2016 Season Announced

Pentacle Theatre announces 2016 season at Salem Art Fair Pentacle Theatre announced its 2016 season of shows Friday at 7:25 p.m. at the Salem Art Fair and Festival and onstage prior to the curtain of Chicago at the theater’s performance space. With the Pentacle Theatre Gypsy Wagon as a backdrop, theatre board vice president Nancy…

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Auditions for The Addams Family Musical

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 19, 2015 Contact: Lisa Joyce, 503-485-4300 ext. 20, [email protected]   What: Open auditions for The Addams Family Musical, a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, directed by Wendy Boyack. When:  1 p.m., Saturday, July 11; doors will open at 12:30 p.m.…

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Scholarship applications due June 5

Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!  Attention all high school graduating seniors!  The Pentacle Theatre’s Education Committee is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the Bill and Phyllis Cross Pentacle Theatre Scholarships for pursuit of higher education and the arts.  Three scholarships are available to qualifying high school seniors:  The Jo Dodge Performing Arts…

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Pentacle Theatre to hold open auditions for Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers

What: Open auditions for Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning dramatic comedy, Lost in Yonkers at Pentacle Theatre in Salem When: 1 p.m., Saturday, June 6; doors will open at 12:30 p.m. Where: Pentacle Theatre Lobby 324 52nd Avenue NW Salem, Oregon Casting: Three women, two men, two boys. Auditions: Actors will read…

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Timeless American drama, All My Sons, opens April 17

All My Sons opens at Pentacle Theatre on Friday, April 17, and runs through Saturday, May 9. The production is generously sponsored by Hope Orthopedics of Oregon. In Arthur Miller’s brilliant classic drama, Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths…

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He’s loose! Pentacle Theatre puts a monster on stage

Pentacle Theatre welcomes you to Transylvania with its first musical of the 2015 regular season. The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein sets Mel Brooks’ classic celebration of 1930s horror films to music while losing none of its brash and bawdy humor. Robert Salberg directs this hilarious show featuring the vocal and dancing talents of…

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Pentacle Theatre to hold open auditions for two one-act plays

What: Open auditions for God of Carnage written by Yasmina Reza and Book of Lizwritten by Amy and David Sedaris at Pentacle Theatre in Salem. When: 1 p.m., Saturday, Mar. 28; doors will open at 12:30 p.m. Where:  Pentacle Theatre Lobby, 324 52nd Avenue NW, Salem, Oregon Casting: Each script calls for two men (Ages 35-65) and two women (Ages…

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Theater seeking fundraiser and regular-season musical proposals

2016 winter fundraiser musical and regular-season musical proposal process Potential directors should submit no more than one proposal. Proposals are due at the Pentacle Theatre business office no later than 5 p.m., March 13, 2015. Qualified proposers will make an oral presentation at a special meeting in March. This meeting is tentatively scheduled for 1:30…

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