After many years using "borrowed" facilities, the theatre group is working toward independence and a facility that everyone can share. The Building Committee exciting preliminary plans for the new centre which is designed with community industry in mind by local architectural designer, Don Gesinger.

Corporate sponshorship will be vital to the success of the building project.

The excellent, high-quality productions now being presented to the community will be enhanced with a facility designed specifically for every kind of performing arts all groups will be invited to stage their shows there. The project is part of a joint-use agreement with School District #27 so students will also have access to the theatre and know the benefit of involvement in the arts community.

Want to learn more? E-Mail Brad McGuire or telephone (250) 392-6162 to participate in this exciting project. Open the curtains and on with the show!

S ince 1955, when Studio Theatre's predecessor, the Williams Lake Players, opened the door to its first season, there has been a desire to have a theatre that the company can call its own. The dream of a home to call our own began in the Studio Workshop -- that was contained in Williams Lake's original one-room school house (circa 1890s) -- and has been handed down from one cycle of Thespians to the next.

In 1987 the Studio Theatre at Cariboo College opened its doors. Through a lease agreement with the college, the season was officially opened by then Lt.-Governor Bob Rogers. Wrote Clive Stangoe, a long-time Players member and local newspaper editor upon the occasion: "It is the first true home for a club that has been seeking one for over 30 years."
However, the new home was short-lived, as the college grew the need for space terminated the lease. With no immediate home, School District 27 stepped in and offered the company space at the Glendale Elementary School. Thus The Studio Theatre at Glendale Elementary was born.

That relationship has endured but with increasing enrolment at Glendale, the Studio Theatre found itself last year in a situation where a new home was needed but not readily found. In consultation with membership and the School Board, it was decided to build a proper home for Studio Theatre.