Updated March 12:Open Stage’s updated information on performances, auditions and more in response to the spread of COVID-19
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Updated March 12: Gamut Theatre’s updated information on performances, auditions and more in response to the spread of COVID-19
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Updated March 12: Keystone Theatrics’ updated information on performances, auditions and more in response to the spread of COVID-19
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Have you ever been in the audience where a performance was ruined by a ringing cell phone? Some theatres in New York are using a unique device to take matters into their own hands.
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In this fifth article in PA On Stage’s popular Behind The Scenes series, Ghost Light interviewed choreographers Steven Flom, Kelly Strange and Trish Baillie Koser to find out a few things about the way choreographers approach their craft for the theatre – and some of the challenges they experience in doing so.
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When you hear the term “children’s theatre,” what comes to mind? An elementary school pageant about the digestive system? A high school musical? A group of adults performing an interactive play for kids about the virtues of working together?
Make no mistake – children’s theatre can encompass all of those things and more. Local theatres and school districts devote substantial time, funding and personnel to the creation of programs and opportunities for young people to get involved with and learn from the craft of performance.
Even so, a big question regularly resurfaces: Is theatre for young audiences seen as more than just “something for the kids to do?”
This topic was explored in a series of interviews in the September 2018 issue of American Theatre magazine. As a short companion to that article, Ghostlight asked local theatre professionals about their views on this subject.
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In this fourth article in PA On Stage’s Behind The Scenes series, we will take a look at lighting designers, one of the many technical artists that help bring productions to life.
PA On Stage interviewed lighting designers Karen ‘K.G.’ Gasser, Tristan Stasiulis, and Matt Mitra to learn a bit more about the way lighting designers approach their craft for a theatre production – and some of the challenges they experience in doing so.
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Open Stage recently unveiled its 34th season, and has adopted the term ‘Metamorphosis’ as its theme – an appropriate term, as the season’s productions will all feature some aspect of the process of change and will be performed in the theatre’s newly transformed space.
Click below to read more about Open Stage of Harrisburg’s Season 34
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Men might get the headlines when it comes to murder, but throughout history, women had taken on their fair share of the crime. And in many cases - those crimes have been committed for good reason. The play Murderess explores just a few of them.
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In this series of articles, which will run throughout the next few months of Ghost Light, we will be taking a look at a variety of local behind-the-scenes artists that help bring your favorite stage productions to life. Our third section takes a look at costume design.
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In this series of articles, which will run throughout the next few months of Ghost Light, we will be taking a look at a variety of local behind-the-scenes artists that help bring your favorite stage productions to life. Our second section takes a look at scenic design.
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With Halloween just days away, it’s only appropriate that we include an article about the flickering lights, shadowy figures and mysterious voices that continue to haunt the theatres of Broadway.
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In this series of articles, which will run throughout the next few months of Ghost Light, we will be taking a look at a variety of local behind-the-scenes specialists that help bring your favorite stage productions to life. Our first section takes a look at sound design.
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Is it time to defend the juke box musical – or at least stop mocking it?
Mamma Mia. Jersey Boys. All Shook Up. Rock of Ages. Movin’ Out: for the last two decades, Broadway has played host to a long line of “jukebox musicals” – theatre productions that have taken pop and rock music from the radio to the stage as the framework for musical theatre.
Some of these productions have been smash hits; some have closed in six weeks. So -- how does Broadway deal with the rock-era American Songbook?
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On Monday, August 6, Gamut Theatre Group will unveil its recently renovated, 10,000 square-foot Gamut Theatre Education Center at its location at 15 North 4th Street.
The new stage will be the permanent home for the Popcorn Hat Players Children's Theatre, as well as the Stage Door Series Ensemble and Gamut Theatre Academy.
Click below to read more about the new space
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Open Stage of Harrisburg has received the 50/50 Award from the International Centre for Women Playwrights (IWCP), in recognition of its 2017-2018 season, which carried the theme of “Lifting Up Women’s Voices.”
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According to The Broadway League, a trade association for the Broadway industry, last year was one of the best on record for box office revenue on Broadway. Smash hits like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen opened the door for increased revenue, but a high number of shows, plus targeted ticket pricing also played roles in boosting the bottom line.
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On May 14th, Theatre Harrisburg named Stosh Snyder as its new Executive Director. Snyder, a familiar face both on Harrisburg-area stages and on your TV screen (if you remember him as the “Price Comparison” guy for a series of Wal-Mart commercials), brings a unique combination of performance and professional experience to the position.
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This weekend, Theatre Harrisburg will debut the first-ever full production of Grave Doubts, a new play by David Steven Simon.
This is a significant shifting of gears for Simon, who has been a successful writer for hit television shows like Sister, Sister, Full House, The Wayans Brothers, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Mad About You, and many others. In his words “the only similarity between writing for the stage and writing for television is the keyboard.”
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In the past, if you were one of the estimated 48 million Americans with some degree of hearing loss and you wanted to attend a Broadway show, your choices were limited. But thanks to wireless technology - and your smartphone — that has changed.
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