Third Avenue Playhouse opens the 2019 season with Shooting Star, written by American playwright Steven Dietz. The play has a simple plot: two college lovers, Elena Carson (Amy Ensign) and Reed McAllister (Doug Mancheski), are unexpectedly reunited when they’re snowed in at an airport. Elena has stayed true to her hippie-ish, counter-culture path, while Reed has […]
Casting Announced for Northern Sky Theater’s 2019 Summer Season
Northern Sky Theater announces its acting company for the 2019 Summer Season in Door County, Wisconsin. Northern Sky’s summer season includes three musical comedies playing in rotating repertory from June 12 through August 24 at the outdoor amphitheater in Peninsula State Park. Returning company members include Corrie Beula Kovacs, Alex Campea, Doug Clemmons, Lachrisa Grandberry, […]
Local Door County Author Releases Fifth Historical Romance Novel
On March 27, 2019, local Door County resident and author, Katherine Hastings, released her latest romance novel. The Arch Pirate blends fact with fiction in this 17th century historical romance. Based on the real-life pirate Captain Henry Avery, Hastings crafted her own romantic tale around the events that led to Captain Avery pulling off the […]
Peninsula Pet of the Week: Puffer
Puffer is a handsome, 3-year-old male available for adoption at the Wisconsin Humane Society Door County Campus. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to pet a cloud, wonder no more! Puffer is beyond soft and so fluffy you can’t truly understand until you’ve pet him yourself. Fortunately for us, he loves cuddles! Besides his […]
Southern Door Open Audition Call for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
The Southern Door Community Auditorium is proud to announce the re-birth of tjhe Door County community musical with the upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors July 19-21, 2019. This is a call to performers to audition at one of two open audition dates: Sunday, May 19 from 2:00-7:00 p.m. or Monday, May 20 […]
Door County Environmental Council Lecture: Safe Lawns
The folks at Crossroads at Big Creek are enthusiastic fans of science. They make a big deal about trying to base their decisions on scientific data. Recently there was a radio report about a lawsuit against Monsanto and the difficulty the jury was having due to the lack of good scientific data. Crossroads often wonders […]
‘The Play’s the Thing’ Concludes with ‘The Gentleman Thief’
“When you are discovered by a householder–with revolver–in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted. – P.G. Wodehouse Peninsula Players Theatre presents a reading of “The Gentleman Thief” a […]
Tree Planting Collaborations Celebrate Earth Day
Here’s an item for your next round of Door County Nature Trivia: How many trees have the Climate Change Coalition of Door County (CCCDC) and partner organizations planted in the county since 2016? The answer is an astonishing 10,000-plus. For the fourth year in a row, the CCCDC, the Forest Recovery Project (FRP) and The […]
Door County Honored with Three Awards at Wisconsin Governor’s Tourism Conference
Door County recipients were honored with three awards during the Governor’s Tourism Awards Banquet at the Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism on March 19, 2019. Each year Wisconsin’s tourism industry honors five Governor’s Tourism Awards recipients at the Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism. This year, there were 45 nominees in five different categories. The event […]
Peninsula Pet of the Week: Gizmo
Gizmo is a 9-month-old kitten available for adoption from the WHS Door County Campus. Having been found a stray, he came to us in pretty terrible shape; he had a tick, his ear canals were plugged with debris, and his fur was so matted some parts required shaving. Staff also discovered that Gizmo is blind. […]
