Rehearsals for Emancipation Sweet will begin in mid-April, and performances will be at Millersville University’s Ware Center, 42 North Prince Street in Lancaster.  Rehearsals for La Dispute will begin in June, and performances will be in Musser Park in Lancaster.  All rehearsals will take place on weekday evenings and some weekend days.
Auditions will be held Sunday, March 24th from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at Franklin & Marshall’s Philadelphia Alumni Writers House, 633 College Avenue in Lancaster.  Callbacks, as needed, will be scheduled for the evening of Monday, March 25th.

Auditions are by appointment only.  To schedule an appointment, email joanna@creativelancaster.org or call 717-723-8355.  Please bring a photo, resume, and a list of any rehearsal conflicts you have, and be prepared to read from the scripts.  For more information about Theatre for Transformation, visit www.theatrefortransformation.org.

The 1882 play was Ibsen’s attack on corruption and hypocrisy in government and society, as seen in the story of Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers that the baths that make his community prosperous are contaminated. His struggles to reveal the unpleasant truth brand him as an “enemy of the people.” Though written 130 years ago, the play retains its timeliness and is well worth revisiting.

Lydia Brubaker will direct. The cast includes a number of well-known Lancaster area actors.

The staged reading, performed by the actors with scripts in hand, will be presented at Shaarai Shomayim, 75 East James St., Lancaster, PA, on Thursday night, March 7th. The performance will be held at 7:30, followed by an open discussion with a panel made up of community leaders. The event is free and open to the public. A free will donation will be accepted.

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to our Kickstarter campaign.  We made it!  Now, it’s almost time for the show!
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, picnics, and friends, and we’ll see you at the park this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 PM!

Email us at info@creativelancaster.org if you have questions,
or if you’d like to volunteer at the park this week.

The production team is hard at work, and rehearsals have started for our second annual Works in the Park project - Room Service!  We’re serving up plenty of laughs this summer with a hilarious play set in the 1930s that was eventually made into a Marx Brothers movie.

Mark your calendars for performances August 9-11 at 7:00 p.m. in Musser Park, and please check out our Kickstarter campaign below.  Help us bring free, classic theater to Lancaster City!

Visit this link to see some great photos taken by Barry Halvorson of last year’s show, Arms and the Man.

The performances will take place August 9, 10, and 11, 2012 in Musser Park in Lancaster. Rehearsals will be held on weekday evenings and weekends beginning in June.

Auditions will be held Monday, May 28 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Franklin & Marshall’s Philadelphia Alumni Writers House, 633 College Avenue in Lancaster. Callbacks will be scheduled on Tuesday, May 29 as needed.

Auditions are by appointment only and are for actors 18 and older. Please bring a photo and resume, and be prepared to read from the script.  To schedule an appointment, or if you have questions, email Erich Goldstein, erich@creativelancaster.org.

Proceeds will help us continue to produce events

We’re hosting a fundraiser at the downtown Isaac’s at 25 North Queen Street this Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 from 5-9 p.m.  We invite you to join us! Just click here to print out a form, bring it to the restaurant, and give it to your server at dinner.

The mission of Creative Works is to fuel and sustain Lancaster city’s cultural renaissance.  Upcoming events include another spectacular piece of Sock Puppet Theater as well as Works in the Park, a free play in Lancaster’s Musser Park featuring local actors.

Shows are April 27, 28, and 29 at 9 p.m. at the Ware Center. Founding members of the Happy Time troupe will be partnering with new local writers and performers to produce a night of all-out, no-holds-barred comedy. Audiences can expect the hallmark absurdity, wit, and irreverence that have characterized Happy Time Explosion Show ever since its 2007 debut, “Too Much Turkey Makes Grandma Go Blind,” which introduced Lancaster to speed dating gone wrong, a Noah who loved puns, and a family who nearly killed each other playing Scrabble. Happy Time Explosion Show is excited and proud to remain a comedic force in the Lancaster arts community and looks forward to entertaining audiences at this show at the Ware Center.

Location: The Ware Center, 42 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA
Dates: April 27, 28, and 29 (Friday through Sunday)
Show time: 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 each, or 3 for $25

• Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, a fully staged reading of the classic labor play, was presented in March at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster…

• The Sockfather, a sock puppet parody of The Godfather, played to standing room only crowds in June at Lancaster Dispensing Company…

• Our first “Works in the Park” production of Shaw’s Arms and the Man drew hundreds, many first-time theatre-goers, to Musser Park in August…

• Artie Van Why’s 9/11 play, That Day in September, starring Brian Martin, was produced at the First United Methodist Church in September…

• The popular Mobile Art Gallery reappeared at October’s First Friday…

• October also saw the Creative Works-sponsored New Play Festival by members of the Lancaster Dramatists Platform (whose bimonthly play readings Creative Works also sponsors) at the Fulton Theater Clubhouse…

• We collaborated with Wood Stove House in November at The Candy Factory to bring Lancaster its first production of the nationally known 24 Hour Plays…

• And finally in December we produced the first full production of the work of playwright Harry Kondoleon with the uproarious yet touching Christmas on Mars in The Ware Center…

That’s 8 different events at 8 different venues in downtown Lancaster. All were highly acclaimed, and all except two were free (and those two were a minimal $10).

A major thanks to those who have donated their time, ideas, energy and money  to help make our first year be a great one.

Together we can bring the Lancaster area more new theatre, art, comedy, music…

in short, the Works!