The Public Eye
  • The Sandbox
  • Hello, Out There
  • John Patrick
  • Strauch, Jakes, & Ronald
  • Gian Carlo Menotti
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Somerset Maugham
  • Various
  • Peter Shafer
  • Edward Albee
  • William Saroyan
  • Russell Sus
  • Robert George
  • Arnold Meister
  • Lily Froelich
  • Russell Sus
  • Various
  • Lily Froelich
  • Dick Farshler
  • Gordon Haas

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All members receive a $5 discount on tickets to any performance attended throughout the season. Sustaining and Angel members receive program recognition and priority seating when the doors open.

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