Category: Peninsula Community Theatre
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As PCT Raises the Curtain, they Lift the Veil Between Worlds in “Ghost the Musical”
The “showmance” is a term that has become a part of our cultural lexicon – and, as big fans of our local community theater scene, we of course enjoy the gossip we get out of each new playbill that we are handed while walking into a show to find out who calls out each other…
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PCT Tells a Scary Ghost Story (Along with some Tales of Glory) this Christmas Season with “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”
This time of year, the world is flooded with versions of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” – and oftentimes, lost in the musical numbers and the production value, it is easy to forget that, at its core, this is a ghost story. Peninsula Community Theatre’s “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”, told from the perspective of that…
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The 2024-25 ACT-y Winners
Year number two of the HRACT Awards is in the books! Thank you to everyone for coming out to support the amazing community that these theaters create (and of course, some remarkable performances and impressive technical work). We’ve got to run the credits one more time for all the incredible people who made the evening…
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Information and Reminders for those Attending the Awards Ceremony
The 2024-2025 Hampton Roads Achievement in Community Theater Awards is almost here! If you are planning to attend, here are some reminders and information: If you are a NAMED NOMINEE (i.e., your name individually appears on our nomination announcement here): Finally, if you are part of a nomination for Best Performance of a Song (Ensemble),…
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A Real Estate Deal, a Sexy Dracula, and a Woman Doctor (we just call that a Doctor): PCT’s “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” has a Little Bit(e) of Everything
My high school assigned us Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” for summer reading prior to my senior year, but somehow never got around to the obvious autumn follow-up of Brahm Stoker’s “Dracula.” So I cannot tell you how strictly “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors”, playing now at Peninsula Community Theatre, sticks to the canonical text, but I’m…
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Relive Eva Perón’s Rainbow Tour at PCT’s Production of “Evita”
I have a complicated relationship with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. From my perspective: “Evita”, currently playing at Peninsula Community Theatre, is my absolute favorite of the group. Being introduced to the Madonna/Antonio Banderas movie version by my uncles a few years ago, the music continues to live rent-free in my head (I’ll often wake up…
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The 2024-25 HRACT Awards Nominees
We can’t believe that the second season of the HRACT Awards has already come to a close. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the shows this year, and really struggled to narrow down the list of deserving nominees to the requisite number for each category. The winners will be announced at our awards ceremony on October…
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Heartwarming and Heartbreaking, PCT’s “The Boys Next Door” Lives in the Moment, and That is Enough
“A society should be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.” This line, delivered in an aside directly to the audience by Jack, the social worker in charge of the four intellectually disabled men living together in the acceptable-if-not-luxurious apartment in which this show spends the majority of its time, ensures the intent…
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Teamwork Brings “Working” to Life at Peninsula Community Theatre
The first thing I noticed as we walked into “Working” at Peninsula Community Theatre on Friday night was a teddy bear hanging tight to the impressively large set of scaffolding on stage. The second thing I noticed was the hand saw, intimidatingly directly next to the teddy bear. Don’t worry, I thought to myself –…
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Alcohol in a Convent? PCT is having Nun of That in its Production of “Drinking Habits”
Bathed in the glow of holiday lights, we strolled through Newport News’ Hilton Village and into Peninsula Community Theatre for opening night of “Drinking Habits”. A simple but effective set sat on stage, evoking the life that you might imagine in a convent. We were about to find out, however, that nothing about life in…
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