One company. One adventure. And a whole lot of dreaming ahead! The cast is set, the scripts are ready, and it’s time to DREAM! Stage Left Players is delighted to announce the cast of our original musical, Wake Up, Aurora!, coming to the Historic Trinity Playhouse this November. Sometimes in theatre, you get what we like to call a BID — a Blessing in Disguise. This year, rather than dividing our young performers into two separate casts, Wake Up, Aurora! will be created and performed by one...

Some theatre relationships last long after the final curtain. Long before Paul Dahman became the founding director of the Dinner Theatre Rejects, he was one of my theatre students at Canfield Village Middle School. Later, I had the pleasure of directing him as Corporal Klinger in the high school production of MASH*. He had me laughing then. He’s been doing it ever since. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that Paul and his wonderfully unpredictable band of Dinner Theatre Rejects are...

Do you feel a story coming on? We all lived through 2020 and the pandemic years—but we didn’t all live the same story. For our next SPARK Storytellers event, we’re gathering personal stories about those years and the ways the experience changed us. Not politics. Not policies. Not arguments about what should or shouldn’t have happened. We’re interested in what happened to you. Maybe your story begins with Before the pandemic, I thought… Now I know. Or perhaps it’s about something you lost—or...