Author Archives: Chapel Street Players
The George Cope 24-Hour Playwriting Festival
May 12, 8pm / All tickets are $5
Starting at 7pm, May 11th, Seven playwrights will select their casts and then work overnight to create 7 original 10-minute plays. By morning, the plays will be delivered to directors who will then begin rehearsals with their casts.
(A. Renaldi) The Diary of Anne Frank: A Story of Hope and Innocence Lost
The Diary of a Young Girl has become one of the most important texts of the Holocaust. The author of that diary, Annelies Marie Frank, better known to the world as Anne Frank, became one of the most tragic and certainly one of the most debated Jewish victims of that horrific period in world history.
(NewsJournal)‘Diary of Anne Frank’ takes audience to 1940s Amsterdam
Few diaries are as well-known (or as devastating) as the that belonged to Anne Frank, a Jewish teen who spent two years in hiding with her family during World War II.
Chapel Street Players’ production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” directed by Jeff Robleto,
(NewsJournal) Chapel Street’s Alt-Christmas show mocks seasonal shows
When it comes to Christmas, Chapel Street Players like to do their own thing, maybe the most experimental of their regular season shows.
“Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” features a trio of community theater actors as comic versions of themselves putting on a show.
(A. Renaldi) Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)
By Anthony Renaldi
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but do you recall Gustav the Green-Nosed Rain Goat? You don’t? Well, maybe that’s because you haven’t seen Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some). If you haven’t,
(A. Renaldi) Proof Positive
By Anthony Renaldi
David Auburn’s Proof, winner of both the Tony Award for Best Play as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is showing in a limited run on the Chapel Street Players (CSP) stage in Newark, Delaware. If you have it in your head to skip this play because you’re afraid you won’t understand the mathematical references or never quite understood Pythagorean Theorem,
Proof
May 2 & 3 (Mon & Tue) @ 7pm
Director Bill Fellner is seeking actors for the CSP production of “Proof”, by David Auburn. The play won the Tony Award for best play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The roles to be cast are
- Catherine (25): inherited much of her father’s mathematical genius,
Every Christmas story ever told (and then some!)
Sep 18 (Sun) @ 1 pm & Sep 19(Mon) @ 7 pm
There are 3 roles and can be of any sex, race or age.
The play is a fast-paced romp of all of the Christmas Classics jammed into one evening. Performers take on many roles throughout the performance such as Rudolph,
The Diary of Anne Frank
Oct 17 & 18 (Mon & Tue) @ 7pm
Director Jeff Robleto is looking for five men and five women of various ages for the production. The break down is as follows:
- Anne Frank – a lively, curious girl who remains optimistic while in hiding and tries to make the best of the situation;