PATCHWORK PLAYHOUSE

by Rosanne DellAversano - December 18, 2025

Disney’s The Little Mermaid, loosely based on the fairytale of Hans Christian Andersen, tells the simple story of the beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, and her longing to leave her ocean home and live in the world above with humans....

by Greer Firestone - December 15, 2025

City Theatre Company’s CHICAGO was met with a warm audience response on opening night—and deservedly so. Now celebrating its 32nd year, CTC has long occupied a vital place in Delaware’s theatrical landscape, with current Artistic Director Kerri Kristine McElrone integral to the company since its inc...

by Greer Firestone - November 25, 2025

Aisle Say is really dating himself as he references Laurel and Hardy’s MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS. It must have been 1953 on Christmas Day when I first saw it on our black and white Mortorola. I still believed. I was mesmerized. Each Christmas Day for many years I looked forward to it. That movie ...

by Rosanne DellAversano - November 25, 2025

It’s the same thinking every year. You tell yourself, this year the holidays will be different. But, the days fly by and before you know it – BAM! – Thanksgiving is two days away and Christmas is just around the corner. You start to get a little panicked. So much to do, so little time. It’s very eas...

by Greer Firestone - September 28, 2025

Ragtime, like the mega-musicals of the late 1990s (Les Mis, Phantom, Miss Saigon), is epic in scope. Candlelight’s staging, running through October 26, is a monumental success — vocally, visually, and emotionally....

by Greer Firestone - September 19, 2025

In four decades of sitting in darkened houses across Delaware and Pennsylvania, Aisle Say has seen hundreds of productions come and go. Some amuse, some delight, many entertain. But every now and then, a community theatre dares to reach beyond the comfort of Moon Over Buffalon, Noises Off–style crow...

by Greer Firestone - July 21, 2025

Candlelight Music Theatre’s summer production of Escape to Margaritaville offers audiences an irresistible tropical vacation without ever leaving Ardentown....

by Greer Firestone - June 04, 2025

Wilmington Drama League has mounted a joyous and exuberant Hairspray, a dazzling production before a sold-out audience. A joker smile was plastered on my face from first note to last. Post show, it took 2 double vodka tonics to look normal....

by Greer Firestone - April 26, 2025

Delaware Theatre Company’s latest production, Stompin’ at the Savoy, bursts onto the stage with heart, harmony, and a whole lot of swing. Check here for more information. ...

by Greer Firestone - April 16, 2025

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great theatre should: it wounds, it awakens, and it leaves us changed....