Reason #1 – Do It for the Laughs!
In just a few weeks, the Providence Players will open our 20th anniversary season with Ken Ludwig’s fast-paced comedy Moon Over Buffalo. Director Jayne L. Victor has assembled an outstanding group of talented actors to bring this outrageously funny play to life on the James Lee Community Center Theater stage.
And, Moon Over Buffalo is just the beginning of the laughter!
The Players’ 2017-2018 season – a year-long celebration of PPF’s two decades of quality, affordable, award-winning, all-volunteer community theater in Northern Virginia – is a season filled with outstanding comedy.
We Invite You to join the Providence Players 20th Anniversary Celebration as a season ticket holder.
Coward’s Private Lives, when they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee. Mistaken identities, outrageous plot twists, slapstick comedy and a slew of self-obsessed performers desperately try to keep things from (hilariously) falling apart. Order Season Tickets online now!
Based on the Book by Norton Juster Norton Juster’s acclaimed fantasy adventure comes to life onstage! Milo is bored and the Demons of Ignorance keep telling him “If you get the urge to do anything — don’t. It could be dangerous.” To the rescue comes the Phantom Tollbooth! Aided by a trusty timekeeping dog Tock, they meet many memorable characters in the Land of Wisdom on their quest to rescue the princesses Rhyme and Reason. Based on the classic young adult novel, The Phantom Tollbooth is outstanding entertainment for the whole family. Order Season Tickets online now!
The classic comedy set in a 1920s Chicago Criminal Courts press room. Reporter Hildy Johnson wants to break away from journalism and get married, but all that changes when there is a jailbreak and an escaped convict, Earl Williams, falls into the reporter’s hands. Hildy’s daunting challenge now is to get Williams out of the building to a safe place for an interview before rival reporters or trigger-happy policemen discover him. Fast paced, and filled with crisp dialog and sharp humor, this irresistible comedy of both stage and screen fame packs a wallop of nostalgic Americana. Order Season Tickets online now!
Neil Simon’s humorous confection in four separate comedy play-lets with one common thread. Four couples from different cities travel to California over the course of a year and stay in the same Beverly Hills Hotel suite, bringing their problems, anxieties and comic marital dilemmas with them. Simon is at his most humane and compassionate best yet the banter flies fast and furious in this popular comedy. The New York Times said “Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best…[He] makes us laugh so effortlessly.” Order Season Tickets online now!
An award-winning company, PPF is proud to be a member of the Washington Area Theater Community Honors (WATCH) organization that presents annual awards recognizing artistic and technical excellence in Community Theater. Since becoming a member in 2004, PPF has been recognized with more than 100 WATCH nominations and awards for quality theatrical performance and technical production, including several outstanding Play and Best Director nominations and awards. PPF has also been honored by the British Players’ Ruby Griffith Awards program, including The Ruby Griffith Award for All Round Production Excellence (the organization’s top honor) in 2009 for All My Sons, the award for Outstanding Achievement in a Play for last season’s Amadeus and previously for The Shadow Box, and third-runner up for Outstanding Achievement in a Play for PPF’s productions of Is He Dead? and Glass Mendacity.
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