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The Stagecrafters has a Play Selection Committee headed by Mark Grayson. Our committee has 15-20 members who propose plays that they think our audience will enjoy. We also encourage our subscribers and other audience members to submit suggestions for plays; we also accept works by local playwrights.
We usually begin with 70-80 titles on our list, order copies of the plays and pass them around. From July through December we meet as a committee on a regular basis to discuss the scripts we’ve read and suggest others we find enticing. We slowly whittle down the list to approximately 25 titles. With this short list we rate each play taking into account staging, sets, costumes, story and audience appeal. After the ratings have been tabulated, we look at our final list and build a season with our directors and budgets in mind.
We are currently in the final stages of choosing plays for the 2011-2012 season! We encourage you, our audience, to send your suggestions to Mark Grayson c/o The Stagecrafters. Many thanks to all of you who keep our boards busy!
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Join us on the second Friday of each production, immediately after the show, to share your thoughts and ask questions of the director, cast and crew. No theater degree required! We have held these informal sessions in the theater during The Visit and Intimate Apparel. These have been enthusiastically attended and both directors and cast have enjoyed the thoughtful interaction with audience members. |
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During the winter months, please be aware that in the case of significant snow or ice on a performance date, a decision about whether to proceed or cancel a performance will be made by 4 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays and by 11 a.m. on Sundays. After these times, there will be an announcement of any change in performance schedule: - on our phone message at 215.247.8881
- on our website at www.thestagecrafters.org
- and on KYW NewsRadio (1060 AM)
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The Stagecrafters was founded to “promote the advancement of knowledge and appreciation of drama in all its forms, and to encourage the writing and production of drama of a high literary and artistic standard by its members.”
Motivated by a mutual love of drama, some twenty friends who had been acting together since 1926 under the sponsorship of the Germantown Women's Club, organized as The Stagecrafters in 1929. The theater was incorporated in 1932. A small house and a smithy of Revolutionary vintage were rented on the present site and used as a workshop and a clubhouse. Only a pot-bellied stove heated the workshop, where one-act plays were presented to an audience of about thirty. The actors appeared from the kitchen or stairway. That building now houses our lobby, a small kitchen area, and newly-renovated restrooms on the first floor, and our lighting and sound equipment on the second floor.
Full length plays were still given at the Germantown Women's Club until the former smithy in front of the house (which served as a work shop) was enlarged to include a small stage and seating for one hundred. In 1936, the two buildings were altered and connected to form our present theater, nearly doubling the audience capacity. The stage and lobby entrances were enclosed later.
In 1950 we were able to purchase both the theater and the lovely historic house on Germantown Avenue which contains an office, a meeting room, a rehearsal room and a kitchen for cast and crew dinners. In the early sixties, we acquired the adjoining property, which allowed us to add required fire-exit doors on the south side of the theater. In the summer of 2002, through a generous bequest from the Estate of Dwight V. Dowley, we were able to expand the lobby/cloakroom area and renovate the theater bathrooms to allow handicapped accessibility. This represents the configuration of our premises as it exists today.
Over the years The Stagecrafters has evolved to its present status as a full-fledged theatrical organization, with a subscription base of nearly 700.
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