June 21, 2019 | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre, Harding University’s summer community-based theatre program presented by the department of theatre, will begin production of “Losing Patients,” the second summer show of the theatre’s 37th season, June 27. “Losing Patients” is part of this summer’s theme “What LIES in Store” and will run through July 6. “Losing Patients” centers around the stately Silver Crest Manor, which
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June 3, 2019 | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre | The Harding University Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin its 37th season June 6, and the three featured shows follow the theme “What LIES in Store.” The season will open with “You Can’t Get There From Here” on June 6-9 and 13-15. In this show, one reporter investigates the Mavis Garner Bed and Breakfast after he
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May 14, 2018 | Theatre | The Harding University Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin its 36th season June 7, and the three featured shows follow the theme “Break a Leg!” The season will open with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (revised)” June 7-10 and 14-16. This fast-paced show features three actors performing all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in only 97 minutes. “Moon
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June12, 2017 | SSDT | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre began its 35th season with “Til Beth Do Us Part” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. The season, themed “Marital Messes,” includes three shows this summer. In “Til Beth Do Us Part,” career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband. Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s new assistant, a gregarious,
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July 21, 2016 | Theatre | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will conclude its 34th season with the musical “The Addams Family” Thursday, July 21. “The Addams Family” is part of this summer’s theme “We put the FUN in dysfunctional,” and will run through Saturday, July 30. “The Addams Family” reconnects the audience with the familiar family as daughter Wednesday Addams finds herself falling in love.
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June 28, 2016 | Theatre | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin production of “The Nerd,” the second summer show of the theatre’s 34th season, June 30. “The Nerd” is part of this summer’s theme “We put the FUN in Dysfunctional,” and will run through July 9. “The Nerd” tells the story of young architect Willum Cubbert and his strange dilemma when Rick Steadman, a
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June 6, 2016 Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin its 34th season Thursday, June 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center. The season, themed “We put the FUN in Dysfunctional,” features three shows this summer. “The Man Who Came to Dinner” would be celebrity critic Sheridan Whiteside, who slips on the front steps of the conventional Stanley home and breaks his hip,
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July 16, 2015 | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will conclude its 33rd season Thursday, July 23 at 6:30 p.m. with Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who runs the house, a spinster
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June 26, 2015 | Theatre Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will continue its 33rd season Thursday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m. with “The 39 Steps” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. “The 39 Steps” features a man with a boring life who meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon,
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June 9, 2015 | Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre will begin its 33rd season Thursday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. with “The Game’s Afoot” in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center at Harding University. The season, themed “A Season to Die For,” includes three shows this summer. “The Game’s Afoot” is set in 1936 in Connecticut with William Gillette, who made Sherlock Holmes famous on Broadway. When
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