Fish Creek, Wis. (October 25, 2022) – The Board of Directors of Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, recently honored Jim Nelson for his decade-plus service as a member of the theater’s board of directors.  At October’s board meeting, Board President Jill Herlache presented Nelson with a plaque for his 13 years of volunteer […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (September 13, 2022) – On Wednesday, September 8, Peninsula Players Theatre broke ground on two new dormitories that will house its interns and staff members. The company announced the Act II Protecting the Past, Ensuring the Future capital campaign on the opening night of its 87th season on Tuesday, June 14. “We are thrilled to […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (September 1, 2022) –Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, closes its 87th season with the madcap musical whodunit “Murder for Two” with book and lyrics by Kellen Blair and book and music by Joe Kinosian.  Everyone is a suspect in this fast-paced musical mystery featuring 13 characters, two actors […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (August 30, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, celebrates the announcement of Chicago’s 2022 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations with the recognition of current and past company members.  The Joseph Jefferson Awards are Chicago theaters’ equivalent to Broadway’s Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards.  The Joseph Jefferson awards, established in […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (August 11, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for its production of Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You.” Gunderson was awarded the American Theatre Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2014 for “I and You,” which balances […]

Running July 27 through August 14 Fish Creek, Wis. (July 22, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy, “Ripcord.”  What happens when two new roommates make a seemingly harmless bet? It launches a war of one-up-“womanship” at […]

Running July 6th through July 24th. Fish Creek, Wis. (July 1, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for the suspense-filled “Write Me a Murder” by Frederick Knott.  Knott, the author of the Hitchcock classic “Dial M for Murder” and […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (June 17, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to announce the public launch of its capital campaign, Act II: Protecting the Past, Ensuring the Future.  Through the Act II Housing Campaign, the theater plans to raise $3.5 million to build two new dormitories which will replace the aged, insufficient structures in which members of […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (June 8, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for “The Rainmaker” by N. Richard Nash. A road trip Nash took through the American west and a real-life rainmaker inspired him to write the story.  “The Rainmaker” […]

Fish Creek, Wis. (June 3, 2022) – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for “The Rainmaker” by N. Richard Nash. A road trip Nash took through the American west and a real-life rainmaker inspired him to write the story.  “The […]