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FOOLS by Neil Simon, the final 65th season production now playing at The Village Players of Hatboro, features clever casting by directors Ron Green and Gina Lutz which improves on an otherwise silly script,. The leading players are no longer as contrived as the characters on the pages. The actors [...]

Show: LEADING LADIES Theater: The Village Players of Hatboro Theater Website: http://www.thevillageplayers.com Theater Phone: (215)675-6774 Start date of auditions: 06/23/2013 Auditions for LEADING LADIES by Ken Ludwig, the first show of our 66th season will occur on Sunday, June 23rd at 7pm and Monday, June 24th at 7pm We’re looking for [...]

In the quaint and suburban backyard of the Keller home, family, friends, and neighbors gathered to shoot the breeze, remember the past, and make plans for the future. The homey atmosphere made it seem like a lot of great memories would happen here, but underneath the welcoming feelings were suspicion [...]

Village Players of Hatboro opened their 65th season with Ken Ludwig’s hilarious golf romp THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY.  This delightful tribute to all things golf, and the players who love it, was a fun and witty night of great comedy.  Directed and co-directed by Jim Balcerek and Erin Ryan, [...]

With a new air conditioning system in place just in time for summer, thanks to theater-lover contributions, the Village Players of Hatboro were able to open the last show of their 64th season, PLAZA SUITE. Thank goodness, because besides being more comfortable, it would have been harder for audiences to [...]

A guy walks into a bar…he turns out to be God… and he wants you to inherit the earth. This is just one of many intriguing incidents that takes place EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR & GRILL. At first it seemed as though things couldn’t get much better. [...]

If you enjoyed skits on the Carol Burnett show (I know I am showing my age) or Saturday Night Live then you will enjoy 4 WEDDINGS AND AN ELVIS at The Village Players of Hatboro. Just like the title says: it is a four act comedy with a wedding and [...]

Village Players of Hatboro opened their sixty-fourth season with the Agatha Christie thriller, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. This is the theatrical adaptation of her novel, also entitled “Ten Little Indians” (the original title contains a racial epithet and was changed by the publisher in 1940), where ten strangers are [...]

If the right people meet in a comedy, then you’re home free. Whether it’s Groucho meeting Chico and Harpo, Gene Wilder meeting Zero Mostel in The Producers, or Kristen Wiig meeting Melissa McCarthy in the current Bridesmaids, then any other error in pacing, plot, or sentiment doesn’t much matter—as long [...]

The late Frederick Knott was a playwright who knew how to write a “boo!” play. He not only wrote WAIT UNTIL DARK, the Village Players of Hatboro’s current production, but he was also responsible for Dial M for Murder as well. It’s no coincidence that both successful plays also became [...]

Enchanting, heartwarming, witty… not the first words that usually come to mind when describing scenes from a mental institution, but all three fit the description of Village Players production of THE CURIOUS SAVAGE. The curtain opens on a charming set, centered with a comfortable looking couch and french doors flanked [...]

VICTORIA’S HOUSE, by Fred Carmichael, is a colorless mystery set in “the living room of a house on the British coast at the turn of the century” according to the Village Players program. Actually, the set itself was literally black and white with various shades of gray in between, as [...]

Village Players hosted their Summer Show, I DIDN’T DO IT, an adapted piece by Jonathan Lynn, to a nearly full house on Friday, August 20. This was Lynn’s attempt at creating a live, old fashion board game by providing clues as to who of the many invited guests to an [...]

The Village Players of Hatboro take us laughing into summer with OUT OF ORDER, a rollicking Ray Cooney farce. Director Ron Green has assembled an expert cast that bursts onto the stage with a high energy that never gives out. That energy is necessary to sustain the two hours of [...]