Hollie Stevenson-Parrish, Author at KLT

A Christmas Carol

July 8, 2018 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Dates and Times

November 29, 30 and December 1, 7 and 8, 2018 at 7 p.m. and December 9, 2018 at 2 p.m.

About the Show

Back by popular demand–four mysterious spirits visit Ebenezer Scrooge to help him find the true meaning of Christmas. This faithful adaptation will be our 5th Annual Bring a Book to Life production.

Director

Myla O’Brien is a KLT veteran, acting on-stage, working back-stage, directing, serving as a Board Member, including VP of Marketing. She directed KLT’s Marvelous Wonderettes in 2015. While Myla has enjoyed all her roles at KLT from her 1987 debut as the title character in Lily The Felon’s Daughter, to her favorite role of Charlene in 1994’s I Take This Man, which not only resulted in her Best Leading Actress award, but also with her on-stage fiancee becoming her off-stage husband of 20 years, Paul. The two have since collaborated on several productions, but their proudest is their daughters, Allie (17) and Peyton (15). A graduate of Ball State University with a B.S. in Theatre, Myla has volunteered with other theatre organizations around the triad, including directing the World Premier of Conversations in a Cafe and a Staged Reading of All About Faith for Log-Inn Productions. She is Business Manager for The Lattitude Group, a Business Consulting firm headquartered in Kernersville, which is the best town around!

Cast

EBENEZER SCROOGE – DAVID KOLB

GHOST OF JACOB MARLEY – MIKE KOTULA

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST – PAITEN ISELIN

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT -JENNI PIRKEY

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE – MICHAEL MICKIEWICZ

MRS. TURK – TAMMY BASON

CHARLES DICKENS – JOHN SHEA

CHARITY COLLECTOR 1 – PAITEN ISELIN

CHARITY COLLECTOR 2 – SARAH KEPINS

BOB CRATCHIT – GEORGE HURT

MRS. CRATCHIT – MICHELE SWANSON

MARTHA CRATCHIT – EMILY RADFORD

PETER CRATCHIT – BEN JAMES

BELINDA CRATCHIT – ABBY ASHBURN

CRATCHIT BOY 2 – LEVI HEDGECOCK

CRATCHIT GIRL 3 – SARAH CAMERON

TINY TIM CRATCHIT – DENISE BIAS

FRED HOLLOWELL – NICOLAS KURSONIS

MRS. HOLLOWELL – JANEA PLATT

TOPPER – MIKE KOTULA

SISTER 1 – REBECCA STANIFER

SISTER 2 – NINA MITCHELL

HOLLOWELL GUEST 4 – BRIAN ALBRECHT

HOLLOWELL GUEST 5 – ARCHIE COLLINS

BOY SCROOGE – TREY ALBRECHT

MR. FEZZIWIG – MICHAEL MICKIEWICZ

MRS. FEZZIWIG – JENNI PIRKEY

FEZZIWIG CHILD 1 – ELLA LAWRENCE

FEZZIWIG CHILD 2 – ETHAN LAWRENCE

FEZZIWIG CHILD 3 – LEVI HEDGECOCK

FEZZIWIG CHILD 4 – LAURA STRADER

DICK WILKINS – NOAH DUMONT

YOUNG SCROOGE – GRAY WEAVER

YOUNG BELLE – BROOKE SIMMONS

OLDER BELLE – TABATHA EATON

BELLE’S HUSBAND – NICOLAS KURSONIS

BELLE’S DAUGHTER – KYLIE EATON

BELLE’S SON – CALEB EATON

IGNORANCE – JOEY MATTINGLY

WANT – ADDISON STANIFER

GOSSIPER 1 – CHRIS HUGHES

GOSSIPER 2 – BETH STRADER

GOSSIPER 3 – MAUREEN FIORENTINO

WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN 1 – BRIAN ALBRECHT

WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN 2 – MIKE KOTULA

PAWNBROKER – ARCHIE COLLINS

LAUNDRESS – JENNIFER STANIFER

TURKEY RUNNER – KYLIE EATON

TOWNSPEOPLE – AMANDA GIBSON, CAROLINE HOLLAND, JAN KOTULA, MIKE WHICKER, PAUL WILLIAMS

CAROLERS – BETH JAMES, ESTHER MULLIS, KARIS TUCK

Location

James Fitzpatrick Auditorium
512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284

Directions

Tickets

Tickets available now through Brown Paper Tickets or can be purchased at the door. Price includes NC sales tax.

Adults – $15
Students/Seniors – $13
Children – $8

Sponsors

Shrek The Musical

July 8, 2018 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Dates and Times

Preview Night: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 8 p.m. All tickets for Preview Night are $10.

June 14, 15, 21 and 22, 2019 at 8 p.m.

June 16 and 23, 2019 at 2 p.m.

About the Show

Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig. Music by Jeanine Tesori. Book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Shrek the Musical is a Tony award-winning fairy tale adventure.

Director

Steffanie N. Vaughan, played the part of John Adams in KLT’s production of 1776. She has also been in Brigadoon and Alice in Wonderland and directed Tarzan for KLT. She followed her high school boyfriend into the pit for a production of Annie, and became a part of the Piedmont theatre community. Since then, she has played in the orchestra, acted, music directed and directed. Her favorite roles include “Abigail Adams” (1776), “Anna Leonowens” (The King and I) and “Eleanor of Aquitaine” (The Lion in Winter).

Location

James Fitzpatrick Auditorium
512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284
For the 8 p.m shows, the lobby doors will open at 7 p.m. and the auditorium will open at 7:30 p.m.
For the 2 p.m. shows, the lobby doors will open at 1 p.m. and the auditorium will open at 1:30 p.m.

Directions

Tickets

Tickets available online through Brown Paper Tickets or can be purchased at the door. Price includes NC sales tax.

Adults – $15
Students/Seniors – $13
Children – $8

Sponsors

Harvey

July 8, 2018 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Dates and Times

February 22, 23, March 1 and 2, 2019 at 8 p.m. and February 24 and March 3, 2019 at 2 p.m.

About the Show

Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six and a half foot-tall rabbit.

Director

Bobby Bodford is a veteran of stage and screen. As a professional director, playwright and actor, he has over 40 years experience. His directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of the Smoke on the Mountain Trilogy and Fiddler on the Roof for Twin City Stage; and most recently, Avenue Q and Madagascar Jr. for Community Theatre Greensboro. He just completed a summer camp at the Sunset Theatre in Asheboro NC where he directed his adaptation of Treasure Island.

Cast

Myrtle Mae Simmons: Amanda Mayes

Veta Louise Simmons: Pam Barrans

Elwood P. Dowd: Michael Simmons Jr.

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet: Christy Gantt

Ruth Kelly: Tabatha Eaton

Duane Wilson: Archie Collins

Lyman Sanderson: Nic Kursonis

William R. Chumley: Michael Mickiewicz

Betty Chumley: Beth Strader

Judge Omar Gaffney: Larry Horn

E.J. Lofgren: John Walsh

Location

James Fitzpatrick Auditorium
512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284
For the 8 p.m shows, the lobby doors will open at 7 p.m. and the auditorium will open at 7:30 p.m. For the 2 p.m. shows, the lobby doors will open at 1 p.m. and the auditorium will open at 1:30 p.m.

Directions

Tickets

Tickets available online through Brown Paper Tickets or can be purchased at the door. Price includes NC sales tax.

Adults – $15
Students/Seniors – $13
Children – $8

Sponsors

The Dixie Swim Club

July 8, 2018 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Dates and Times

September 21, 22, 28 and 29, 2018 at 8 p.m. and September 23 and 30, 2018 at 2 p.m.

About the Show

Free from husbands, kids and jobs, five Southern friends make an annual trip to the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives.

Director

Dan Seaman has been teaching, directing and designing theatre in the Triad for over 40 years. He taught at Weaver Academy for 26 years and retired from Guilford County Schools in 2004. Dan now teaches and directs at Greensboro College. He has also been a guest director and/or designer with Greensboro Community Theatre, Greensboro City Arts, High Point Community Theatre, Randolph Summer Vacation Playhouse and the Greensboro Public Library’s One City One Book project. At KLT he has directed Headin’ For the Hills, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Papers and Alice in Wonderland.

Cast

Sheree Hollinger — Stephanie Vaughan
Dinah Grayson — LeeAnna Lott
Lexie Richards — Heather Jaynes
Jeri Neal McFeeley — Myla O’Brien
Vernadette Simms — April Marshall

Location

James Fitzpatrick Auditorium
512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284

Directions

Tickets

Tickets available now through Brown Paper Tickets or can be purchased at the door. Price includes NC sales tax.

Adults – $15
Students/Seniors – $13
Children – $8

Sponsors

Auditions Update

August 26, 2017 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Auditions Update:

There has been a location change for auditions for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Auditions will be held at the Senior Enrichment Center, in the basement of the former Kernersville Library, located at 130 East Mountain Street.

2017 Annual Gala and Awards Ceremony

July 2, 2017 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Join the Kernersville Little Theatre at its Annual Gala and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 19, 2017 at the Kernersville Moravian Church Fellowship Hall, 504 South Main Street, Kernersville. The covered dish dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. Please bring one of your favorite dishes to share! The annual meeting begins 6:45 p.m., and we will vote for the 2017-2018 officers and directors. The awards ceremony starts at 7 p.m.

In addition to the awards, we will have KLT’s performers present to entertain you with small skits, songs and plenty of laughs! You can’t get a group of actors together and not have them want to perform! We hope you will join us for food, fun and lots of entertainment. We couldn’t do it without you!

1776 The Musical

June 28, 2017 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Written by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards
Directed by Michael Kamtman

About the Show:

It is a long hot summer in Philadelphia, and the Continental Congress is an exhausted, annoyed, quarrelsome collection of men at each other’s throats over the burning question of independence from Great Britain. This is a musical that brings humor and humanity to American history and well, since it’s a show which is not widely produced due to the large amounts of men needed to cast—we decided its 2018, and we’re going to let the ladies tell it! Join us for a change of tune with an all-female cast of 1776 The Musical.

About the Director:

Michael Kamtman has been a Triad director, actor and teacher since 1988 and has directed over 75 productions in the Triad, including 10 operas. He spent 15 season as an actor/fight choreographer with the N.C. Shakespeare Festival where he performed in over 50 productions. He has an MFA from UNC Greensboro in Directing, a MA from the University of Connecticut and a BA from Bucknell University. He has taught at Greensboro College, Davidson College, UNC Greensboro, Salem College and High Point University. He is now an Assistant Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University. For KLT Kamtman has directed The Sound of Music, South Pacific, The Secret Garden, Inherit the Wind and The Pajama Game.

Dates:

June 14, 15, 16, 22 and 23, 2018 at 8 p.m.
June 17 and 24, 2018 at 2 p.m.

Cast:

Andrew McNair — Debbie Cumming
Abigail Adams — Lauralee Davis Bailey
John Dickinson — Marie Denig
Courier/Painter — Grace DiMaio
Caesar Rodney — Maureen Fiorentino
Dr. Lyman Hall — Christy Gantt
Col. Thomas McKean — Kelly Hayden
George Read — Caroline Holland
Roger Sherman — Chris Hughes
John Hancock — Maxine Isaacs
Courier/Painter — Paiten Iselin
Samuel Chase — Beth James
Leather Apron — Sierra Jay
Lewis Morris — Sarah Kepins
James Wilson — Kelly Kerr
Rev. Jonathan Witherspoon — Jan Kotula
Thomas Jefferson — Natalie Lawrence
Benjamin Franklin — April Marshall
Martha Jefferson — Stephanie Marson
Edward Rutledge — Jessica Perry
Stephen Hopkins — Sharon Pierce
Robert Livingston — Jenni Pirkey
Dr. Josiah Bartlett — Anne Proctor
Joseph Hewes — Debbie Shoffner
Richard Henry Lee — Beth Strader
Charles Thomson — Michele Swanson
John Adams — Steffanie Vaughan

Location:

James Fitzpatrick Auditorium
512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284

Directions

Tickets:

Tickets available soon or can be purchased at the door.

Adults – $15
Students/Seniors – $13
Children – $8
Tickets prices include NC State sales tax

Season Sponsors

Second Samuel

June 27, 2017 By Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

Written by Pamela Parker
Directed by Diana Marshall-Shoaf
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois

Visit the small town of Second Samuel. Change isn’t something the residents of the tight-knit community Second Samuel openly embrace. In fact, it’s one of those places where everything is as it’s always been, and that’s just fine with everyone. But after the summer of Miss Gertrude’s death, sometime in the late 1940s, nothing will be the same again in their small town. A touching story of acceptance and community, experience a change of heart with the residents of Second Samuel.