by Terry Weber | Jul 12, 2016 | Featured, MainStage Wing
Auditions are announced! Scores of talented people show up! Some are previously known by the creative team in charge of casting; some are fresh, new faces. Difficult decisions are made. The musical is cast! Actors join the team of directors, designers, crew, and...
by Terry Weber | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured, MainStage Wing
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...
by Ethan Norman | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured, MainStage Wing
The WordPlayers Return to The Historic Bijou Theatre It wasn’t till 1908 that the place was turned into a Theatre. The Knoxville Sentinel, in 1908, called it “one of the best constructed and most conveniently arranged houses in the entire south”. It opened March 8 of...
by Terry Weber | May 31, 2016 | Featured, MainStage Wing
“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...
by Jeni Lamm | Jun 26, 2015 | Featured, MainStage Wing
What do you like most about this production? “I love the vision our director has for the show. Matthew Lloyd is pulling every nuance out of us, making our performances multi-faceted and strong. Even the smaller roles, like mine, which could be played...
by Jeni Lamm | Jun 19, 2015 | Featured, MainStage Wing
We have been in rehearsal for The Spitfire Grill for a few weeks now. Here’s what the artists are saying: What do you like most about this show? I love the story. I’m realizing that one of the things I love most about theater is telling stories, and this...
