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And ‘Hidden in this Picture’ is very Aaron Sorkin. “‘The Elevator’ is a really nice, thoughtful piece. “‘The Actor’s Nightmare’ is a comedy, but it has classic elements from Shakespeare and Noel Coward and Beckett,” she said.

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She thinks that putting these three particular plays together creates a good mix because it combines an especially iconic one-act, something brand-new by a Michigan playwright, and a piece by one of the TV world’s wittiest writers. “There are a lot of great one-acts,” Jen Letherer, the Croswell’s production manager, said.

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Producing a series of one-acts gives the Croswell the opportunity to bring something different to its stage. Peter Crist directs this play, which features Conner Raymond and Chris Sancho, both of Adrian Cassie Kirchmeier of Jackson and Andrew Packard of Holland, Ohio. “The Actor’s Nightmare,” one of the most familiar and often-produced one-acts, is a comedy focusing on a man who finds himself, inexplicably, backstage at a theater, and gets put onstage without knowing what he’s doing there or even what play is being produced.Ĭonner Raymond, Andrew Packard and Cassie Kirchmeier portray members of a film crew whose spectacular shot is being interrupted by a group of cows in a scene from 'Hidden in this Picture,' a short play by Aaron Sorkin that's part of the Croswell Opera House's 'Weekend of One-Acts.' All three plays are included in each performance. The three short plays, which are performed back to back with one intermission in a production lasting just less than two hours total, are Christopher Durang’s “The Actor’s Nightmare,” “The Elevator: Sharing With Strangers” by Detroit-area actress/director/writer Kryssy Becker, and “Hidden in this Picture” by Aaron Sorkin, who’s perhaps best-known for writing the TV shows “The West Wing,” “The Newsroom,” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.”

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and may be ordered by calling 51 or online at. The “Weekend of One-Acts” shows take place at 7:30 p.m. But this weekend, area theater lovers get the opportunity to see three such works staged by the Croswell Opera House. It’s awe-inspiring.ADRIAN - In large part, the world of one-act plays is often the purview of college and university theater departments. “Sometimes when you walk in here at the end of the day, and it’s empty, you can stand here and feel the weight of all that’s happened here in the last 156 years. “I think preserving a theater like this gives you a sense of community history and everything it’s been through.”Īnd all these years later, history is alive and well inside these walls. To put things in perspective, The Civil War was underway when construction began on it. “This theater is almost as old as the city of Adrian itself.” He says the Croswell is the oldest theater in Michigan and one of the oldest continually operating theaters in the country. And it truly has been a community-wide effort to make sure it is alive and well more than 150 years later.Įrik Gable is the Marketing Director. It’s been part of the landscape in Adrian since 1866. The Croswell Opera House continues to entertain audiences from all over the region.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A theater in Lenawee County has stood the test of time since the mid-1800s.