Audition dates: Nov 26 & 27 (Mon & Tues) @ 7:00pm Director Don Purden is looking for 4 men and 4 women age from 18-55. The character are listed as followed: Dot: 50-ish orchestrates the weekend. Has a 30-something- year-old son, Stephen. Meg: 40’s. Dating Stephen. Has 20-something -year- old daughter, Ellie Carol: 30’. Trying to...
Audition dates: Mar 4 & 5 (Mon & Tues) @ 7:00pm Audition Information Please prepare 16-32 bars of a musical theatre song in the style of the show. Bring sheet music to the audition (there will be an accompanist). Be prepared to learn a short dance from the show, and wear shoes and clothes you...
I went to see the “The Memory Of Water” yesterday afternoon. It was pretty wonderful. All the actors were great, the set superb, and the direction tight. It was a community theater homerun.
The Price, a drama by Arthur Miller that premiered on Broadway in 1968, was nominated for two Tony Awards, and revived four times, came to the Chapel Street Players stage Friday. Director Ray Barto (The Fantasticks) is at the helm of this latest CSP production that stars: Dan Tucker, Cindy Starcher, Bob Barto, and Curtis...
“The Price,” the 1968 play by Arthur Miller and third show of the season for Chapel Street Players, is cathartic. It’s cathartic to watch and must be cathartic to perform, with lifelong conflicts finally resolving into a peace with the past, fictional as it is. Directed by Ray Barto, who also designed and constructed the detailed...
Chapel Street Players continues their 83rd season with You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, a lighthearted romp based on the book by John Gordon and featuring the lovable Peanuts created by cartoonist Charles M. Shultz. After the powerfully provocative 1984, a fun musical with beloved characters is just what the doctor ordered, and the doctor...
This holiday season in local theater has brought noticeably fewer Christmas shows than in the past. Whether in response to the country’s political climate or by coincidence, most of the theaters in Northern Delaware are skipping the sleigh bells and carols in favor of productions that capture the feel of the season without trumpeting Christmas....
You might have heard about Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s “1984” on Broadway this summer, a version so graphic that people reportedly vomited and passed out during shows. Chapel Street Players aren’t doing that version, which just ended its Broadway run. They’re doing an adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian horror story by Robert Owens. Wilton E....
Chapel Street Players launch their 83rd season with 1984, the powerful and disturbingly provocative dystopian tale of a world ruthlessly controlled by a totalitarian government. Based on George Orwell’s chilling classic novel, 1984, adapted for the stage by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, and William A. Miles, Jr., is a horrifying view of a society...
