WILMINGTON – The national tour of Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’® is set to make a one-day stop in Wilmington, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at the Playhouse on Rodney Square. The performance, beginning at 2 PM, marks a special opportunity for local audiences to experience the sequel to the wildly successful Menopause The Musical®. The sequel …
Contestants don’t need an audience ticket for a chance to “come on down” and play “The Price is Right Live” April 16 at The Playhouse on Rodney Square in Wilmington. That’s good news for fans of the popular game show, as tickets are quickly selling out, said Daniel Palmieri, director of sales and marketing for The Playhouse. “Two hours before …
Rae Davenport’s favorite scene in “Pretty Woman: The Musical,” playing this weekend at The Playhouse on Rodney Square, involves her walking into a scene that shocks her into exclaiming “Oh, my God.” She won’t give away which scene, but hints that the audience really enjoys the moment. In a musical based on a 1990 movie about the romance between a …
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The Buccini/Pollin Group, which has been called Wilmington’s largest private landowner, has rebranded its downtown holdings. Market West is the new name for five blocks that go from Market to West streets and Delaware Avenue and 12th Street. It features five buildings BPG bought from the DuPont Co. in 1999 and 2017 as the company downsized and moved to the …
Feeling lucky, Delaware theatergoers? You might want to try your hand in a lottery for $25 tickets to “The Book of Mormon” when it hits the Playhouse on Rodney Square March 10-12. The digital lottery is a producer tradition at venues that host the national tour of the hysterical comedy. They have attracted as many as 800 entries at some …
After 50 years of acting in and near Delaware, Gerri Weagraff finally is going to perform at the Playhouse on Rodney Square. She will play the Russian dowager empress living in exile when the national tour of the Broadway musical “Anastasia” hits Wilmington Feb. 9-12. “I’m just really, really excited about coming to perform at the Playhouse in Wilmington,” said …
Single tickets are now on sale for the March 10-12 run of “The Book of Mormon” at the Playhouse on Rodney Square. When the show does play Wilmington in the spring, it will be almost 12 years to the day since the irreverent tale of two missionaries serving in Africa became a Broadway sensation. The tickets, which range from …
The executive director of The Grand Opera House will retire in September after 16 years of steering the fortunes of Wilmington’s premier performing arts institution. Mark Fields started with The Grand in 2006 as a marketing consultant, was appointed managing director in December of that year and then swapped jobs with the-then executive director in December 2014. “It does seem …
Lauren Blair Smith sometimes portrays a woman in the national tour of “Fiddler on the Roof,” coming to Wilmington this week. Sometimes, she’s one of the guys. Smith, who snagged the role as a dancer and understudy to two of the featured characters right out of college, dances as a woman in the first big musical scene, “Tradition.” Then she …
