by Jeni Lamm | Apr 24, 2015 | Featured, MainStage Wing
We are happy to announce that we will be returning to The Bijou Theatre after the success of The Secret Garden last summer. This July, we will present The Spitfire Grill – an intimate and heartening musical. The cast and crew is very excited! Here’s what a few of them...
by Terry Weber | Dec 1, 2014 | Featured, MainStage Wing
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,...
by Terry Weber | Sep 29, 2014 | Featured, MainStage Wing
By Alysha Mitchell In this final week of crazy rehearsals and wacky madness that is theater, I’ve had time to reflect on the human-nature struggle and perhaps American-raised desire for independence versus the willingness to accept help. Ouch. Did that hurt you...
by Terry Weber | Aug 26, 2014 | Featured, MainStage Wing
“CommUnity” by Alysha Mitchell The WordPlayers’ next show, Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, will no doubt be a must-see (no matter how many times you have seen it before). To me, this play is primarily about two things: community and unity. In this small Louisiana...
by Jeni Lamm | Jul 10, 2014 | Featured, MainStage Wing
When Sheryl Lawrence Howard is on stage for the upcoming performances of The Secret Garden, she may be drawing a little inspiration from a “secret garden” that is dear to her. Tucked quietly in the back of her parent’s West Knoxville home is garden blooming with...
by Terry Weber | Jul 3, 2014 | Featured, MainStage Wing
Can it be a dream? Surely it must seem like a frightful dream. How can this be true? “It is different in India,” said Mistress Mary disdainfully. She could scarcely stand this. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett I have been thinking about scene changes this...
