Category: Theater
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.
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TAP Receives 29 Broadway World Milwaukee Theatre Award Nominations
Nominations for the 2015 Broadway World Milwaukee Theatre Awards were announced Nov. 20. Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) received 29 nominations in the categories of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Play, Best Musical, Best Set Design, Best Costume Design, Best Direction and Theatre of the Year. The following are 2015 TAP nominees: BEST ACTOR IN A […]
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High Schoolers Invited to Audition for “The Laramie Project”
Auditions will be held for the StageKids production of The Laramie Project on Dec. 12 at noon and Dec. 15 at 5 pm. The Laramie Project is a play about the real-life events surrounding the murder of Matthew Shephard, a gay University of Wyoming student. It caught the attention of the world and sparked a […]
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Northern Sky Announces 2016 Lineup
Northern Sky Theater has announced its 2016 musical comedy line-up for the summer season. This year’s world premiere, Doctor! Doctor!, in which a retiring small town physician recruits his young big city nephew to take over his practice, pays tribute to the nostalgic nature of life in Door County where residents reluctantly but humorously adapt […]
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“The Santaland Diaries” Returns to TAP Stage Dec. 10
Dan Klarer returns to the Third Avenue Playhouse stage in The Santaland Diaries, Dec. 10 – 31. This outrageously funny one-man play (from National Public Radio’s well-loved humorist David Sedaris) is about the author’s experiences as an unemployed writer taking a job as an elf at Macy’s department store in New York City. This delightfully […]
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StageKids Brings ‘The Santa Claus Chronicles’ to TAP
StageKids Theatre will kick off the Christmas season Nov. 20 – 22 with its holiday production of Ho Ho Ho, The Santa Claus Chronicles at Third Avenue Playhouse in Sturgeon Bay. The play, starring 23 area youth ages 5 – 18 (and two adults), will answer the most pressing questions people have about the big […]
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Christmas by the Bay, Hunters Stew, Ladies Weekend & More Weekend Plans
Hunting and holidays dominate the upcoming weekend on the peninsula! Check out our top picks for the weekend ahead. Friday, November 20 Celebrate the Holidays in Sturgeon Bay Christmas by the Bay begins with the annual tree lighting ceremony on Friday night and continues throughout the weekend with live music, wagon rides, a Santa parade […]
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Northern Sky Purchases Fish Creek Parcel for Operations Center
Northern Sky Theater recently purchased a 17-acre parcel of land on the southeast corner of County A & F in Fish Creek where they plan to build a Rehearsal and Operations Center. The purchase was made possible as part of a generous capital campaign gift from Michael J. and Marge McCoy. Mike McCoy is a […]
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Let Me Be Frank Productions Presents ‘The Real Housewives of the U.P.’
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the yoopers who inhabit it, will be highlighted in all their glory during Let Me Be Frank Productions’ musical comedy The Real Housewives of the U.P., showing at the Southern Door Community Auditorium, Nov. 21 & 22. A spoof on Bravo TV’s popular The Real Housewives franchise, The Real Housewives of […]
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Peninsula Players Theatre Announces 2016 Performance Lineup
Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to announce its 81st season performing June 14 through October 16, 2016. “Less than two weeks ago Peninsula Players closed a successful 2015 season (our 80th), but, even before it was over, audiences leaving the fall’s final production of Nunsense were eagerly telling me how much they were already looking […]
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Shakespeare Shake Up: Door Shakespeare Responds to Translation Project
2016 promises to be a very important and exciting year for William Shakespeare. 2016 is the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s passing and four centuries later, his brilliant legacy lives on stages across the globe, in textbooks from high school and college classrooms, and remains honored in many pieces of art including opera, musical theater, […]
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Dan Klarer Returns to TAP in “The Santaland Diaries”
Dan Klarer returns to Third Avenue Playhouse to perform in The Santaland Diaries, an outrageously funny one-man play (from National Public Radio’s well-loved humorist David Sedaris) about the author’s experiences as an unemployed writer taking a job as an elf at Macy’s department store in New York City. This delightfully tart tale takes a wry […]
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A Look Back at Rogue Theater’s 2015 Season
If the saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is true, then Rogue Theater finished the year much stronger. Last winter, we toured with our yearly murder-mystery dinner theater, Trouble at The Tropicabana. It was tremendously successful, selling out every dinner venue. Much of the show’s accomplishments can be attributed to the theme: Ricky, […]
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Fall Art Crawl, Classic Comedy, Trapper Schoepp & More Weekend Plans
This weekend marks the kickoff of Halloween celebrations on the peninsula, along with Ellison Bay Arts’ Fall Art Crawl, autumn hikes in the great outdoors, and a visit by Milwaukee rockers Trapper Schoepp & The Shades. But these are just a few of our top picks for the weekend ahead! Friday, October 23 Kick Off […]
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Last Chance to See “Nunsense” This Season
The zany Little Sisters of Hoboken are kicking up their heels and lifting their voices for a couple more nights at Peninsula Players Theatre in Nunsense. Join Reverend Mother, a former circus performer itching to reclaim the spotlight, and her four sisters as they stage a riotous variety show filled with comic misadventures that are […]
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Peninsula Players Honors Trenchard as Honorary Board Member for Life
The Board of Directors of Peninsula Players Theatre is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Trenchard as Honorary Board Member for Life. Board members recently presented Trenchard with a plaque and letter of commendation to celebrate the appointment. “Peter’s incredible 27-year service to Peninsula Players is an exceptional example of the great philanthropic giving […]
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Fall Fest, WIFEE and the HUZz BAND, The Great Pumpkin Trail & More Weekend Plans
Fall Fest, the granddaddy of all Door County festivals, hits the streets in Sister Bay this weekend bringing with it a vast offering of live music, great food, drinks, children’s games and fun. But if the thought of large crowds sends you into a tizzy, don’t fret – there are plenty of other things to […]
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Audition for StageKids’ “The Santa Claus Chronicles”
The Third Avenue Playhouse is pleased to announce auditions for their annual StageKids holiday show, The Santa Claus Chronicles. Auditions are open to students ages five and up, and to adults. Students from throughout Door County are encouraged to audition. The remaining audition is set for Oct. 10, 11 am – 2 pm, with callbacks […]
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Nostalgia Abounds In TAP’s ‘I Love a Piano’
I Love a Piano currently runs at the Third Avenue Playhouse, a Stage Door Theatre musical revue of the early songs of Irving Berlin conceived and directed by James Valcq, co-artistic director at TAP. The show features a piano center stage around which Berlin’s songs are performed by four costumed actors, including the director, who […]
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Cassie Slater Returns to Pen Players in “Nunsense”
The zany Little Sisters of Hoboken are kicking up their heels and lifting their voices at the Peninsula Players production of Nunsense through Oct. 18. Join Reverend Mother, a former circus performer itching to reclaim the spotlight, and her four sisters as they stage a riotous variety show filled with comic misadventures that are sure […]
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A Comedy of Menace: Theater M Presents ‘Cabin Fever’
“Cabin fever. You got it bad.” “How do you know.” “Hearing things…” “That’s how it starts.” “Then seeing things…” “Carries on like that for a while…” “Doing things…” “That’s how it stops.” “Better be careful.” “Things could happen.” Wisconsin is still early enough in the fall season that the phrase “cabin fever” has likely not […]