Crowded Kitchen Players

Crowded Kitchen Players A lively repertory company specializing in physical comedy and action theatre Needlemeyer and Get Ready. For more information visit: www.ckplayers.com

Crowded Kitchen Players was born in Pamela Wallace's kitchen in January 2000 and began with the production of Larry Gelbart's comedy "Sly Fox," produced at the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe. For two years CKP produced such classic productions as "The Front Page," "Twentieth Century," and "A Christmas Carol." The next few years found CKP producing shows at various locations in Allentown and

Bethlehem, PA. In 2007, they took up residence at McCoole's Arts & Events Place in Quakertown, PA. Past productions include: The Cocoanuts, Born Yesterday, Parfumerie, Design for Murder, Animal Crackers, Death Takes A Holiday, The Maltese Falcon, The 39 Steps, Brendan, Rumors, State of the Union, Driving Miss Daisy,Tovarich, To Be or Not To Be, The Sleeping Princess & The Ballad of Nail Broth, (CKP's first children's show), The Manchurian Candidate, Play Ball (aka Chicago), The Prisoner of Zenda, Witness for the Prosecution, Arsenic and Old Lace, Room Service, Noises Off, I Hate Hamlet, Inspecting Carol, Rumors, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, A Thurber Carnival, A Slight Case of Murder, And Then There Were None, Inherit the Wind, Heaven Can Wait and Sly Fox, as well as six original plays by Ara Barlieb:The Down of a Thistle, It Would Take a Miracle, Here Lies Seymour P. Needlemeyer, Sherlock Holmes & The Adventure of the Christmas Goose, The Resurrection of Seymour P.

Saturday night March 14, before "A TERRIBLE BEAUTY" at The Ice House,writer JOANNE BROGAN will speak briefly about her b...
03/13/2026

Saturday night March 14, before "A TERRIBLE BEAUTY" at The Ice House,
writer JOANNE BROGAN will speak briefly about her book---
LETTERS FROM THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY: AN AMERICAN LEARNS ABOUT THE TROUBLES
Ms Brogan's book is based on letters the author received from Political Prisoners and contemporary sources such as newspapers, television reports, scholarly books and doctoral theses.
Many historians agree that often the most advantageous way to tell a big story is to bring it down to how individuals are effected, letting them tell their own stories.
There are many similarities in the struggle for human rights in Northern Ireland and the United States.
This story will emphasis the humanity of residents of Northern Ireland and how their lives were changed by The Troubles.

Great Opening Last NightThree performances remainMarch 13, 14, 15 at The Ice Houseckplayers.com
03/13/2026

Great Opening Last Night
Three performances remain
March 13, 14, 15 at The Ice House
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OPENING NIGHT: "A Terrible Beauty" at The Ice House in BethlehemThrough March 15ckplayers.com“A Terrible Beauty”, our fo...
03/12/2026

OPENING NIGHT: "A Terrible Beauty" at The Ice House in Bethlehem
Through March 15
ckplayers.com
“A Terrible Beauty”, our fourth play in the Irish saga of the past century is not a true story, in the sense that its characters are not meant to portray anyone who actually lived in Belfast in 1922, But, it is a faithful story in that everything that happens in this play is meant to recreate the mood, place, and time of what are called the “Belfast Pogroms”--- daily and savage attacks by British Loyalists on innocent Catholic families in order either to “see every Catholic floating facedown in the bay” or to drive all of them out of the north of Ireland by any political, economic, or physical means possible.
But it is true that these things happened. It’s true that innocent people suffered immeasurably at the hands of their neighbors. And it’s true that these kinds of things are still happening. With public support. Here. Right now.
“MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
William Butler Yeats, “Easte,r 1916”

Dress rehearsal "A Terrible Beauty"March 12-19 @ The Ice Housewww.ckplayers.com
03/11/2026

Dress rehearsal "A Terrible Beauty"
March 12-19 @ The Ice House
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03/09/2026

Scene from ACT TWO of "A Terrible Beauty"
at The Ice House March 12-15
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Allentown, PA
18103

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