Author Archives: Chapel Street Players
(Submitted Review) Cuckoo’s Nest
I got three things to say about last night production of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” at Newark’s Chapel Street Player, on well … Chapel street.
Directing. You can’t see it, but I am standing in front of my computer, clapping. Bravo Brian Touchette and Susan Boudreaux.
(A. Renaldi) You’d be crazy to miss One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Chapel Street
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dan Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, which premiered on Broadway November 13, 1963 and ran for 82 performances with two revivals (off-Broadway, 1971, and Broadway, 2001) and inspired a film version starring Jack Nicholson, premiered on the Chapel Street Players stage Friday evening.
(DEArtsInfo)Cuckoo for Chapel Street’s Latest Production
By Carol Van Zoeren
In the program’s Director’s Message, Brian Touchette states his objective is to immerse the audience in the world of the play. He begins even before the play starts by cleverly presenting the curtain speech as a letter from Nurse Ratched,
(Submitted Review) Murder On Cue is a well-paced, comedic nod to community theater and mysteries and Clue!
Murder on Cue is a well-paced, comedic nod to community theater and mysteries and Clue! and Newark and if you’ve spent some time at CSP, there are some special inside jokes for you, too. The characters are caricatures of the suspects in Clue!,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Sep 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 @8pm / Sep 23 @2pm / 2018
written by Dale Wasserman
from the novel by Ken Kesey
directed by Brian M. Touchette
ass’t directed by Susan Boudreaux
with the acting talents of Stephen Ross Ashby,
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Nov 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 @8pm / Nov 11 @2pm / 2018
written by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Tanya Lazar
with the acting talents of Ray Barto, Meg Barton, Lindsay Brahl, Marlene Hummel, Sean Kelly, Cindy Starcher and Tricia Sullivan
One Dame Frolicking Fifteenth Anniversary Special
Dec 6, 7, 8 @8pm / Dec 9@2pm / 2018
written and performed by Scott F. Mason as Dame Edna
Girls’ Weekend
SOLD OUT: Feb 24 Sunday Feb 22, 23, 28, Mar 1, 2 @8pm / Feb 24 @2pm / 2019
written by Karen Schaeffer
directed by Don Pruden
with the acting talents of Kevin Freel, Lori Ann Johnson,
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Apr 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 @8pm / Apr 7 @2pm / 2019
written by Edward Albee
directed by Zachary Jackson
with the acting talents of Meg Barton, Pam Huxtable, Curtis King and Ed Williams