Market West is the new name for five blocks that go from Market to West streets and Delaware Avenue and 12th Street. (Buccini/Pollin Group)

Market West is Buccini/Pollin’s new downtown Wilm. brand

Ken Mammarella Business, Headlines

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 …

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‘Book of Mormon’ for $25? Playhouse offers ticket lottery

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

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 …

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‘Anastasia’s’ empress may look familiar to Del. audiences

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

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 …

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‘Book of Mormon’ tickets on sale for March show

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

  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 …

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Mark Fields to retire from The Grand after 16 years

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

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 …

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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ dancer performs male, female roles

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

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 …

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‘Book of Mormon’ to head 2022-23 Playhouse Broadway series

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

Like there hasn’t been enough drama in the world with the Supreme Court leak, mid-terms elections and the Depp-Heard trial, the Playhouse on Rodney Square announced its 2022-23 season Tuesday.  The reallllllly big show will be “The Book of Mormons,” a hilariously blasphemous look at a Mormon mission trip to Africa gone wrong. It will run March 10-12, 2023.  While …

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Delaware Art Museum to require proof of vaccination to enter

Betsy Price Culture, Headlines

The Delaware Art Museum changed its admission requirements today. The Delaware Art Museum announced Thursday that starting Oct. 1, visitors must provide proof of vaccination to enter. The move will help ensure the health of members, guests, staff, volunteers, other visitors and the wider community, museum Executive Director Molly Giordano said in a social media statement. The Art Museum’s move …

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Grand to require masks, vaccine proof or negative test to attend shows

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

The Grand Opera House will require proof of vaccination or negative COVID test and masks in all three of its theaters.   The Grand Opera House now requires masks and proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend shows at either of its theaters or at the Playhouse on Rodney Square. The Wilmington performing arts venue is …

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Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – August 26, 2021

Sonja Frey Town Square Live, Weekly Review

Hover over the image below and a gray bar pops up at the bottom—scroll through the pdf, use direction arrows, zoom in or out, download the PDF, or view in full-screen mode. [pdf-embedder url=”https://townsquaredelaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TSD-Aug-26-2021-1.pdf” title=”TSD Aug 26-2021″] This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Pie, anyone? Playhouse’s long intermission ends with ‘Waitress’ Wilmington film screening bases ticket cost on race, gender …