Greg Thornton
Dialing M
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.” ― Alfred Hitchcock Rehearsals are in full throttle for our upcoming production at the Playhouse, Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott. From the pen that gave us Wait Until Dark, which ran at the Playhouse in our 2013 Season, this thriller […]
A Chat with the Chairman
“The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a […]
The Stories We Tell
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” – Barbara Kingsolver The Cloverdale Playhouse Page-to-Stage Series began in our 2013 season. It developed out of a conversation Emily Flowers, our Managing Director, and […]
Directing Dinner
“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray The third production of our 2015 Season is Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. It is directed by Mike Winkelman, who currently holds the Ida Belle Young Professorship Award at […]
Managing the Playhouse
“Art for art’s sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden… it is the best […]
Outside Looking In
“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.” ― Carson McCullers, The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings Listening to The Member of the Wedding as we sit around the table in our […]
A Special March
“Come and march with us! You can’t make your witness standing on the corner. Come and march with us!” -Charles Maudlin 1965 “I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.” -Seamus Heaney “I can’t imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.” -Stephen Sondheim From the premiere of a […]
A New Season, a New Play
“There are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion…” -A. Bartlett Giamatti Our Page-To–Stage Series began two years ago and since then, we have received quite a number of […]
The Playhouse Heads Fo(u)rth
“I know, but what is it all about? People loose and at the same time caught. Caught and loose. All these people and you don’t know what joins them up. There’s bound to be some sort of reason and connection. Yet somehow I can’t seem to name it. I don’t know.” “If you did you […]
The Magrath Sisters from Hazelhurst, MS
“Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.” -Beth Henley We have just begun rehearsals this week for Beth Henley’s wonderful Crimes of the Heart, directed by Maureen Costello. I […]
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