Arts News

Playhouse Holiday Jamboree: Heartfelt, Homegrown, and Pure Entertainment     Ivoryton Playhouse is kicking off the holiday season in true hometown style as the Playhouse Holiday Jamboree  opens this week! This all-new, joy-packed celebration was conceived, written, and co-directed by Ivoryton Playhouse staff members Ben Hope and Katie Barton. Part Prairie Home Companion, part Grand Ole Opry, this world-premiere production blends festive music, winter folk tales, toe-tapping t

We are back for our 5th year at the Wadsworth Mansion, 421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown CT, with our audience immersive, site specific production where YOU, the audience, follow Scrooge everywhere he goes….   ~ And new this year ~   Our first foray into the Russell Library’s historic Reading Room,123 Broad Street, also in Middletown CT.   Dozens of actors portray multiple characters, and the plays are very different from each other. Both are set in the town of Middletown CT,