The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on April 29th and April 30th for its June production of Tony Kushner’s The Illusion. This work is adapted from Pierre Corneille’s seventeenth-century comedy, L’Illusion Comique, which follows a contrite father seeking news of his prodigal son from a sorcerer. The magician conjures three episodes from the young man’s life. Inexplicably, each scene finds the […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on March 4th and 5th for its April production of Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight (Angel Street). A Broadway hit first produced under the title Angel Street and twice made into a film as Gaslight, Gaslight tells the story of the Manninghams, who live in 19th century London. As the production […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on January 7th and 8th for its February production of The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church. A comedy written by Virginia playwright Bo Wilson, The Charitable Sisterhood is a story of a group of ladies who meet to organize a relief effort for homeless Guatemalans by […]
The Waterworks Players next production is Suzan Holder’s Aladdin, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, pantomime combines song, dance, and slapstick […]
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…” And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on May 7th and 8th for its August production of And Then There Were None. Written by Agatha Christie originally as a novel, And Then There Were None is a celebrated murder-mystery thriller that has sold over 100 million copies globally, made into numerous film adaptations, and produced as […]
The Waterworks Players next production is Legally Blonde: the Musical. The show opened on Broadway in 2007, receiving 7 Tony and 10 Drama Desk Award nominations. In London the production was nominated for 5 Olivier Awards, winning three, including Best New Musical. Based on Amanda Brown’s novel that was made into a move of the […]
The Waterworks Players next production is Beauty and the Beast, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, pantomime combines song, dance, […]
Waterworks is holding auditions for its October production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2013. Set in the family farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia contemplate their lives, full of angst […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on July 10th for its August production of Fuddy Meers. Written by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Fuddy Meers was nominated for the 2000 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award and has been produce over 200 times throughout the United States. Lacy Klinger, in her Waterworks Players debut, will direct […]
