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2018
Auditions for A Phoenix Too Frequent
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 […]
2018
Waterworks Players Announces Cast for Holiday Panto
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 […]
2018
Cast Announced for Blithe Spirit
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 […]
2018
Lucky Charms Opens at Waterworks Players
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 […]
2018
Auditions for “Blithe Spirit”
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 […]
2018
Auditions for Lucky Charms
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. […]
2018
Waterworks Announces Cast for The Illusion
A magician’s dark cave in the south of France is the setting of Waterworks June production of The Illusion. Written by Pulitzer Prize winner for drama Tony Kushner, 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. Clint Wright will direct […]
2018
Auditions for “The Illusion”
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 […]
2018
New Director/Classic Play
When asked, “Why Gaslight?”, director Don Blaheta had a ready answer. “Well, there’s the current political environment. And I don’t mean just in the last year or two. Years ago Jon Stewart was showing clips of politicians blatantly lying paired with clips that proved the lies. It’s getting worse, though: and when someone repeatedly and […]
2018
Waterworks Announces Cast for Gaslight
Fog-bound Victorian London is the setting for Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight (Angel Street). As a 1941 Broadway hit first under the title Angel Street and twice made into a film as Gaslight, Gaslight remains one of the longest-running non-musicals in history. The play is set in 1880 at the lower middle-class home of Bella Manningham (Charlotte […]
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
