Main Stage

Dear Penfield Players friends,

The Penfield Players Board has been following the international and local developments around COVID-19 very closely, keeping up with and monitoring the latest precautions and procedures administered through the CDC and through our County offices.

The health and safety of our audience, artists, and members is vital. Out of an abundance of caution and to assist with our nation’s preventive efforts, we are postponing our spring production of Art of Murder. We will reschedule the show at a later date, yet to be determined.

We urge everyone to practice caution and follow the CDC’s guidelines for preventing the spread of this disease. Be smart and safe. We will continue to monitor the situation and communicate updates to you as news develops.

Thank you all for your care, support, and understanding.

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Art of Murder

by Joe DiPietro

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In a remote estate in the countryside, Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, awaits the imminent arrival of his art dealer. But this is not a typical visit, for Jack feels wronged and he is intending to kill the man. As Jack lays out his intentions for the evening, his wife, Annie, calmly paints, reluctantly going along with the plan - at least until Jack's threat of violence convinces her otherwise. Will Jack carry out his plan? Will Annie help him or stop him? Or is something else going on? A masterful murder mystery with a touch of comedy, and winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play.  (This is the author of Over the River and Through the Woods).

Performances

POSTPONED: To  Be Announced Spring 2022

The Haunting of Hill House

by F. Andrew Leslie, from the novel by Shirley Jackson

Director Jerry Argetsinger

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A chilling and mystifying study in mounting terror in which a small group of "psychically receptive" people are brought together in Hill House, a brooding, mid-Victorian mansion known as a place of evil and "contained ill will." Led by the learned Dr. Montague, who is conducting research in supernatural phenomena, the visitors have come to probe the secrets of the old house and to draw forth the mysterious powers that it is alleged to possess-powers which have brought madness and death to those who have lived there in the past.

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Performances

November 2021

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