Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge directed by Belinda Ray In the crumbling tenements of 1955 Brooklyn's waterfront, Miller's play is a vivid tale of family love and denial: an exploration of one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. With Skip Cady, Alan Gelfant, Carl Pedersen, Kay Morton, Ben Peavey, and Kristen Tate. Produced by Alan Gelfant. 3 weekends, Nov-Dec, brought back Jan 17-20, 2008. $12.      (click HERE for press release and Miller bio)

Friday (Nov. 30) a number of PP folk help WRIF (The White River Independent Film Festival) inaugurate it's first annual screenwriting contest with a reading of Bob Nutt's winning entry, Beau's Art. At "Revolution" in downtown WRJ. With Joe Applegate, Sean D'Angelo, Faith Catlin, Dan Deneen, John Griesemer, Douglas Harp, Roberto Hernandez, Helen Jack, Neal Meglathery and Duncan Nichols. Directed by Nora Jacobson.

a reading of Tony Greenleaf's brutal, absurd and darkly comic new play Hope & a Wild Donkey by Tony Greenleaf. Premier reading of a new play---"brutal, absurd and darkly comic." With Melody Blake, Phil Celia, Neal Meglathery, and Kim Meredith. 8:00 PM, Friday November 2. (admission free)

Tina Howe's Painting Churches Directed by Sheila Kaplow, with Shelby Grantham, Scott Jonson, and Robin Ng. (as produced this summer at Bradford's Old Church Community Theatre.) Friday October 12th and Saturday 13th at 7:30 PM and Sunday October 14th at 4:00 802-785-4344 for reservations all tickets $12.

Oleanna Directed by Julian A. Higgins, David Mamet's Oleanna is an intense drama about gender, power, sexual harrassment, and the responsibility of higher education. Starring Victoria Toumanoff and Tony Greenleaf, this controversial play "could not be more direct in its technique or incendiary in it's ambition... Oleanna is likely to provoke more arguments than any other play this year!" (The New York Times) Here's the press release. Note: This play contains strong language and may not be appropriate for children. Aug 31 - Sept 2, and Sept 7 - Sept 9. Tickets $12.

William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" a strictly female staging directed by Bill Coons. In Elizabethan England, all of the character parts in Twelfth Night would have been portrayed by men.  The character of Viola would have been played by a young man pretending to be a young woman who was pretending to be a young man.  In our production, all of the parts are played by women.  So disguising runs deep into this production, where all of the male parts are done by women behind fancifully exaggerated masks derived from the Commedia d'ell Arte tradition. And in a thankful gesture to the forces of love and longing, all of the music sung live in the play is supplied by those "girl groups" from 60's Motown. March 15-17, 22-25, & 3/29-4/1.

		Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and the Tony and Molière Awards for Best Play, 'Art' is French playwright Yasmina Reza's hilarious exploration of friendship, loyalty, and modern art.  With Emerson College students Sean Garahan, Patrick De Nicola, and Omar Robinson, produced and directed by Julian Higgins.  March 25 & 26, 2006.
		A “bitterly funny, savagely honest” look at marriage, adultery, and what it might look like if we spoke and did what we really meant.  With Melody Blake, Elizabeth Durkee, Kim Meredith, Linda Neubelt, Tiffany Reeves, Paul Rocchio, David Shaw and Dan Weintraub. Produced by Dan Deneen.  Directed by Bill Coons.  16 performances, March 9 - 19, 2006.            reviews from British press            Valley News article 3-09-06            photos of our cast            Passion Play poster
		The New England Premiere of Barbara Hammond's PAPER TIGERS, a deftly intimate family drama.   The play focuses on a reluctant family reunion in a summer house in the Catskills. During the course of the play, images of a haunted childhood revisit Laura, the protagonist of the play, and she sorts through her past in order to press on with her life. Alternately funny and poignant, Paper Tigers ends with a focus on hope and reconciliation. Directed by Bill Hammond.
		A staged reading of Victor Cahn's "play in letters" with Ernest Hebert and Lise Johnson, directed by Alex Cherington and Kay Morton. One performance, December 3, 2005.  Free Admission.  Support provided by the Hardy Hill Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Upper Valley Region.
		An evening of one-acts, directed by Linda Neubelt and Kevin Fitzpatrick:   Albee's Zoo Story; two by Don Nigro, The Dead Wife and Madrigals; and four by Chris Durang--DMV Tyrant, Canker Sores and Other Distractions, Funeral Parlor, and Book of Leviticus Show.  With Stephen Campbell Bonnie Cornell, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Jeannie Hines, Kim Merideth, Linda Neubelt, David Shaw, Irina Skowronski.   Performed over three weekends, 8/11 through 8/28/05.
		Eleemosynary, by Lee Blessing, produced and directed by Belinda Ray. With Janet Eller, Kate Shaper, & Kay Morton.   Derived from a staging by Alan Haehnel, with the present cast, for the New Woolhouse Players.   Performed over two weekends, 7/15 through 7/24/05
		Director Rich Blair writes, David Mamet's American Buffalo "...is a slice of life. Only, this particular slice has been dropped on the kitchen floor, stomped by a size thirteen clodhopper, gnawed by a Rottweiler, and dragged away by rats." Performed for three weekends in January and February, 2005. Produced by Steve Campbell, featuring Jared Ball, Shane Wiechnik, and M. Carl Kaufman.
		Frank Gado's original Masque for Love, was performed on Oct. 2, 2004, as a staged reading, with Cami Buster, Kevin Fitzpatrick, James Heffernan, Linda Ide, Terry Osborne, and Thom Pasculli.
		Produced and Directed by Dan Deneen, with original music by Jeremiah McLane. Performed over three weekends in October and November, 2004. See the As You Like It webpage for more details.
		We've been at this for 40 years, you know!  Click here to see the list of all those past productions. (PDF file)