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Summer Stock at the Historic Elitch Theatre in Denver was the proving-grounds for a number of would-be stars. For the 1905 season, a 20-something Cecil B. DeMille was a minor player in the stock cast. Denver-natives, such as Douglas Fairbanks, Maude Fealy, and Antoinette Perry, all got their start in summer stock at the Elitch Theatre. [20]
Stock theater may refer to: Repertory theatre , a Western theatre or opera production by a resident company Summer stock theater , an American theater that presents stage productions only in the summer
The Kenley Players was an Equity summer stock theatre company which presented hundreds of productions [1] featuring Broadway, film, and television stars [2] in Midwestern cities between 1940 and 1995. Variety called it the "largest network of theaters on the straw hat circuit."
Theatre The Woodstock Playhouse is an American summer stock theater located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock, New York . Founded in 1938, the not-for profit theater, which is owned by the Pan American Dance Foundation, hosts theatre, music and other presentations throughout the year.
While commonly summer barn theatres staged popular plays, some of them presented works of new dramatists and new Broadway try-outs. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] William Birk, author of a book about the historical Rabbit Run Theatre in Madison, Ohio , wrote that one of the reasons to move to barn theatres in the summers of the 1940s was the lack of air ...
The playhouse had its origins in the town-and-gown legacy of Shimer College, located at that time in Mount Carroll.Students, faculty members and their families, plus business and professional leaders from across 6 counties in northwestern Illinois, also 2 more in eastern Iowa, responded to planning and start-up enlistment by Andrew Bro, the college's chaplain and theatre director, and by ...
Ogunquit Playhouse is a regional theater on 10 Main Street (United States Route 1) in Ogunquit, Maine. [2] Ogunquit Playhouse is one of the last remaining summer theaters from the Summer Stock which still produces musical theatre. [3]
The Belfry Music Theatre, formerly known as the Belfry Theater and The Belfry Players, is a theater facility and acting company in the town of Delavan, adjacent to the village of Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Established in a former church building, the Belfry was the first summer stock theater in Wisconsin. [1]