“Naughty & Nice” tickets on sale now!

Jacob Barz-Snell, John Fogle and Jeff Barz-Snell are featured in "A Child's Christmas in Wales."

Tickets for the Salem Theatre Company’s holiday repertory productions of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” are now available online at http://salemtheatre.com/tickets/ or by phone at (978) 790-8546.

Tickets ordered and paid for online will be held at the box office for pick up the day of the show. Tickets may be purchased online up to 24 hours before a performance.

You may also reserve tickets for pick up at the box office by calling 978-790-8546 or emailing info@salemtheatre.com. Please tell us the date of the performance you plan to attend, and how many tickets are desired. ONLY CASH AND CHECKS CAN BE ACCEPTED AT THE BOX OFFICE.

Don’t miss this unique holiday experience of two fantastic holiday treats in repertory production: the “nice” (the 5th annual production of the heart-warming Dylan Thomas classic “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” directed by Caroline Watson-Felt) and the “naughty” (Jeff Goode’s edgy comedy “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” directed by Catherine M. Bertrand).  There are only three performances of each production, so don’t miss out!  Show dates are December 4th-13th, at the Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street:

• “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” on stage December 4th and 12th at 7:30pm and December 6th at 3:00pm.
• “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” on stage December 5th and 11th at 7:30pm and December 13th at 3:00pm.

   

  

  Chris Clark, Adam Gutierrez and James Wilcox are featured in "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues."

STC offers something naughty, something nice for holidays

HO-HO-HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS!
STC Presents Naughty & Nice: A Christmas Repertory

The Salem Theatre Company will produce two holiday productions in their new repertory offering – Naughty & Nice.

For the nice, the STC offers their fifth annual production of Dylan Thomas’ classic, charming holiday tale A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Fun for the whole family, this heart-warming production has become a new holiday tradition in Salem. Thomas’ poetry weaves a touching reminiscence of Christmas’ past and all the joys of being a child during the holiday season. A Child’s Christmas in Wales will be on stage December 4th at 7:30pm, December 6th at 3:00pm, and December 12th at 7:30pm.

If you are looking for naughty, catch the STC’s production of Jeff Goode’s risqué comedy The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, directed by Catherine M. Bertrand. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa’s reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the media descends, the other members of the sleigh team share their own tales of corruption and worse at Santa’s Workshop. The Eight features strong language and adult situations. It will be produced December 5th and 11th at 7:30pm and December 13th at 3:00pm.

All performances will take place at the Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street in Salem. Tickets are available separately for each production at www.salemtheatre.com or (978) 790-8546. $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. Due to strong language and subject matter, children under 18 are not permitted at The Eight.

Two Audition Opportunities from the STC

Audition Announcement – Naughty and Nice: A Christmas Repertory

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode

directed by Catherine M. Bertrand

A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

directed by Caroline Watson-Felt

Roles to be filled are as follows:

2 Men, 30+, Both actors will play 2 roles: one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Roles to be filled in The Eight are “Dasher” and “Donner”. Open roles in A Child’s Christmas in Wales are not yet specified.

2 Women, late 20’s+, One actor will play 2 roles, one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales.  Open role in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is “Vixen”. One actor will play 1 role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales.  Open role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales is not yet specified.  All actors in A Child’s Christmas in Wales will play multiple roles of equal importance.

3 boys, ages 10-14 for A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Performances are alternating nights December 4,5,6 and 11,12,13. Rehearsals will begin immediately. Both performances and rehearsals will take place in Salem.

Auditions will be held by appointment only on Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 between 6pm and 9:30. Please email catherinembertrand@gmail.com for an audition time.

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Audition Announcement  - Joe Orton’s Loot

Loot, Joe Orton’s 1960s black farce, is a tightly plotted play about two bank robbers—Hal and Dennis—who need to hide their loot. Complicating and aiding this situation is the funeral of Hal’s mother, his grieving father, a nurse with a mysterious past, and a police officer who says he’s from the Water Board.

Audition Format: A short comic monologue if you have one and cold readings from the script. British accents are required.

Audition Times & Location: Auditions will be held on November 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM each evening in the Salem Arts Association Gallery on Artists’ Row in Salem.  24 New Derby Street – Unit One.  Please arrive by 7:30.

Characters:

MCLEAVY:  Older man—60s—respectable, religious, middle class, smitten by Fay, confused and appalled by his son Hal.

FAY:  30s–40s. A nurse with dead husbands in her past. She appears to be devout and upright but will stop at nothing to get rich.

HAL: 20s. A young man of loose sexuality and even looser morals. He desperately needs to hide his loot.  Hall is McLeavy’s son and because of his strong Catholic upbringing, he cannot lie.

DENNIS: 20s. He works at a funeral home but wants more. Another young man with loose morals although he wants to marry Fay.

TRUSCOTT: Middle aged. A police detective trying to find the bank robbers. He is absolutely corrupt and makes up the rules as he goes along.

MEADOWS: Any age. A police officer who does as he’s told.

Don’t miss Chilling Tales in Salem this October!

Kris Burke of Salem in "Wives of the Dead" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story, along with two by Edgar Allan Poe, have been adapted for the Salem Theatre Company's 2009 production of "Chilling Tales."

STC’s annual Halloween treat, “Chilling Tales,” is not to be missed this October!  New stories from the original master of the macabre – Edgar Allen Poe – as well as a bonus tale from Salem’s own Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the creepiest, authentic venue in Salem: the Custom House on Derby Wharf.

Bob Karish of Salem rehearses "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Whether you are a “Chilling Tales” regular or this is your first visit, this October’s production offers new stories, new scares, and a brand new venue.  We’re still in partnership with the National Park Service and at the Maritime Site, but stroll on over to the Custom House, opposite the Wharf, weekend evenings starting October 9th for the most bone-chilling Halloween offering in Salem!

Tickets are just $15/$10 and are on sale now.  Performances are every 30 minutes starting at 5:00pm; with only 30 seats per performance, tickets will go fast.  Every year we have to turn people away at the door because they waited to the last minute to buy their ticket at the box office and we already sold out every performance that evening!  Don’t let this be you.  Book your tickets online now to ensure you get your seats for the all new “Chilling Tales” from the Salem Theatre Company.

The Custom House is located opposite the TICKETS booth on Derby Street.

STC presents 7th annual “Chilling Tales” this October!

Weekends commencing Oct. 9^th, 5PM-9PM, at the Custom House on Derby Street

“The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October, Of my most immemorial year.”

The STC brings back the creepiest of the classics, with new adaptations of master works of the macabre by Edgar Allan Poe and Salem’s own Nathaniel Hawthorne, on stage for the seventh annual presentation of Chilling Tales this October.

Presented once again in conjunction with the National Parks Service, this year’s Chilling Talesis not to be missed.  In celebration of the 200^thanniversary of Poe’s birth, the STC will stage two of his most gruesome, terrifying tales, as well as an additional offering from Hawthorne, at the historic Salem Custom House on Derby Street, directly opposite Derby Wharf.

The tales will be directed by STC Artistic Director John Fogle and feature a cast of professional actors from across the region.

Performances begin every thirty minutes from 5PM to 9PM on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from October 9^th through October 31^st.  Tickets are $15 for ages 13 and up and $10 for age 6 to 12.  Tickets are now available online at www.salemtheatre.com and those planning on attending are strongly encouraged to book their tickets online in advance; telephone reservations cannot be accepted for this production.  Tickets will also be available on show dates beginning at 4:30PM at the STC Box Office tent situated at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site on Derby Street just past Pickering Wharf.

STC Artistic Director John Fogle interviewed by Art Throb

North Shore Art Throb features an interview with Salem Theatre Company Artistic Director John Fogle. Check it out!

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Wrapping Season Six

 Thanks to everyone who was involved in making our 6th Season possible: those who were on stage, back stage, in the audience, and who generously donated to support the STC.  It was an incredible season of comic adventures and challenging, thought-provoking dramas.  It’s a pleasure to serve the Salem community by offering consistent, year-round, professional-quality live theater right here in Salem.

Here’s to an exciting 7th Season commencing September 1st!

Laugh at us.

STC is delighted to return for the 3rd Annual “Improv on the Bricks” – a FREE improv comedy show during Salem’s annual Heritage Days celebration.  Bring a chair…bring padding…it’s improv on a hard surface and anything can happen!

Saturday, August 8th

Sunday, August 9th

3:30pm — FREE!

Derby Square (in front of Old Town Hall on Front Street, Salem)

The home stretch

“Catch the comedy at the Salem Theatre!” -Improper Bostonian, July 2009

“Get your tickets now! Fantastic!” -Art Throb, July 2009

Only two more performances of the STC hit production of Steve Martin’s comic romp “The Underpants”!

Last night’s performance was heavily sold out, with a long line of walk-in folks waiting for stand-by tickets.  A good reason to reserve your tickets early at www.salemtheatre.com or by calling 978-790-8546.

Tonight at 8pm and tomorrow at 2pm. 316 Essex Street, Salem. $20 adults/$15 students and seniors.

Donate for a discount…. Come to the final matinee tomorrow at 2pm and bring a new, unopened package of at least three underpants that the STC can donate to the Salem Mission and get $8 off your ticket!

Last chance to see our Underpants!

The STC’s smash hit production of Steve Martin’s The Underpants runs for just four more performances (July 30-August 2) at the First Church, 316 Essex Street, in Salem.

North Shore Art*Throb raves “Get your tickets now! Fantastic!” about the STC’s production. The New York Times calls Martin’s script “laugh-out-loud funny.”

When Louise Maske’s bloomers fall down in public, the quiet, conservative lives of both her and her husband, Theo, are shattered. It doesn’t take long for a line-up of prospective and peculiar boarders to show up at the Maske’s front door. As scandal explodes into spectacle, the characters reflect – and reflect upon – our society’s fascination with fame, our reliance on gender roles, and our enslavement by sex.

The Underpants is the final Main Stage production of the STC’s 6th Season and is directed by Dominick Pangallo (Salem), with stage management by Jason Feran (Beverly). Jessica McGettrick (Salem) is the assistant stage manager and Alicia Greenwood (Beverly) designed the costumes. The cast includes Sarah Carlin (Beverly), Stephen Cooper (Marblehead), John Fogle (Marblehead), Bob Karish (Salem), Craig Owen (Georgetown), Caroline Watson-Felt (Salem), and James Wilcox (Beverly).

Thursday-Sunday, July 30-August 2 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm

Adults $20, Students/Seniors $15 – reservations at www.salemtheatre.com or (978) 790-8546.

Box office opens 30 minutes prior to curtain; reservations not picked up by five minutes to curtain are subject to cancellation. Groups of 15 or more making advance reservations receive $3 off each ticket in their group; group inquiries should be sent by email to gary@salemtheatre.com.

At the First Church, 316 Essex Street, Salem This venue has limited handicapped accessibility. Patrons with disabilities that are unable to walk up or down stairs are kindly asked to call the STC in advance at (978) 790-8546 so that appropriate arrangements may be made for them to be able to access the theater. Show time: 1 hour, 40 minutes, including a 10 minute intermission. The Underpants contains suggestive language and innuendos that may not be appropriate for children.

STC is proud to be a ticketing partner with the following businesses and organizations. Members of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Arts Association, Massachusetts Teachers Association, House of the Seven Gables, or the Salem YMCA can show their membership card at the box office to receive a $3 discount off their ticket price. Patrons who dine at Caffe Graziani, Gulu-Gulu, or Capt’s or who stay at the Hawthorne Hotel or Salem Inn the day of the show and show their receipt at the box office will receive a $3 discount off their ticket price. These discounts may not be combined.