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...
The Chapel Street Players are celebrating the launch of their 82nd season with their 53rd annual Renee G. O’Leary FUNdraiser – what better way to mark the occasion than with O’Leary herself gracing the stage as the wisteria-haired mother of “gigastar” Dame Edna?
William Inge’s “Picnic,” the February production at Chapel Street Players, is perhaps best known as the Broadway show that launched Paul Newman’s career in the early 1950s. It’s a story about loneliness, mostly, and love, and social expectations. When “Picnic” debuted in 1953, it was a contemporary play, set in present-day Kansas. Under the direction...
Christmas almost seems incomplete without at least one viewing of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. There are myriad television and movie versions that fill up the channels during the next three weeks; however, for those of us who love live theater, I heartily recommend Chapel Street Players presentation of SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS. It is another version...
In his director’s note in the program for Chapel Street Players’ “Scrooge’s Christmas,” Timothy Sheridan talks about the perceived simplicity of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” “If it were that simple,” he writes, “I would not see the point in bringing their story to life.” Sheridan’s interpretation of Ken Jones’ version of the classic story,...
As an audience member who attended the performance of AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITLE last night, I just wanted to express my thanks to Chapel Street Players for providing audiences with this darkly funny look at sisters, their lives and their school system. I wondered why the play used the school system as its...
Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the 1946 film that became a cult Christmas classic in the 1980s, is getting a 1940s-style radio treatment at Chapel Street Theatre in Newark through Saturday. Under the direction of Brian M. Touchette, this simple, stripped down format proves to be a brilliant way to bring a story that...
Back in the day, families would gather around the radio to listen to serials that would be broadcast. Today, we have YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and many other media outlets that still provide “serials” in some fashion. Chapel Street Players took a favorite holiday story (It’s a Wonderful Life) and joined it with a classic way...
When one thinks of the 1980s, one thinks of the extravagance of the time period. Everything was over the top from clothing to music to hair. The 80s were a time when both parents worked and pursued creative outlets. Children were given every opportunity to be a part of everything. It was a time when...
There are some parents who dread Empty Nest Syndrome – finding themselves alone together after their children have grown and moved out. Then there are those parents who eagerly look forward to it. So what happens when you belong to the latter group and just can’t seem to get rid of your kids? Then you...
