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One of the more successful Broadway productions in recent years is THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, enjoying a brief run off-Broadway before moving across town in April 2005. Since its release it has seen a renewed popularity in the community theater world. Methacton Community Theater is the latest [...]

  This is the inaugural episode of Stage Magazine’s “Curtain Up!” podcast.  Hosted by Chris Laning, each weekly episode will give you a run down of the shows opening that upcoming weekend.  What a great way to find out, quickly and easily what is going on in and around [...]

The Methacton Community Theater presents THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE opening Friday, May 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM at the Shannondell Performing Arts Center in Audubon, PA. The show continues on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 4, 10 and 11 with Sunday matinee performances on May 5 and 12, [...]

What a pleasant way to spend an afternoon — a good meal and a laugh filled new play called SURPRISE! This is the fifth dinner theater Methacton Community Theater has presented with a new script by a local author. Arthur Fischman has written a laugh a minute script with a [...]

Opening on Friday, March 8th at the Center Square Golf Club in Worcester, PA is the world premiere of the hilarious comedy SURPRISE! by local playwright Arthur Fischman. The Methacton Community Theater has again partnered with Center Square to bring dining plus live performance to the Montgomery County area! Cocktails and [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the drill. Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, miserable old man, is visited by three ghosts the night before Christmas (well, four, if you count his old partner). After Scrooge is made to take a long, hard look at his past, present, and [...]

I always thought of ANNIE as one of the shows that community theater does to involve as many kids (of all ages) in order to sell as many tickets as possible.  So I, somewhat reluctantly, wended my way to Perkiomen Valley Middle School.  I needn’t have worried.  I smiled from [...]

Methacton Community Theater’s latest production is NUNSENSE. This show is the first in a franchise, spawning six sequels and 3 spin-off shows, and has the distinction of being the second-longest running show Off-Broadway, running for 3,672 performances. NUNSENSE is the story of the Little Sisters of Hoboken, who have a [...]

We were invited to the Southern California living room of the Basil Estate (courtesy of Methacton Community Theater); home of dental floss millionaires Mr. and Mrs. Basil.  It seems that Mr. Basil has been murdered and Mrs. Gloria Basil (the always reliable Nancy Kadwill) has summoned harried and disheveled Columbo-like [...]

Methacton Community Theater is closing its 2011 season with the classic musical, 1776 by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone. 1776 is, of course, a dramatic retelling of the months prior to the ratification and signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, PA, from the perspective of John Adams. Much [...]

I can’t think of a more pleasant way to spend a couple of hours than to watch five talented people sing an evening of musical works from the vast store of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.   The brilliant composer and lyricist together are responsible for eleven musical plays, one [...]

What a pleasant surprise.  It has been my experience with “Dinner Theater” that either the meal or the show were lacking in some respect.  Methacton Community Theater hit the dining and the acting very well with their performance of local playwright Nancy Frick’s FOUR WEDDINGS AND AN ELVIS.   Once I [...]

  It’s a very brave thing to do the original stage version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC when you know it will be compared to one of the most successful movie musicals of all time. Methacton Community Theater gets a “thank you” for this attempt. Nicolette Addice in the lead [...]

I wish I had the wit and time… To do this review all in rhyme… Oh well, and this is my excuse… I just can’t equal Dr Seuss! Lynn Ahrens(book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty(music), however, adapted the whimsy and fun of the good doctor’s books into an enjoyable evening [...]

Methacton Community Theater opened its latest offering, My Way – A Tribute to Frank Sinatra May 14th at the theater at Shannondell. My Way has 8 singers, accompanied by piano and string bass, do a number of medleys of Sinatra’s songs. The stage is set up as a 1940’s era [...]