Mitchell Maxwell in Negotiations to Buy the Priscilla Beach Theatre

Producer Mitchell Maxwell is in negotiations to buy the Priscilla Beach Theatre in Plymouth, MA, according to The Patriot Ledger. After leaving Tufts University as a young adult, Maxwell produced shows at the summer stock venue (chronicaled in his new book, Little Did I Know), and now plans to make it his own with renovations and upcoming projects.

According to the report, RAndy Parker, Manomet Steering Committee Chairman, said, "They are looking to replicate the barn, reestablishing the summer stock theater and arts institute. They’re also looking to do a film festival and tie into TV and the Internet. They expect to go through a special permit process to validate the protection of the Priscilla Beach Theatre as an existing nonconforming use in a nonresidential district, and tie to our 2020 efforts. They believe that they ought to be up and running by May of 2013.”

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Mitchell Maxwell is a 35-year veteran of the entertainment industry, best know for producing Stomp!, the Tony-nominated revival of Damn Yankees featuring Jerry Lewis, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Dinner with Friends. He has produced the Broadway musicals Play On!, Bells are Ringing (Tony-nominated for Best Revival of a Musical) Blues In The Night Tony Nominated as Best Musical) and Brooklyn.

Maxwell’s productions have been honored with nominations for 10 Tony Awards, 6 Olivier Awards, 15 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 9 Drama Desk Awards and 3 Obie Awards and have won in each category. He directed the critically acclaimed Angry Housewives on London's West end and later off-Broadway, and produced the motion pictures and off-Broadway performances of Jeffery and Key Exchange.

Off-Broadway he developed Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, and produced David Mamet's Oleanna, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Scott Mc Pearson's Drama Desk winning Marvin's Room, - total 7 Broadway shows, more than 30 off-Broadway and regional productions, 4 National tours, 3 West End productions and 6 major motion pictures. He has directed in New York, London and regionally, built 5 entertainment companies, and for over twenty years, owned and operated 3 off-Broadway theaters.

He is the author of LITTLE DID I KNOW (Prospecta Press; October 2011) a novel in the classic roman á clef tradition that brings to life the glory days of summer stock.

Priscilla Beach Theatre (PBT) is a non-profit school that has been educating thousands of young people through an extraordinary “learn-by-doing” education in theater arts. For more information visit http://www.priscillabeachtheater.org/index.html.