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“Panic” Setting in at America’s Oldest Summerstock Theatre in Door County

Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Midwest première of Joseph Goodrich’s award-winning suspense-filled thriller, “Panic,” on stage at Door County’s Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, Sept. 8 through Oct. 17 with two Sunday matinees at 4 pm Sept. 26 and the closing performance Oct. 17.
“Panic” is an homage to the stylistic film director, Alfred Hitchcock, and the [...]

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Peninsula Players Company Members Honored at Jeff Awards and Black Theater Alliance

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Door County’s Renowned Summer Stock Theatre celebrates the Chicago’s Black Theater Alliance Awards (BTAA) and Joseph Jefferson Award nominations of several past and current company members.
The Joseph Jefferson Awards are Chicago Theater’s equivalent to Broadway’s Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award while BTAA honor productions featuring African-American artists and themes.
“Congratulations to our past and current company members [...]

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Dimension in Door County, Hardy Gallery Features Off-the-Wall Exhibit, Opening Sept 3

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Melissa Ripp.

One of the first solely three-dimensional shows in recent Hardy Gallery history opens with an Artists’ Reception on Friday, September 3 from 5:30 – 7 pm.

The Hardy Gallery is pleased to announce the final exhibit of its 2010 season, entitled Dimension in Door County: Form Transcending Function. The exhibit will feature three-dimensional [...]

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10th Annual Gills Rock ArtFest, North of the Tension Line at Charlene’s Gallery Ten, Sept 4-5

Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

More than twenty diverse artists working in a tent village, a ginormous Choc-a-lot group-art painting project, a burning man bonfire and drumming circle and the world’s greenest runway fashion show – who in Door County still thinks it’s  “remarkable that life exists north of Sister Bay?”
For the past ten years, Charlene Berg has been evolving [...]

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Algoma Sculptor Believes in the Power of Art to Heal, Earns “Best of Show” in New York

Posted on 16. Aug, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Bren Sibilsky, an Algoma sculptor and painter, has been awarded “Best of Show” in sculpture for “Daedalus” in the most recent Manhattan Arts International show entitled “The Healing Power of Art 2010.”
The show received artwork from every continent and has over 50 artists. In 2008, Bren was a finalist in the Healing Power of [...]

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Comedy Makes a Comeback in “Comic Potential” on Stage at Peninsula Players, Opens Aug 18 Through Sept 5

Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

On stage at Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, August 18 through Sept. 5, is Alan Ayckbourn’s futuristic comedy, “Comic Potential.”
In the foreseeable future, television actors are replaced with programmable robots, and Jacie, an android star, is slated for the scrap heap when a programming glitch is [...]

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Isadoora Announces Open Auditions for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aug 23-24

Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Isadoora Theatre Company is excited to announce open auditions for their fall production, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.  Directed by Henry Timm, the show calls for four men and two to four women.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a new adaption by Jeffrey Hatcher of the R.L. Stevenson classic novella.  Hatcher’s intriguing adaption uses four [...]

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Paul Lurie lecture and presentation at Gallery Ten: “Fine Art Photography Using Film and Digital Tools,” Aug 14

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Door County artist Paul Lurie calls himself “a road photographer,” in that he finds his inspiration along the roadside while walking, biking or slowly driving.
“I enjoy the vistas of the landscape, whether it is the wilderness, the water, a rural farm or an urban streetscape,” says Paul Lurie. “I am interested in how those landscapes [...]

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Ray Kapfamer’s Paintings of the Great Door County ‘River’ Now Showing at Charlene’s Gallery Ten in Gills Rock

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Artist Ray Kapfamer believes that “Door County lacks only one important feature, a great river!”
In his current body of work he solves that problem by painting the Door County ‘river’ – a moving force made up of the flow of energy manifest in the people who come to enjoy the Peninsula.
“These paintings have been created [...]

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7th Annual Door County Festival of the Arts in Sister Bay, Aug 14

Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Artists sharing the artistic process – from blank media to masterpiece, all day on Saturday, August 14 in Sister Bay.

Artistic demonstrations at art festivals may be commonplace, yet few festivals require every artist to demonstrate their craft for the public as artists must do at the Door County Festival of the Arts (DCFA). The 7th [...]

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