Up Next On Stage...
The 2012 One Act Showcase
January 13th and 14th
at 8pm and
January 14th at 2pm!
Three great shows, one great night of theater to kick off 2012 with the Chapel Street Players!
A Separate Peace by Tom Stoppard, Directed by Karyn Fry
A sly, gentle dig at society’s conventions and preconceptions. John Brown arrives at a country nursing home with a case of money expecting hotel-style service. He’s a kind of dropout bound to puzzle a profession geared to treating the sick. He’s not physically ill and apparently not mentally so. He settles into the routine and cocoon-like security. Everyone speculates as to his identity. Maggie, his favorite nurse, learns enough so they’re able to locate his relatives who come for him. She feels guilty, but he says he doesn’t blame her. He tells her it would have been right if he was really sick- and if he’d have wanted his relatives he would have found them.
Featuring Walt Osborne, Vaugh Ellerton, Gina Valania, Madi Houff & Brooks Black
Murder Play, a thriller by Brian J. Burton, Directed by Kathleen Kimber
When Peter and Robyn wake up the morning after a dinner party at the home of their friends and employers David and Jane Valentine, they are still shocked at having been sacked by David the night before. More shocks are to come for David appears to be dead, and Jane calmly announces she killed him. At first Peter and Robyn refuse to believe her, but as she explains the "how, when and why" of the murder, they are forced to accept she has committed the "perfect" crime and to avoid implicating themselves, they will have to help her to dispose of the body. Stunned and bitter, they leave, but then it transpires that the "murder" is really an elaborate practical joke. Or is it?
Featuring Cindy Starcher, Peter Matthews, Pat Cullinane & Scott Lehman
People Speak by John Augustine, Directed by Bill Fellner
Siobhan has had enough. She is standing in her apartment with a pistol pointed at her head, and only the ring of her cellphone stops her from pulling the trigger. The call is from her mother. Siobhan is on sick leave from her job as a secretary in the garment district. She belongs to just about every anonymous 12-step group in existence and reads self-help books as if they were murder mysteries. After a dispiriting chat with Mom, Siobhan goes for coffee at the Café Sha Sha, where she has to call the waiter, who is busy talking on his cell, on her cell to get service, and is joined by her boss, who gabs nonstop on her own cell as though no one else could hear her. Mr. Augustine’s play takes dead aim at the absurdities to which 21st-century technology has led us (People Speak features adult language)
Featuring Lori Ann Johnson, Alan Butler & Rachel Barton
Three shows, three performances, one price, $10!
(One Act Showcase tickets are complimentary for 77th season subscribers)
Coming soon...
Neil Simon’s “The Gingerbread Lady”
Directed by Don Pruden
Evy Meara, a popular singer whose life has been dismantled by alcoholism, is at the end of a ten-week stay at a rehab center when her best friend, her teenage daughter, and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety. All three struggle with their own problems, however; her best friend is consumed by vanity, the actor’s career is hinging upon the big break he has been waiting for, and her daughter, although devoted, has complications of her own. As if that were not enough, Evy’s contemptible ex-lover reappears and makes a bid for Evy’s affections, creating a perfect storm for a recovering addict to lose her way. While Simon’s typical wit and hilarity permeate this piece, The Gingerbread Lady is an entirely serious story of lost misfits, genuinely and deeply touching.
SHOW DATES & TIMES |
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Sunday |
March 2, 8:00 pm |
March 3, 8:00 pm |
March 4, 2:00 pm |
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March 8, 8:00 pm |
March 9, 8:00 pm |
March 10, 8:00 pm |
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Delaware’s national award-winning Community Theater!
2011 American Association of Community
Theater Festival –
Best Actor: Patrick Cathcart as Jerry
in Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story,”
directed by Andrew John Mitchell
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| Patrick Cathcart as Jerry and Brian Turner as Peter in the Chapel Street Players production of Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” at the Geva Theater in Rochester, New York as part of “AACT Fest 11.” Photo by Stephen Bird | Brian Turner, Andrew John Mitchell and Patrick Cathcart on the stage of the Geva Theater moments after Patrick was awarded “Best Actor” at the “AACT Fest 11” awards celebration. Photo by David Sokolowski |
