The 2024-25 Delaware Theatre Company season features a world premiere musical, a Tony-winning musical, a play produced by DTC in 2005 but is newly relevant, a one-man show and a new holiday revue – plus multiple ways to create conversations and connect with the community. The season includes “Kinky Boots,” “Every Brilliant Thing,” “Home for the Holidays in the 302,” …
Five Delaware high schoolers have been honored by the Delaware Theatre Company as 2023-2024 Delaware Young Playwrights winners. This year’s winners are: Amara Harrison (Charter School of Wilmington): “You Remind Me” Emily Howard (Charter School of Wilmington): “Splinter” Valentine Logan (William Penn High School): “Hatshepsuts Djed” Darby Ann Tisdel (MOT Charter High School): “Best Friends” Mia Trotter (Appoquinimink High School): …
If you ever performed with Delaware Children’s Theatre, helped get shows on to the boards or brought grandkids to enjoy a performance in the historic Victorian building, your tribe is hunting for you. On Jan. 27, the theater will celebrate its 50th season, the stewardship of John and Marie Swajeski and decades of bringing theater to families with the 50th …
A weekly Wilmington series of free concerts designed to help bring the community together through live music debuts Wednesday, July 12. DuPont Brass will headline the first of weekly 6:30 p.m. concerts, designed to be family friendly, at the Urban Artist Exchange Amphitheater, created on the site of the city police’s former stables. Wilmington hip-hop artist Young Seda will open …
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Delaware Theater Company’s executive director Bud Martin will retire in 2023 and turn control of the spotlight over to Matt Silva, who has been managing director for four years. During Martin’s decade at the riverfront theater, he helped restore its luster, which was at a low point when he took over. He poured a lot of his own money into …
Delaware Theatre Company’s new season will include three musicals, a drama and a classic comedy. The Delaware Theatre Company’s 2022-23 season will include two world premiere musicals, including one about Dolly Parton. The rest of the five-show season will be filled with an off-Broadway musical, a play about the Tuskegee Airmen and a comedy classic, “One Man, Two …
The Clayton Theatre is a fixture on Main Street in Dagsboro. Photo by Scott Fare. The Clayton Theatre, Delaware’s only remaining single-screen cinema, will host six free movie screenings this weekend. “Ron’s Gone Wrong” is at 3 and 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Nov. 5-7. The event is being sponsored by online streaming service Pluto TV, which will be giving out free …
For Michael P. Toner, the vocal coach in the City Theater Company production of “Dancing at Lughnasa,” two of the most important things he offered coaching on were “dancing” and “lughnasa.” “Dancing” was important because it’s pronounced differently in Ireland, where the play is set. Think of a broad “a,” as in family or random, he explained, contrasting it with …
“The Mystery Edwin Drood” poses an unusual mystery. It’s not because the musical has a complex plot that challenges the audience to outwit the playwright. It’s because the audience decides the ending. Director Jeff Reim figures there are about 480 endings, and each one deserved time and attention during rehearsals for the production, at The Candlelight Theatre in Ardentown through …
