Please note that the playwright, Bo Wilson, will now be attending the Saturday, February 18th performance. It was initially advertised that he would attend Friday, February 16th performance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you would like to switch your tickets, please email info@waterworksplayers.org or call 434-392-3452. A cinder-block basement and a stormy night is […]
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 […]
by Robin Smith What fun! “Aladdin” was my first pantomime, but attending Waterworks’ annual holiday panto is going to become a new tradition to share with my grandchildren. The audience first spies a cartoonish market scene washed in delicious rainbow sherbet colors. Since “Aladdin” is based on a Middle Eastern tale from the “Arabian Nights,” […]
You may think you know the story of Aladdin, a tale of a street rat who is granted three wishes from a Genie of the Lamp. But this year’s holiday pantomime production of Aladdin by Waterworks Players makes a delightfully different take on a children’s yarn popularized by Disney. As a beloved form of theatre in the […]
Please join us at Waterworks Theatre on Sunday, October 29, 2017, at 2 pm to honor Dudley Sauve’s forty-plus years of bringing wonderful community theater productions to our area. It would be appreciated if you would bring a note about your favorite play or memorable experience with Dudley. We look forward to seeing you.
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 […]
Most of us are familiar with Shrek the movie, Mike Meyers’s 2001 smash (complete with Smashmouth’s cover of “I’m a Believer” as the credits roll). Some of us are familiar with Shrek the book, William Steig’s 1990 children’s tale that features a much more repulsive, cruder ogre who saves, then marries his equally repulsive bride […]
A quiet swamp is the perfect home to a grumpy, gruff, green ogre until his hermit existence is thrown open by a group of homeless fairy tale characters, who invade to seek refuge from the cruel, vertically-challenged Lord Farquaad. Shrek, the reclusive ogre, seeks out Farquaad to offer a deal: if Shrek rescues the Princess Fiona […]
Waterworks Players Community Theatre is proud to announce our 2017-18 season, entitled “Secrets and Lies”. These five productions feature a diverse range of characters who have something to hide, in genres spanning from suspense-thriller to light-hearted comedy. The season opens with Shrek: the Musical. With music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David […]
“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 […]