THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Comes to ActorsNET
ActorsNET finishes its 26th season with a 1960s sitcom reboot of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, a bright and breezy comedy of sexual jealousy and overbearing egos set against a landscape of summer resort leisure and the “dirty dancing” music trend.
KING LEAR Returns to ActorsNET This June
William Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy King Lear returns to the stage in this area after a 20-year absence. From June 10 through 26, ActorsNET of Morrisville, Pennsylvania presents Shakespeare’s towering drama two decades after they first presented it in 2002. The company’s Artistic Director, Cheryl Doyle, once again directs the play at the company’s intimate theater along the Delaware River. The title role will be played this time by George Hartpence.
ActorsNET Provides Free Online Video Of MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
In keeping with the tradition a?oethe show must go on,a?? ActorsNET has released on YouTube a video of their March production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, it was announced in a press release by Cheryl Doyle, the theatre company's artistic director.
ActorsNET to Open MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION
Sparks fly when wealthy Mrs. Warren's daughter learns her mother's fortune was built upon a string of brothels. The daughter is shocked and disapproves, while Mrs. Warren defends her career choice. Considered scandalous in its day, this play balances comedy and drama and brims with Wilde's renowned wit. David Deratzian directs a brilliant cast -- Carol Thompson, George Hartpence, Lea Jeffers, Justin Mancini, Rick Pine, and George Agalias. Stage managed by Em Ricciardi. Lighting design by Andrena Wishnie.
Update of Moliere's Classic Comedy TARTUFFE Brings Intrigue, Deception to MCCC's Kelsey Theatre
Lovers breaking up via cell phone, a pious hypocrite trying to bed his benefactor's wife and a little political intrigue a?" all the elements of comic stage behavior a?" come to Mercer County Community College's (MCCC) Kelsey Theatre in the form of a?oeTartuffe,a?? when Moliere's updated classic tale of duplicity, seduction and outright thievery makes its American premiere as a PinnWorth Production.
ActorsNET Stages EXIT THE KING at the The Heritage Center Theatre
Absurdities abound in Eugene Ionesco's comic drama, Exit the King, during its three-weekend run May 31 through June 16. Considered the father of "the theatre of the absurd," Ionesco conjured up the tale of King Berenger the First - a monarch so powerful he was once able to rule over the forces of nature and will all his subjects to obey his every command. But, after 400 years, those powers have begun to fail.
ActorsNET Hosts World Premiere Of New Play
ActorsNET has changed titles for its March production - replacing Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale with the world premiere staging of The Crimes of Diana Eastlake by Mort Paterson.
ActorsNET Presents THE LION IN WINTER
James Goldman's modern classic dramatic comedy set in 1183 as England's King Henry II observes Christmas at his castle with his estranged and imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, their three sons (Richard, Geoffrey and John), King Philip II and his half-sister, Alais, who is engaged to Richard while being King Henry's mistress.
ROMEO & JULIET Comes to ActorsNET
Shakespeare's passionate tale of a love so right in a world so wrong. A pair of star-crossed lovers take the stage, with lush period detail, in Shakespeare's passionate and tragic tale of warring families and young love. Co-directed by George Hartpence and Carol Thompson of New Hope, PA.