Organizations are awarded funds proportional to the number of votes received from February 1 – March 15, 2012.

If you have an account with Essex Savings Bank, voting for the Ivoryton Playhouse is as easy as 1-2-3!

1)     Stop in at your local branch of Essex Savings Bank

2)     Grab yourself a ballot

3)     Submit the Ivoryton Playhouse as “your favorite non-profit organization”.

Make sure to tell your friends to vote for the Playhouse as well!

Funds received from this program will help to support Playhouse  productions.

If  you are not a customer of Essex Savings Bank, this is a great time and a  great reason to become one.  Essex Savings Bank has always played an active role in the lives of those in the communities they serve. Other than outstanding financial services they have been steadfast in their  commitment to serving the community and in helping organizations such as  the Ivoryton Playhouse.  For that we are truly grateful!

Songs that will be performed include “That’s An Irish Lullaby”, “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, “Star Of The County Down”,”Carrickfergus”, “She Moved Through The Fair”, “Danny Boy” and many more favorites.  Our own Beverley Taylor will also be performing a duet with Michael McDermott.

Saturday:  March 10, 2012

Centerbrook Meeting House – 7:00pm

Tickets:  $50 each includes concert, food and drinks

Open seating is limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

For more information on the event, please follow this link.

We hope to see you all on Saturday, March 10 – come and celebrate with us!

Call 860.767.9520 for more information or to secure your seats.

Individual tickets for shows in our 2012 season will not go on sale until February 13, 2012.

Thank you for supporting the Ivoryton Playhouse.  See you in March!

Subscriptions are on sale now.  Single tickets go on sale February 13, 2012. 

Visit www.ivorytonplayhouse.org or call (860) 767 7318 for the latest ticket information.

Always… Patsy Cline        
by Ted Swindley
March 14th – April 1st, 2012
Based on the true story, the show includes down home country humor, true emotion, and many of Patsy’ unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After Midnight

The Graduate          
A play adapted by Terry Johnson.
April 18th – May 6th, 2012
Based on the novel by Charles Webb and the motion picture screen play by Calder Willingham & Buck Henry.  A cult novel, a classic film, a quintessential hit of the 60s, the story of Mrs. Robinson and young Benjamin Braddock is brought vividly to life in this exciting stage production.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers  
by Neil Simon
June 6th – June 24th, 2012
Bruce Connelly returns as middle-aged Barney Cashman- a decent fellow who can’t succeed in sinning – in this classic Neil Simon comedy.

Hairspray               
Book by Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan. Music by Marc Shaiman.  Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.
July 4th– July 29th, 2012
Broadway’s Big Fat musical comedy hit that inspired a motion picture and won 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

Oliver!              
by Lionel Bart. Based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
August 8th – September 2nd, 2012
Bringing vividly to life Dickens’ timeless characters with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more, Lionel Bart’s sensational score includes Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, I’d Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah, As Long As He Needs Me and many more.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do  
Featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka, Erik Jackson, Ben H. Winters, Howard Greenfield, Philip Cody, Tom Kitt.
September 26th – October 14th, 2012
Set at a Catskills resort in 1960, this is the sweetly comic story of Lois and Marge, two friends from Brooklyn in search of good times and romance over one wild Labor Day weekend. The score showcases 18 Neil Sedaka classics, including Where the Boys Are, Sweet Sixteen, Calendar Girl, and, of course, the chart-topping title song.

The Kitchen Witches        
By Caroline Smith
October 31st– November 18th, 2012
It’s Martha Stewart meets Jerry Springer in this 2003 comedy of dueling divas who stir up a main course of fun with a side dish of drama. Dolly Biddle and Isabelle Lomax – archrivals in life and love – are tricked into appearing on a cooking show together on their local public access channel. Look out as spoons fly and family secrets are aired.

1. Creativity
2. Number of lights
3. Colored lights are looked upon favorably

The winners will be announced in the Valley Courier the week before Christmas.

If you need lights or have any questions contact: Chris Shane
 860-767-1147 or shanec89@comcast.net

For more information on the Ivoryton Illuminations, please follow this link:  http://www.ivorytonplayhouse.org/our-season/ivoryton-illuminations

http://ctarts.blogspot.com/2011/11/theater-review-woman-in-black-ivoryton.html

Please help to ensure that the First Lady of Connecticut Theatre continues to stand strong during her second century of life by becoming a member of the Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation.  Memberships start at just $35. 

Membership funds allow us to accomplish many things:  preserve the historic building, improve our facilities so audiences can be more comfortable and purchase new technologies to make our organization more efficient.  Did you know that ticket sales only cover the cost of the shows?  Ticket sales fund the talent; membership dues keep the building alive. 

Become a member today.  Play your role in preserving the tradition of quality theatre at the historic Ivoryton Playhouse. 

Click here to see benefits and to download an application form.

Ian Lowe and Steve Barron star in The Woman In Black opening November 2

One of the most terrifying live theatre experiences – ever!

The Woman in Black
by Stephen Mallatratt
Based on the novel by Susan Hill
at The Ivoryton Playhouse

As the nights are drawing in and Halloween is in the air, who doesn’t love a good, old-fashioned ghost story? Especially a ghost story told on the stage of a 100 year old theatre. Well, you’re in luck! The Ivoryton Playhouse is presenting Stephen Mallatratt’s brilliant adaptation of Susan Hill’s classic chiller The Woman in Black from November 2 – 20.  Unanimously acclaimed by the critics and now in its 23rd year in London’s West End, The Woman In Black is a terrifying trip through time into a tragic and ghostly world where the horrors of the supernatural combine with the power and intensity of live theatre to send shock waves through the audience with splendid thrills and chills.

The Woman In Black was first performed at the Theatre-By-The-Sea in Scarborough in 1987. The original production received rave reviews, paving the way for future productions throughout England. It reached the West End in 1989 where it celebrated its 9000th performance in June of this year.

‘The most brilliantly effective spine chiller you will ever encounter…if you haven’t seen this show yet you are missing a treat’ Daily Telegraph

The Woman In Black runs from November 2 - 20

Set on a lonely English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero one Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the nursery of the deserted Eel Marsh House, the eerie sound of pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and, most dreadfully, and for Kipps most tragically, the woman in black.

The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler – proof positive that that neglected genre, the ghost story, isn’t dead after all.

Directed by Maggie McGlone Jennings, the show features Steve L. Barron*, who was last seen in Ivoryton in Driving Miss Daisy, and Ian Lowe*, who is making his Ivoryton debut. Maggie is a veteran director has been seen on the Ivoryton stage in Moon Over Buffalo and Steel Magnolias, but this will be her directorial debut here. Set design is by Tony Andrea, lighting design by Doug Harry, sound by Tate R. Burmeister and costumes by Vicky Blake.

The Woman in Black opens on November 2nd and runs November 20th for 3 weeks. Performance times are Wednesday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Evening performances are Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Tickets are $40 for adults, $35 for seniors, $20 for students and $15 for children and are available by calling the Playhouse box office at 860-767-7318 or by visiting our website at www.ivorytonplayhouse.org  (Group rates are available by calling the box office for information.) The Playhouse is located at 103 Main Street in Ivoryton.

 Members of the press are welcome at any performance. Please call ahead for tickets.

Photos courtesy of Anne Hudson.

*member of Actors Equity