LCC Performing Arts recently unveiled its 2024-2025 theatre season, promising a diverse array of productions that cater to a wide audience. Excitingly, all performances will now begin at 7 p.m., an hour earlier than previous seasons, and all shows will offer free admission, part of LCC's commitment to increasing accessibility to quality entertainment for the Lansing community.

Here's a breakdown of what's in store:

“The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”

by Rick Riordan, book by Joe Tracz, music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki

Director: Kelly Stuible-Clark

Oct. 18-27, 2024 – Dart Auditorium

When teenager Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod, he and his friends embark on an epic journey to find Zeus' missing lightning bolt and prevent a war among the gods.

 

“Cosplay”

by Blair Ingenthron

Director: Paige Tufford

Nov. 8-16, 2024 – Black Box Theatre

Leslie meets Michael in "Zombie Apocalypse," an online role-playing game where the human race is under attack and anyone can be anyone with the ease of a single click. Their bond over a mutual enemy quickly turns into a game-playing partnership, but when a video game convention brings them face to face in real life, they find that fighting zombies is far less complicated than human connection.

 

“Crime and Punishment”

Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus

From the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Director: Andy Callis

Feb. 21 - March 1, 2025 – Black Box Theatre

This award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece “Crime and Punishment” is told by three actors playing Raskolnikov (the murderer), Porfiry Petrovitch (the detective), Sonia (the young prostitute) and many other characters in this famous story. The play is a psychological landscape which creates a thrilling journey into the mind of a killer and his search for redemption.

 

“Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic”

by Matt Cox

Director: Blake Bowen

April 11-19, 2025 – Dart Auditorium

For seven years, a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs ... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

“Puffs” is not authorized, sanctioned, licensed or endorsed by J.K Rowling, Warner Bros. or any person or company associated with the Harry Potter books, films or play.

 

Capping off the regular season will be two additional shows, including a production from an alumnus of LCC and a play written by a current LCC employee.

For updates and audition information about the 2024-2025 season, visit the LCC Performing Arts website.