James Cordingley News

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. 

Communists weren’t the only ones hunted during the “Red Scare” of the 1950s. Gays and lesbians were also targeted as threats to the USA as part of the “Lavender Scare.”  “Coming out of the closet” was almost unheard-of, as it could easily end a career or even a life. And no one even considered the possibility of gay marriage.

You may know the familiar tale of A Christmas Carol - three spirits visit miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and inspire him to change his ways ... But what if it was all a hoax? A scam? A fraud?

James Goldman's modern classic comic drama, The Lion in Winter, takes to the stage of the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the holiday season.

James Goldman's modern classic comic drama, The Lion in Winter, takes to the stage of the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the holiday season.

Star-crossed lovers' doomed romance explodes on the Heritage Center stage as ActorsNET ends its 22nd season with a lush staging of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.

J.B. Priestley's atmospheric thriller An Inspector Calls grips The Heritage Center Theatre stage in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, in June.

ActorsNET in Morrisville, Pennsylvania continues its 21st season with British dramatist J.B. Priestley's classic mystery, AN INSPECTOR CALLS. James Cordingley of Lawrenceville, NJ directs this atmospheric thriller about a wealthy family whose dinner is interrupted by a police investigator probing the death of a young woman.

ActorsNET continues its 21st season with William Shakespeare's popular comedy, TWELFTH NIGHT.

ActorsNET continues its 21st season with William Shakespeare's popular comedy, TWELFTH NIGHT.

ActorsNET celebrates the holidays with an American comedy classic - Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's riotous comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner. 

ActorsNET brings Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to life on its intimate stage.  Sultry Maggie the Cat, her brooding husband Brick, his domineering Big Daddy, overwrought Big Mama, and the rest of the Pollitt clan gather to celebrate what may be Big Daddy's last birthday.  Shocking secrets, old guilts and buried resentments explode before their eyes. 

Marx Brothers hijinks and hilarity reign supreme as the award-winning Actors' NET of Bucks County presents the musical comedy, Groucho: A Life in Revue.

ActorsNET presents a musical comedy romp through the life and careers of Groucho Marx and his zany brothers, Chico and Harpo.

MOON OVER BUFFALO: Ken Ludwig's riotous show biz romp, Moon Over Buffalo, takes to the Heritage Center stage in Morrisville for three weekends, from late May until the middle of June.

MOON OVER BUFFALO: Ken Ludwig's riotous show biz romp, Moon Over Buffalo, takes to the Heritage Center stage in Morrisville for three weekends, from late May until the middle of June.

Bucks County and beyond may be coping with wintry cold, but it's getting steamy inside the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville. The Actors' NET of Bucks County presents Tennessee Williams' acclaimed stage play The Night of the Iguana weekends tonight, January 17 through February 2. NET Co-Founder and Artistic Director Cheryl Doyle of Morrisville directs Williams' gripping tale of the dying dreams and sexual frustrations of an unlikely mix of lost souls brought together in a rundown hotel in the coastal Mexican jungle in 1940.

Bucks County and beyond may be coping with wintry cold, but it's getting steamy inside the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville. The Actors' NET of Bucks County presents Tennessee Williams' acclaimed stage play The Night of the Iguana weekends January 17 through February 2. NET Co-Founder and Artistic Director Cheryl Doyle of Morrisville directs Williams' gripping tale of the dying dreams and sexual frustrations of an unlikely mix of lost souls brought together in a rundown hotel in the coastal Mexican jungle in 1940.

Two questions: How hard would it be to write the screenplay to Gone with the Wind if you'd never read the Margaret Mitchell book? And how hard would it be to direct Gone with the Wind if you were pulled away from directing The Wizard of Oz to direct this Civil War era epic?

Actors' NET Co-Founder Joe Doyle directs a veteran cast in this comedy, as producer David O. Selznick, writer Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming totally rewrite the shooting script for Gone with the Wind over five frenetic days and nights - the men acting out all the parts as they go along! Steve Lobis of Morrisville co-stars as Selznick, alongside David Newhouse of Middletown as Hecht and David Swartz of Ambler as Fleming. Featuring Margaret DeAngelis of New Hope as Selznick's secretary, Miss Poppenghul. James Cordingley of Lawrenceville, NJ assistant directs. Vicky Czarnik of Levittown stage manages. Set design by James Cordingley. Lighting design by Andrena Wishnie. Costume and sound design by Cheryl Doyle. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.