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Peninsula Players Theatre Announces Cast for ‘Changing Channels’

Peninsula Players Theatre is excited to announce the cast for its second play reading of The Play’s the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences.   A reading of “Changing Channels,” a new play by John Reeger, is scheduled for Monday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m. at Björklunden (7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys …

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Peninsula Players Theatre Announces Cast for ‘Painted Desert’

Peninsula Players Theatre is excited to announce the cast for the first play reading of The Play’s the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences.   A reading of “Painted Desert,” a new play by Christopher G. Smith, is scheduled for Monday, February 6, at 7:00 p.m. at Björklunden (7590 Boynton Lane, …

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Peninsula Players Theatre Announces 2023 Winter Play Reading Series

Peninsula Players Theatre announces the 2023 season of The Play’s the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences.  Readings of the plays will be performed at Björklunden at 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor, on Mondays, February 6, March 6 and April 3 at 7:00 p.m.  There is no admission fee, and …

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Peninsula Players Theatre Welcomes New Board Members

Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Sarah Bonovich and Greg Wait to its Board of Directors.  Bonovich and Wait’s election to the Board of Directors is for a three-year term.  Bonovich was raised in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, graduated from St. Norbert College and now resides in …

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Jeff Awards Honor Peninsula Players Theatre Company Members with Nominations

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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Meet the Cast and Creative Team of the Musical Whodunit ‘Murder for Two’

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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The Intimate ‘I and You’ Explores Human Connections

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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“Ripcord” Deploys Laughter at Peninsula Players Theatre

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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“Write Me a Murder” Makes a Bang at Peninsula Players Theatre

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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