Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s award-winning 2013 comedy, will open The Waterworks Players’ 2016-17 season. The cast includes four longtime veterans of the Waterworks stage and two relative newcomers. Buy tickets Ed Kinman, Martha Womack and Daphne Mason are Vanya, Sonia and Masha respectively. They play three middle-aged siblings whose fraught […]
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 […]
by Jes Simmons Buy tickets Waterworks Players’ performance of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire is an evening of surprises, shocks, poignancy, and laughter. Lindsay-Abaire wrote Fuddy Meers at the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, and it was first performed in 1999. In 2016, Lindsay-Abaire returned to Juilliard as co-director of the same […]
Living with psychogenic amnesia isn’t easy: waking up each morning with no memory of the previous day, nor any of the days before, and needing a reintroduction to your husband, your name, and your entire life. But in the hands of playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, it can be darkly funny as well. Fuddy Meers is Waterworks […]
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 […]
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on May 8th for its June 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 […]
Once upon a time, a Baker and his Wife were having a very, very bad day- they hadn’t a bun in the oven, in more ways than one. But what else should they expect when they live in a land of fairy tales and their next door neighbor is a witch? Promised a child in […]
Into the Woods, the Waterworks Players’ next show opening on April 1st, is not only a reprise (Waterworks first staged this musical 23 years ago, in the spring of 1993), but a reunion as well: two members of the original cast, Dave Culler and Martha Womack, are appearing in this upcoming production. Though 1991’s Big […]
Waterworks Players have done it again. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is yet another successful production in a now long line-up of shows that are delivering first-class community theater to Farmville. Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1962) opened on Broadway in October of 1962 and won several top awards including a Tony Award […]
The Waterworks Players’ next production is Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 musical bringing together many beloved fairy tales and deconstructing the notion of “happily ever after”. The original Broadway production won Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical. All roles are open, including roles for […]