Kicking off our 50th season,
Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre is raising
We are happy to have Ariana Nicoletta back with WPC as she expands her play“It Was Hers” into a one-act piece for the 2025 New Worlds Festival. You may recognize Ariana as she has acted in multiple productions in the Staten Island Community since 2016. Pictured is actress Louise Gallanda from the cast of the 2024 NFPF staging of “It Was Hers”
We’re bringing it back, and we can’t wait to see which team will be the ULTIMATE THEATRE TRIVIA CHAMPION! Please join us for THEATRE TRIVIA NIGHT! Hosted by Jenny Kelly & Vincent Innocente Saturday, February 22, 2025 7:00 pm Flagship Brewing Company 40 Minthorne Street Staten Island, NY 10301 Tickets: $30 individual $100 for team of 4 🔗 for tix in bio https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/celebrating-50-years-theatre-trivia ***Please note: there is a suggested Zeffy platform contribution with a drop down menu; you can select other and put $0.*** Entry fee includes: (1) Game packet (1) complimentary beer and jumbo pretzel *Additional food & beverages will be available for purchase* Participants may play in teams of 1 – 4 people. *Prizes for trivia winners! *fun mini-rounds with prizes! *Raffles! *50/50! #trivia #theatre #theater #community #getyourtickets
In this atmospheric-horror reimagining of “Doctor Faustus”, Christopher Marlowe’s tale of ambition and damnation is thrust into the heart of the American Great Depression. Set against a backdrop of economic despair, Faustus, a brilliant yet disillusioned academic, is lured by demonic Mephistopheles, who takes on the role of a “puppet master,” guiding him into deeper moral corruption. With every sin, Faustus becomes more entangled in Mephistopheles’ sinister puppet show, his every movement dictated by the decaying world around him. As Faustus descends further, the line between reality and nightmare blurs, and the Seven Deadly Sins—sinister marionettes who were once human, now acting as the devil’s “hand”—emerge from the shadows, their twisted forms locked in eternal torment. This immersive production blends Marlowe’s original text with chilling visuals, occult traditions, puppetry, sound, and movement to evoke a world on the brink. Through the lens of Depression-era America, where survival is a ruthless game, the struggle between Faust and Mephistopheles takes on a terrifying new resonance, exploring psychological horror and existential dread. This production will rehearse tenatively Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons from March through May (subject to change based on availabilities), starting at Snug Harbor in Staten Island (minutes away from the free Staten Island ferry) before moving to The Staten Island Playhouse at the Empire Outlets (located at the Staten Island Ferry) Auditions will take place on Friday, February 28th from 6:00 to 10:00pm, and Saturday, March 1, from 11:00am to 2:00pm, with callbacks from 3:00pm to 7:00pm in The Learning Center, Building G, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. Auditions will be booked in hour long windows. To make an audition appointment email Stage Manager, Nikita Chernin, at [email protected] with a preferable time window and we will accommodate as best as possible. Self tape auditions/callbacks will be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Congratulations to the 2025 Women’s Playwright Collective! We are so excited to welcome back our two New Worlds Festival playwrights and introduce our SEVEN collective members who will be featured at our 8th annual NFPF! Check out this clip or festival director Ariel Marcus-Hollenbeck celebrating our writers for our 8th season this past weekend after Saturday’s performance of Lights Over Kansas. (Note: as artists we know things change swiftly, but as of 1/25/25, the information said in the video was accurate at the time). Happy Writing!!! 📝
THANK YOU to our amazing audiences for your support of “Lights Over Kansas”! We thank you for choosing to support new works and we have more in store for you later this year as the Women’s Playwright Collective goes into its eighth season! If you attended “Lights Over Kansas”, please be sure to answer our audience survey as your input is appreciated in helping our playwright Courtney Emerson continue her creative process. Link to the survey in @wpc_statenisland bio
Today is your last chance to catch Lights Over Kansas! Show starts at 3pm. Congratulations to Courtney Emerson and this fantastic cast and team! You’re all out of this world 👽🌍🛸⭐️ Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Company and Women’s Playwright Collective Present: Lights Over Kansas A staged reading by Courtney Emerson It’s the summer of 1972, in the small, quiet town of Eureka, Kansas. Chief Holloway is sure that the most harrowing part of his night shift will be putting up with the police department’s newest recruit, the overly eager Sergeant Thomas, and the incessant questioning from his nosy secretary, Jeanette. When calls start coming in about strange lights flying through the night sky, Holloway, Thomas, and Jeanette have to figure out how to keep the town they love safe from the unknown. January 24, 25, 26 8:00pm (Sunday matinee at 3:00pm) Staten Island Playhouse at Empire Outlets 55 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY 10301, Level 3 (SI Playhouse LOGO) GENERAL ADMISSION: $30, STUDENTS & SENIORS: $27, MEMBERS $25 Purchase tickets online by visiting: sishakespeare.org Featuring: Jack Dabdoub Courtney Emerson Ariel Marcus-Hollenbeck James McKeon Robert Vaccaro Director: Frank Williams Assistant Director: Cara S. Liander Stage Manager: McKenna McQueen Lighting Design: Matt Homme Sound Design: Mike Alesia Graphic Design: Courtney Emerson Producers: Frank Williams and Cara S. Liander
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