Hey, WordPlayers! Why BIG RIVER?

By Terry Weber “How come The WordPlayers is producing BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN? Aren’t you guys a company of Christian theatre artists? Don’t you do plays that are culturally-relevant? Don’t you look at them from a faith-based perspective?” Well...

More Faithful Than Intended

Any list of the best American plays of the 20th Century is bound to include THE GLASS MENAGERIE, by Tennessee Williams. Since its Broadway premiere in 1945, it has been produced countless times by theatres at every level: professional, community, and educational....

Romance of the River

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book–a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it...

A Note from the Director

By 2009, according to New Yorker magazine, Little House in the Big Woods, the first in the series of seven books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, had sold over 60 million copies in 33 languages. In the ensuing five years, the books’ popularity continues unabated. Again,...