ActorsNet Prepares For 19th Season and Regional Premiere of Bo Wilson Play

The regional premiere of a new comedy launches the 19th season for ActorsNET, the resident theatre company at the intimate Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville.

Recently voted the best theatre company in Bucks County in an online poll ActorsNET secured the rights directly from playwright Bo Wilson to produce his newest work, "The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church," from September 12 to 28. The comedy enjoyed an acclaimed sold-out world premiere production in July and August with the Virginia Repertory Company.

"A recent Bo Wilson play, "The Boatwright," will soon be published," ActorsNET Co-Founder Joe Doyle said, "and I expect this new comedy will soon follow. It's a fall-down funny script about a group of charity relief volunteers trapped inside their church basement during a flood. They soon discover among them is a fugitive from justice and the private detective pursuing her!"

Bill Cain's compelling and witty drama, "Equivocation," will be presented October 24 through November 9. This imaginative script deals with the challenge of truth-telling, as William Shakespeare is commissioned to write an historical play for the king about the ill-fated Guy Fawkes rebellion...with witches!

For the holidays, from December 5 to 21, ActorsNET will stage the family favorite comic drama, Cheaper by the Dozen, as adapted by Christopher Sergel. It tells the true story of an efficiency expert who tries to run his household of 12 children according to his business philosophies.

Leading into the New Year, ActorsNET will present Garson Kanin's classic comedy, "Born Yesterday." The tale of a blonde bombshell who thwarts a crass, wealthy junk dealer's plans to influence-peddle in Washington, DC runs January 23 to February 8. Margaret DeAngelis and C. Jameson Bradley co-star.

Shakespeare's delightful comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" performs March 6 to 22, transforming the Heritage Center stage into a magical woodland where mischievous fairies interfere with the love lives of mortals.

The Marx Brothers live again onstage from April 17 to May 3, as ActorsNET presents actor David Newhouse starring in the musical comedy "Groucho: A Life in Revue." Written by Groucho's son, Arthur Marx, and Robert Fisher, the offering is a treasure-trove of hilarious Marx Brothers routines, songs and mayhem.

ActorsNET ends its 19th season with a two-show salute to the late comic genius, Sid Caesar. Back to back productions of the musical comedy "My Favorite Year" and Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" will take audiences into the writers' room and before the cameras to witness fictionalized accounts of the frenzied world of television in the 1950s.

Based on the film, "My Favorite Year" recounts what happens when a boozy Hollywood star freaks out upon learning he is expected to perform live, with no opportunity for "retakes." Steve Lobis costars in the Sid Caesar-inspired role alongside George Hartpence as Alan Swann (portrayed in the film by the late Peter O'Toole).

July 10 - 26, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" focuses on the staff writers of the TV variety show as they deal with the driven, pill-popping comic genius who exhausted himself as star of one of the most popular variety shows in television history.

Season ticket and individual ticket information can be obtained by visiting the ActorsNET web site at http://www.actorsnetbucks.org. The Heritage Center Theatre is located at 635 N. Delmorr Avenue (Route 32), Morrisville, PA - just across from the Calhoun Street Bridge.

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