The Duluth Playhouse Board of Directors announces that Wes Drummond has been hired as Executive Director, effective May 11, 2021. He joins Phillip Fazio, who was recently hired as Producing Artistic Director. Over the past 21 years, Christine Gradl Seitz served as both the Artistic and Executive Director at the Playhouse. She will remain with […]
This theatre review was written by Lawrance Bernabo, for the Duluth News Tribune | Jan 31st 2020 As soon as I saw the cast that director Julie Ahasay had assembled for Steel Magnolias, I looked forward to the production that opened Thursday night (1/30) at the NorShor Theatre. I was eager to see what those six actresses would […]
The graduates of the Teen Intensive experiences are our family here at the Playhouse, and we’re sad to see them go! As they move on to new things, whether that be far away universities, gap years, or even schools only minutes away, we are excited to see them grow and experience more of what life […]
Tales of murder, the macabre and midnight’s bloodiest deeds have long held the power to capture our darkest imaginations and haunt our dreams. Composer/Lyricist Stephen Sondheim mixes the style of the Victorian “penny-dreadfuls” and the Grand-Guignol in Paris, with their naturalistic and amoral horror stories, to create his classic Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of […]
This review was written by Lawrance Bernabo and originally appeared on February 1, 2019, in the Duluth News Tribune. In Don’t Dress for Dinner, the French farce that returned to the NorShor stage Thursday night (1/31), Katy Helbacka makes two bold decisions as the director that could have thrown the production off the rails. Fortunately, she […]
