Executive Director's Blog

Well, we've done it! We've had our first rehearsals for Come Home for Christmas, and I couldn't be more excited about this cast! There's something especially wonderful about bringing old Stage Left friends together with new faces, watching friendships pick up right where they left off, and hearing Christmas music fill the Historic Trinity Playhouse once again. Now comes the fun part: figuring out how to get everyone onstage at the right time! On paper, Come Home for Christmas

There is a moment in every youth production when something changes. For weeks, we rehearse. We learn lines and blocking. We find costumes. We build scenery. We remind people where to stand, when to enter, and—for what feels like the hundredth time—which prop they are supposed to be carrying. And then, somehow, it becomes a story. That happened this week with Charlotte’s Web. E.B. White’s beloved story is about a pig named Wilbur and the extraordinary friend who decides his l

There is something about this time of year at Stage Left Players. The summer whirlwind settles down—or at least changes direction. The calendar on the wall suddenly looks alarmingly full. Scripts appear. People start talking about costumes, rehearsal schedules, props and things we probably need to build. And somehow, here we are. Season 34. Thirty-four seasons of gathering people together to tell stories in our little theatre in Lisbon. You'd think after all these years I'd