Be the Missing Piece: Join Us for A Thing of Beauty

There is a moment, right before a show truly becomes itself, when everything is ready except one thing: the audience.

That is why we are so excited to invite you not just to see A Thing of Beauty, but to step inside it through our Preview Party, and to be present at the exact moment when the work finally exhales.

A Thing of Beauty is timely and deeply moving. It unfolds quietly and stays with you, asking us to consider devotion, sacrifice, belief, and the fragile beauty of love faithfully lived.

Our production embraces simplicity, austerity, and sacredness. The play unfolds in a convent receiving room, and we are staging it inside a church chapel whose stained glass glows softly even at night. Rather than build a world around the story, we are allowing the chapel itself to hold it, unadorned and reverent.

With no built set and few added lighting instruments, the audience sits in a living, breathing sacred space. Light and shadow emerge naturally, and the performers’ bodies and voices carry the weight of the story. The environment is intentionally spare, inviting the audience into the same contemplative stillness in which these women have built their lives.

An original score from Ben Trainor breathes beneath the action, drawing on piano, strings, and quiet instrumental color to underscore the interior life of the convent and the ache of faith held under pressure.

At its core, A Thing of Beauty is about faith, faith hard won and fiercely protected. It is about holding to what is true even when it is costly. While rooted in a particular religious world, its questions reach far beyond it, asking what any of us cling to when conviction demands sacrifice.

This is the kind of theatre that does not rush you. It invites you to listen closely, and to stay.

And when an audience listens closely, something extraordinary happens.

The Preview Party: Dinner, Community, and the Final Missing Piece

The Preview Party is one of our favorite nights of the entire production process, because it is where the show truly comes alive, where intention meets breath and presence, and something clicks into place.

On this special evening, you will:

• Enjoy a seated dinner prepared by Daniel Palmer

• Mingle with the cast and creative team, hearing firsthand about the journey of bringing this story to the stage

• Experience the final dress rehearsal of A Thing of Beauty

This dress rehearsal is the last moment the artists have before opening night, and your presence matters. Your laughter, your stillness, your breath in the room, shapes the rhythm of the performance.  As I have said time and time again, the audience is always the final missing piece of a show.

Why See A Thing of Beauty?

Because this is the kind of theatre that reminds us why we gather in the first place, because it is intimate, and honest, and unafraid of silence, because it trusts the audience to lean in.

Because stories like this do not simply entertain us, they change the way we see the world when we walk back out the door, carrying something new with us.

Whether you join us for the Preview Party, or attend a regular performance, you will be stepping into a sacred exchange between artists and audience, story and listener, breath and meaning.

Your Seat Is Waiting

Tickets for A Thing of Beauty are available now, and Preview Party seats are limited. If you love theatre, if you love being part of the process, if you want to experience a show at the moment it first fully becomes itself, this night is for you.

Come be the missing piece.

We cannot wait to share this story with you.

Crista Beals

Director