-COMING UP AT THE PLAYHOUSE-

PASTIME

February 12-22   Thursday -Saturday 7:30PM Sunday 2PM

Written and directed by Greg Thornton, Artistic Director of the Cloverdale Playhouse.

PASTIME was picked as the winner of the 2014 Page-To-Stage series. This world premiere production is the first of what we hope will be a long line of plays to originate at the Cloverdale Playhouse, Montgomery, Alabama’s only community theater.

PASTIME  is set in the late 1980′s in a large middle-class, suburban/metropolitan neighborhood near New York City. It tells the story of a close-knit family dealing with the loss of the father and the subsequent battle over keeping  the family house. Join us for the birth of this new play !

*Recommended for ages 14 and above*

PASTIME opens the Playhouse 2015 Season on February 12th with the following cast:

PASTIME

DONALD HANSON              STEPHEN DUBBERLY

GEOFFREY HANSON          JOHN McWILLIAMS

JERRY MALONE                    SCOTT PAGE

MARK HANSON                    MATTHEW GIVENS

BARB HANSON                      SARAH ADKINS

HELEN HANSON                   TERI SWEENEY

FRANCIE MALONE              MARIAH  REILLY

DIRECTOR                               GREG THORNTON

SET DESIGN                            MIKE WINKELMAN

COSTUME DESIGN              PAMELA UPSHAW & ROMARO WALKER

LIGHTING DESIGN              JAMES TREADWAY

SOUND DESIGN                    GREG THORNTON/JAMES TREADWAY

STAGE MANAGER                JAMES TREADWAY

To order 2015 Season Tickets Online Please:Click the clover 

To order Single Tickets for the World Premiere  of PASTIME: Please:Click the clover 

or Call our Box Office:334.262.1530

Joe Thomas, Jr. 3rd Tuesday Guitar Pull

Singer/Songwriters Night

FEATURED ARTISTS vary with each performance. Never the same show twice!

Date/Time

SOME PRESS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 2014 Season

Thanks to The Montgomery Advertiser, MADE Paper, Midtown Montgomery Living, WSFA, WAKA,Troy Public Radio, and al.com http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/VideoNetwork/2855726050001/-Into-the-Woods-to-open-Cloverdale-Playhouse-s-2014-season for spreading the word about this production. Click on each name for their story!

Montgomery Advertiser‘s story on our October 2014 production of CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley has a sneak peak of Babe (Sarah Adkins) telling her attentive lawyer Barnette Lloyd (Mark Dasinger, Jr.)  what happened right after she shot her husband, Zachary Botrelle.

Click here to read the story and see the video: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/life/2014/10/19/female-driven-award-winning-plays-hit-stage/17541947/

Tony Beckham of WAKA’s Tony on Town paid us a visit and interviewed Director Maureen Costello, Managing Director Emily Flowers, and “Babe” Sarah Adkins. Click here for the video: Post by Tony Beckham.

Read the rave reviews of our June production of Clybourne Park:

Read the Press:

by Lorraine Hansberry

Directed by Greg Thornton

The story of the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a changing world has moved audiences for generations since it first opened in 1959. A tale of sacrifice, trust, and love in the face of tensions and prejudice, this seminal work is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration that continues to speak to the American experience.

WSFA’s Tonya Terry interviews RAISIN cast members- click to see the interview!

Read the Montgomery Advertiser’s article here

2013 Scrapbook

Many thanks to Teri Greene and the Montgomery Advertiser for this story about WAIT UNTIL DARK.

Back stage stories like this are one of the many reasons to love what goes on at the Cloverdale Playhouse!   http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20130919/GO/309190003/Darkness-descends-onto-local-stages

Announcing the cast of WAIT UNTIL DARK

A mystery by Frederick Knott – Directed by Eleanor Davis

“Audiences are smitten with this emotional roller coaster”- Read the review of THE LAST FIVE YEARS by guest blogger Layne Holley on theatremontgomery.com HERE

Catch an interview with the cast and director of THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown!  Randy Foster, Jesse Alston, and Jonathan Conner appeared on Troy Public Radio’s Community Focus with Kyle Gassiott to talk about our summer musical, the cult favorite about a relationship from its beginning to its end- or its end to its beginning, depending on who’s singing. Opening June 20 at the Cloverdale Playhouse.

https://soundcloud.com/troypublicradio/20130613last5years

The Playhouse’s Artistic Director, Greg Thornton, has the back story of our next production: THE LAST FIVE YEARS opens June 20. Find out what the show is about, why we’re doing it, and what the cast has to say about the rehearsals with Director Randy Foster.

http://www.midtownmontgomeryliving.com/?p=37472

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Thank you, audiences!!!! The entire run of CABARET was SOLD OUT. One review called CABARET “one of the best theatre events in Montgomery’s recent history.”

*- theatremontgomery.blogspot.com

The Montgomery Advertiser’s article on CABARET by Teri Greene – photos here by Mickey Welsh

Read the full story here: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013302100006

Video by Teri Greene of Montgomery Advertister 2-9-13 HERE

Rehearsals for CABARET with director Randy Foster. Photo by Mark Dauber c 2013.

Director Randy Foster  and The cast of CABARET:

• Emcee                             Bill Cobb
• KitKat Girls                  Jesse Alston, Katie Chamblee, Katie Svela Crews, Emily Flowers
• Kit Kat Boys                 Braxton McDonald, Chase McMichen, David Rowland, Matthew Walter
• Sally Bowles                  Sarah Carlton
• Clifford Bradshaw       Wes Milton
• Ernst Ludwig                 Scott Page
• Fraulein Schneider    Eleanor Davis
• Fraulein Kost               Rhonda Crim
• Herr Schultz                 Billington Garrett
• Max                                 George Jacobsen

2012 Scrapbook

Check out the Season’s Greetings video by River Region Arts!

Click on the Bunker family portrait to go behind the scenes of this “excellent holiday treat”!

• Check out the Opus Video by riverregionarts.org featuring interviews with the creative team behind this show reviews are calling “a must-see” and a “remarkable production”.
• Read Michael Howley’s blog, theatremontgomery, reviewing Opus on its opening night, and a review by River Region Arts’s new critic, Randy Foster. Critics and audiences agree that “something amazing is happening on that stage.”
• Opus is first on the Montgomery Advertiser’s list of things to do in the River Region: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20121011/GO/310110001/Big-weekend-tap-You-won-t-bored-River-Region

Find your role at the Cloverdale Playhouse!

Montgomery’s New Community Theater and a Home for the Performing Arts
The Cloverdale Playhouse, in the heart of historic Old Cloverdale,  is the city’s only community theatre. As a performing arts center, we look to provide a home for all with a passion for the creative arts.

Onstage, backstage and all around the Playhouse, it is our community of volunteers that provides the talent and spirit that goes into our productions. Contact us to find out about volunteer opportunities, auditions for shows, and classes for K-12th students.

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