The Play That Goes Wrong Comes to Tuacahn's Hafen Theatre in St. George, Utah — Casting Now for January 2027

One of the most reliably hilarious productions in contemporary theatre is heading to Southern Utah, and the team behind Tuacahn Amphitheatre and Centre for the Arts is actively casting and building its production. The Play That Goes Wrong, the beloved British farce from Mischief Theatre, will stage at Tuacahn's intimate Hafen Theatre in Ivins, Utah, with rehearsals beginning on or about January 6, 2027, previews on January 29, and an official opening night set for January 30. The production runs through March 12, giving theatre professionals a roughly ten-week engagement at one of the most distinctive performing arts venues in the American Southwest.

The play itself needs little introduction to anyone who has worked in regional theatre over the last decade. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, the three founding members of London's Mischief Theatre company, The Play That Goes Wrong premiered in the West End in 2012 and went on to conquer Broadway, earning a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and becoming a staple of regional and community theatre worldwide. The premise is gleefully simple: a hapless amateur drama society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery, and absolutely everything that can go wrong does. The production demands physical performers who are equally comfortable with precision timing and controlled chaos, as the show's comedy lives or dies on the exactness of its theatrical mayhem. Actors, stage managers, and production crew who thrive in high-energy, ensemble-driven environments will find this a particularly rewarding opportunity.

Directing the Tuacahn production is Eric Petersen, whose background in comedy and musical theatre makes him a strong fit for material this demanding in its physicality and timing. The production is shepherded by Tuacahn's Producing Artistic Director Scott Anderson, a longtime steward of the venue's ambitious programming calendar, alongside Associate Artistic Producer and Casting Coordinator Shari Jordan, who is a key point of contact for talent pursuits. Company Manager Zoe Baird is handling the logistical backbone of the production. Casting is being handled by the Wojcik Casting Team, a well-regarded firm with deep roots in regional and touring theatre, whose involvement signals that this is a professionally organized search with real reach into the broader theatre talent pool.

The production is a collaboration between three distinct but complementary organizations. Tuacahn Amphitheatre and Centre for the Arts is the presenting venue, a nonprofit performing arts center that has built a remarkable reputation over the decades for producing Broadway-caliber musicals and plays in a strikingly beautiful desert canyon setting. Mischief Theatre, the London-based company founded by the show's playwrights, is the originating creative entity behind the property and continues to be involved in sanctioned productions of the work. Concord Theatricals holds the licensing rights and is among the most prominent theatrical rights organizations in the world, handling the catalogs of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Samuel French, and Tams-Witmark, among others. Their involvement here is standard for a licensed regional production of this scale, but it also signals that the production will be operating to a professional standard that aligns with Concord's expectations for how the material is presented.

The venue itself is worth understanding in some detail, because it shapes everything about what working on this production will feel like. The Hafen Theatre is Tuacahn's indoor black-box style space, distinct from the organization's famous 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheatre carved into the red rock walls of a Utah canyon. The Hafen is an intimate, flexible venue well-suited to the claustrophobic, everything-falling-apart energy that makes The Play That Goes Wrong so effective. Tuacahn is located at 1100 Tuacahn Drive in Ivins, a small community just outside St. George in Washington County. St. George itself is the largest city in Southern Utah and has seen significant population and infrastructure growth in recent years, though it remains a smaller market compared to Salt Lake City. Productions at Tuacahn frequently draw talent from across the region and nationally, particularly for principal roles, so out-of-area performers and creatives should not be discouraged by the geography. The area is approximately two hours from Las Vegas and four and a half hours from Salt Lake City, making it accessible but genuinely remote by major-market standards. Housing and per diem arrangements are worth clarifying early in any conversation with production.

For a comedy of this style and scale, the production will require performers with strong physical comedy chops and excellent ensemble instincts, as well as stage management, scenic, properties, and lighting departments prepared to support a show whose entire design concept is built around things breaking, falling, and malfunctioning on cue. The set for The Play That Goes Wrong is notoriously complex, with a scenic design that must appear to be collapsing throughout the evening while remaining completely safe for its performers. Carpenters, props masters, and lighting designers with experience in technically demanding comedies will find the build and tech process here genuinely interesting work. With rehearsals beginning in early January and the show running through mid-March, this is a solid ten-plus week commitment in a part of the country that offers some genuinely beautiful surroundings during the winter and early spring months.

For the full production listing, including contact details, crew roster, office information, and any scheduling updates as the January start approaches, visit ProductionList.com and search for The Play That Goes Wrong at Tuacahn. Casting is actively underway now, which means the window to get in front of the Wojcik Casting Team and the Tuacahn creative team is open. With previews less than a year out and pre-production moving forward, the time to make contact is now, not later.

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