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Tag: theater

The End Of The Road Improv Players

The End Of The Road Improv Players are a rotating cast of local actors, comedians, and musicians. Their “garage band” style improv leads to on the spot songs, awkward moments, and lots of laughs. Audience participation is encouraged.


End Of The Road Improv Players

The End Of The Road Improv Players are a rotating cast and f local actors, comedians, and musicians. Their “garage band” style of improv lead to lots of songs on the spot, awkward moments, and lots of laughs. Audience participation is encouraged. No two shows are the same.


American Theater: Women of the American Theater 1910-1930

Presented by Gayle Stahlhuth Maurine Dallas Watkins’ (1896-1969) Chicago was a hit on Broadway in 1926 before Kander, Ebb, and Fosse created the musical based on her play. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) co-founded The Provincetown Players. Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) created Stage Women’s War Relief, raising almost seven million dollars for the allies. Mary P. Burrill dealt… Read more »


American Theater: Playwriting Workshop

Professional playwright Gayle Stahlhuth guides participants in getting dialogue going through simple writing exercises that trigger the imagination. The workshop is geared for those who have written plays, as well as those who have always wanted to try their hand at writing a play. Gayle will look at plays participants are working on before the… Read more »


American Theater: Tales at the Dormer House

Enjoy lemonade and tasty treats compliments of Frank Smith. Performances are on the porch, but we go inside when the weather is not cooperating. Highlights from 2024 with 10 different performers: Plays about caregiving, the life of Edna Ferber, and Will Rogers; lectures on Civil War heroes: Black and White; Harlem Renaissance and The Algonquin… Read more »


American Theater: Tales From the 20’s in Black and White

Presented by Stephanie Garrett and Gayle Stahlhuth Stephanie Garrett focuses on stories about the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967) and Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) and Gayle Stahlhuth discusses the Algonquin Round Table, the founding of The New Yorker 100 years ago, Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) and Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).


American Theater: After The Civil War to 1930

Presented by Gayle Stahlhuth Beginning with Our American Cousin in 1865, the musicals of Harrigan and Hart, on to the provocative Provincetown Players, Why Marry? the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918, and comedies and dramas that deal with women’s rights, war, racial conflicts, homosexuality, and everyday life, all before 1930.


Places Please, Act One

Warren Kliewer—The East Lynne Company’s founder and first producing artistic director—was a much-published poet before he ran away to join the theatre. Those two loves melded in his Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres. Warren completed that manuscript before his death, in 1998. It’s been rediscovered, and just released, by Gelassenheit Publications,… Read more »