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FeaturedPanhandle Players present Miracle on 34th Street
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesPanhandle Players present Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Play adapted for the theatre by Jerry Hurley & Rob Pierce, December 9-11, 2022. A heartwarming holiday classic retold in the tradition of a live 1940s-era radio broadcast. When a department store Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, his case gets taken all the way to the…
FeaturedPanhandle Players present Sister Creatures
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesPanhandle Players present Sister Creatures by John B. Spohrer, Jr., February 17-19, 2023. Sisters Addie and Bella run a successful day spa in Apalachicola. They are equal partners, and all is fine in Paradise. Then Bella acquires a new boyfriend who threatens her relationship with Addie. Then, as often happens in Florida, the air conditioning…
FeaturedPanhandle Players present Nunsense
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesPanhandle Players present Nunsense: The Mega-Musical by Dan Goggin, April 21-23, 2023. This musical is a hilarious spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a fundraiser. Sadly, the rest of the sisterhood died from botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia, Child of God. Thus, the remaining nuns – ballet-loving Sister…

River’s Edge
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United States“River’s Edge” is a three-act play which tells the stories of Irene and Raymond Simmons, their friends, and those for whom greed and manipulation are simply means to an end. In 1951, Ray and Irene moved to Apalachicola from Tulsa, OK after discovering the opportunity to buy the River’s Edge bar. As with our lives,…
Panhandle Players present A Perfect Weekend for Murder
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesThree couples have a weekend getaway to St. George Island. Secrets, deception, and more are revealed. As things begin to unravel, bodies start piling up. The cast must discover who the killer is during this perfect weekend at the beach. This is a new play by Royce Rolstad.
Panhandle Players present Lend Me A Tenor
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesWinner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world-famous singer Tito Merelli, known as Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as the…
FeaturedNight of the Living Dead
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesNight of the Living Dead™ Live is a fun and hilarious re-imagining of George A. Romero’s legendary classic. Set in 1968 and presented in all black and white, it literally feels like the film has been brought to life and placed onstage. The play lovingly examines the movie itself, the period in which it was…
FeaturedThe Carol Burnett Show
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesThe Carol Burnett Show Live will feature some of the funniest sketches from the famous TV show. Carol Burnett is known as one of the most brilliant comedians of all time, and her Carol Burnett Show ran for 11 years, garnering 25 prime-time Emmy awards and inclusion on Time Magazine’s list of “100 Best TV…
FeaturedMagic Surfer
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesMagic Surfer is set in 1980 on St. George Island, Florida. A group of employees at the largest realty company on the island has become fast friends as they live paycheck-to- paycheck following their dreams of a tropical life. While their cash is thin, they make do helping each other and eatingng from the ocean.Then…
FeaturedLittle Shop of Horrors
Chapman Auditorium 155 Avenue E, Apalachicola, FL, United StatesLittle Shop of Horrors is the man-eating, award-winning musical. The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" - after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD. Over…
