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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Rogue Theater’s “Policy” Wraps Up at Ephraim Village Hall
Rogue Theater is bringing back the show they had the honor of performing its world premiere (the English version) last November. Policy, a powerfully moving, thought-provoking play starring Rogue’s founders Lola DeVillers and Stuart Champeau, will play at the Ephraim Village Hall in September. Policy includes a cast of two: the priest, Father Damián (Stuart […]
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Peninsula Players Presents “Nunsense”
Peninsula Players Theatre continues its 80th season with the hilarious musical comedy Nunsense, with book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin. The lighthearted musical has a six-week run starting Sept. 9 through Oct. 18. Nunsense received the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Music and Best Off-Broadway Musical. The zany Little […]
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Culture Club: Third Avenue Playhouse Celebrates 30 Productions
The opening of our next production, Irving Berlin’s I Love A Piano, will mark the 30th production of the Stage Door Theatre Company since its inception in June of 2012. This is at once a cause for celebration and a chance to clear up any confusion that still might be out there concerning the different […]
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Peninsula Players Company Members Receive Award Nominations
Company members of Peninsula Players Theatre celebrated the announcement of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award nominations with the listing of several current and past company members. The Joseph Jefferson Awards are Chicago theater’s equivalent to Broadway’s Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards. “The Peninsula Players extends its congratulations to the numerous past and current company members on their […]
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Rogue Theater Brings Back “Policy”
Rogue Theater is bringing back the show they had the honor of performing its world premiere (the English version) last November. Policy, a powerfully moving, thought-provoking play starring Rogue’s founders Lola DeVillers and Stuart Champeau, will play at two different venues the second and third weeks of September. Policy includes a cast of two: the […]
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Northern Sky Musical Being Performed At Marquette University
This September and October, one of Northern Sky Theater’s most beloved musicals will be performed at Marquette University’s Helfaer Theatre. Loose Lips Sink Ships originally premiered on the Northern Sky stage in 2001 (then, American Folklore Theatre) and is a collaboration featuring music by James Kaplan and book and lyrics by Laurie Flanigan-Hegge and local […]
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‘Lumberjacks in Love’ Debuts at Door Community Auditorium
Northern Sky Theater embarks on its sixth season in partnership with the Door Community Auditorium with the fall debut of Lumberjacks in Love. Lumberjacks in Love premiered in 1996 and is one of Northern Sky’s all-time box office hits. Set in the turn-of-the-century Haywire Lumber Camp, Lumberjacks celebrates a world where bath time is once […]
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Final Weekend for Pen Players’ ‘Outside Mullingar’
Peninsula Players Theatre ends their run of Outside Mullingar on Sept. 6. Outside Mullingar is set in rural Ireland and features Anthony and Rosemary, 40-ish next-door neighbors and homebodies. Rosemary has been smitten with Anthony since childhood and he is oblivious to the fact. When Anthony’s father threatens to disinherit him, Rosemary steps in to […]
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Third Avenue Playhouse Brings ‘Sylvia’ to Stage Through Sept. 12
The drama of the relationship between a talking poodle-mutt and a pair of empty nesters will play out on the Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) stage through the love story, Sylvia, from now to Sept. 12. Ordinary humans Greg and Kate have just escaped from the banal Westchester County and moved into a new apartment in […]
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Peninsula Players Brings Ireland to Door County with ‘Outside Mullingar’
Peninsula Players’ current show transports the audience across the sea to Ireland. Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who received a Pulitzer for his play Doubt, offers here a comic tribute to his own heritage after taking a trip with his father to the family farm near the village of Killucan located Outside Mullingar.
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This summer, costume design has taken Fish Creek resident Karin Kopischke to London in the 1950s, Ireland in the 2000s, and the American South in the 1980s.
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Stage Door Theatre Co. presents Sylvia at Third Avenue Playhouse, with opening night benefit on Aug. 27 at 7:30 pm for the Door County Humane Society.
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80 Seasons of Poignant Plays and Playwrights
Peninsula Players celebrated the 80th anniversary of its first performance in July. Co-founder Richard Fisher, also a playwright, set the precedent for artistic directors to follow when selecting the lineup of works: a mix of thrills, laughs, suspense as well as classic plays and the première of new works.
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Pen Players Receives Trip Advisor Award of Excellence
Peninsula Players Theatre is celebrating its 80th season along Door County’s scenic shores. Since 1935 the professional troupe has been entertaining and uplifting theatergoers with its variety of comedies, dramas and musicals.
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“Steel Magnolias” Continues at TAP through Aug. 22
Stage Door Theatre Company presents Steel Magnolias at Third Avenue Playhouse through Aug. 22. Steel Magnolias follows the lives of six indomitable Southern women as they share their personal triumphs, tragedies, beauty tips, recipes, and more than the occasional piece of scandalous gossip in Truvy’s beauty shop in Chinquapin, Louisiana.
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“Steel Magnolias” at Third Avenue Playhouse
Stage Door Theatre Company presents Steel Magnolias at Third Avenue Playhouse, July 30 – Aug. 22. Steel Magnolias follows the lives of six indomitable Southern women as they share their personal triumphs, tragedies, beauty tips, recipes, and more than the occasional piece of scandalous gossip in Truvy’s beauty shop in Chinquapin, Louisiana.
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PMF Sopranos Visit Pen Players
Peninsula Players Theatre, in conjunction with its production of Ken Ludwig’s hilarious comedy Lend Me A Tenor, will host Peninsula Music Festival sopranos Kathy Pyeatt and Danielle Buonaiuto on Aug.
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Six Southern Ladies on Stage at TAP
Stage Door Theatre Company presents Steel Magnolias at Third Avenue Playhouse, July 30 – Aug. 22. Steel Magnolias follows the lives of six indomitable Southern women as they share their personal triumphs, tragedies, beauty tips, recipes, and more than the occasional piece of scandalous gossip in Truvy’s beauty shop in Chinquapin, Louisiana.
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“Lend Me A Tenor” Runs through Aug. 16 at Pen Players
Peninsula Players Theatre continues its 80th season July 29 – Aug. 16 when it presents Ken Ludwig’s comedy, Lend Me A Tenor. The first of Ludwig’s comedies to appear on Broadway, Lend Me A Tenor was nominated for nine Tony Awards and was awarded two and is also the winner of three Drama Desk Awards and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy of the Year.
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“There’s Room Enough to Grow Beneath the Northern Sky…”
Northern Sky is entering one of most ambitious and pivotal chapters of our long and rich history. Beginning soon, the company will kick off a capital campaign to fund the realization of two critical projects: our new creative home base being planned for the property on the southeast corner of highways A and F, and several long overdue improvements to our summer home – the amphitheater at Peninsula State Park.