Are you wondering how Center Stage Jackson started and why?
We had two viable Community Theater groups in Jackson for many years with a long history of presenting outstanding theater with local talent using local facilities.

CLARK LAKE PLAYERS produced 4-6 summer shows at Pleasant View, Clark Lake from 1953-63
Eagle Point , Clark Lake from 1964-1978 and then to the Potter Center at JCC from 1979-2000.

JACKSON CIVIC THEATER started around the early 1950's and produced 4-5 shows from fall until spring.

Life changes. It was becoming more difficult to staff shows, etc.,and as more activities were available in the county, the two groups decided to merge in September 2000.

Reorganization started with many meetings. new ideas and new visions while retaining our purpose of bringing quality shows to our Jackson Community.

Our first season started in 2000 - 2001 with performances at the Potter Center in the Ruth Day and Baughman theaters. Among the first shows were "ART" "THE MIKADO" and "THE RUNNER STUMBLES".

Watch for our next chapter on CSJ.

Therese Y. Fifelski, Center Stage Jackson Historian

* = Musical          Green = Staged Reading Series       Blue = Youth Theater

2012 – 2013

Stepping Out

The King and I*

 King Midas and the Touch of Gold

God of Carnage

 A Song for Coretta

Eleemosynary

 Twinderella*

Dinner with Friends

 Hairspray*

2011 – 2012

Leading Ladies

 White Christmas*

 The Legend of Pocahontas

 Lettice and Loveage

 The Outsiders

 A Song for Coretta

 The Velveteen Rabbit*

 Secrets of a Soccer Mom

 Legally Blonde*

 The Late Christopher Bean

2010 – 2011

Doubt

 Cinderella*

 The Receptionist

Shakespeare Goes to Gravel Gulch

 Perfect Score

 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 Ancestral Voices

 Secret Garden*

 Deuce

 Miscast III - Cabaret

 Distracted

 Little Shop of Horrors*

 Grease*

 Reasons to be Pretty

 At Home at the Zoo

2009-2010

Mauritius

 Annie

 The Story of Hansel & Gretel*

 Dead Man’s Cell Phone

 The Diary of Anne Frank

 Sunday Dinner

 Robin Hood

 Proof

 Miscast II - Cabaret

 Third

 Back to the 80s*

 Rabbit Hole

2008-2009

 Doc, Doc. . .Goose!

 Anne of Green Gables*

 Holes

 Enchanted Sleeping Beauty*

 Miscast - Cabaret

High School Musical II*

2007-2008

 Little Women*

 Three One Acts

 The Miracle Worker

 Big Bad

 Seussical*

 Fame*

2006 – 2007

 Born Yesterday

 Scrooge*

 To Kill a Mockingbird

 Man of La Mancha*

 High School Musical*

2005-2006

 The Odd Couple (Female Version)

 Oliver*

 Our Town

 Oklahoma!*

2004-2005

 Sound of Music*

 Arsenic and Old Lace

 On Golden Pond

2003-2004

Carousel*

2002-2003

House of Blue Leaves

 Collected Stories

 Imaginary Invalid

2001-2002

The Rainmaker

 Annie*

 Marvin’s Room

 The Last Night of Ballyhoo

 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas*

2000-2001

Art

 The Runner Stumbles

 The Mikado*