Towngate Theatre
Oglebay Institute's award-winning Towngate Theatre has been producing live theater productions in Wheeling for over 35 years. Over 100,000 people have enjoyed the many performances on this community stage. The theater tours productions in regional schools and colleges, conducts a summer Parcel Players program for Ohio Valley high school and college students and encourages the continued writing of new plays through the Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Contest. Get your season tickets today.
2010-2011 Children's Theatre Season
Tickets: $12.50/$11 OI members
Children 10 & under: $10/$8.50 OI members
September 24-26,30 & October 1 & 2, 2010
7 p.m.; 2 p.m. September 26
"Sleeping Beauty"
by Michele L. Vacca
Produced by special arrangement with Classics On Stage of Chicago, IL.
A storybook comes to life in this elegant and amusing adaptation of the classic children’s fairytale that includes just the right balance of comedy, magic and suspense.
January 21-23 & 27-29, 2011
7 p.m.; 2 p.m. January 23
"Beauty and the Beast"
by Warren Graves
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc.
In this heart-warming fable, a young Beauty’s innocence and goodness enable her to see beyond the ugliness of the Beast to the handsome prince trapped in a spell.
May 27-29, 2011
7 p.m.; 2 p.m. May 28 & 29
"Rocks in My Pockets" (All tickets $8)
by Bonnie Collins and Marc Harshman
Produced by special arrangement with Mr. Harshman and the adaptors.
The Woods family uses the rocks around their quiet, mountain farm in many ways, both utilitarian and recreational, until one day two “highly fancy ladies from the city” come to visit and change their entire way of life.
Presented in partnership with
2010-2011 Towngate Theatre Season
Admission is $12.50/$11 OI members
Student Price: $6.25 with valid ID
Curtain 8pm; 2 p.m. Sunday matinees (plays subject to change)
November 5-7 & 11-13
"California Suite"
by Neil Simon
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French,Inc.
This humorous confection ruminates on relationships and life, as couples from New York, Philadelphia, London, and Chicago separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing all their wacky “baggage” with them.
December 10-12 & 16-18
"Harry Quits the Rat Race"
by M. Murphy Martell
National Playwriting Contest Winner
In this ìbattle-of the sexesî comedy, Harry wants to quit his high paying advertising job, but his three wives have no intention of living in the poor house. Who will get the last word and the last laugh?
March 4-6 & 10-12
"Deathtrap"
by Ira Levin
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
A delightful blend of suspense and comedy, this gripping tales follows a Broadway playwright who devises a murderous scheme to take credit for a student’s script as a way to overcome a recent string of failures.
April 29 & 30, May 1,5-7
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
by Tom Stoppard
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French,Inc.
This bedlam of metaphysics, existentialism and vaudevillian slapstick chronicles the misadventures of two supporting characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet as they stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
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Towngate Theatre accommodates the mobility impaired.
Assisted listening devices available for the hearing impaired.
  
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