The Garfield Center for the Arts is gearing up for its annual celebration of playwrights, directors and actors who delight in the art of the 10-minute play! Short Attention Span Theatre (SAST) offers an evening of 10-minute plays, designed to hold your attention for “just. long. enough.” Auditions for this year’s SAST will be held […]
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After months of anticipation, Church Hill Theatre (CHT) proudly confirms that Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the Musical, the beloved story of triumph over adversity, will amuse and amaze Delmarva audiences from June 9 to 25, 2023. First a novel then a fan-favorite movie, and international, stage success, Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the Musical empowers both children and nurturing […]
Continue ReadingChurch Hill, MD: When Sense and Sensibility’s director, Shelagh Grasso, asked her long-time friend Sally Borghardt to design costumes, they quickly realized a special challenge: the dialogue and plot. are straight out of Regency England but the staging in this version is very 21st century. Inspired by Steam Punk and Cosplay and British holiday pantomimes, […]
Continue ReadingIt is not widely known that TV’s Columbo first originated as a character in the play “Prescription: Murder,” by William Link & Richard L. Levinson. The play never made it to Broadway – it was first performed at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on January 2, 1962, and ran on tour for 25 weeks […]
Continue ReadingWith great delight, Shelagh Grasso, director of the upcoming production of Sense and Sensibility, has chosen an outstanding cast for an exciting adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. While still set in Regency England, her actors will zip around the stage on wheels and make split-second costume changes. A New York Times review called Kate […]
Continue ReadingThis Friday, November 4, 2022 Church Hill Theatre opens their production of The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham. The play, directed by Shelagh Grasso features three members of a family; Gunner, his wife Peg, and their adult son Jack. As a family, they are faced with a painful decision and must come to a final […]
Continue ReadingChurch Hill Theatre Auditions for Summertree by Ron Cowan October 27, 2022 – 6:00-8:30 PM October 29, 2022 – 12:00-2:00 PM It is 1967, a Young Man lies dreaming beneath an old backyard tree (or is it more perilous territory?) His dreams come to life shifting effortlessly from past to present as we see the […]
Continue ReadingChurch Hill Theatre’s production of Clybourne Park opened on September 9 and will run weekends through September 25, 2022. Although inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park is most definitely a play about NOW. It is a biting and sometimes funny punch in the gut that deserved and won both […]
Continue ReadingFrom modern cult comedy to the classically familiar to the pomp and pageantry of a beloved Disney classic, the Garfield Center’s exciting 2023 season will provide audiences with all the feels we expect from live theatre. The new season opens February 10, 2023, with Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch. Performances will run weekends until […]
Continue ReadingThe Everett Theatre’s Centennial Anniversary Cabaret will present the best numbers from Broadway and Film from 1922 to 2022. Songs ranging from Showboat and The Jazz Singer from the 1920s through the golden age of Broadway including Oklahoma and Guys and Dolls, up to the present with Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and Six will be […]
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