The Empire Theatre Company Presents: Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place
The Thin Place Cast
Ashley Fredricksen (Hilda)
Hannah Diers (Linda)
Nicole Quam (Sylvia)
Walter Criswell (Jerry)
Crew
Director – Jace Erickson
Stage Manager – Nick Zwego
Sound & Design Tech – Eric Lieder
Costume Design – Casey Hennessy
Set – Eric Castle
For our 13th season, the Empire Theatre Company is embracing the supernatural! We look under the bed for monsters, face our fears, and address our ghosts in musicals, dramas, and comedies by some of the most exciting playwrights of today and yesterday.
NEW WAYS TO ENJOY THE EMPIRE THEATRE COMPANY
Become a Season Ticket Holder
Enjoy the entire 13th season of the Empire Theatre Company with one ticket to each of its SIX shows (October 2024-May 2025)! This includes Young Frankenstein, The Thin Place, She Kills Monsters, Blithe Spirit, Becky Nurse of Salem, and Stellaluna. Take in professional theatre, and witness these incredible productions live at the Empire Arts Center!
As a Season Ticket holder, you will receive notice of the opening of ticket sales for each show and a special invitation to our first Friday Soiree - following the first Friday night performance. Mingle with the cast while you enjoy light refreshments.
Enjoy an ETC Flex Pass
An Empire Theatre Company Flex Pass for 2024-25 gives the holder 4 tickets to use in any combination. 1 ticket for each of 4 different shows or multiple tickets (up to 4) for a single show. It's up to you!
Purchase your Season Ticket or ETC Flex Pass by September 1.
SEASON 13 SHOWS
Young Frankenstein (The Musical)
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga , Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.
October 4-6, 10-13.
The Thin Place
Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in The Thin Place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one.
November 14-17, 21-24.
She Kills Monsters
When Agnes stumbles upon Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge.
January 24-26.
Blithe Spirit
A smash comedy hit on London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers wit, conflict and big laughs as a fussy, cantankerous novelist finds himself haunted by the ghost of his late first wife.
January 31-February 2, 7-9.
Becky Nurse of Salem
A descendent of a woman accused of being a witch in Salem is now having struggles of her own. She looks to a local witch to help right her wrongs, but it only makes things worse. A look at how times have changed, or not, for women in America.
March 26-30.
Stellaluna
Knocked from her mother’s safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird’s nest. This adorable baby fruit bat’s world is literally turned upside down when she is adopted by the occupants of the nest and adapts to their peculiar bird habits.
April 25-27, May 2-4.
Who We Are
WHAT IS THE EMPIRE THEATRE COMPANY?
The Empire Theatre Company (ETC) is a professional theatre company in North Dakota,nproducing a full season of productions. Founded in 2012, our goal is to develop and grow new audiences for theatre with the creation of excellent plays and musicals, particularly works that have never or rarely been produced in North Dakota.
ETC contracts with local, regional, and nationally-based professional actors to produce a season of four or more full-length productions each season. Our season runs from October through May each year. ETC is the resident theatre company of the historic Empire Arts Center, where all productions take place.
Production History
TWELVE SEASONS UNDER OUR BELT
The Empire Theatre Company has been producing contemporary plays and musicals featuring professional actors, directors, and other theatre artists since 2012 with its inaugural production of the musical Xanadu. Now entering our 13th season, we are proud to have paid over 500 professional actors and theatre artists, as well seeing exponential audience growth.
2021-2022 SEASON SUPPORTERS
