Playhouse of American Classics
By presenting lost plays in Chamber Theater presentations, PAC brings new life to these plays so long ago left on library shelves. Chamber Theater is a mix of readers theatre and full production.
Using cubes, benches, and folding screens, PAC creates the setting needs for the production and then adds special touches to capture the feel of the play: Flowers (For Why Marry?); A clothesline (for Street Scene, produced at the Donnell Library in New York City); or an expansive drape (for Craigs Wife, also produced in New York City.) Actors are often double and triple cast and change with just a suggestion of costume. The plays are fully rehearsed and staged. The emphasis is always on the play and the story it has to tell.
After PAC produced in NYC, the Encores program in Manhattan used this chamber theatre concept to revive Broadway musicals that are rarely produced. Their successful production of CHICAGO was moved to Broadway and is still running 10 years later.
Now, Playhouse of American Classics (PAC) has moved to Western New York and is again grateful for the support Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (BECHS), where we will again be housed for our second theatre season.
Info found at:
www.playhouseofamericanclassics.org/
All performances take place at:
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society,
25 Nottingham Court,
Buffalo, NY, 14216,
(716) 873-9644.
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