The Chamber Players Community

There are any number of dinner theaters, Civil War-era churches, non-profits that give tens of thousands of dollars to other non-profits, and lots of all-volunteer organizations out there. To find them all in a single package? That’s The Chamber Players in Garnett, KS. Founded in 1991, the community theatre quickly established a following selling hundreds of tickets to its earliest productions. At the time, the company performed anywhere space could be had: church basements, empty storefronts, school auditoriums. The audiences continued to grow for the nomadic troupe until, in 2007, with the assistance of local theatre patron Thelma Moore, the company purchased and renovated the United Presbyterian Church at 5th & Walnut in Garnett. It was constructed in 1859 as the region’s border skirmishes kindled what would become the U.S. Civil War two years later.