March 2025
WORKSHOP
Getting Started with Writing Short Plays
Saturday, March 1 & Saturday, April 5 | S&B Tech Space
As a genre of writing, playwriting might be the most immediately rewarding. You can finish a script one day and have a bunch of actors performing it the next. You just have to know how to start. If you’ve ever acted in plays or even just been in the audience for one and thought, “I have a great idea for a play,” this is the workshop for you.
FUNDRAISER SPECIAL EVENT
For Better or For Worse:
an interactive murder mystery party
March 2, 2025 | 5:15pm - 9:45pm | Gamble Mill Spekeasy
Join us for this interactive murder mystery costume party where you will get to mingle, question suspects, and solve a murder.
SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the Everlasting Love B&B, home of the area’s highly-exclusive couples retreat. In this week-long retreat in a serene setting, couples participate in activities meant to strengthen their bonds, address problems, renew their love for each other. Throughout the week, couples have enjoyed such activities as chocolate making, goat yoga, and stone massages, in addition to relationship counseling and workshops. However, the atmosphere has been marred by repeated acts of vandalism and theft, not to mention the lack of forward progression in any of the relationships. Tension builds, and one person resorts to cold-blooded murder. Was it a lover’s quarrel? Revenge for past wrongs? An act of self-preservation? Join us at the retreat and see if you can solve the mystery, for better or for worse.
MAIN STAGE SHOW/DINNER THEATRE
Slain at the Speakeasy: a murder mystery comedy
March 20 - 23, 2025 | Titan Hollow (Bellefonte, PA)
It’s a typical night at Ruth’s Speakeasy, where you can find the best moonshine and jazz singers in town. Gangsters, crooked cops, businessmen, and rising stars can all be found here, and everyone respects Ruth’s rules of “no business” and “no guns.” However, betrayal, vengeance, and greed threaten the peace, and one person ends up killed. Was it the crooked police chief? The sultry jazz singer? A scorned woman? Join PI Maxwell Parker as he uncovers secrets and solves the mysteries of Slain at the Speakeasy.
April 2025
SPECIAL EVENT
Love, Loss, and What I Wore: a Staged Reading
April 16 & 17, 2025 | 7:00pm | Gamble Mill Speakeasy (Bellefonte, PA)
We are partnering with the Gamble Mill for our third annual charity performance, an exclusive staged reading of Love, Loss, and What I Wore in the comfort of the Speakeasy! This piece features a collection of monologues and ensemble pieces exploring women, clothes, and memory, covering topics like mothers, prom dresses, bras, purses, and the love of wearing black, based on Ilene Beckerman's bestselling book.
All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Out of the Cold, a low-barrier homeless shelter that answers the call to serve those experiencing homelessness in our community by providing shelter, food, and support services during the transition to permanent housing.
May 2025
MAIN STAGE SHOW
A Fox on the Fairway:
A farce by Ken Ludwig
May 1-4, 2025 | American Philatelic Society (Bellefonte, PA)
A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, A Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp, which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with...golf.