The Poor Players Theater Co.

07/01/2023

HAMLET - 3pm & 7pm TODAY | JULY 1 🎭👑
📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center | Grapevine, TX
🎟️ Tickets $12.50 online, or $15 at the door. (Additional reduced cost for 5+ tickets if you buy online!) https://rb.gy/67lup

07/01/2023

TODAY’S THE DAY - HAMLET | 3pm & 7pm 👑🤺🎭
📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center I Grapevine, TX
🎟️ Tickets $12.50 at the link in bio, or $15 at the door!

06/26/2023

SIX DAYS TILL HAMLET | JULY 1 🎭👑
📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center | Grapevine, TX
🎟️ Go get your tickets right now! https://rb.gy/gphv2

06/24/2023

Thanks, Great Hearts Irving! We teacher thespians love getting to bring Shakespeare to the stage during the summer after bringing him to the classroom during the school year.

3.5 hours till the first performance! See y'all there!!

The Poor Players' production of Much Ado About Nothing is this afternoon! Tickets are $12.50 online or $15 at the door. Come and support this initiative of some of our very own Great Hearts Irving teachers! https://rb.gy/67lup

06/24/2023

TODAY'S THE DAY | 💃🏻 💘
🎭 Shows at 3pm and 7pm!
🎟️ Tickets $12.50 online, or $15 at the door. (Additional reduced cost for 5+ tickets if you buy online!) https://rb.gy/67lup

06/23/2023

TOMORROW IS MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | JUNE 24 🏹💘
🎟️ Go get your tickets right now! https://rb.gy/67lup

06/23/2023

THE POOR PLAYERS | Clarke Peterson, Treasurer

“Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.” 📚

Our resident poet (if you've ever laughed at or gone "aha" to anything the Poor Players have written, you inevitably have Clarke to blame), Clarke would like everyone to know that, unlike his character in Much Ado, he very much was born under a rhyming planet, once famously finding not just one but two rhymes for “Vercingetorix” in a single stanza.

👉 TOMORROW, Clarke is playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing!

🎭 MUCH ADO | Saturday, June 24 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/67lup

🎭 HAMLET | Saturday, July 1 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/gphv2

📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center | Grapevine, TX

06/21/2023

THREE DAYS TILL MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | JUNE 24 🏹💘
🎟️ Go get your tickets right now! https://rb.gy/67lup

06/21/2023

POOR PLAYERS’ PRINCIPLES: The Speed of Fun

"I would my horse had the speed of your tongue!"

Benedick hurls this back-handed compliment at Beatrice at the start of Much Ado, and she deserves it. The leading lady's quick wit earns her a place as one of the most beloved and entertaining characters not just in Shakespeare's works, but in world literature. Yet so often, people convince themselves that because this is "high art," the lines should be delivered so slowly that even Hamlet would be tired of drawing things out for so long.

But come on! Shakespeare was in the business of keeping butts in seats, and his audience had places to be! That's why The Poor Players believe in what we call the Speed of Fun: a pace of performance that's just fast enough to keep your brain tickled without sending your neurons into a tail-spin.

So look alive! Because even a 400-year-old play shouldn't take 400 years to perform. 😉

COME BE PART OF THE SHOW (as the audience, of course):

🎭 MUCH ADO | Saturday, June 24 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/67lup

🎭 HAMLET | Saturday, July 1 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/gphv2

📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center | Grapevine, TX

06/19/2023

FIVE DAYS TILL MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | JUNE 24 🏹💘
🎟️ Go get your tickets right now! https://rb.gy/67lup

06/19/2023

THE POOR PLAYERS | Grace Sargeant, Co-Creative Director

“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so because I think him so.” 👩🏻‍🦰

As someone with all the determination, s***k, and soul of a literary heroine, Grace brings a nonpareil kind of delight to her roles on stage. She's been acting in Shakespeare plays since she and Ellis flirted mightily backstage during a middle school production of Comedy of Errors, but her favorite part of being in the Poor Players is that she gets to experience the plays while serving in creative and supporting roles.

👉 This summer, Grace is backstage - conveying all her energy, magnanimity, and kindness to the cast as she co-directs and stage manages both productions!

🎭 MUCH ADO | Saturday, June 24 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/67lup

🎭 HAMLET | Saturday, July 1 - 3pm & 7pm
🎟️ https://rb.gy/gphv2

📍Lancaster Theatre, Palace Arts Center | Grapevine, TX

06/18/2023

SIX DAYS TILL MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | JUNE 24 💃🏻🕺
🎟️ Go get your tickets right now - the best $12.50 you'll spend all week! https://rb.gy/67lup