The Players Theatre Company

For over 17 years we have continued to pursue and produce the highest quality of community theatre in the Gallatin Valley. We have not been satisfied with simply "putting on another show", we have wanted to educate and inspire both actors and audiences in the live theatrical experience.

As an artistic expression, live theatre is the best representation of the human condition. In early Greece, when theatre as we know it began, actors graced the stages of Athens and elsewhere with plays which were used to bring understanding to the struggles in life faced by those people 3000 years ago.

Throughout mankind's history we have often turned to the stage to discover and experience a higher meaning of life. From the religious dramas of ancient Greece to the "Miracle Plays" of the Middle Ages, to the spectacle of the West End Theatres in modern London, people have been drawn to the live stage. Sometimes it has been simply to escape for a few hours, often to find answers to questions that few of us even know how to ask.

Several years ago New Life Players Theatre Company began a journey which was the culmination of 21 years of my involvement with live theatre and my own personal journey as a Christian and a Minister of the Gospel. This journey was to discover means of expressing, through the entire production of a play, a higher, transcendent artistic truth. Many have searched for this over the years. Whether we look to Stanislavski in The Actor Prepares or Viola Spolin in Improvisation for the Theatre they were looking for that higher means of expressing truth upon the stage.

Viola Spolin says this in her writings; "We are working on two levels; the obvious, the story, the scenario, the characters. The other is the invisible; the luminous, the spirit-world."