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Resident Ensemble Players

110 Orchard Road
Newark Delaware, DE 19716

Resident Ensemble Players is a theatre in Newark Delaware, DE.

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Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Candlelight Theatre

Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Candlelight Theatre

by Rosanne DellAversano · October 2, 2026

There are probably a good number of people in their AARP years who only know one musical, and that one is probably FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. I say this because my 87 years old father recalls he and my mother seeing many Broadway musicals, but can only name one - FIDDLER. …

Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at Delaware Theatre Company

Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at Delaware Theatre Company

by Greer Firestone · September 23, 2026

New Light Theatre, in partnership with Delaware Theatre Company, has mounted a Putnam County Spelling Bee that proves once again why this company has become one of Delaware’s most conscientious and community minded artistic engines. Their mission — bringing light to the darkness by creating thea…

Review: HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED at RESIDENT ENSEMBLE PLAYERS

Review: HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED at RESIDENT ENSEMBLE PLAYERS

by Greer Firestone · September 10, 2026

A one-man show is a monumental undertaking—and a monumental responsibility. For veteran REP actor Hassan El-Amin – who is Black -there is further gravitas in giving voice to August Wilson’s HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED, a 90-minute, no-intermission journey through the experiences that forged o…

Review: ANNIE at The Candlelight Theatre

Review: ANNIE at The Candlelight Theatre

by Rosanne DellAversano · July 23, 2026

Who doesn’t enjoy an evening of young musical theater performers strutting their stuff on a professional stage? Not me and certainly not the enthusiastic Opening Night audience of ANNIE now playing at The Candlelight Theatre. …

Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at The Candlelight Theatre

Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at The Candlelight Theatre

by Rosanne DellAversano · May 19, 2026

It doesn’t matter if you know the stage version, or the movie version, or don’t know anything about it, just know ARSENIC AND OLD LACE has an easy to follow plot that leads you down a path of hijinks straight to your funny bone.…

Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE, THE MUSICAL at Wilmington Drama League

Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE, THE MUSICAL at Wilmington Drama League

by Rosanne DellAversano · April 28, 2026

For many, the wild and unpredictable ride of a roller coaster is exhilarating and euphoric, while for others, it is traumatic and elicits multiple phobic fears. The musical RIDE THE CYCLONE is very much like a roller coaster in that the mindset of the viewer makes all the difference. Labeled as a �…

Review: 1776 at Walnut Street Theatre

Review: 1776 at Walnut Street Theatre

by Greer Firestone · April 26, 2026

The Walnut Street Theatre’s opening night production of 1776 is, quite simply, magnificent. It arrives not merely as a theatrical event, but as something more essential—an experience that feels necessary.…

Review: THE CHEQUERBOARD WATCH at Delaware Theatre Company

Review: THE CHEQUERBOARD WATCH at Delaware Theatre Company

by Greer Firestone · April 20, 2026

George Abbott earned the reputation of Broadway’s “show doctor” in the 1950s because he had an uncanny ability to fix troubled musicals quickly and commercially. Producers would bring him in—often late in rehearsals or even during out-of-town tryouts—to tighten scripts, sharpen comedy, res…

Review: CABARET at Smyrna Opera House

Review: CABARET at Smyrna Opera House

by Greer Firestone · April 14, 2026

The Smyrna Opera House’s Cabaret isn’t just good—it’s a minor miracle. This is their first musical in years, and instead of easing back in with something safe, they went straight for one of the most stylistically demanding, tonally complex shows in the canon. And they pulled it off with grit…

Past Shows

13 total · showing 1–10

DEATHTRAP

DEATHTRAP

Apr 11 – Apr 28, 2024

Hugely popular on stage and screen, this dark comedy thriller is a perfect blend of schemes, plot-twists, and outrageous humor. Once famous playwright, Sidney Bruhl is fresh out of ideas with a string of failures and a shortage of cash to prove it. A change in fortune arrives in...

PASS OVER

PASS OVER

Feb 8 – Feb 18, 2024

A mashup of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and the Biblical Exodus story told by a bold new American voice. Two young black men, Moses and Kitch, stand on the corner – talking trash, killing time, and dreaming of the promised land. Emotionally charged with poetic and humorous...

JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Nov 2 – Nov 19, 2023

August 1962 — a white man is discovered dead in a small town of Alabama. Local police arrest the only stranger in town, a black man named Virgil Tibbs. Little do they know, their suspect is a detective from California. Left with no witnesses, no motives, and no clues, Detective...

VITA & VIRGINIA

VITA & VIRGINIA

Sep 21 – Oct 1, 2023

Adapted from letters and diaries to deftly weave the story of the improbable love affair and enduring friendship between aristocratic novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West, and aloof literary icon, Virginia Woolf. This play is a beautiful rebuke against today’s culture of...

MEDEA

MEDEA

Apr 13 – Apr 30, 2023

The powerful and timeless Greek tragedy. What is love worth? What is the cost of betrayal? Medeas love and loyalty to Jason was unquestionable until his betrayal when he marries another for political gain, leaving Medea banished. Scorned passion and a broken heart lead Medea...

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SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU

SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU

Mar 8 – Mar 12, 2023

In her lecture, Sister Mary explains her strict beliefs and warns all of the perils of sin. Her lecture takes an unexpected turn as four of her former pupils arrive: one a happily unwed mother, one an alcoholic, one a content homosexual, and one who's had an abortion. What’s a...

A POEM AND A MISTAKE

A POEM AND A MISTAKE

Feb 25

A Poem and a Mistake follows the story of Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, who is grappling with how to handle the 50 sexual assaults in Ovid's Metamorphoses. When one of her male professors refers to the poem as “being about love," Myrrha becomes so distraught that she...

SUITE BLACKNESS: BLACK DANCE IN CINEMA

SUITE BLACKNESS: BLACK DANCE IN CINEMA

Feb 16 – Feb 18, 2023

This dance performance is a journey through racial and cultural tensions from the 1920s to present day - Showcasing films such as “Stormy Weather”, “The Wiz", and “Rize"; and artists like Bill Bojangles Robinson, Josephine Baker, and Michael Jackson.

ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS

ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS

Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2022

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner have exchanged hundreds of letters for over fifty years. Theirs is a relationship that spans childhood crushes, boarding schools, colleges, a war, marriages, divorces, and an assortment of personal demons. Their relationship...

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

Nov 3 – Aug 20, 2022

You thought your family was crazy? Meet the Brewsters.Mortimer Brewster discovers his seemingly sweet old aunts have a nasty habit of poisoning lonely old men with a glass of elderberry wine laced with "arsenic, strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide".Add to the mix Mortimers...

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