Our directors and producers have expanded the creative use of the larger stage with exciting set designs, amazing lighting...and costuming at a new level of beauty and authenticity.

We hope you’ll want to help us make those costumes less of a challenge for the volunteers who literally sew their fingers to the bone all too often!

Currently, costumes are made at home on personal sewing machines that are not equipped to handle the heavy materials or theatrical-sized items. Imagine the frustrations of sewing draperies or Man of La Mancha costumes in a home setting – broken sewing machine needles, fabric too bulky for the machine to process, not to mention the yards of materials and trims and buttons and threads and fitting pins that have to be put somewhere!

Creating a “costume shop” in the theatre will mean that costumes, draperies and upholstery can all be made in-house.  What a delight it will be for our designers and production volunteers to measure, fit, and sew in one specific space for all our theatre needs. It is our hope to equip the costume shop with professional equipment like a Bernina or Pfaff sewing machine and sewing machine stand, a serger for finishing the raw edges of fabric, dress forms for designing and fitting costumes, and a work table. And all of this creative work is produced with measuring and layout devices, scissors and pinking shears, and specialty needles that are essential for the sewing construction of garments and draperies. Our research team has estimated that the costume shop equipment and supplies will be an expense of about $9000-$10,000.