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Door County is renowned nationwide for it’s array of local, independent theater in settings unlike any other. There’s the historic Peninsula Players on the water, Northern Sky Theatre in the woods of Peninsula State Park, and Door Shakespeare in the gardens of Bjorklunden. Plus great performances to be found in venues large and small up and down the Peninsula. Find them all here.

  • Northern Sky Receives Grant to Produce New Musical Theater

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    Northern Sky Theater has received a matching grant of $11,500 from the Wisconsin Arts Board. This grant supports Northern Sky’s commitment to writing and developing new works of musical theater tailored for the company’s unique multi-generational audiences. “With the support of the Wisconsin Arts Board, this summer Northern Sky will add two new musicals to […]

  • Peninsula Players’ Comedy Explores Middle-age Concerns

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    You know you’ve thought it, if not actually said it aloud:  “I’d love to be a fly on the wall to hear that conversation!” You can live that experience vicariously at Björklunden on March 5 at The Play’s the Thing reading of A Trick of the Light, a new comedy by Peter Moore. The main […]

  • TAP Presents ‘The Dig,’ An Excavation of Sibling Bonds & Mental Illness

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    Archaeology – the excavation and analysis of human history – proved the perfect metaphor for Milwaukee playwright Marie Kohler to explore mental illness and the strains it places on familial relationships in her drama, The Dig. Part of Third Avenue Playhouse’s Winter Play Reading Festival, The Dig follows the bond between siblings Mattie and Jamie […]

  • Pen Players Play Reading Draws in Crowd of More Than 130

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    Peninsula Players Theatre presented a reading of Go Save Your Life by Nasir Bin Zakaria, as told to Laura Toffenetti, on Feb. 5 to an audience of more than 130. Go Save Your Life was produced as part of The Play’s the Thing, a winter series of play readings organized by Peninsula Players Theatre. Participating […]

  • Door Shakespeare Hires New Producing Artistic Director

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    Door Shakespeare is stepping into 2018 with a new leader at the helm. The Door Shakespeare Board of Directors announced the hiring of Michael Stebbins as the company’s new Producing Artistic Director. Stebbins, a Kenosha native, spent eight years as Rep Stage’s Producing Artistic Director in Columbia, Md., where he championed the works of up-and-coming […]

  • TAP Announces Their 2018 Play Reading Festival Lineup

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    Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) announces the lineup for the second annual Play Reading Festival, Feb. 16-25. This year’s festival features plays from Sarah Ruhl, C.P. Taylor, David Ives, Jen Silverman, a Midwest premiere by Bill Cain and from Wisconsin playwright Marie Kohler, who will attend the fest. Dead Man’s Cell Phone will be performed Feb. […]

  • Northern Sky Features “Muskie Love” in the Fall

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    Northern Sky’s 2018 fall season features the musical comedy Muskie Love playing Aug. 31 – Oct. 20 at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek. Premiering in 2004, Muskie Love was the first collaboration by the now-veteran writing team of Dave Hudson and Paul Libman. Muskie Love is set on the shores of Green Bay […]

  • Rogue Theater Announces Murder-Mystery Playwright Competition

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    Rogue Theater, established in 2013, traditionally opens each season with a dinner theater/murder mystery presented in various locations in Door County and often in other Wisconsin towns. This year, for example, performances will be scheduled in northern and southern Door County, Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay and Tisch Mills, although the play has not yet been […]

  • Pen Players Presents “Go Save Your Life”

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    Peninsula Players Theater presents a reading of Go Save Your Life by Nasir Bin Zakaria, as told to Laura Toffenetti, Feb. 5, 7 pm at Björklunden in Baileys Harbor. Go Save Your Life is produced with support and in coordination with Door County Reads and its exploration of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by […]

  • Rogue Theater Holds Open Auditions for their Summer and Fall Shows

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    Rogue Theater Co-artistic Directors Stuart Champeau and Lola DeVillers have been preparing for summer and fall productions. Upcoming shows include comedy, improvisation, drama and murder mystery. Now all they need is you. Open auditions will be held Jan. 27 at 2 pm and Jan. 30 at 6 pm at Jaycee Hall, 340 Jaycee Court, Sturgeon […]

  • TAP’s Play Reading Festival Lineup Announced

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    Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) announces the lineup for the second annual Play Reading Festival, Feb. 16-25. This year’s festival features plays from Sarah Ruhl, C.P. Taylor, David Ives, Jen Silverman, a Midwest premiere by Bill Cain and from Wisconsin playwright Marie Kohler, who will attend the fest. Dead Man’s Cell Phone will be performed Feb. […]

  • Rogue Theater Spoofs “Casablanca” in Newest Show

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    Get out your lucky hat, because Rogue Theater is about to perform a mystery dinner show that spoofs the movie Casablanca and the American dream of winning the jackpot. Penned by Tony Schwartz and Marylou Ambrose, the show, Dealt a Deadly Hand: Murder at the Pocono Royale Casino, takes place at Rick’s club, the first […]

  • Peninsula Players Announces the 2018 Season of The Play’s the Thing

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    Peninsula Players Theatre announces the 2018 season of The Play’s the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences. Fully cast readings of the plays will be performed at Björklunden at 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor Feb. 5, March 5 and April 2 at 7pm. General seating is available; there’s no admission […]

  • Third Avenue Playhouse Announces Winter 2018 Classes

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    Third Avenue Playhouse begins their winter classes in January and they continue through February. Adult classes are:  Kinetic Acting I, Jan. 6 – Feb. 10, study with seasoned professional actor and educator Alan Kopischke; Film Noir, Jan. 14. – Feb. 4, screening of a film followed by an in-depth discussion, led by TAP Production Manager […]

  • ‘A Rogue Family Christmas’ on Stage Dec. 28-30

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    The weather outside is frightful, but Rogue Theater is so delightful.  Rogue Theater revives their holiday show from 2015 with some new twists. A Rogue Family Christmas is a family classic featuring comedy skits, seasonal music, a little Lambeau fun, improv, and much more. Family-friendly entertainment and timely, just between Christmas and New Year’s when […]

  • “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” on Stage at TAP

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    Third Avenue Playhouse presents Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol Dec. 20 – 31. Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol features Alan Kopischke as Jacob Marley. What happens to Ebenezer Scrooge’s mean, sour, pruney old business partner after death? Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. He’s even given his own private tormentor: a malicious little […]

  • Rogue Theater Presents Two Stories for their Holiday Show

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    Rogue Theater will present two classic stories for the holiday season. A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, whose evocative prose takes his listeners back to a childhood Christmas in turn of the century Wales, when December was “white as Lapland,” and “mistletoe hung from the gas brackets in all the front parlors and […]

  • Third Avenue Playhouse Announces 2018 Lineup

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    Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) announces their 2018 schedule. TAP starts the year with their Winter Play Reading Festival, Feb. 16 – 25. This is TAP’s second annual play reading festival featuring both new and classic plays in staged readings by TAP’s professional company. The play selections will be announced at a later date. On stage […]

  • Rogue Theater Presents ‘The Christmas Journey’

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    Rogue Theater will celebrate its fifth Christmas with a holiday production by Rebecca Wimmer, The Christmas Journey. Filled with songs, holiday cheer, and a special message, this production will be sure to please the whole family. The play begins on the night before the big event, and Christmas is on a journey to the Little […]

  • Sturgeon Bay Middle Schoolers Present ‘Shrek The Musical Jr. ‘ Dec. 8

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    Nasty will be nice and Sturgeon Bay will be “ogre”-the-moon when TJ Walker Middle School Allied Arts students present their production of Shrek The Musical Jr. on Dec. 8. The family-friendly musical comedy follows the adventures of an ogre named Shrek who sets off on a quest to save a princess from a dragon. However, […]