OTP Volunteer Table

We chat with Katie in the Green Room of the Old Town Playhouse about her upcoming play Something Rotten. The musical will be perform May 12 through June 3. Katie tells us of the travails and putting up a large musical comedy. It is not Shakespeare but Shakespeare does make an appearance.

The Old Town Playhouse announced their 2023-24 season and we chat with Phil about the plays, director applications, and more.

Our Aged To Perfection group meets and performs at the Old Town Playhouse. Unlike the regular playhouse players the ATP has restrictions. You must have reached the age to 55 to join our group. Yes, age discrimination! This is just the way it is and we are proud of it. Hettie and Cathy explain.

We chat about her time at the playhosue and her work on The play that goes wrong. The chat went right.

We discuss the role of Stage Manager at the playhouse. Denni has played at the Playhouse for a long time and performed the role of Stage Manager for our production of The Laramie Project". Allison has performed on stage and had back stage responsibilities , however, for The Laramie Project"  she took on the role of Asst. Stage Manager and worked with Denni, who mentored her.

We chat with Cherie about her original compositions for the Old Town Playhouse's current production of The Laramie Project.

Michelle and Dan perform in the Old Town Playhouse's production of The Laramie Project. We chat about the their roles and the play.

We chat with Terri Heffron about the nuts and bolts of putting The Laramie Project on the Old Town Playhouse main stage.

Meaghan and Nick tell us how it feels to rehearse a show and have it cancelled just before opening, wait two years then finally open. 

Ed and Pat are playhouse members who have worked on stage for several years. However, in Cinderella, the production we just closed, they worked back stage. Lets find out what that means.

June Zambrana plays the role of Prince in our production of Cinderella while Trevor Van Aasche plays the role of Jean Michele. This is our chat.

Darci and Samantha are the co-Dance Captains for our production of Cinderella. We chat about this and more.

We chat with Carson Clark, a volunteer at the playhouse for several years and Gary Brown, this is his first show here. There is an age gap as well.

Abigail Baggott and Sarah Mikulski share the role of Cinderella in Old Town Playhouse's production of Cinderella. We chat about the role and what they did to prepare plus go far afield.

We chat with Stephanie and Dina about the how they got into the cast and how the process works for them.

WE chat with Karen torti, Kathy Lewis, Hannah Gordon and Bradley Roswell about costume changes during a play. How it's done.

Carly Molenkamp has never been involved in theater. She had never been in the playhouse until she volunteered. What does a new person to the Playhouse see and feel? Our chat with Carly is a window.

The scary times are with us at the Playhouse. Not halloween but auditions! We chat with Betsy about her upcoming auditions for Cinderella.

DEnni has waited 2 years to direct Savanna Sipping Society. Why? Our chat will tell the story.

Steve just added Escanaba in Da Moonlight to his extensive resume of Old Town Playhouse productions. We chat about this and more.

Andrew just completed Escanaba in the Moonlight and now is off on an adventure. We chat.

Everybody has a nickname at the Playhouse. Some nicknames are not public, some are rarely used and one, in particular, is used almost exclusively. That is Lil' Bit for Elizabeth Stewart. Here is her story.

The Old Town Playhouse has an improv group within the Aged to Perfection group. Mike Spry leads this group and chats with us about the program.

Margaret Anne is a member of the ATP group at the Playhouse and will direct a play for them going up on October 1, 2021. Hear about it here.

Every orchestra we have for our musicals requires Trumpets. We chat with some of those trumpeters today.

Whether you need a seam stitched, and nail driven or a set dressed, Nancy is your goto girl.

The playhouse is back! We had our show directors give a short presentation on each of their shows for our 21-22 season. 

What possesses you to come tot he playhouse? Could be any reason but for Joanie it was a boy!

Phil began in theater at a tender age but went to work and put his theater on hold for many years. Now, we hear his story.

On July 18, 2021 the Playhouse celebrated their volunteers with a party in our parking lot. Every volunteer regardless of participation is a valued resource to the theater. During this party we honored several of our volunteers who worked "outside the script" in support of the playhouse. These are special recognitions of service. Terri Heffron, Dan Mello and Tracey c. Towner were so honored.

Dancer, Actress, maybe chorus singer. The Triple threat of Minda Nyquist is here.

What we do not "do" in real life what we "do" on stage...hopefully.

In any type of theater or entertainment one must be heard. We call that projection. Diane Clark will share with us how to be heard.

Jill is an Old Town Playhouse actress and a story teller. She tells us her story.

To act professionally or pay the rent... that is the question.

Our chat with the 4 directors of Theater Under the Tent productions presented at the Old Town Playhouse plus a chat with Deb Jackson, the executive Director of the Playhouse, about the TUTT season.

Our chat covered the Playhouse and Riverside Shakespeare.

Chatting with Delphine and her involvement with the Aged To Perfection group.

We learn a little bit about Hayley and some about auditions.

We chat about Annie's time at the playhouse, her departure, and her return. We, also, learn about "Stage of Fools" an original podcast play, a comedy, based on community theater.

Jeff's work takes him away from the playhouse for most of the year. Hoes does he live without theater? 

Dave tells us how he made it to the "Big Show".

Kerr, originally, directed THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST on the main stage in September, 2020. He, in collaboration with the Traverse Area District Library, mounted the production again with the same actors however this time it was on the internet. We find out how it was accomplished.

It is fun to chat with new members. These two have been with the playhouse a short time but have make a huge impact.

We chatted about Young Company, "... Ernest", and more.

We chat about everything community theater to hairstyles to ,,, whatever. 

Harriett has directed many plays at the Playhouse and has a company of players performing (pre-COVID) Reader's Theater.

Some people come to the Playhouse with theater experience. Some come just to check the Playhouse out and stay. Colleen came to the Playhouse not for these reasons but because her son wanted to join the Young Company, the education arm of the Playhouse. She did have theater experiences as well but...

Long time member of the Playhouse, Ed tells about his time at the Playhouse and his future plans post COVID.

We chatted about her involvement at the Old Town Playhouse. We. also, chatted about the online performance she and Terri Heffron collaborated on, "Phantasms of a Fevered Imagination".