Pentacle Theatre will celebrate the warmth of the holiday season with the perennial audience favorite, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A Live Radio Play, by Joe Landry, directed by Debbie Neel. The show runs Dec. 3-18. Pentacle Theatre becomes a 1946 radio studio where an ensemble of actors gathers to perform a live broadcast of IT’S…
What: Pentacle Theatre celebrates the return of live performances to its intimate stage in West Salem with an audience favorite: Agatha Christie’s classic whodunnit murder mystery, The Mousetrap, directed by David Cristobal and assistant director Emma Thurston. When: Friday, Oct. 8 – Saturday, Oct. 23. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays–Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.…
May 29, 2020 By now, you know what’s coming when I send an email with this subject line: more sad news for you, our loyal patrons. On May 7, Governor Kate Brown announced that large gatherings will be canceled in Oregon through September. The announcement sent the Pentacle Theatre governing board to work on exploring…
April 21, 2020 I keep hoping that I’ll be writing you, our dear Pentacle donors and patrons, with better news. As Western governors unite in their planning for when the states will open for business, one thing has become very clear: there is no certainty about when theaters will be able to resume rehearsing and…
March 16, 2020 Last night, the Pentacle Theatre Governing Board met and discussed the rapidly evolving status of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued interim guidance regarding large gatherings: “… CDC, in accordance with its guidance for large events and mass gatherings, recommends that for the…
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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…
Want to read ahead? Click below to read the program for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express program
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…
Want to read ahead? Click below to read the Dashing Through the Snow program. Dashing Through the Snow program final