2014-2015 Season

Boeing, Boeing 
by Marc Camoletti, Adapted by Beverly Cross
Directed by Wendy Stuart

October 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 at 8:00 PM
October 12, 19, 26 at 2:00 PM
Starring Andrew Shiels, Peter McElhinney, Barbara Schapiro, Emily Loflin, Claire Lukaczyn, and Denise Feeney

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage and revived in 2008 features self-styled Parisian Lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent "layovers." He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and Bernard's apartment at the same time.

Summer and Smoke 
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Marianne Phinney

February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 at 8:00 PM
February 8, 15, 22 at 2:00 PM
Starring (in order of appearance):
Woody Farrick, Barbara Schapiro, Peter McElhinney, Emily Loflin, Jessica Corey, Holly Kapinos, David Perelman, George Motley, Ninette Cummings, Jim Daly, Jennifer Fenlon, Steve Small

A play that is profoundly affecting, SUMMER AND SMOKE is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until the end does the doctor realize that the girl's high idealism is ultimately right, and while she is still in love with him, it turns out that neither time nor circumstances will allow the two to come together. 

Kiss Me, Kate 
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter 
Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack
Directed by Colleen Lavery
Musical Direction by Danielle Clougher
Choreography by Lisa Kelleher
May 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16 at 8:00 PM
May 3, 10, 17 at 2:00 PM

Combine Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and lyrics to get KISS ME, KATE an instant success with every cast and audience. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage. Musical numbers include Why Can't You Behave, So In Love Am I, Wunderbar, Tom, Dick or Harry, Were Thine That Special Face, Too Darn Hot, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, I Hate Men, Always True to You (In My Fashion) and Another Op'nin', Another Show. KISS ME, KATE is fun, melodious and sophisticated. 

Kiss Me Kate - Walpole Footlighters from Dan Busler on Vimeo.

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Special Holiday Fundraiser
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
By Joe Landry
Directed by Peter Bradley
December 5 &  6 at 8:00 PM
December  7 at 2:00 PM

Starring  Michael Bradley, Ninette Cummings, Michael Dornisch, Rich Morton, Elaine Sheffield-Bono, Steve Small
This beloved American classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio program. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.