Our March 4 newsletter
Inside: Audiences love The Cake Stage Combat Workshop She Kills Monsters auditions Participate in selecting the 2021 season Remembering Alice Mary Norton Read more.
Open auditions for “She Kills Monsters” April 25
What: Open auditions for She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition, by Qui Nguyen. Directed by MaryKate Lindbeck. A comic exploration of the assumptions we make about the people we love, and the monsters we must face, inside and out. When: 1 p.m., Saturday, April 25. Where: Pentacle Theatre, 324 52nd Ave. NW — located off Highway…
Stage Combat Workshop March 14
Get a taste of what’s in store for the cast of our summer production of She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition. Join The Fake Fight Company for a hands-on workshop in stage combat. Students will learn hand-to-hand and small weapon combat. The course will be held on March 14th from 1:30 – 3:30pm at Pentacle…
Open auditions for Stephen Sondheim’s Company
What: Open auditions for Company, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. Directed at Pentacle Theatre by Chris Fletcher. When: 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29. Where: Pentacle Theatre lobby, 324 52nd Avenue NW, Salem, Oregon Casting Call: Casting actors of all abilities, genders and ethnicities for the following roles: Robert,…
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express opens Jan. 17
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express opens at Salem’s Pentacle Theatre Jan. 17 and runs through Feb. 8. It’s a winter night in 1934 and on the first-class coach of the famous Orient Express train, its passengers are snowbound on a mountain pass in Yugoslavia. By morning, an unlikeable American businessman is found dead…
Tony-nominated “Mothers and Sons” opens Oct. 18 – with special exhibit of AIDS Memorial Quilt
Mothers and Sons a modern drama by playwright Terrence McNally, opens at Pentacle Theatre Oct. 18 and runs through Nov. 9. At turns both funny and powerful, Mothers and Sons portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son’s partner, who now is married to another man…
The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens Sept. 6
An all-American musical odyssey through agoraphobia, adultery, hysterical pregnancy, strippers, huffing, electric chairs, flan, roadkill, toll collecting, spray cheese, guns and disco. But most of all, it’s a hilarious, heartfelt, raucous and racy piece of Americana about accepting who you are, how you got there and where you’re headed next and why. The story opens…
June 7, 2019 newsletter
Read our latest newsletter: Fools, The Great American Trailer Park Musical auditions, 65th Anniversary and a list of improvements at the theater. June 7, 2019 newsletter Fools week three
Neil Simon’s comic fable, Fools, at Pentacle Theatre
Leon Tolchinsky has a problem like no other in Neil Simon’s comedy, Fools, opening at Pentacle Theatre May 24. Sure, Tolchinsky is ecstatic because he’s landed a terrific teaching job in the idyllic Ukrainian hamlet of Kulyenchikov. But everyone who lives there has been cursed with chronic stupidity for the last 200 years. Even worse,…
Distracted wows – Jan. 30, 2019 newsletter
In our latest newsletter: Rave reviews for Distracted Yellow auditions A call for your Pentacle Theatre memories Salem Storytellers Project comes to Pentacle Theatre Read it here.