George Spelvin

THE EXECUTIONER'S WIFE Will Debut in Milford This Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 1, 2024

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., a professional not-for-profit theatre company in Milford will debut it’s new musical comedy, “The Executioner’s Wife” April 26 through May 12 at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford.

DURANG! Will Give One Encore! Producers' Award Performance Next Week
by Stephi Wild - Sep 1, 2021

Durang! consists of four one-act plays written by Christopher Durang and directed by Kristin Towers-Rowles. The plays are For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, 'dentity Crisis, Wanda's Visit, and The Actor's Nightmare.

DURANG!, Featuring Four One-Act Plays By Christopher Durang Will Be Performed at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jul 19, 2021

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is a hilarious parody of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. The plot of 'dentity Crisis revolves around the daughter of a family who is having a nervous breakdown — her problem is that she can't keep straight the identities of everyone else because they all keep changing who they are.

Photo Flash: First Look at Pantochino's THE WAFFLE HOUSE FIVE in Connecticut
by Stephi Wild - May 4, 2019

Pantochino Productions Inc. original musical, "The Waffle House Five" continues performance at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford. The show continues through May 19.

BWW Review: NEWSIES, THE MUSICAL at Actors' Repertory Theatre Of Simi Valley
by Jeffrey Scott - Mar 6, 2019

Pantochino Presents Two Winning POW! Festival Musicals
by Julie Musbach - Feb 26, 2019

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc, a professional not-for-profit theatre for family audiences in Milford, Connecticut has selected two winners for it's first Pantochino Original Works ("POW!") Festival of new musicals by emerging playwrights, composers and lyricists.  The two winning selections will be performed in semi-staged readings March 23-24 at the MAC in Downtown Milford.

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU AND THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE
by Julie Musbach - Jul 24, 2018

Meet the cast of the Berkshire Theatre Group production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang.

Photo Flash: Granite Theatre Opens A COMEDY OF TENORS
by Julie Musbach - Jun 13, 2018

A Comedy of Tenors" by Ken Ludwig is opening June 29 at the Granite Theatre. The show is the sequel to his hilarious comedy "Lend Me A Tenor". Producer/ Artistic Director for the theatre is David Jepson.

Harriet Harris, Graham Rowat, and More Head to the Berkshires for the Summer Season; Full Casting Announced
by Julie Musbach - Mar 30, 2018

Berkshire Theatre Group has announced casting for the 90th Anniversary Season. BroadwayWorld has the full list of upcoming productions and their casts below!

Rainbow Theatre Project to Explore Being Hispanic and LGBTQ in HISTORIAS
by BWW News Desk - Mar 30, 2017

Rainbow Theatre Project's next performance, Historias, is a piece of devised theater about what it means to be a Hispanic/Latino LGBTQ young adult in today's society. Historias will be performed on Monday, April 10 at 7:30pm at Source Theatre.

McDaniel College Student-Directed Play Festival Begins Today
by BWW News Desk - Mar 1, 2017

McDaniel College theatre arts students direct and perform one-act plays at the college's Student-Directed Play Festival. Performances are Today, March 1-Saturday, March 4, 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

McDaniel College Student-Directed Play Festival Begins 3/1
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 15, 2017

McDaniel College theatre arts students direct and perform one-act plays at the college's Student-Directed Play Festival. Performances are Wednesday, March 1-Saturday, March 4, 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

Photo Flash: Pantochino Productions Inc. Presents MR. AND MRS. TRICK OR TREAT
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 25, 2016

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, continues it's new musical,  'The Bewitchingly Scrumptious and Extraordinary Mister Trick & Mrs. Treat,' at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford now through October 30th.

New Musical MISTER TRICK & MRS. TREAT Opens Friday in Milford
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 19, 2016

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, opens it's 2016/17 season with the new musical, 'The Bewitchingly Scrumptious and Extraordinary Mister Trick & Mrs. Treat,' on Friday, October 21st, 7:30pm, at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford.

Pantochino Opens Season with MISTER TRICK AND MRS TREAT, in Connecticut
by Liz Cearns - Oct 3, 2016

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, will launch it's 2016/17 season with the new musical, "The Bewitchingly Scrumptious and Extraordinary Mister Trick & Mrs. Treat," on Friday, October 21st, 7:30pm, at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford.

Photo Flash: First Look at Pantochino Productions' FAST TIMES AT MERMAID HIGH
by BWW News Desk - Apr 28, 2016

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. continues its new family musical, FAST TIMES AT MERMAID HIGH at the Center for the Arts in Milford through May 1st. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Pantochino's FAST TIMES AT MERMAID HIGH Begins 4/22
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 12, 2016

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. will debut it's new family musical, "Fast Times at Mermaid High" in a limited engagement beginning Friday, April 22nd at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford.

Critic's Choice: If Life's A Cabaret, Why Aren't You At The Theater?
by Jeffrey Ellis - Mar 10, 2016

Winter's apparently over - it's in the mid-70s, balmy and windy, as we write this - and even before Spring pops up all over, there's an amazing amount of good theater to be found in the Nashville area. In fact, there's so much to choose from that you have absolutely no excuse staying alone in your room. Instead, in the wise and wonderful words of Sally Bowles, life is a cabaret and you're far more likely to find that out in the darkened confines of a theater, where magic and mayhem is bound to happen.

ACT 1's One Act Wednesdays Return to Darkhorse
by Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 29, 2016

Among offerings this month are Christopher Durang's The Actor's Nightmare, a short comic play directed by Kristin Parsons. It involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he doesn't know any of the lines. Patrick Kramer stars as George, with Bethany Champion as Meg, Tammy Sutherland as Sarah, Jenni Cadaret as Ellen and Douglas Goodman as Henry.

Nashville's Theater Calendar 2/29/16
by Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 29, 2016

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.