The Hamburg Players e.V.

18/11/2023

📢 Auditions 📢
In 'And then There Were None', Agatha Christie assembles 10 characters in a luxurious house on an island. And then, just when a storm makes escaping from the island impossible, they are being murdered one by one because, as a mysterious recording claims, they have all gotten away with murder. Whodunnit?

We need to cast 10 colourful characters with plenty to hide, and a competent crew that will help us create the mysterious yet elegant atmosphere and help stage the murders.

Please come along to our clubhouse on Saturday 25 November, 1-3pm or Sunday 26 November, 2-6pm, also if you don't want to act. We are looking forward to including you in the crew and have you involved in the process from day one.

12/11/2023

Last night we played our final show of 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' to a packed house!🎙📻

A huge thank you to our wonderful audiences who came to see us over the last 2 weeks 🫶

The final performance can be a bittersweet affair as afterwards comes the inevitable strike of the set. So we say a fond farewell to wonderful WBFR Studio A and the town of Bedford Falls and look forward to welcoming you again at Theater an der Marschnerstraße from 14-24 February 2024. Watch this space for details!

11/11/2023

Tonight at 7:30 pm we'll be transporting you to the town of Bedford Falls one last time. Yes, it's the derniere of 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play'🎙📻

So if you haven't seen this show yet, tonight's your last chance! 🎭

🎟 Tickets are still available on our website from the link below or pop by the theatre box office tonight before curtain-up
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

10/11/2023

🎙It's Friday and we're backstage with the cast and crew getting ready for the penultimate performance of 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' 📻

Check out our stories for some audience reactions so far 🫶
You definitely don't want to miss this heart-warming show! 🎭

🎟 Tickets are available on our website from the link below or pop by the theatre box office tonight or tomorrow evening before curtain-up.
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

09/11/2023

🎙No live radio play from the 1940s would be complete without vintage commercials, featuring catchy jingles and fun, festive, live musical interludes - and WBFR Studio A in Manhattan is no exception! 🎶🎵 🎄

🎭 There are 3 more chances to see the feel-good show 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' tonight, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm. Don't miss it! 📻

🎟 Tickets are available on our website from the link below or pop by the theatre box office before curtain-up to get yours.
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

📸 Henrik Zawischa

08/11/2023

👼 Clarence the angel is given the task by head angel Joseph to save a man named George Bailey, who, one Christmas Eve, after his business is confronted with bankruptcy, desperately wishes he had never been born. This might just be the perfect opportunity for Clarence to finally earn her wings! 🪽

🎭 The heart-warming show 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' enters its second week tonight at 7:30 pm and will run until Saturday 11th November. Don't miss it! 📻

🎟 Tickets are available on our website from the link below or pop by the theatre box office before curtain-up to get yours
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

📸 Conrad Lüneburg and Henrik Zawischa

06/11/2023

Our friend Mark Lyndon will be performing his show STRESS on 3 December in Wellingsbüttel at 11:30am. All proceeds go to the children's charity Die Arche Hamburg e.V. Check out www.kulturkreis-torhaus.de for details and tickets

05/11/2023

🎙And just like that, the first week of 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' comes to a close! 📻 The cast and crew are taking a well-deserved break.

If you haven't seen this heart-warming, funny show yet, don't fret. Frannie Filmore and the gang will be on air 4 more times next week from Wednesday 8th to Saturday 11th November at 7:30 pm.

🎟 Tickets are available on our website from the link below or pop by the theatre box office before curtain-up to get yours
www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

📸 Camilo Daza

04/11/2023

📢 Attention! Yes, you heard correctly; today you have not one but TWO opportunities to check out the American holiday classic 'It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' at 3:30pm and at 7:30pm 🎄

🎙Be transported back into the golden days of radio where actors, singers and audio artists bring to life the idyllic town of Bedford Falls in today's double bill! 🎭

🗓 All performances at Theater an der Marschnerstraße today and then again from 8-11 November.

🎟 Get your tickets from our website by clicking the link below or pop by the box office before curtain-up.
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

📸 Henrik Zawischa

03/11/2023

🎭 What are your plans for the weekend? Why not join Frannie Filmore of WBFR Studio A in Manhattan tonight for a live radio broadcast of the American holiday classic 'It’s A Wonderful Life' 🎄

Joined by iconic 1940s stage and screen stars including Diane Dumont, Lana Sherwood, Arthur Orquard, Jacob Alistaire St. Lawrence III, Susie St. Clair and Greta Garland, they'll bring the idyllic town of Bedford Falls to life right before your very eyes (and ears)! 📻

🗓 All performances at Theater an der Marschnerstraße until 4 November and then again from 8-11 November.

🎟 Get your tickets from our website by clicking the link below or pop by the box office before curtain-up at 7:30 pm
www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

📸 Henrik Zawischa and Conrad Lüneburg

02/11/2023

🎊 Now that's what we call a wonderful premiere! Our production of Joe Landry's 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' began its run last night at Theater an der Marschnerstraße and the audience was delighted! 🎭📻

🗓 We'll be performing until 4 November and then again from 8-11 November 2023.

🎟 Get your tickets from our website by clicking the link below or pop by the box office before curtain-up at 7:30 pm
www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

📸 Henrik Zawischa

01/11/2023

Tonight it's curtain-up for 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' 🎭📻

Join us for the heart-warming, life-affirming story of George Bailey, a typical American Dreamer and soul of the community of Bedford Falls. One December night, when he is in desperate need, his guardian angel Clarence is ready to help him out 🪽

Live music, foley, audio artistry, 1940s radio commercials... this show has it all! Don't miss it!🎙

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023
🎟 Get your tickets on our website from the link in our bio.

📸 by Conrad Lüneburg

30/10/2023

Tech rehearsal time! 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' premieres this Wednesday! 📻 🔔🪽🎄

🎟 Tickets available from our website www.hamburgplayers.de

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

29/10/2023

George Bailey is a typical American Dreamer who is looking for adventures – life has different plans for him, though. Instead of building skyscrapers across the globe, he stays in his hometown continuing the family business. Until one day, when he is in desperate need for his guardian angel Clarence to help him out.

The Hamburg Players present a stage version of the classic holiday movie 'It's a Wonderful Life', which reimagines the story as a 1940s live radio broadcast from New York City. In a studio, an ensemble of actors, singers and sound-effects artists bring to life the idyllic town of Bedford Falls.

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023 at Get your tickets www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

28/10/2023

Here's another last little sneak peek into the rehearsal room of our November production before we move into the theatre very soon 📻 🔔🪽🎄

The foley artistry returns with the thunder sheet to create some dramatic weather effects in the town of Bedford Falls! 🌩

🎟 Curious as to what else our cast of audio artists are concocting? Then definitely get your tickets from our website www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

27/10/2023

Trainee Angel Clarence has her eyes on finally earning her wings, when Head Angel Joseph gives her one job – rescue a man called George Bailey who is about to give up on life 🪽

We present the American Christmas classic 'It’s a Wonderful Life' from 1-4 and 8-11 November at – the twist? It’s a live radio show set in a 1940’s broadacasting studio! 📻

🎟 Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

25/10/2023

He is a man of many talents: stage manager, audio artist and actor. After his uncanny performance in Shakespeare’s 'The Tempest' as the thunder, and the moving play 'The Chronicles of the Apple Pie', Corny Collimore has quite a lot on his plate in 'It’s A Wonderful Life'!

Join us at from 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023 as our ensemble ensemble of actors, singers and audio artists bring to life the idyllic town of Bedford Falls. as a live 1940s radio broadcast.

Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

23/10/2023

You know him from 'Chick Carter, Boy Detective', and 'Cowpoke Romance', playing the hero of our story: it's Mr Jacob Alistaire St Lawrence III! He'll bel embodying the typical American dreamer George Bailey in 'It’s A Wonderful Life.'

For many, watching this iconic Hollywood movie is as much part of the holiday season as baking cookies and wrapping presents – it is after all, a timeless American retelling of 'A Christmas Carol'. We present a stage version, which reimagines the story as a 1940s live radio broadcast from New York City. In a studio, an ensemble of actors, singers and sound-effects artists bring to life the idyllic town of Bedford Falls, all the while recreating the warmth and charm of the beloved James Stewart classic.

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023 at
Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

21/10/2023

👀 We're back in the rehearsal room with the cast and directors for another behind the scenes sneak peek into our November show 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' 📻 🔔🪽🎄

🎟 The premiere is in 11 days, so don't forget to purchase your tickets from our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

19/10/2023

Freshly arrived from the City of Love as an au pair, she turned to the stage once the Big Apple opened her eyes. For the very first time on air and for you, playing Clarence the Angel, meet Miss Diane Dumont!

Come join us at on a snowy evening in 1946 when our ensemble of actors, audio artists will musicians get together in a New York broadcasting studio to perform a radio version of the classic Hollywood Christmas movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.
Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

18/10/2023

Thanks to Ganz-Hamburg for the shoutout!

Alle Jahre wieder gelingen den Hollywood-Studios fast unverwüstliche Klassiker. Dazu der hört der Film: 'It’s A Wonderful Life' (Ist das Leben nicht schön?). Im US TV- und Kinoprogramm hat der…

17/10/2023

Arthur Orquard claims he has the perfect face for radio! He's been the "face of radio" and a regular on the Jello-O Hour for over 20 years. In 'It’s A Wonderful Life', he'll be playing, amongst others, evil banker Henry F. Potter, and Joseph, the superintendent of angels.

Come and see Joe Landry's adaptation of the heart-warming holiday classic 'It’s A Wonderful Life' live on stage at where the idyllic town of Bedford Falls will be brought to life as a 1940’s radio broadcast coming to you live from New York City!

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.
Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

15/10/2023

👀 Time for another little sneak peek into the rehearsal room of our November production 📻 🔔🪽🎄

Today we bring you foley artistry at its best, including voices, music and sound effects. As the action of 'It's A Wonderful Life' takes place in the snow-covered Bedford Falls, we've recreated the sound of walking in fresh snow by using a slightly unusual recipe of different footwear and corn flakes! 📻

🎟 Curious as to what else our cast of audio artists are concocting? Then definitely get your tickets for the show from our website www.hamburgplayers.de

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

13/10/2023

Playing Mary Hatch Bailey, let's welcome Olive Stamford: Ohio’s most treasured export! You know her from last year’s technicolor success 'Dottie Goes Bananas'. She is about to fly in straight from Los Angeles to be part of the radio show of 'It’s A Wonderful Life'

We're bringing the show to you as a live radio play on stage at from 1-4 and 8-11 November. So get your tickets from our website and get into the holiday spirit! www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

11/10/2023

👀 Take a look at our teaser trailer for our November show 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play'. Premiering on 1 November at 📻

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November
🎟 Get your tickets via our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

08/10/2023

Having just returned from portraying the tree in 'The Tree-mendous Tales', playing Uncle Billy in this live radio show, meet the gumptious Glenn Graham!

It’s a snowy December evening in 1946 when ten actors, audio artists and musicians get together in a broadcasting studio to perform a radio version of the now classic Christmas movie 'It’s A Wonderful Life'.

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023 at Get your tickets www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

05/10/2023

Please get in touch with Meredith if you can help!
"Dear theater lovers, a portion of the funding fell through for our show TERRITORIUM, so we are still looking for cheap/free accommodation for two of our (female) ensemble members for our last weekend of shows. Please, please get in touch if you know of of some spare rooms for the nights 19-22 October! A big thank you in advance! Yours, Meredith Nicoll ([email protected]) and -kollektiv"

04/10/2023

This foxy lady needs no introduction. Meet one of the brightest Broadway stars and a distinctive radio voice: the marvelous Greta Garland! She will charm the audience with her music performances during our November show.

Be sure to come and experience Joe Landry's adaptation of 'It’s A Wonderful Life' on stage where the idyllic town of Bedford Falls will be brought to life as a 1940’s/1950s radio broadcast coming to you live from New York City!

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

Click the link for more info and tickets: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

01/10/2023

For many, watching the iconic Hollywood movie 'It’s A Wonderful Life' is as much part of the holiday season as baking cookies and wrapping presents – it is after all, a timeless American retelling of 'A Christmas Carol'.

This November we'll be presenting a stage version, which reimagines the story as a 1940s live radio broadcast from New York City. In a studio, an ensemble of actors, singers and sound-effects artists bring to life the idyllic town of Bedford Falls, all the while recreating the warmth and charm of the beloved James Stewart classic.

🎟 Tickets are available from our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets
🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023 at Theater an der Marschnerstraße (Marschnerstraße 46, near U-Bahn Hamburger Straße).

28/09/2023

👀 Time for a little sneak peek into the rehearsal room of our November production 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play'. 🔔🪽🎄

The cast and directors are exploring all the various ways to bring this heart-warming American holiday classic to life on stage in the form of a mid-20th century radio broadcast 📻

🎟 Don't forget to buy your tickets from our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

🗓 Performance dates: 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

26/09/2023

Meet George Bailey, idealist and dreamer. When his family business is confronted with possible bankruptcy, he starts to wonder what life in his hometown would be like if he’d never been born.

We're presenting the American Christmas classic 'It’s a Wonderful Life' from 1st to 4th and 8th to 11th November at Theater an der Marschnerstraße – the twist? It’s a live radio show set in a 1940’s/50’s broadacasting studio.

More info and tickets here: www.hamburgplayers.de/current-production

25/09/2023

Here's another theatrical treat: our friends Couch Theatre will be performing 'The Va**na Monologues' on the 10th and 11th October at 8pm respectively at Hamburger Sprechwerk
Due to high demand, it's advised that you book your tickets in advance here: https://sprechwerk.hamburg/produktionen/the-vagina-monologues

23/09/2023

Here it is: the poster for our November production 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play'! 🎭📻🔔🪽

🎟 Tickets for Joe Landry's adaptation of the 1940s American holiday classic are now available on our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

🗓 Performance dates from 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

17/09/2023

The cast (and some foley objects) had a blast at our recent promo photoshoot for 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play'! 🎭📻 Who knew that sound effects could be created with common household items?!

🎟 Tickets for Joe Landry's adaptation of the 1940s holiday classic are now available on our website www.hamburgplayers.de/tickets

🗓 Performance dates from 1-4 and 8-11 November 2023.

📸 Herwig Lührs