Free performances with open seating are scheduled periodically. Memorization of lines is not required. Sets, props, costumes and rehearsals are minimal. A great training ground for budding thespians.
Stay tuned for the Spring 2026 Plans
Fall 2025 Highlights
Matinee Theatre – a Howling Success
The hilarious performances of DOCTOR, DOCTOR and NOW HEAR THIS held on Tuesday November 25 had the audience in stitches from start to finish!
First up was NOW HEAR THIS a take-off on the game of Telephone that you played when you were a kid, but it’s an adult version (Oo la la!). Five characters, on a cruise ship, are in a Cocktail Lounge: a flamboyant, cigar-smoking Senator (played by Ken Mallon) asks the Senator’s Aide (played by Jason Herfurth) to pass on a message, he passes it to one waitress (played by Rolene Au Claire) who passes the message to the 2nd waitress (played by Melissa Aranoff) who passes it to a Lady (played by Kellen Perry), and what finally reaches the ship’s captain (played by Jayme Dickson) was hilarious! Short and oh so funny!
That was followed by DOCTOR, DOCTOR, filled with snappy dialogue and characters that you’ve probably run into right here at the Villages. It made everyone laugh and cry, sometimes both at the same time.
Dr. Fatpacker, (played by Bob Dolce) harried by his secretary and full of himself; Jenny Flecks, (played by 
Kristel Moffett) airhead receptionist, who reads People Magazine, does her nails, and chews gum; Mrs. McGillicuddy,(played by Shirley Roberts) an old lady who’s forgetful and hard of Hearing; Bob Bush (played by Paul Miner), and his wife Rose (played by Beatriz Cagley), He’s a drunk who thinks he’s pretty darn funny, and she’s his long-suffering wife; and Mrs. Bea Sting, (played by Connie Hendrickson) who’s a bit of a hypochondriac, short, heavy, and on the prowl.
We can’t wait to see what the Matinee Theatre brings us next season.