What's Happening

Fifty years ago, way back in 1974, an idea was hatched to create a Children’s Theatre wing of Beaver Dam Area Community Theatre.  (Called BDCT in those days.)

Help Create Our 61st Season! Have an idea for a show? We’d love to hear it! We’re welcoming proposals for FALL SHOWS in 2025.

Clara Hale, a 2024 Beaver Dam High School graduate, has been awarded the Beaver Dam Area Community Theatre (BDACT) Jerome H. Kamps Memorial Award.

“I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”  - Thornton Wilder That’s a great quote for performers and audiences alike. In an effort to share the world of theater with you, the reader, this forum discusses individual aspects of theater at BDACT. But the question at the beginning of it all, is “Why theater in the first place?” Why choose theater as the place to spend your time, your talents, and your financial support?

For some, auditions can be the best and worst parts of the show. You have input into the process, but much of it is out of your control. I don't have space here to give you all of the info available to improve your odds of getting the role.  You can search for common sense auditioning tips online, and there is no shortage of good ideas to help your audition.  Let’s talk about auditioning in general, and specifically at BDACT.

Volunteers are what community theater is all about.  The actors, the technical staff, the backstage workers, the costume crew, the props crew, the sets crew, the box office, the ushers, the concession stand…and for BDACT, even the Board of Directors and its various subcommittees.  Without volunteers none of those areas function. Even the audiences are volunteers!