Cape Fear Playhouse

02/22/2021

Big Dawg Productions is pleased to announce the upcoming Audio Theater production of Chase Harrison's horror thriller, “Wendigo.”
Winner of the 2016 Wilmington Star News Theater Award for Best Original Play, this drama tells the story of four men, lifelong friends on an annual hunting trip on a snowy mountain during the coldest winter on record, trapped in a cabin, as an ancient, evil force of nature terrorizes them, turning the hunters into the hunted.
This hour-long thriller stars Chase Harrison, Robin Dale Robertson, Kevin Wilson and Steve Vernon. The play features an immersive soundscape, along with special audio effects, Engineered and Produced by Scott Davis.
Check it out!!
Ticket price is $15 and can be purchased at:
https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/47432

12/18/2020

12/07/2020

Big Dawg Productions proudly announces An Audio Presentation of a Wilmington favorite! Big Dawg's encore production of “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”, by Tom Mula.
This On Demand streaming event can be purchased by visiting the following link:
https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/43942
Tickets are on sale NOW for $15.00, and the show may be enjoyed Dec. 17th through Dec. 22nd. Once a ticket is purchased, you will be sent a link to a video that contains the play in Audio form.
In the tradition of Radio Theater, the show will feature music, sound effects and powerful performances by four veterans of the Wilmington stage, all recorded in Big Dawg’s home venue at the Cape Fear Playhouse, which has been converted into a fully functioning recording studio!
Big Dawg, through generous grants by The Landfall Foundation and The Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County, is excited to offer our audiences an entertaining yet safe way to stay connected to theater, and this will be the first of more streaming productions to come, both audio and visual. We’ve missed you, and hope to be able to see you in our theater again soon, but for now we’d love for you to enjoy this wonderful program from the comfort of your own home!
Big Dawg Productions kindly asks that one ticket be purchased per person, and not per household. The Honor System will be in place!
The play stars Randy Davis as Jacob Marley, a role that gained him the 2018 Star News Theater Award for Best Actor. The show also features Vanessa Welch as The Bogle, Steve Vernon as Scrooge, and two time Star News Theater Award winner for Best Actor Fracaswell Hyman in multiple roles!
“Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” is directed by David Lee Kent, and sound is engineered by Scott Davis.
Enjoy this modern holiday classic that the Wilmington Star News called “...a gorgeous script that transitions between dialogue and narration like a poem” in a 2018 review.
For questions, please contact Steve Vernon, Artistic Director of Big Dawg Productions, at [email protected]!

“Marley was dead, to begin with…” —and what happens to Ebenezer Scrooge’s mean, sour, pruney old business partner after that? Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. He’s even given his own private tormentor: a malicious little hell-sprite who thoroughly enjoys his work. Desperate, Marley accepts his one chance to free himself: To escape his own chains, he must first redeem Scrooge. So begins a journey of laughter and terror, redemption and renewal, during which Scrooge’s heart, indeed, is opened; but not before Marley—in this irreverent, funny and deeply moving story—discovers his own.

04/20/2020

Big Dawg Productions and Panache Theatrical Productions are excited to announce an upcoming theatrical event!

Big Dawg Productions, in conjunction with Panache Theatrical Productions, are pleased to announce the first “theater” experience in Wilmington since the Covid 19 pandemic has created the need for social distancing.
The two companies have joined forces in order to create an audiobook-style presentation of the script of the 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”, by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater.
The story contains elements that may seem especially familiar today, such as the role of the media in discerning information in an atmosphere of panic, the ability of our government to put the public at ease during traumatic times, and the heroics required when facing a hitherto unknown invading enemy.
Starring Jamey Stone, Holli Saperstein, Bob Workmon, J Robert Raines, Rebekah Carmichael., Hannibal Hills, Jordan Wolfe, Steve Vernon and Scott Davis, this audio experience includes the original dialogue, as well as special effects created both digitally and through the use of foley. The production is directed by Steve Vernon, and engineered by Scott Davis.
Details will be announced soon as to listening platform and premier date. Steps are under way to create an avenue for audiences to listen to the recorded audiobook simultaneously, as a shared experience. The program will also be made available for download.
Both listening options will be on a “pay-what-you-can” basis.
This is the first of a planned ongoing series of audio theater experiences. Big Dawg and Panache will release more shows in this format in order to offer whatever entertainment and escape from reality that we can to the Cape Fear region audience.
For further details, please contact Steve Vernon, Artistic Director of Big Dawg Productions, at [email protected].

09/07/2019

Big Dawg Productions is still in need of one African American male, age 30 to 60 in appearance, for their upcoming production of The Exonerated, by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. This is a theater production, NOT a film project. Big Dawg is a non-profit theater operating out of a 50 seat venue. Rehearsals would start as immediately as possible. Show dates are Wed. Sept. 18-Sun. Sept. 22nd and Thurs. Sept. 26-Sun. Sept. 29. The Exonerated tells the story of six individuals who were sentenced to death row for extended periods of time and eventually released from prison after new evidence surfaced proving their innocence. For more information, please feel free to contact Steve Vernon, Artistic Director of Big Dawg, at 910-612-2239 or by email at [email protected].