George Hartpence News

This summer, ActorsNET is inviting audiences to indulge in intrigue, humor, and romance with William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.”

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

ActorsNET finishes its 26th season with a 1960s sitcom reboot of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, a bright and breezy comedy of sexual jealousy and overbearing egos set against a landscape of summer resort leisure and the “dirty dancing” music trend. 

A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Edward Albee brings a “nameless fear” to the Heritage Center stage as ActorsNET presents A Delicate Balance on weekends from January 27 to February 12. 

William Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy King Lear returns to the stage in this area after a 20-year absence. From June 10 through 26, ActorsNET of Morrisville, Pennsylvania presents Shakespeare’s towering drama two decades after they first presented it in 2002. The company’s Artistic Director, Cheryl Doyle, once again directs the play at the company’s intimate theater along the Delaware River. The title role will be played this time by George Hartpence.

Bucks County life is played for laughs onstage as the non-profit ActorsNET co-produces a new play with the newly emerging New Hope Repertory Theater Company.

In keeping with the tradition a?oethe show must go on,a?? ActorsNET has released on YouTube a video of their March production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, it was announced in a press release by Cheryl Doyle, the theatre company's artistic director.

Once considered scandalous, George Bernard Shaw's witty Mrs. Warren's Profession takes to ActorsNET's Heritage Center stage March 13 through 29, starring area stage veterans Carol Thompson and George Hartpence.

Sparks fly when wealthy Mrs. Warren's daughter learns her mother's fortune was built upon a string of brothels. The daughter is shocked and disapproves, while Mrs. Warren defends her career choice. Considered scandalous in its day, this play balances comedy and drama and brims with Wilde's renowned wit. David Deratzian directs a brilliant cast -- Carol Thompson, George Hartpence, Lea Jeffers, Justin Mancini, Rick Pine, and George Agalias. Stage managed by Em Ricciardi. Lighting design by Andrena Wishnie.

Lovers breaking up via cell phone, a pious hypocrite trying to bed his benefactor's wife and a little political intrigue a?" all the elements of comic stage behavior a?" come to Mercer County Community College's (MCCC) Kelsey Theatre in the form of a?oeTartuffe,a?? when Moliere's updated classic tale of duplicity, seduction and outright thievery makes its American premiere as a PinnWorth Production.

Absurdities abound in Eugene Ionesco's comic drama, Exit the King, during its three-weekend run May 31 through June 16. Considered the father of "the theatre of the absurd," Ionesco conjured up the tale of King Berenger the First - a monarch so powerful he was once able to rule over the forces of nature and will all his subjects to obey his every command. But, after 400 years, those powers have begun to fail.

ActorsNET presents the world premiere staging of The Crimes of Diana Eastlake by Mort Paterson.

ActorsNET has changed titles for its March production - replacing Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale with the world premiere staging of The Crimes of Diana Eastlake by Mort Paterson.

James Goldman's modern classic comic drama, The Lion in Winter, takes to the stage of the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the holiday season.

James Goldman's modern classic comic drama, The Lion in Winter, takes to the stage of the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the holiday season.

James Goldman's modern classic dramatic comedy set in 1183 as England's King Henry II observes Christmas at his castle with his estranged and imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, their three sons (Richard, Geoffrey and John), King Philip II and his half-sister, Alais, who is engaged to Richard while being King Henry's mistress. 

Star-crossed lovers' doomed romance explodes on the Heritage Center stage as ActorsNET ends its 22nd season with a lush staging of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.