Director
ED BASSETT

Stage Manager
ARIC CALABRESE

Monday, September 25, 2023 from 7-9pm 
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from  7-9pm

In a festive mood, the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and a real Farndale first rap their vocal cords and feet around two original, show stopping songs.

We are seeking 3-4 Women and 1-2 Men. No Appointments are necessary. 

All roles are available. rehearsals will be held on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Director
LORI POULIN

Stage Manager
PATTI RICE

Performance Dates:
​Sat., May 6, 2023 at 8:00pm
Sun., May 7, 2023 at 3:00pm

Fri., May 12, 2023 at 8:00pm
Sat., May 13, 2023 at 8:00pm
Sun., May 14, 2023 at 3:00pm

Fri, May 19, 2023 at 8:00pm
Sat., May 20, 2023 at 8:00pm

Monday, March 6, 2023 from 7-9pm 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 from 7-9pm

We are seeking 2 men and 2 women. All roles are open. . Performance dates are May 6 - 20, 2023. Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. Rehearsal schedule TBA.

Cast of Characters:
George: a shoe salesman, friend of Delores’ 
Delores: the wife
Marvin: the husband
Esperanza: an older Spanish-speaking maid

About the Show:
It all started when Delores, an unhappy housewife, and George, a shoe salesman, met at Shoe Fantasy and it was love at first shoe-fitting. The only thing standing in the way was Delores' doting but half-witted husband, Marvin, who would never agree to a divorce. So, there was only one thing left to do—kill Marvin so they can run off together and live a carefree life of passion and romance in a tropical paradise. The lovers come up with a crazy plan to poison Marvin over dinner.

​Delores invites George to dinner and introduces him to Marvin as a new friend. While Marvin checks on dessert, they slip poison into his wine. But things get out of hand when Marvin doesn't fall for the bait. What was supposed to be a simple foolproof murder turns into a hilarious fiasco when Esperanza, the eccentric Spanish-speaking maid, arrives on the wrong day and she, too, falls for George. Now George and Delores must devise a way to get rid of the lovesick Esperanza and carry out their plan to kill Marvin—that is without killing each other first!

For more information, email: info@phoenixstagecompany.org or call 860-417-2505

Director
ED BASSETT

Stage Manager
LAURIE PHILLIPS

Performance Dates:
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8PM
Sunday,  March, 5, 2023 at 3PM

Friday, March 10, 2023 at 8PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 8PM
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 3PM

Friday, March 17, 2023 at 8PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 8pm

Monday, December 19, 2022 from 7-9pm
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 from 7-9pm

We are seeking 2 men, 1 woman and 1 of either gender. All roles are open. The production is being directed by Ed Bassett with Stage Manager Laurie Phillips. Performance dates are March 4 thru 18, 2023. Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. Rehearsals will begin in January with schedule TBA.

Cast of Characters:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Bill): seems to act more like a child than the genius who penned some of the world’s greatest works of theatrical art.

CONSTANTINE STANISLAVSKY (Stan): The Russian scholar. Bill’s great friend.

SARAH BERNHARDT (Sarah): The greatest actress the stage has ever known.

ENSEMBLE MEMBER: Plays Stage Manager / House Manager / Playwright / Producer / Sound Designer / Light Designer / Set Designer / Costume Designer / Director / Stagehand
 
About the Show:
It’s opening night, and master playwright William Shakespeare, theatrical diva Sarah Bernhardt and the indelible intellectual Constantine Stanislavsky lead you on a wild and wacky journey through the history of theatre from Aristophanes to Emile Zola.

This crazy cast of characters will transport you back in time as we relive the various elements of theatre from all parts of the globe. Explore the beginnings of Greek theatre, Aristotle’s Poetics, the fine art of Kabuki, the history of mime, the gladiators of Rome and speculation on the real author of Shakespeare’s plays.

Along the way, the bumbling Shakespeare misquotes himself, Sarah Bernhardt can’t get over the sound of thunderous applause and Stanislavsky gets blown out of a cannon when someone says the name of “the Scottish play” in the theatre!

Through a little perseverance and commedia dell’arte, the famous trifecta attempt to hold the show together, but when the producer appears onstage, things only get worse when the cast finds out they are trapped in a play within a play.

With time running out on the theatre’s rental agreement, the trifecta pays homage to the world’s best-known and beloved plays and musicals by alluding to dialogue from Edward Albee, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Noël Coward, Anton Chekhov, Caryl Churchill, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Sarah Ruhl, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, August Strindberg, August Wilson, Thornton Wilder, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Oscar Wilde and many more all performed at breakneck speed.

​Near the play’s end, the cast realizes that the playwright hasn’t written an ending, wherein our iconic celebrities are forced to seek the audience’s help in finding a creative conclusion to the show.
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For more information, call 860-417-2505 or email info@phoenixstagecompany.org

Director
CHRIS EVANS

Stage Manager
TERESA ALEXANDRU

February 20, 2022 from 6:00-8:00pm

Seeking an actor of color to play the role of Marianne Angelle in their upcoming production of THE REVOLUTIONISTS.

​Marianne Angelle is a badass black woman in Paris. She is from San Domingue in the Caribbean, a free woman, tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all. 

No appointments are needed. Those auditioning will be reading from the script and pages will be provided.

Phoenix Stage Company is an inclusive community theater. We are a 100% volunteer company; no actor stipends are available. 

Proof of vaccination against Covid19 is required to audition and be considered for a role in the production.

Production dates are April 23rd thru May 7th, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. You must be available for all performance dates and Tech week rehearsals (April 18 thru 21) to be offered a role in the production.

More about the show:
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…

You can find more information by visiting our website at www.phoenixstagecompany.org or by calling 860-417-2505.

Sunday, February 6, 2022 from 7-9pm
Monday, February 7, 2022 from 7-9pm.

We are seeking 4 women for this drama/comedy. All roles are open to audition,  This is an open audition process.  Sides will be provided for readings, no monologues are required. 

Auditions will be held at the theater located at 133 Main Street, Oakville.

More about THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson:
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…

Production dates are April 23rd thru May 7th, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. You must be available for all performance dates and Tech week rehearsals (April 17 thru 21) to be offered a role in the production. 

For more information, call 860-417-2505.

Monday, February 24, 2020 at 7:00pm
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:00pm

Auditions will be held at the theater located at 133 Main Street, Oakville.

This is an open audition process.  Sides will be provided for readings, no monologues are required.  We are seeking 3 men and 5 women for this production.  The rehearsal schedule will be Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Sweet-natured Lotty Wilton is suffering depression from the bleak London winter and from an oppressive relationship with her pompous solicitor husband.  When she sees an advertisement in the paper to rent a castle in Italy for the month of April, an idyllic spot "for those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine," she jumps at the chance to escape her downtrodden existence.  Sensing an instant kinship with fellow housewife, Rose Arnott, a severely angelic woman with sorrows of her own, Lotty persuades her along on the adventure.

Seeking to reduce the costs the two ladies find Caroline Bramble, a beautiful and exhausted socialite, and Mrs. Graves, an overbearing widow, to round out the party.  As the month passes, verdant sun-drenched San Salvatore works it magic on each sad and hardened heart, healing grief and bringing hope.  And with the arrival of two chastened husbands and one attractive young artist, romance blooms again.  

Matthew Barber's Enchanted April, based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's beloved novel of the 1920s is a gentle and romantic comedy of manners.  Against the backdrop of a country still reeling from World War I, Enchanted April offers to its characters, and viewers, a necessary balm of sunshine and renewal.
 
The rehearsal schedule will be Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings. For more information, call 860-417-2505 or email info@phoenixstagecompany.org

AVAILABLE ROLES:
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LOTTY WILTON – a Hampstead housewife. Sweet-natured, depressed from the bleak London winter, and from an oppressive relationship with her pompous solicitor husband.

MELLERSH WILTON – Lotty’s husband. A Solicitor.

ROSE ARNOTT – a Hampstead housewife. a severely angelic woman with sorrows of her own

FREDERICK ARNOTT – he husband, a writer.

CAROLINE BRAMBLE - a beautiful and exhausted socialite.

ANTONY WILDING – an attractive young artist.

MRS. GRAVES – an overbearing widow. The eldest of the women.

COSTANZA – an Italian housekeeper

Director
ED BASSETT​

Stage Manager
AMBER LYN DUNPHY

Director
ED BASSETT

Stage Manager
LAURIE PHILLIPS​

Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 7:00-9:00pm
Monday, July 1, 2019 from 7:00-9:00pm

​This is an open audition process. Sides will be provided for readings, no monologues are required. We are seeking a minimum of 8 men and 8 women for this madcap comedyActors of all ethnicities and experience levels are encouraged to audition. All roles are open.

Performance dates for the show are September 7-21, 2019. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. You must be available for all performance dates in order to be cast.  Rehearsal dates are to be determined and will be available at auditions.

AVAILABLE ROLES:
CLOUSEAU - Chief Inspector of the Surete
FRANCOIS -  Clouseau’s driver
CATO - Clouseau’s butler
DREYFUS -  Former Chief Inspector; Clouseau’s arch-enemy
DR. DUVAL  -  Dryfus’ psychiatrist
DRUMMOND - Inspector, Scotland Yard
MCLAREN -  Inspector, Scotland Yard
DR. FASSBENDER -  Inventor of the Doomsday Machine
MARGOT  -  Dr. Fassbender’s daughter
OLGA -  Russian agent; Clouseau’s love
JARVIS -  Dr. Fassbender’s butler
MRS. JAPONICA -  Dr. Fassbender’s maid
MRS. LEVERLILLY - Dr. Fassbender’s housekeeper
MRS. BULLOCK -  Dr. Fassbender’s cook
MR. SHORK - Dr. Fassbender’s gardener
MRS. STUTTERSTUTT - Dr. Fassbender’s beekeeper
TOURNIER - a bank robber
HINDU HARRY -  Dreyfus’ gangster cohort
CAIRO FRED - on of Dreyfus’ henchmen
MAFIA TYPE - another henchman / assistant
INMATE - “Indian” inhabitant of a lunatic asylum
ORDERLIES - at same asylum
WAITRESS -  female assassin
ITALIAN, POLISH, JAPANESE, CHINESE,
MEXICAN, SWEDE, NIGERIAN & ARABIAN - Assassins
CHUCK - head waiter at the Mirage Club
EMCEE - at the Mirage Club
COUPLES - at the Mirage Club
FRENCH LADY. FRENCH MAN -  lovers in a restaurant
WAITER - in same restaurant
TECHNICIAN  - in Dreyfus’ television studio
MESSENGER -  unfortunate bearer of news for Clouseau
DESK CLERKS - German, one male and one female
GERMAN GIRL - spy with a poisoned pretzel
PINK PANTHERS - Stage Hands / Actors

ABOUT THE SHOW
The world's most unusual criminologist, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau—a role originally created by Peter Sellers—fights for his life and for the future of all mankind in the most bizarre and dangerous caper of his brilliantly successful and utterly clumsy career. Paul Dreyfus, once his long-suffering boss, now turned into a raving lunatic, holds the world at bay with the ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine. Dreyfus is out to get Clouseau, the man whose undeserved success has driven him crazy, and he threatens to vaporize continents if the nations of the world don't deliver Clouseau to him—alive or, if at all possible, dead! Blissfully unaware that the army of deadly assassins is gunning for him, or that the beautiful girl who seeks him out is a Russian agent, Clouseau incredibly stumbles and slips by every attack. However, the world is running out of time because the increasingly frustrated Dreyfus, doodling with the Doomsday Machine, is running out of patience