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 […]

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 […]