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Colonial Playhouse in Aldan, Delaware County will continue its 2012-2013 season with the timeless classic THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman,” on Friday, May 31 at 8:00 p.m. Directed by Colonial vice president James Meinel, the production continues Saturday and Sunday, June 1-2, Friday [...]

Show: THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST Theater: Colonial Playhouse Theater Website: http://colonialplayhouse.net/ Theater Phone: Start date of auditions: 06/03/2013 Colonial Playhouse will hold auditions for “The Miss Firecracker Contest” by Beth Henley on Monday, June 3 at 7:00pm. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Southern accent required for [...]

Show: THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Theater: Colonial Playhouse Theater Website: http://www.colonialplayhouse.net Show runs: 05/31/2103 to 06/15/2013 A legendary Broadway tour de force and one of the most popular plays of all time comes back to Colonial! First produced on our stage in 1987, join us as we re-tell the [...]

“It’s the truth, even if it didn’t happen…” ~ Ken Kesey, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST Still fantastically crazy after all these years… and well worth seeing! Set in an unspecified state mental hospital in the early 1960s, this emotionally provocative play adapted by Dale Wasserman from Ken Kesey’s novel, [...]

Back by popular demand, the next production at Colonial Playhouse, in Aldan, Delaware County, is the classic ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Dale Wasserman, adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey. Directed by Todd Holtsberry, show dates are April 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20. The [...]

When JAKE’S WOMEN opened at New York’s Neil Simon Theatre on March 24, 1992, it ran to the delight of audiences for 245 performances starring Alan Alda, who later reprised the role of Jake in the 1996 television-film adaptation. Paul Kerrigan carries out well the challenging acting tasks demanded in [...]

Colonial Playhouse in Aldan, Delaware County will continue its 2012-2013 season with the Neil Simon comedy JAKE’S WOMEN on Friday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. Directed by Kathy Quinn, the production continues Saturday and Sunday, February 2-3, Friday through Sunday, February 8-10, and Friday and Saturday, February 15-16. In “Jake’s [...]

BILOXI BLUES, as directed by Erin Marie Friel at Colonial Playhouse, is an insightful piece that entertains away the blues! Lots of laughter in this coming of age tale about a Jewish boy, Eugene Morris Jerome (Adam Corbett), from the Bronx, who is drafted during WWII and shipped to boot [...]

Colonial Playhouse in Aldan, PA, has a hit on its hands with local playwright Michael Hollinger’s comical espionage farce RED HERRING. Set in 1952 in the days leading up to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election, the play focuses on three couples: FBI agent Frank Keller (Mark Ayres) and detective Maggie Pelletier [...]

John Patrick Shanley, screenwriter of the films “Moonstruck” and “Doubt”, unleashes a producer, writer and two ambitious actresses upon the stage to fight over the framework of a film in the seeming absence of an already weak director. Teeth bared, four letter growling, pawing at the film’s plot and character [...]

Sit back and watch as the plots unwind, rewind and wind up in some hilariously silly situations as directed by Erin Guard. Set in 19th century Scotland, in a gloriously spooky old family manor by a loch near the moor, Rick Abbot’s BRIDE OF BRACKENLOCH pokes great fun at gothic [...]

MR. 80% is 100% percent enjoyable, well stocked with talent and perfect for an evening of delightful entertainment!  Sharon (Kimberly Williams), a lovely lady lawyer with a past chock full of failed relationships, and Patricia (Sam Barrett), a grumpy sleep deprived medical resident, are looking for an additional roomate to [...]

Long considered a landmark play in the American theater, Tennessee Williams’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE won the playwright a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and introduced the theater world to Marlon Brando in a big way. In the original Broadway production, director Elia Kazan focused more on the character of Stanley [...]

Colonial Playhouse’s THE ODD COUPLE – FEMALE VERSION, under the direction of Kathy Quinn, is chock full of comedy and quips. The opening scene draws the audience into the world of Olive Madison (played by Sam Barrett) with the effervescent interplay of the cast of ladies (Sharon A. Daws as Vera, [...]

What do you say, as a child, when you see a Coyote hanging on a fence? If your name is Bobby Reyburn you take in the lesson about predators given by a favorite uncle. COYOTE ON A FENCE by Bruce Graham, now playing at Colonial Playhouse is a challenging play [...]