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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]
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.
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
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 Timber Lake Playhouse, founded in 1961, is the oldest continuously operating professional and resident summer stock theatre company in Illinois. [1] [2]The playhouse stands in rural Mount Carroll Township, Carroll County, Illinois, a short distance southeast of the town of Mount Carroll.
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."
Several others of its members who had their first professional experiences with the University Players went on to achieve fame in the theater and film industry, including Joshua Logan, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Mildred Natwick, Aleta Freel, Barbara O'Neil, Myron McCormick, Charles Arnt, Karl Swenson, Kent Smith, Norris ...
Mountain Playhouse is Pennsylvania's oldest professional summer stock theatre company and is located in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. Housed in a restored 1805 gristmill, the theatre was founded by James Stoughton in 1939. It produces musicals, farces, and dramas each summer and also hosts productions by Theatreworks USA.