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!

As First Friday is winding down, join the Platform for a presentation of new short plays by local playwrights, Erich Goldstein, John Rohrkemper and Nelly Torres. The plays will be performed as readings, with scripts in hand, by local actors.

The February 3rd readings are free and open to the public. For more information about the event or about the Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform, please email lancasterdramatists@gmail.com, call (717) 723-8355 or visit www.creativelancaster.org/friends-and-partners/lancaster-dramatists-platform.

This jet-black comedy is about Bruno and Audrey, a young unmarried couple expecting a baby around Christmas. Audrey’s mother, Ingrid, is moving in with them to help pay the rent, and things get even more complicated when Nissim, Bruno’s longtime roommate, appears on the scene and decides to stay as well. Critics have described the late playwright’s work as “carefully crafted off-kilter dialogue mixed with lyricism that produces a poignant melancholy buffeted by head-shaking comedy,” and Creative Works is happy to introduce his work to Lancaster.

This show is intended for adult audiences.

Ticket prices are $10 each, with an “Awkward Threesome Special” of three tickets for $25.

Tickets on sale soon!

The Candy Factory - 323 N. Queen St. – Lancaster

Wood Stove House and Creative Works bring you a special night of experimental theater!

Six writers, six directors, at least twenty actors and a production team will write, rehearse and perform six ten-minute plays in a 24 hour period. The process to create the six plays will start Friday evening, November 4, with writers choosing their actors from a pool of talent. The six writers will write through the night and hand their work to the directors early Saturday morning, November 5, the day of the performance.  After negotiating for their choice of play, directors will work with their actors and a crew of stage technicians to prepare for the 7 p.m. performance.

The Lancaster production is a collaborative effort between Steve Carlson, Jason and Susanne Mundok of the Wood Stove House, and Creative Works.  It will feature members of the Lancaster professional theater scene working along-side amateur artists, and several high school actors will also be involved.

Tickets are $10 and are on sale now!

Seating is limited and the production team is anticipating a sold out event.

Advanced ticket purchase is strongly suggested.

It begins on Thursday, October 13 at 8:00 PM with He Comes for His Books by Chet Williamson. The long one-act play was inspired by the relationship between playwright Harold Pinter and his first wife, Vivien Merchant, during their breakup.

On Friday, October 14 at 8:00 PM, the festival continues with In Harm’s Way by John Rohrkemper. The staged reading will be directed by Pat LeMay, and the cast includes Chris Fogel, Lydia Brubaker, Nelly Torres and Elizabeth Pattey.

Enjoy scenes from two plays on Saturday, October 15 beginning at 2:00 PM. The afternoon opens with Cherubs Need Love Too by Jim Craig, directed by Nelly Torres. A Real Mentsh by Caleb Corkery will follow. The reading is directed by Vicky Lantz.

The festival will have its finale on Saturday, October 15 at 8:00 PM with The Alegria Sisters by David Nice and directed by Lydia Brubaker.