Drama Guild's 2014/15 Season Ends This Weekend

The Havre de Grace Drama Guild produced it’s first play in 2008, a musical called The Nifty Fifties. When the Guild first launched, it was solely a children’s program, putting on one show per year. In the seven seasons since then, though, it has grown to include classes for youth of virtually all ages from Kindergarten through high school, a film program, and an adult community theater group, the Lewis Lane Players. Today it is one of the largest drama programs in the region, with its troupes combining to put on seven theatrical performances each year (some of which include multiple plays). This past year’s slate included Michael Frayn’s farce Alarms & Excursions, a live radio play version of It’s a Wonderful Life and Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s dark musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors.

The 2014/15 theatrical season is getting ready to wind down with three performances this weekend (the Teen Troupe and Lewis Lane Players are presenting the one act plays Mixed Relief and Trifles at 7:00 Friday night and 1:00 and 5:30 on Saturday), but there is no rest for the weary and the Guild shows no signs of slowing down. They have already announced their anticipated slate of shows for the 2015/16 season, including a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning drama and a musical featuring everyone’s favorite Beagle. Most of the Guild’s shows (including this weekend’s performances) are staged at its home “black box” theater inside the Havre de Grace Activity Center at 351 Lewis Lane, although some of the larger productions are held in the High School auditorium.

The new season begins right around the corner on Thursday, July 30, with performances of The Lost Half Hour and Spoon River Anthology by the Guild’s two groups of summer camp students. The full slate of shows for the 2015/16 season are:

July 30, 2015 The Lost Half Hour and Spoon River Anthology (Summer Stock 1 & 2)

November 13 & 14, 2015 Bull in a China Shop (Lewis Lane Players)

November 21, 2015 Aesop’s Fables and Scenes from 10 Minute Plays (Youth Troupe & Teen Troupe)

December 12, 2015 It’s a Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play (Lewis Lane Players; back by popular demand!)

February 27, 2016 Pinocchio (Tiny Tots)

April 15 & 16, 2016 You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Combined Troupes)

May 27 & 28, 2016 Doubt (Lewis Lane Players)

For more information about the Guild, their camps and troupes or to get tickets to their performances, visit hdgdramatroop.com or call (443)987-4395. Tickets for this weekend’s performances of Mixed Relief and Trifles are $10 for adults or $8 for seniors (55+) and children (0-12).