THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Smithville High School has been producing plays and musicals for over 20 years, but the addition of a dedicated theatre instructor and, by extension, the drama department, came with the construction of the Performing Arts Center in 2012. Since then, SHS (or the Smithville Theatre Company as they have been called sporadically) has produced one mainstage musical every Fall and one mainstage play every Spring as well as many various one-acts and in-class productions. Some of these productions have included Zombie Prom, Annie Get Your Gun, Shrek the Musical, Metamorphosis, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, all the way up to Snoopy!!! and Leaving Iowa during the 2018-2019 school year.

The first show of the 2019-2020 school year, The Addams Family, begins the second year of Mr. Dalton Pittenger's educational theatre career, though Dave Lizor has been the Facilities Manager for the Performing Arts Center and Technical Director for all mainstage productions since 2013.

For the 2019-2020 school year, SHS Theatre has decided to join Starlight Theatre's Blue Star Awards Program. From the Blue Star website: 

"Established in 2003, the Blue Star Awards are one of the largest and most admired high school musical theatre awards programs in the nation. All high schools in metropolitan Kansas City and selected outlying communities are invited to participate. Each year the program serves 5,000 area students who contribute either on the stage or behind the scenes to their schools’ musical theatre productions. 

Adjudicators, who are theatre professionals, performing artists, designers and theatre arts educators, attend each participating school’s musical and provide evaluations and commentary to Starlight’s Education Department. Their comments are also compiled and shared with each school’s theatre teacher and students.

Each May, the program culminates with the red-carpet Blue Star Awards Ceremony on the Starlight stage."