UPCOMING
EVENTS
PPA Annual Bash 2025
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: Third Degree Glass Factory, 5200 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63108
RSVP deadline has expired.
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This year, Prison Performing Arts honors artistic director Rachel Tibbetts on her 20th anniversary! Help us celebrate Rachel's significant milestone along with our keynote speaker, published author, national celebrity, and long-time PPA performer Patty Prewitt!
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FrankenFathers​
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Matinee: 1:00 pm (12:30 pm check-in)
Evening: 6:00 pm (5:30 pm check-in)
Location: Northeast Correctional Center
RSVP by Monday, September 9, 2025!
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A group of Frankenstein-type creatures (who joyfully run a quilting shop on top of a mountain) decides to create a human child. Instead, they get a bit of a surprise. These Frankenfathers, all patchwork men themselves, must learn how to raise their young ward positively, despite the townspeople's prejudices against the Frankenfathers' differences.
Written by Courtney Bailey in collaboration with artists at Northeast Correctional Center.
Directed by Miranda Jagels Félix and Rachel Tibbetts.
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First Impressions
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Date: November 19 - 23, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM (Sunday Matinee at 2:00 PM)
Location: The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Dr, St. Louis, MO 63105
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First Impressions was the original title Jane Austen gave her manuscript before it was published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice. Adapted by Ellie Schwetye and directed by Rachel Tibbetts, this retelling weaves Austen’s classic with recollections from a variety of people’s first impressions upon reading the novel or watching a film adaptation. 250 years after Jane Austen’s birth, love of her writing - and this book in particular - still connects us. The "first impressions" used in this play were crowd-sourced from the original 2017 production by SATE, the 2019 production at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (WERDCC), and artists involved in this production.
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ONGOING
PROJECTS
Learning through the Arts
Weekly theatre, dance, and creative writing classes for youth at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center, and Hogan Street Regional Youth Center.
Threshold Writers Workshop
Weekly online workshop with the Alumni Theatre Company.
Spoken Word
Weekly writing classes at WERDCC and NECC.
Arts & Healing
Weekly writing, visual art, and theatre classes at the Transition Center of St. Louis.