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Peninsula Players Announces 75th Season

Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and a theatrical icon in Door County, announces its historic 75th season, running June 15 through October 17, 2010.

Peninsula Players will open its 75th season June 15 with Heroes by Gérald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard. Three veterans of World War I plot their greatest adventure yet, to escape the veteran’s hospital! Their wits may not be fully intact, but even in their autumn years they retain a zeal for life that may just get them past the front gates. Heroes will run through July 4.

From July 7 through July 25 the Peninsula Players presents Over the Tavern by Tom Dudzick. Raising four teenagers over a tavern in Buffalo, New York in the 1950s is a challenge especially just before confirmation when the youngest, Rudy, starts to question the church and ruler-cracking Sister Clarissa.

Next up from July 28 through August 15 is the multiple Tony Award-winning musical A Little Night Music with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Greg Vinkler, artistic director of Peninsula Players, will be taking a leave from his role as Doc in the Broadway revival of West Side Story, to direct the musical.

Comic Potential, a sci-fi comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, moves onto the stage from August 18 through Sept. 5. Time Magazine named Comic Potential “one of the best plays of the past decade.” In the foreseeable future television actors are replaced with programmable robots, and Jacie, an android star, is slated for the scrap heap when a programming glitch is discovered. When a writer kidnaps her to save her, adventures really begin!

Closing the season is the Midwest premiere of the scintillating thriller Panic by Joseph Goodrich (Sept.8 – Oct. 17). Panic is the winner of the Mystery Writer’s of America Edgar Award for Best Play. At a film opening in Paris director Henry Lockwood, known as “the Sultan of Suspense,” finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, deception and murder.

Peninsula Players has been entertaining and exciting audiences since 1935, when the theater opened behind the Bonnie Brook Motel in Fish Creek. The company was founded by a brother and sister team, Caroline and Richard Fisher, who dreamed of an artistic utopia in the northwoods where actors, designers and technicians could focus on their craft while being surrounded by nature in a contemplative setting. Peninsula Players moved to the theater’s present location along the shore of Green Bay in 1937.

The Peninsula Players perform Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 7:30 pm in the summer. With the opening of the fall show Sept. 8 curtain times are Tuesday through Saturdays at 8 pm and most Sundays at 7 pm. There are no performances on Mondays. The closing performance of each show will have a 4 pm matinee, July 4, July 25, Aug. 15, Sept. 5 and Oct. 17. Individual ticket prices range from $29 to $36.

For more information call 920.868.3287 or visit http://www.peninsulaplayers.com.