On Wednesday, September 8, Peninsula Players Theatre broke ground on two new dormitories that will house its interns and staff members. The company announced the Act II Protecting the Past, Ensuring the Future capital campaign on the opening night of its 87th season on Tuesday, June 14. “We are thrilled to break ground on this …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, celebrates the announcement of Chicago’s 2022 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations with the recognition of current and past company members. The Joseph Jefferson Awards are Chicago theaters’ equivalent to Broadway’s Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards. The Joseph Jefferson awards, established in 1968, annually honor outstanding professional theater artists …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, closes its 87th season with the madcap musical whodunit “Murder for Two” with book and lyrics by Kellen Blair and book and music by Joe Kinosian. Everyone is a suspect in this fast-paced musical mystery featuring 13 characters, two actors and …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for its production of Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You.” Gunderson was awarded the American Theatre Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2014 for “I and You,” which balances the angst of the …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy, “Ripcord.” What happens when two new roommates make a seemingly harmless bet? It launches a war of one-up-“womanship” at the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. “Ripcord,” which contains …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for the suspense-filled “Write Me a Murder” by Frederick Knott. Knott, the author of the Hitchcock classic “Dial M for Murder” and the thrilling “Wait Until Dark,” was adept at taking audiences …
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Peninsula Players Theatre is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a $75,000 grant from the Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) Foundation for its housing campaign, Act II: Protecting the Past, Ensuring the Future. The theater announced the launch of its $3.5 million campaignat the opening night performance of the season on June 14. …
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Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to announce the public launch of its capital campaign, Act II: Protecting the Past, Ensuring the Future. Through the Act II Housing Campaign, the theater plans to raise $3.5 million to build two new dormitories which will replace the aged, insufficient structures in which members of the company currently reside. …
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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for “The Rainmaker” by N. Richard Nash. A road trip Nash took through the American west and a real-life rainmaker inspired him to write the story. “The Rainmaker” is generously sponsored by …
Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to present an in-person reading and a virtual audio recording of “A Rock Sails By,” a new play by Sean Grennan, as part of its winter play reading series, The Play’s the Thing. A reading of “A Rock Sails By” will be performed in-person at Björklunden at 7590 Boynton Lane, …