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The Delaware Theatre Company’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, the passionate wartime musical that’s been entertaining audiences for over 60 years, marks a new and exciting turn for the professional theater by the waterfront. If you’ve ever thought of DTC as Wilmington’s Broadway, this large-scale production confirms it [...]

03/20/13 Wilmington, DE –– Timeless. Enchanting. Impactful. These three words clearly describe the classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC, coming to the Delaware Theatre Company stage April 10th through May 5th. From the hauntingly beautiful first three notes of “Bali Hai” to the romance of “Some Enchanted Evening,” it’s no surprise that [...]

A young divorcee, an art student, a gang girl, a breast cancer survivor, nervous brides, mothers, daughters, sisters — Delaware Theatre Company’s special presentation of LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE hits on a range of women’s experiences so broad and so basic that it speaks to virtually everyone. A [...]

02/06/13 Wilmington, DE –– Delaware Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the cast of Daryl Roth’s presentation of LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE, coming to the DTC stage in early March. This intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron is based on the best-selling book by [...]

As soon as you take your seat for BOEING BOEING, the latest offering at Delaware Theatre Company, you know you’re in for a nostalgic treat. The set, designed by Stefanie Hansen, is like looking 50 years into the past: every detail of the 1960s apartment has that old-fashioned modern feel, [...]

‘Tis the season for adaptations of Charles Dickens’ immortal A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and if you think you’ve seen it all before, just wait until you see Patrick Barlow’s new adaptation, makings its world premiere at The Delaware Theater Company through December 30. This version of the classic Christmas ghost story [...]

At one point in Bruce Graham’s THE OUTGOING TIDE, Delaware Theatre Company’s 2012 October production, the character Jack, played by Ian Lithgow, explains to his mother — and, by extension, the audience — that the phrase “happy as a clam” is incomplete. The full saying is “happy as a clam [...]

CROWNS, the final show of the Delaware Theatre Company’s 33rd Season, is a rare breed of play — the kind that is not only thought-provoking and entertaining, but also makes the audience feel honored just to experience it. It’s a story of transformation, and of holding on to old traditions, [...]

As long as there has been photography, war photographers have given the world a voyeuristic look at otherwise-unseen tragedies. In TIME STANDS STILL, Delaware Theatre Company’s collaboration with the Act II Playhouse in Ambler, PA, the tables are turned, with a voyeuristic look at moments in time in the life of [...]

Having many times argued that realism is a dead genre that should be left in the past, I am delighted to report that I am wrong. Realism is alive and well, and performing at the Delaware Theatre Company, in the form of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, ALL MY SONS. A play [...]

Noel Coward is one of the finest exemplars of the axiom, “With words we rule men”. There are so many of Aisle Say’s own personal enemies out there – some even reading this column – about whom I could say “You’ll never die….(unfortunately) you’re not the dying sort.” There is [...]

Death and marital strife have never been so funny. What starts out as an innocent séance becomes every married man’s nightmare. The Delaware Theatre Company’s production of Noël Coward’s BLITHE SPIRIT, directed by Domenick Scudera, is lively, witty and well-paced. Coward exploits every opportunity for humor: human frailty, physical comedy [...]

Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. This is the world that the Delaware Theatre Company is exploring in the area premiere of LUCY by Damien Atkins. Autism is diagnosed in 1 [...]

There are few First Staters who have on their theatrical resume being part of the opening night audience of Delaware Theatre Company 32 years ago. Aisle Say was there. The venue was a converted firehouse. The visionary producer/director was Cleveland Morris. Within a short period Morris had convinced various influential [...]

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS is the Delaware Theatre Company newest production.  Mark Brown’s clever adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel is witty, probing and entertaining.  Greg Wood (center), as Phileas Fogg, sails through a typhoon with his fellow travelers (from left: Dan Hodge, Benjamin Lloyd and Farah Bala) on [...]

Man’s love of his four footed pooch knows no boundaries, at least in the mind of renown playwright A. R. Gurney. Greg (Kurt Zischke) and wife Kate (Hollis McCarthy) are empty nesters. Greg is suffering through an insufferable mid-life crisis. He encounters a stray dog Sylvia (Maggie Lakis) in the [...]