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HERDING CATS Announces On-Demand Extension


With Lucinda Coxon's Herding Cats opening last night at Soho Theatre and via live stream until 22 May, New York-based, Olivier-winning, and Tony-nominated OHenry Productions and Stellar, in association with Soho Theatre, today announce the on-demand extension of the run.

Peter Hamilton Returns to The Old Red Lion With DANELAW


Peter Hamilton (The Poetry of Exile, Bridlington) returns to the Old Red Lion Theatre with a new adaptation of his groundbreaking play Danelaw, combining his trademark absurdist writing style with a fierce political and social breakdown of the far/alt-right. Originally staged in 2005 at the White Bear Theatre, this updated version has adapted to the times, when the idea of a splintering white-supremacist state in East Anglia seems closer to possibility than ever before.

Casting Announced for Seamus Finnegan's I AM OF IRELAND at the Old Red Lion


Richard Fish (Sherlock Holmes, The Invisible Thing, Tabard Theatre; Peter Hamilton's Playground, Old Red Lion), Euan Macnaughton (The Crown, Netflix; The Replacement, BBC 1), Sean Stewart (Lone Star, Art's Theatre; Coward, Different Productions), Angus Castle-Doughty (Loves Labours Lost, Rose Playhouse; The First Great Escape, Channel 5), Saria Steel (Silent Witness, BBC; Flight Lessons, Jermyn Street Theatre), Shenagh Govan (The Bill, ITV; The Mill on the Floss, BBC) and Jerome Ngonadi (The Man in the Mirror, Channel 5; The Divine Chaos of Starry Things, White Bear Theatre) will complete the dynamic ensemble for I AM OF IRELAND at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

Peninsula Players Announce Internship Program


For 82 years, The Peninsula Players Theatre in Door County, Wisconsin, has thrived amidst the lush woods, vibrant bay and storied traditions that brother and sister founders, Caroline and Richard Fisher built upon in 1935. One of these honored traditions was their dream of a professional company where apprentices and interns learn by doing.

JACK Presents the New York Premiere of MACHINALIA


In 1928, Ruth Snyder was executed for the murder of her husband; that same year, Sophie Treadwell wrote Machinal, inspired by Snyder's story. Now, playwright Steph Del Rosso has crafted a relentless, raucous exploration of feminism - part rock concert, part performance art - inspired by Treadwell's expressionist masterpiece. This production, created for the IDEAS Festival 2017 in San Diego and subsequently presented at Ubuntu Theater in the Bay Area, lands at JACK under the direction of rising theater-maker Will Detlefsen.

Peninsula Players Theatre Announces 2017 Artists


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, announces artistic company members for its 82nd season, running June 13 through October 15, 2017. 

THE FULL MONTY Now on Stage through August 14 in Wisconsin


 Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's professional theatrical icon, continues its 81st season throughAugust 14 with the lively, uplifting pop-rock musical that takes it all off, 'The Full Monty' with book by Terrence McNally and music and lyrics by David Yazbek.   'The Full Monty.'   'The Full Monty' contains adult themes, language and nudity.

Agatha Christie's THE HOLLOW Takes the Stage at Peninsula Players


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, continues its 81st season now through July 24 when it presents Agatha Christie's intriguing whodunit, 'The Hollow.' A weekend in the English countryside goes deathly awry with an explosive murder in this spell-binding mystery.

Peninsula Players Theatre Names Artistic Company for 81st Season


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, announces company members for its 81st season, running June 14 through October 16, 2016. The mix of plays include a late-in-life romance, an intriguing whodunit, a raucous pop-rock musical, an engaging Midwest premiere and a wildly comic thriller.

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE INVISIBLE THING to Open at Tabard Theatre


Critically acclaimed playwright Greg Freeman returns to the Tabard Theatre for a brand new tale of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective saga.

Wisconsin Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's OUTSIDE MULLINGAR to Open Aug 19 at Peninsula Players


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, will open the Wisconsin premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award-nominated 'Outside Mullingar' August 19 , 2015 as part of its celebratory 80th season.

LEND ME A TENOR Opens Tonight at Peninsula Players


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theater and Door County's theatrical icon, continues its 80th season tonight, July 29, through August 16 when it presents Ken Ludwig's hilarious comedy, 'Lend Me A Tenor.'

DIAL M FOR MURDER Opens Tonight at Peninsula Players


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theater and Door County's theatrical icon, continues its 80th season tonight, July 8, through July 26 when it presents the classic suspense-filled thriller, 'Dial M for Murder' by Frederick Knott. 'Dial M for Murder' was first staged on Broadway in 1952 and Knott adapted the script for Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic film.

DIAL M FOR MURDER to Open 7/8 at Peninsula Players


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theater and Door County's theatrical icon, continues its 80th season July 8 through 26 when it presents the classic suspense-filled thriller, 'Dial M for Murder' by Frederick Knott. 'Dial M for Murder' was first staged on Broadway in 1952 and Knott adapted the script for Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic film.

Peninsula Players Theatre Kicks Off 80th Season with A REAL LULU


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, presents its 80th season, running tonight, June 16 through October 18, 2015.

Peninsula Players Theatre Announces 80th Season Company; Kicks Off 6/16


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, announces company members for its 80th season, running June 16 through October 18, 2015. The mix of plays includes a world premiere comedy, a classic thriller, a madcap comedy, a sweet and prickly Irish love story and a nun habit-forming musical comedy.      

OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, LEND ME A TENOR & More Set for Peninsula Players' 80th Season


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, announces its 80th season, running June 16 through October 18, 2015. Nestled along Door County, Wisconsin's scenic shore, the Peninsula Players has been enthralling generations of audiences in its 600-plus seat, all-weather pavilion since 1935, presenting hundreds of pre-Broadway tryouts, world premieres, classic dramas, comedies and musicals.

ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE Opens Tomorrow at Peninsula Players Theatre


The toe-tapping, heartfelt musical "Always…Patsy Cline" created and originally directed by Ted Swindley is based on a true story. It opens Sept. 3 at Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon. "Always…Patsy Cline" features more than 25 of Cline's classic songs and will run for seven weeks closing Sunday, Oct. 19 with a 4 p.m. matinee.

Peninsula Players' THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP Opens 7/30


The frighteningly funny farce "The Mystery of Irma Vep- A Penny Dreadful" by Charles Ludlam opens July 30 at Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon. The Drama Desk-and Obie Award-winning comedy is a true mix of Victorian gothic romance and Universal monster movies.

Governor's Award Presented to Peninsula Players Theater at Opening of its 79th Season


Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, was presented with the Governor's Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage June 17, the opening night of its 79th season at the world premiere of Sean Grennan's 'The Tin Woman.' This award is presented to a business or destination that showcases the arts, culture, or heritage for the enhancement and economic well-being of a community.

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