by Macey Levin When Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town opened in 1938 it was considered experimental: a character (the Stage Manager) speaks directly to the audience, there are no sets, no props, just the actors pantomiming everything from drinking coffee to throwing newspapers, and the words, marvelous words! It is one…
Sharon Playhouse, the arts and entertainment venue in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, continuing its tradition of pairing extraordinary talent from Broadway, television, and film with talented local actors from the region and beyond, is delighted to present Thornton Wilder’s timeless, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town, from September 15 –…
FRIDAY 5.26 – 7PM | TICKETS $30 – $50IN THE OLSEN THEATER Starring Lauren Ambrose & Gretchen Mol with Andrus Nichols & Drew Ledbetter Directed by Carl Andress Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B by Kate Hamill, is an irreverent, darkly comic modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth…
THE TAMINGSATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 – 7PMIN THE BOK AT THE SHARON PLAYHOUSETICKETS = $30 Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison — what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female “power-play” inspired by Shakespeare’s Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to…
Join Sharon Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Michael Kevin Baldwin and The Coop Artistic Director Andrus Nichols for an evening of reader’s theater. Participants will partake in a table read of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, OUR TOWN. Roles will be assigned and shared on the evening of the reading,…
Special Event in the Bok – Saturday, April 16th – 7pm A visceral exploration of American “original sin,” The Scarlet Letter follows strong-willed, intelligent Hester Prynne as she tries to find her own moral compass in a society that harshly punishes women for independent thought, sexuality, or defiance. She and the other Massachusetts…
