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PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE

4351 Peninsula Players Road
Fish Creek, WI 54212


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Cast Set for LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC at Peninsula Players Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 15, 2024

​​​​​​​Peninsula Players Theatre has revealed the cast for the final play reading of its 2024 The Play's The Thing series. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets!...

Cast Set For Peninsula Players Theatre's 4000 DAYS


by Stephi Wild - February 16, 2024

 Peninsula Players Theatre has announced the cast for “4000 Days” by Peter Quilter, its second offering of The Play's The Thing, the theater's winter play reading series. ...

Cast Set for Peninsula Players Theatre's THE NATURE PLAYS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 19, 2024

Peninsula Players Theatre has revealed the cast for its first offering of The Play's the Thing, the theater's winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences....

Mike Fordney Joins Peninsula Players Theatre Board of Directors


by Stephi Wild - January 11, 2024

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater, has announced the appointment of retired banker and Door County resident Mike Fordney to its Board of Directors for a three-year term.  ...

Peninsula Players Theatre to Present 2024 Winter Play Reading Series


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 20, 2023

Peninsula Players Theatre will present the 2024 season of The Play’s the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences. ...

Peninsula Players Theatre Announces 89th Season, June 18 through October 20, 2024


by A.A. Cristi - November 15, 2023

Peninsula Players Theatre announces the 2024 season at Wisconsin's oldest professional theatre. Don't miss the Door County treasure performing from June 18 to October 20....

Peninsula Players Theatre Awarded Grants from The Shubert Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board


by Stephi Wild - September 08, 2023

Peninsula Players Theatre has announced that it was awarded grants from The Shubert Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board, the state’s arts agency. Learn more about where the funds will go here!...

BASKERVILLE Comes to Peninsula Players Theatre


by Stephi Wild - August 30, 2023

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater, presents performances of 'Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery' beginning on September 6 for a six-week run at Door County's premiere professional theater. ...

Judge D. Todd Elhers to Host Pre-Show Seminar Before TRYING Performance This Week


by Blair Ingenthron - August 20, 2023

In conjunction with its production of Joanna McClelland Glass's 'Trying,' Judge D. Todd Ehlers will host a special pre-show seminar at Peninsula Players Theatre on Tuesday, August 22, at 6:30 p.m., in the theater before the 8:00 p.m. performance....

Cast Announced For DAMES AT SEA At Peninsula Players Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - July 24, 2023

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, has announced the cast of the tap-happy musical comedy 'Dames at Sea' with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise. “Dames at Sea” runs for three week...

Past Shows

Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery


The game’s afoot in this hilarious thriller – Holmes and Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” before a family curse ...

Trying
Trying
8/16 - 9/3/2023


A compelling story of two vastly different people trying to understand one another.  Judge Francis Biddle, who served as Attorney General for Franklin Roosevelt and ...

Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea
7/26 - 8/13/2023


Dames at Sea  is a tap-happy gem of a show that celebrates the golden era of movie musicals with a heart as big as the ...

Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit


Love and marriage devolve into chaos and laughter when the late Elvira haunts her husband and his new wife. While researching for his latest novel, ...

A Rock Sails By
A Rock Sails By
6/13 - 7/2/2023


From the creator of Making God Laugh, this world première brings audiences another stellar play filled with humor and heart. Dr. Lynn Cummings, an astrophysicist, ...

Murder for Two
Murder for Two
9/7 - 10/16/2022


A hilarious musical murder mystery in which Vaudeville meets Agatha Christie! This side-splitting, mile-a-minute whodunit features two actors, thirteen characters and one piano!...

I and You
I and You
8/17 - 9/4/2022


An achingly beautiful gift celebrating human connection.Did my mother set this up? She would totally do this make something up just to make me feel ...

Write Me a Murder
Write Me a Murder
7/6 - 7/24/2022


Two writers craft the perfect murder is it fiction or reality?Rodingham Manor, a stately but rather run-down 500-year-old English estate, is an ideal setting for ...

The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker
6/14 - 7/3/2022


A stirring and humor-filled American classic that inspires one to believe in the unbelievable.During the hard years of a dust bowl drought, the Curry familys ...

The Thin Man


Two episodes of the radio program, The Adventures of the Thin Man, will be featured next in our winter play reading series, The Plays the ...

Bell, Book and Candle


A bewitching comedy by John Van Druten.This audio playreading is a part of The Play's the Thing, our winter play reading series. Listening is complimentary; ...

The Dust of Death


An original audio play adapted by Neil Brookshire from The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century by Fred ...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
10/23 - 11/30/2020


A dramatic audio production of Edgar Allan Poes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, adapted and directed by Kevin Christopher Fox, will stream on Peninsula ...

Something Rotten!
7/8 - 7/26/2020


Two brothers set out to write the world's first musical in this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway....

George Washington's Teeth
George Washington's Teeth
9/4 - 10/20/2019


A new comedy by Mark St. Germain.False teeth, false history and genuine laughter. This zany comedy follows the exploits of the struggling New Bunion Historical ...

Silent Sky
Silent Sky
8/21 - 9/1/2019


A stellar play by Lauren Gunderson.A luminously beautiful play. With warm-hearted wit and infectious joy, the riveting true story of these hidden figures comes to ...

Ghost The Musical
Ghost The Musical
7/31 - 8/18/2019


Book & Lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin. Music & Lyrics by Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard.Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel ...

A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced
7/10 - 7/28/2019


By Leslie Darbon. Adapted from Agatha Christies novel.A gripping whodunit. A small-town newspaper advertisement reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, ...

A Trick of the Light
A Trick of the Light
6/18 - 7/7/2019


A world premire comedy by Peter Moore.An astonishing comedy. Eddie is a 40-something guy who one day discovers a very unexpected and extraordinary skillhe can ...

Salvage
Salvage
9/5 - 10/14/2018


SALVAGE (September 5 – October 14) A Play by Joseph Zettelmaier. An intriguing drama with more twists than a corkscrew. When a mysterious woman enters ...

Living on Love
Living on Love
8/15 - 9/2/2018


LIVING ON LOVE (August 15-September 2) By Joe DiPietro, based on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin. A sparkling new comedy. Sparks fly, silverware is ...

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
7/25 - 8/12/2018


The Drowsy Chaperone is a hilarious and meta-theatrical musical that injects a dose of nostalgia and playful satire into the world of classic Broadway musicals. ...

Miss Holmes
Miss Holmes
7/4 - 7/22/2018


Miss Holmes (July 4-July 22) by Christopher M. Walsh. Based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A riveting murder mystery. In this deadly and ...

Now and Then
Now and Then
6/12 - 7/1/2018


NOW AND THEN (June 12-July 1) by Sean Grennan, creator of THE TIN WOMAN and MAKING GOD LAUGH. The world première of a magical comedy-drama. ...

Almost, Maine
Almost, Maine
9/6 - 10/15/2017


Almost, Maine - A charming offbeat comedy by John Cariani. Welcome to Almost, Maine – A tiny village so far north it is almost in ...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
8/16 - 9/3/2017


Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - A delightfully silly comedy of muddled murder attempts by Constance Cox. Based on the story by Oscar Wilde. Love, honor, ...

The Bridges of Madison County


The Bridges of Madison County - Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Book by Marcia Norman. Based on the best-selling novel by Robert James ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
7/5 - 7/23/2017


Peter and the Starcatcher - A play by Rick Elice. Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Music by Wayne Barker. The ...

The Actuary
The Actuary
6/13 - 7/2/2017


A world première comedy-drama, in reverse by Steven Peterson. Romance, marriage, family – told in reverse! The party’s highlight is unassuming Ed’s responsibility, a sealed ...

The Acutary
6/13 - 7/2/2017


Steven Peterson. World Premiere...

The Actuary


Opening Night Gala for the 82nd Season. Join Peninsula Players Theatre for the grand opening of the 2017 season with picnic fare starting at 6:30 ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
9/7 - 10/16/2016


A wildly comic thriller by Patrick Barlow. "The 39 Steps" is a rollicking and riotous spy adventure in which the entirety of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 ...

Alabama Story
Alabama Story
8/17 - 9/4/2016


A children’s book sparks a lively confrontation in 1959 Montgomery in this Midwest première by Kenneth Jones. Inspired by true events, "Alabama Story" centers on ...

THE FULL MONTY
7/27 - 8/14/2016


The Full Monty bursts onto the stage with a hilarious blend of humor, heart, and a healthy dose of male vulnerability. Set in a depressed ...

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
7/27 - 8/14/2016


A lively, uplifting pop-rock musical - that takes it all off with Book by Terrence McNally, Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek. This upbeat musical ...

Agatha Christie's
Agatha Christie's
7/6 - 7/24/2016


A bustling weekend gathering at The Hollow, a country home of Sir Henry and Lady Angkatell, goes deathly awry. While guests dress for dinner and ...

Agatha Christie's The Hollow


A bustling weekend gathering at The Hollow, a country home of Sir Henry and Lady Angkatell, goes deathly awry. While guests dress for dinner and ...

The Hollow
7/6 - 7/24/2016


When Lord and Lady Angkatell host a reunion at their country estate, the hostess mischievously invites Dr. John Cristow, a notorious womanizer, and his wife ...

The Hollow
7/6 - 7/24/2016


When Lord and Lady Angkatell host a reunion at their country estate, the hostess mischievously invites Dr. John Cristow, a notorious womanizer, and his wife ...

Chapatti
Chapatti
6/14 - 7/3/2016


A gentle and poignant late-in-life romance by Christian O'Reilly. Unexpected sparks fly when Betty, the caregiver to an older woman and 19 cats, meets Dan ...

"Nunsense"
9/9 - 10/18/2015


Dan Goggin; book: Dan Goggin; lyrics: Dan Goggin; music: Dan Goggin; dir: Karen Sheridan....

"Outside Mullingar"
8/19 - 9/6/2015


John Patrick Shanley; dir: Greg Vinkler....

"Lend Me A Tenor"
7/29 - 8/16/2015


Ken Ludwig; dir: Linda Fortunato....

"Dial M for Murder"
7/8 - 7/26/2015


Frederick Knott; dir: Joe Foust....

"A Real Lulu"
6/16 - 7/5/2015


Paul Slade Smith; dir: Kristine Thatcher. World Premiere...

Miracle on South Division Street


Meet the Nowaks of Buffalo, NY. Clara and her three grown kids have always known they were special, ever since the miraculous Christmas Eve in ...

The Game's Afoot
The Game's Afoot
8/14 - 9/1/2013


Austin Playhouse is opening their season with Ken Ludwig’s sparkling new comic murder-mystery The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays). The play will open ...


One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter Georges Seurat won a Pulitzer Prize for its deeply ...

Once a Ponzi Time
Once a Ponzi Time
7/3 - 7/21/2013


Joe Foust; dir: Linda Fortunato....

God of Carnage
9/7 - 10/16/2011

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