Columbia Entertainment Company

your community theatre

Founded in 1979, Columbia Entertainment Company is now in its 48th season!

Our Mission:

The mission of Columbia Entertainment Company is to enrich the community by providing quality live theatre experiences to the citizens of mid-Missouri through education and participation.

Our Vision:

CEC strives to share community-driven, professional-level productions, highlighting the diversity and culture of our community, and to provide the pre-eminent theatrical experience for Mid-Missouri audiences and participants.

Our Values:

Respect · Engagement · Inclusion · Collaboration · Quality · Professionalism · Integrity · Passion

Columbia Entertainment Company is proud to present:

Season 48: Your Passport to: Demons, Deception, and Destiny!

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book by Oscar Wilde
Adapted by Merlin Holland and John O'Connor

September 10-20, 2026

Set in the decadent world of Victorian London, a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray becomes infatuated by the exquisite portrait that Basil Hallward has painted of him. He makes a Faustian pact that he will remain forever young while the picture grows old.

Oscar Wilde’s only novel caused an immediate scandal when it was first published in 1890 and its themes of youth and decay, innocence and corruption, art and reality are even more relevant to us in the 21st century than in the 19th.

Adapted by Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and John O’Connor, this delightfully witty version of Wilde’s story incorporates material suppressed from the original manuscript.

Licensed through Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, LTD.

Evil Dead the Musical
Book and Lyrics by George Reinblatt

October 29 - November 8, 2026

In this cult classic, five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and all to music. The songs in the show are completely off the wall as well. Titles like “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Kandarian Demons” and “What the F**k was That?” have had audiences rolling in their seats, and screaming for more and more blood.

You don’t need to be a fan of Evil Dead to love this show. You don’t need to be a fan of horror to love this show. You don’t even need to be a fan of musicals to love this show. As long as you like having fun… this show is for you. Is it scary? No! Is it gory? No. This is a pure comedy start to finish. It has fun with the horror genre, and in doing so appeals to a wider audience than you could ever imagine.

Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt
Music Supervision by Frank Cipolla
Additional lyrics by Christopher Bond
Based on characters created by Sam Raimi

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

STUFF

Written by Michael Kramer

February 2027

As Walter suffers from dementia, his wife, Patty, downsizes by giving sometimes unwanted stuff to her grown children. After the parents both pass away, the children and their spouses face the difficult task of dividing up and disposing of the lifetime accumulation of their parents stuff.

STUFF explores a mixture of happy memories and sad realities for adult children dealing the accumulation of stuff of their parents as they age and then pass away.

Dear Evan Hansen

Book by Steven Levenson
Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

June 3-13, 2027

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

By Selina Fillinger

April 1 - April 11, 2027

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.

Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, In

Featuring a Tony Award-winning book by Steven Levenson (Fosse/Verdon), and a score by Grammy®, Tony®, Emmy® and Academy Award® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land, Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach), Dear Evan Hansen is a new classic, with a message that has resonated with audiences around the world: “You Will Be Found.”

Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.