Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a 2013 comedy play written by Christopher Durang.  

Chekhov is alive and well in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family home, mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities. 

When their often-wrong, fortune-telling maid warns of impending dangers, and their movie star sister, Masha, arrives unexpectedly with young, sexy, boy toy, Spike, the family is launched into a rollicking weekend of one-upmanship, exposed nerves, and a lot of broken mugs!

CAST

Vanya - Jim Cannizzaro 

Sonia - Rose Racine

Masha - Jen Lelinski-Oliver

Spike - Jack Cappadona

Cassandra - Heather Carey

Nina - Danielle Jahnke

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Thank you Coelho Middle School.

Doug McDougal - Ebenezer Scrooge

Mark Modena - Marley, Schoolmaster, Belle's Husband, Christmas Future

Alan Stavris - Bob Cratchit, Stock Gentleman 2

Bob Cratchit - Boy Scrooge, Tiny Tim

Emmett Stavris - Peter Cratchit, Boy in Street

Lily Oliver - Fan, Belinda Cratchit

Liz Cook - Charity Worker 2, Mrs. Cratchit

Kassia Beck - Christmas Past, Martha Cratchit, Undertaker's Girl

Elisabeth Merritt - Belle, Fred's Wife, Caroline

Francis Sheehan - Fezziwig

Shaughn Earle - Young Scrooge, Topper, Old Joe

Austin Patch - Stock Gentleman 1, Caroline's Husband, Fred

Paula Stavris - Charity Worker 1, Fred's Cousin, Laundress

Jen Oliver - Narrator, Christmas Present, Mrs. Dilber

Jacob Spitzer - Tiny Tim, Boy Scrooge

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Lori Beck    

Thursday, Friday, March 25 & 26, 2021

Streaming on YouTube

God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza

Directed by Francis Charles Sheehan 

Thursday, Friday, June 3 & 4, 2021

Streaming on YouTube 

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 

Directed by Lori Beck   

Join us on October 2, 2020 for this one night only event!

Peggy has redecorated the living room and her husband, Roger, can’t stand it. 

Peggy’s usual exquisite taste has been overcome by a mysterious lapse which has caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, the “fourth wall".

In this love letter to the theater, Gurney uses the stage to explore, quite comically, our place in the world today.

CAST

Julia - Kim Alessandro

Roger - Francis Charles Sheehan

Floyd - Trever Chapin

Peggy - Kristie Horton

"Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no  doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a  door-nail..."   

Cast (in alphabetical order) 

Alan Stavris - Bob Cratchit, Stock Gentleman, Narrator, Dancer

Ashley Clemon - Martha Cratchit, Dancer

Doug MacAskill - Jacob Marley, Narrator

Doug McDougal - Ebenezer Scrooge

Elizabeth Cook - Young Belle, Fred’s Wife, Caroline, Narrator

Emmet Stavris - Peter Cratchit, Boy in Street

Enzo Tarara - Caroler, Boy Scrooge

Evie Rayburg - Charity Gentlewoman, Laundress, Narrator

Frank Tarara - Fred, Young Scrooge

Kassia Beck - Ghost of Christmas Past, Narrator

Lila Allen - Belinda Cratchit

Liz Cook - Fred’s Cousin, Older Belle, Mrs. Dilber, Narrator

Paula Stavris - Mrs. Cratchit

Rick Clemon - Charity Gentleman, Topper, Old Joe

Tim Danielson - Fezziwig, Ghost of Christmas Present

William Clemon - Caroler, Tiny Tim

Xander Stavris - Young Scrooge, Stock Gentleman

It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. 

Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Anthony Hopkins) should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option. 

Announcing the talented cast of The Lion in Winter! 

Henry -- Jim Cannizzaro 

Eleanor -- Wendy Lippe 

Alais --  Kimmi Roche  

Richard -- Mark Modena 

Geoffrey -- Mark Prokes 

John -- Francis Charles Sheehan 

Philip -- Sri Dopp

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93. 

Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.[1] Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.  The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted "a powerful play [in a] driving performance").

Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama.

CREDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible