With over 40 years of experience in opera, operetta, musical theater, and stage plays, Ms. DellAversano feeds her passion for creating multi-faceted, entertaining theater experiences through her position as Co-Founder, Executive & Producing Artistic Director for Bootless Stageworks. Ms. DellAversano’s talents are noted as being “insightful,” “well-crafted,” “thoroughly effective,” and “amazingly creative.” Her passion for Emerging Artists and unwavering support for new works is a catalyst for Bootless Stageworks receiving several Broadway World Delaware awards as well as being named Most Happening Theater in Northern Delaware. A Delaware Today magazine article highlighted her sewing and costuming talents. "Live theater is alive and well. Experience it. Live it. Be it."
The Candlelight Dinner Theatre, the only dinner theater in Delaware, offers a topsy-turvy murder mystery to go along with your dinner & drinks.
BWW Delaware review of THE PLAY THE GOES WRONG at Wilmington Drama League. The end of summer blues got you down? A little stressed because you're going back to in-person work? Fear not! The Wilmington Drama League's production of The Play That Goes Wrong will put you in a much better mood. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong is a delightful two hours of frivolity, farce, foolery and fun.
It's been a few years since Bootless staged its fan favorite production of Evil Dead, The Musical. And, now that COVID-19 is getting further in the rearview mirror, Bootless deemed it time to bring back the beloved annual Summer Horror Bloody Show, complete with an awesome Pit Splatter Zone.
Will the new musical OTHER WORLD continue in IRL after its premiere at Delaware Theatre Company? I sure hope so!
Here are my initial thoughts on the new original work by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen and Ann McNamee.
Watch an interview with members of the creative team and actors of OTHER WORLD. Get a glimpse into what it takes to put together a brand new work of theater.
Here's where to go to see that holiday show. A list of theaters in New Castle County offering Christmas themed productions and recommendations as to where to grab those pre-show eats.
Like a family reunion, The Whitney Project - A Celebration of Black Joy brings together songs and stories, old and new, for a moment in time like no other.
Jonathan Whitney and friends create a performance piece intertwining music, songs and stories, familiar and original, to celebrate the resistance movement that is Black joy.
While scrolling on Facebook one day, I came across a post from a theater offering a streamed production of Spring Awakening. As I am a hardcore fan of the show, my interest was piqued. Then, I saw a post from a person involved with the theater asking if anyone in the Philly area would provide a review. Given I haven't written a theater review in oh, let's say, eight months, to do so would give me a brief moment of normalcy.
A love letter to the past and an urgent inquiry into living in the present. Limited engagement with only four shows and only 26 seats for each performance.
Theaters devise a new script for operating.
How are local Delaware theaters managing the effects of the COVID-19 shutdown.
Ten questions asking local theaters about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations.
The creation of Wilmington Drama League is interesting, to say the least, and its perseverance to create under any circumstance is historic. Look on WDL's website under the ABOUT tab, and you'll find these tidbits:
Did you know that right in college town of Newark DE, lives the one and only Honorary Dame Edna Understudy?
Love's a Joke is a hysterical, not-to-miss comedy tour as America's top comedy couples dish on marriage, sex, dating after divorce & more! One night only at Bootless Stageworks.
The hit movie starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters turned stage play comes to Bootless Stageworks to open its 2019-2020 season.
Leslie Bricusse's book follows the basic outline of the often told tale. The good Dr. Henry Jekyll is a man with a mission - develop a serum that will separate mankind's innate dichotomy of good and evil to cure mental illness (mainly, his father). Dr. Jekyll's desire to test his formula is aggressively rebutted by the hospital (asylum) board of directors. What's a healer/chemist/visionary to do? Take the serum yourself, and see what happens. What happens in the musical version is more of a 'what did you expect' moment rather than a tension filled drama of good intentions gone horribly wrong.
A musical that is both charming and heartbreaking told by two actors in a very unique way.
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