Performance dates:

April 14, 15, 16, 22, 23- 8pm
April 24- 2pm

Performance venue: Linesight Theatre
143 N. Rock Island, 3rd Floor
Seating is limited- call 265-2226 for reservations

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THEATRE ON CONSIGNMENT HOMEPAGE

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THEATRE ON CONSIGNMENT

Theatre On Consignment began as a stage off-shot of Films On Consignment, the prolific crew of Wichita filmmakers that have produced award-winning independent films since 1995.

Executive director Jason Bailey graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wichita State University in 1998 with a BFA in Theatre Performance. In addition to appearing in several productions on the WSU stage, he directed Talk Radio for WSU Second Stage and Search & Destroy and his original play The Barrel for WSU Reader's Theatre. He also began directing independent films at WSU, culminating with the Orpheum premiere of the Kan Film Festival winner My Day In The Barrel in May 1998. Since then, his credits as a writer/director have included Heaven Sucks!, The Putz, and MindField, as well as the Tallgrass Film Festival selection and Wichita Center for the Arts National Short Film Competition winner (1st place and Audience Favorite), Morning After Blues. Throughout his films, Bailey has amassed a core group of actors, all with stage backgrounds who are an integral part of the Theatre On Consignment venture.

Frequent Films On Consignment actor Rebecca Lathrop's work as coordinator for the Linesight Gallery in Old Town led to the inception of Theatre On Consignment to help initiate the gallery's use as a black box theatre space. Bailey and company had been on the lookout for a venue to present more experimental theatrical works than tended to be the norm in Wichita, and the Linesight space presented a perfect opportunity. Their February 2002 production of Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (directed by Bailey) was a surprise success, selling out two of its three performances.

It was followed up by their acclaimed June production of Bash: Latterday Plays (also directed by Bailey). Fall of 2002 brought successful productions of Glengarry Glen Ross (directed by Deborah Berry) and Other People’s Money (directed by Nathan Boren), followed by February’s four-show sell-out of Prelude To A Kiss (directed by Bailey) and the season closer, Boys’ Life/Sexual Perversity In Chicago (directed by Mac Welch). Their first full season was capped off by a successful run of Neil Simon’s comedy classic The Odd Couple at Wichita’s historic Orpheum Theatre.

In May of 2003, Theatre On Consignment incorporated through the state of Kansas as a not-for-profit organization, and was recognized in fall 2003 as a 501 (C)(3) tax-exempt organization. Theatre On Consignment is continuing its mission to enrich cultural life in Wichita, with productions of not only experimental works like their November 2003 performance of Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June (directed by Nate Cadman), their February 2004 production of Fool For Love (directed by Mac Welch), and their April 2004 production of subUrbia (directed by Jason Bailey), but of original plays by local playwrights, featured at the "Poorman's Theatre Festival".

Their fourth season finds the group meeting new challenges and broadening their stable of talent to include four new directors. The group began their season with David Rabe’s critically acclaimed but seldom produced Hurlyburly (directed by David Bailey), and continued to push the envelope with the abortion issue play Keely & Du (directed by Cherice Henderson) and the thought-provoking The Shape of Things (directed by Anne Marie Serrano).