“Each game of chess / Means there’s one less / Variation left to be played; // Each day got through / Means one or two / Less mistakes remain to be made.” These opening lines from “Prologue”/”The Story of Chess” point us to the inevitable—but not predictable—conclusion of Chess, the 1988 American version of Tim Rice, Benny […]
The Cold War, two superpowers, and an international chess championship sets the stage for Waterworks Players’ production of Chess. Inspired by the political machinations of the Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky chess match, Chess tells a story of love and political intrigue in which Americans and Soviets attempt to manipulate an international championship for political ends. Chess is a […]
The gray austere interior of a granite mausoleum is the setting for Waterworks Players production of Christopher Fry’s A Phoenix Too Frequent. As a comic version of the once well-known tale of the “Widow of Ephesus” written by the Roman author Petronius, Fry’s one-act play has been described by theatre critic Christopher Hoile as a […]
Waterworks Players is holding auditions on January 20th and 21st at 7.30 p.m. for its April production of the musical Chess. With a book by Richard Nelson, Chess delves into a politically driven, Cold War–era chess tournament between two grandmasters from the United States and the USSR. Don Blaheta will direct the production that contains […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on December 2nd and 3rd for its February 2019 production of A Phoenix Too Frequent. Written by Christopher Fry, A Phoenix Too Frequent is a one-act comedy that has been adopted for television for audiences in Europe and Australia. Jordan Whiley will direct the production. The play concerns a […]
You may think you know Snow White’s story, a tale of a jealous queen who orders the murder of her innocent stepdaughter. Or you can recite Cinderella’s trials, a troubled heroine living in unfortunate circumstances. But this year’s holiday pantomime at Waterworks Players makes a delightfully different take in which the worlds of fairytale and […]
The fashionable living room of mystery writer Charles Condomine and his wife, Ruth, is the setting for Waterworks Players production of Blithe Spirit. The Condomines are getting ready to hold an after-dinner séance with friends to provide research for Charles’ start of a new novel. They expect it to be a hoot, and it is—but […]
Caitlin Mazura will make her directing debut at Waterworks Players on September 7th with Lucky Charms, a collection of seven plays written by a local playwright Brett Hursey. “Think of this like a collection of short stories,” says Mazura, “these are comedies that feature a host of zany characters and absurdist plots.” This is the […]
Waterworks Players is holding auditions on August 26th and 27th for its October production of Blithe Spirit. Written by Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit is a celebrated comedy about ghosts that set a London West End long-run record in the 1940s. The play did well on Broadway and was made into a film in 1945 starring […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on July 29th and July 30th for its September production of Brett Hursey’s Lucky Charms. This is a compilation of seven short plays that are together presented as one complete work, like a collection of short stories. These plays are comedies and most feature zany characters and absurdist plots. […]