Greensburg Civic Theatre


	History of Greensburg Civic Theatre Past shows now posted on this page! Greensburg Civic Theatre is one of only a few long-established, volunteer-based, community theatre organizations in Westmoreland County. Now in its 55th season, the non-profit corporation was founded by a small group of people who wanted to provide a forum for local actors and theatre craftsmen, including costumers, set builders, and lighting and sound technicians. The Civic Theatre bounced around town its first fifteen years, performing shows at the Greensburg Armory, the Moose Lodge, and Westmoreland Museum of (American) Art. Many of these shows were done “in the round” with furniture, but minimal sets. In 1969, we established our shows at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center on Old Salem Road, a facility built with the Civic Theatre in mind as one of the tenants. Today, we continue to rent space there for office use, storage, rehearsals, and performances for our adult plays and children's theatrical productions. In the mid-80’s, the theatre formed its Greasepaint Players children’s theatre troupe, producing plays and musicals for a younger audience. The Greasepaint Players produce two or three shows annually which frequently sell out, especially around the holidays. We also conduct two sessions each year of Playin’ Around, a class in creative dramatics for grade-school-aged children. These two avenues create wonderful opportunities to develop talent in teens and children as young as six years old! While the Civic Theatre previously staged musicals at the Garden and Civic Center, they were shows more suited to a small venue. In 1994, the Board of Directors decided to break new ground with the production of a full-scale musical in Greensburg’s Palace Theatre. The King and I was the first of eight annual musicals to date staged at this historic 1300-seat venue, with the Westmoreland Symphonic Winds providing musical accompaniment. Attendance is much higher at the Palace shows than what we could attain at the Garden & Civic Center (with a capacity of 310). In fact, 1996's Fiddler on the Roof sold out all three performances! Costs for these Palace musicals easily reach $25,000 for payment of royalties, costumes, sets, props, lighting and sound equipment, plus professional technicians, theatre rental, and more. More than 100 people each year volunteer their time and talent in the cast, working on behind-the-scenes crews, or as musicians. Only a few people directly received financial compensation for the Palace musical, including the show’s artistic staff and professional light and sound technicians contracted to work on the show. We acknowledge the many talented people who are anxious to perform on stage. But at the same time we face a dwindling number of those willing to volunteer their help as committee workers and backstage help. If a stronger network of volunteers cannot be secured, we will face difficult decisions about the organization's future. As many volunteer-run groups, we need to find more community members who can contribute their time and help. No experience is necessary, honest! We have people who can train volunteers and teach them about costume construction, set building, finding hand props for shows, working with lighting and sound equipment, even ticket sales. Please call and leave a message to offer your assistance at (724) 836-PLAY. As volunteers, our office is not staffed at any specific time; we dash in and out between our "real jobs" and our families! But we’ll return your call and be happy to welcome you aboard. THANKS! Our 57 Seasons of Community Theatre! 1st Season See How They Run • Ten Little Indians • *2nd Season* The Male Animal • The Vinegar Tree • Three Men on a Horse • *3rd Season* Glad Tidings • Gently Does It • Time Out for Ginger • *4th Season* Grand Prize • My Three Angels • The Tender Trap • *5th Season* Bus Stop • Late Love • Jenny Kissed Me • *6th Season* Goose for the Gander • Speaking of Murder • Angel by Accident • *7th Season* Roomful of Roses • The Glass Menagerie • Susan Slept Here • *8th Season* Howie • Someone Waiting • The Third Best Sport • *9th Season* A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden • The Night is My Enemy • Simon and Laura • Warm Peninsula • *10th Season* Send Me No Flowers • Come Back Little Sheba • Wake Up Darling • *11th Season* Sailor Beware • A Hatful of Rain • Oh Men! Oh Women! • *12th Season* Take Her She’s Mine • Witness for the Prosecution • Come Blow Your Horn • *13th Season* The Pleasure of His Company • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Love & Kisses • *14th Season* Never Too Late • Interlock • Lullaby • *15th Season* Early to Bed • Portrait in Black • Any Wednesday • *16th Season* The Odd Couple • Catch Me If You Can • Sunday in New York • *17th Season* The Girl in the Freudian Slip • Angel Street • Are You Old Father William • *18th Season* Wait Until Dark • Long Day’s Journey into Night • Marriage-Go-Round • *19th Season* Minor Murder • Happy Anniversary, Goodbye • My Three Angels • *20th Season* The Wayward Stork • Everything in the Garden • Angela • *21st Season* Love in E-Flat • Everybody Loves Opal • House of Blue Leaves • *22nd Season* How the Other Half Loves • Night Watch • Last of the Red Hot Lovers • *23rd Season* No Sex Please, We’re British • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little • Finishing Touches • *24th Season* Not Now Darling • Ten Nights in a Barroom • Laura • *25th Season* Divorce Me Darling • My Daughter’s Rated “X” • Johnny No-Trump • *26th Season* Hey Naked Lady • The Hasty Heart • Mary Mary • *27th Season* Busybody • The Sunshine Boys • The Spiral Staircase • *28th Season* The Amorous Flea • The Unexpected Guest • Move Over Mrs. Markham • *29th Season* Murder at the Howard Johnson’s • Second Time Around • Barefoot in the Park • *30th Season* Wonderful Town • Chapter Two • On Golden Pond • *31st Season* I Ought to be in Pictures • Deathtrap • Bell, Book & Candle • *32nd Season* Lloyd George Knew My Father • Veronica’s Room • There Goes the Bride • *33rd Season* To Grandmother’s House We Go • Blithe Spirit • Arsenic & Old Lace • *34th Season* Squabbles • Something’s Afoot • Key for Two • *35th Season* Harvey • The Fantasticks • Hay Fever • *36th Season* Chicago • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds • Born Yesterday • *37th Season* The Foreigner • I’ll Be Back Before Midnight • The Rainmaker • *38th Season* Alone Together • Mousetrap • The Odd Couple (Female Version) • *39th Season* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Life With Father • The Haunting of Hill House • *40th Season* Two by Two • Run For Your Wife • Mass Appeal • *41st Season* H.M.S. Pinafore • The Importance of Being Earnest • At This Evening’s Performance • *42nd Season* Cabaret • Deathtrap • Barefoot in the Park • *43rd Season* The King & I • I Hate Hamlet • All My Sons • *44th Season* The Music Man • Shadow Box • I Take This Man • *45th Season* Fiddler on the Roof • Rumors • Harvey • *46th Season* My Fair Lady • The Sunshine Boys • Catch Me if You Can • *47th Season* Hello Dolly! • Tribute • Bus Stop • *48th Season* Oklahoma • Breaking Legs • On Golden Pond • *49th Season* Guys & Dolls • Night Watch • Not Now Darling • *50th Season* Annie Get Your Gun • Never Too Late • The Day They Kidnapped the Pope • 51st Season Chicago • Foxfire • Lloyd George Knew My Father • 52nd Season Brigadoon • Caught in the Net • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten • 53rd Season A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Charley's Aunt • Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 • 54th Season Nunsense • Other People's Money • Picnic • *55th Season* Working • Fools • Social Security • *56th Season* The Fantasticks • The Glass Menagerie • Death of a Don • *57th Season* Something's Afoot • Greater Tuna • Steel Magnolias Greasepaint Players’ 22 Seasons of Family Entertainment! *1st Season* – Rumpelstiltskin is My Name • The Princess & the Goblin • In One Basket • *2nd Season* – Winnie-the-Pooh • Cinderella • Wizard of Oz • *3rd Season* – Alice in Wonderland • Christmas in the Land of Oz • Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs • *4th Season* – Rapunzel & the Witch • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Pinocchio • *5th Season* – A Christmas Carol • You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown • Sleeping Beauty • *6th Season* – Hansel & Gretel • Raggedy Ann & Andy • Red Riding Hood • The Velveteen Rabbit • *7th Season* – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Beauty & the Lonely Beast • Jack & the Beanstalk • *8th Season* – Nutcracker • The Emperor’s New Clothes • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp • *9th Season* – A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley • Alice in Wonderland • Pinocchio • *10th Season* – The Littlest Angel • The Magical Pied Piper • Twelve Dancing Princesses • *11th Season* – Charlotte’s Web • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs • *12th Season* – Ali Baba & the Magic Cave • Nutcracker • Puss in Boots • *13th Season* – Cinderella • Mr. Scrooge • The Tale of Peter Rabbit • *14th Season* – A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail • Hyronomous A. Frog (The Frog Prince) • *15th Season* – The Littlest Angel • Raggedy Ann & Andy • *16th Season* – Abracadabra Aladdin! • Princess & the Pea • *17th Season* – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Rapunzel • *18th Season* – The Rented Christmas • Hi, Ho Robin Hood • *19th Season* – The Nutcracker • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest • *20th Season* – Fee, Fi, Fo Fum! • Alice in Wonderland • *21st Season* – The Littlest Angel • King Arthur's Calamity • *22nd Season -* The Dickens Christmas Carol Show • The Emperor's New Clothes • *23rd Season -* A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail • Narnia Previous Shows: Please enjoy some pictures from 1999's Oklahoma and 2000's Guys and Dolls at the link below. Previous musicals

History of Greensburg Civic Theatre
Past shows now posted on this page!

Greensburg Civic Theatre is one of only a few long-established, volunteer-based, community theatre organizations in Westmoreland County. Now in its 55th season, the non-profit corporation was founded by a small group of people who wanted to provide a forum for local actors and theatre craftsmen, including costumers, set builders, and lighting and sound technicians.

The Civic Theatre bounced around town its first fifteen years, performing shows at the Greensburg Armory, the Moose Lodge, and Westmoreland Museum of (American) Art. Many of these shows were done “in the round” with furniture, but minimal sets. In 1969, we established our shows at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center on Old Salem Road, a facility built with the Civic Theatre in mind as one of the tenants. Today, we continue to rent space there for office use, storage, rehearsals, and performances for our adult plays and children's theatrical productions.

In the mid-80’s, the theatre formed its Greasepaint Players children’s theatre troupe, producing plays and musicals for a younger audience. The Greasepaint Players produce two or three shows annually which frequently sell out, especially around the holidays. We also conduct two sessions each year of Playin’ Around, a class in creative dramatics for grade-school-aged children. These two avenues create wonderful opportunities to develop talent in teens and children as young as six years old!

While the Civic Theatre previously staged musicals at the Garden and Civic Center, they were shows more suited to a small venue. In 1994, the Board of Directors decided to break new ground with the production of a full-scale musical in Greensburg’s Palace Theatre. The King and I was the first of eight annual musicals to date staged at this historic 1300-seat venue, with the Westmoreland Symphonic Winds providing musical accompaniment. Attendance is much higher at the Palace shows than what we could attain at the Garden & Civic Center (with a capacity of 310). In fact, 1996's Fiddler on the Roof sold out all three performances! Costs for these Palace musicals easily reach $25,000 for payment of royalties, costumes, sets, props, lighting and sound equipment, plus professional technicians, theatre rental, and more. More than 100 people each year volunteer their time and talent in the cast, working on behind-the-scenes crews, or as musicians. Only a few people directly received financial compensation for the Palace musical, including the show’s artistic staff and professional light and sound technicians contracted to work on the show.

We acknowledge the many talented people who are anxious to perform on stage. But at the same time we face a dwindling number of those willing to volunteer their help as committee workers and backstage help. If a stronger network of volunteers cannot be secured, we will face difficult decisions about the organization's future. As many volunteer-run groups, we need to find more community members who can contribute their time and help. No experience is necessary, honest! We have people who can train volunteers and teach them about costume construction, set building, finding hand props for shows, working with lighting and sound equipment, even ticket sales. Please call and leave a message to offer your assistance at (724) 836-PLAY. As volunteers, our office is not staffed at any specific time; we dash in and out between our "real jobs" and our families! But we’ll return your call and be happy to welcome you aboard.

THANKS!

Our 57 Seasons of Community Theatre!
1st Season See How They Run • Ten Little Indians • 2nd Season The Male Animal • The Vinegar Tree • Three Men on a Horse • 3rd Season Glad Tidings • Gently Does It • Time Out for Ginger • 4th Season Grand Prize • My Three Angels • The Tender Trap • 5th Season Bus Stop • Late Love • Jenny Kissed Me • 6th Season Goose for the Gander • Speaking of Murder • Angel by Accident • 7th Season Roomful of Roses • The Glass Menagerie • Susan Slept Here • 8th Season Howie • Someone Waiting • The Third Best Sport • 9th Season A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden • The Night is My Enemy • Simon and Laura • Warm Peninsula • 10th Season Send Me No Flowers • Come Back Little Sheba • Wake Up Darling • 11th Season Sailor Beware • A Hatful of Rain • Oh Men! Oh Women! • 12th Season Take Her She’s Mine • Witness for the Prosecution • Come Blow Your Horn • 13th Season The Pleasure of His Company • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Love & Kisses • 14th Season Never Too Late • Interlock • Lullaby • 15th Season Early to Bed • Portrait in Black • Any Wednesday • 16th Season The Odd Couple • Catch Me If You Can • Sunday in New York • 17th Season The Girl in the Freudian Slip • Angel Street • Are You Old Father William • 18th Season Wait Until Dark • Long Day’s Journey into Night • Marriage-Go-Round • 19th Season Minor Murder • Happy Anniversary, Goodbye • My Three Angels • 20th Season The Wayward Stork • Everything in the Garden • Angela • 21st Season Love in E-Flat • Everybody Loves Opal • House of Blue Leaves • 22nd Season How the Other Half Loves • Night Watch • Last of the Red Hot Lovers • 23rd Season No Sex Please, We’re British • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little • Finishing Touches • 24th Season Not Now Darling • Ten Nights in a Barroom • Laura • 25th Season Divorce Me Darling • My Daughter’s Rated “X” • Johnny No-Trump • 26th Season Hey Naked Lady • The Hasty Heart • Mary Mary • 27th Season Busybody • The Sunshine Boys • The Spiral Staircase • 28th Season The Amorous Flea • The Unexpected Guest • Move Over Mrs. Markham • 29th Season Murder at the Howard Johnson’s • Second Time Around • Barefoot in the Park • 30th Season Wonderful Town • Chapter Two • On Golden Pond • 31st Season I Ought to be in Pictures • Deathtrap • Bell, Book & Candle • 32nd Season Lloyd George Knew My Father • Veronica’s Room • There Goes the Bride • 33rd Season To Grandmother’s House We Go • Blithe Spirit • Arsenic & Old Lace • 34th Season Squabbles • Something’s Afoot • Key for Two • 35th Season Harvey • The Fantasticks • Hay Fever • 36th Season Chicago • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds • Born Yesterday • 37th Season The Foreigner • I’ll Be Back Before Midnight • The Rainmaker • 38th Season Alone Together • Mousetrap • The Odd Couple (Female Version) • 39th Season A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Life With Father • The Haunting of Hill House • 40th Season Two by Two • Run For Your Wife • Mass Appeal • 41st Season H.M.S. Pinafore • The Importance of Being Earnest • At This Evening’s Performance • 42nd Season Cabaret • Deathtrap • Barefoot in the Park • 43rd Season The King & I • I Hate Hamlet • All My Sons • 44th Season The Music Man • Shadow Box • I Take This Man • 45th Season Fiddler on the Roof • Rumors • Harvey • 46th Season My Fair Lady • The Sunshine Boys • Catch Me if You Can • 47th Season Hello Dolly! • Tribute • Bus Stop • 48th Season Oklahoma • Breaking Legs • On Golden Pond • 49th Season Guys & Dolls • Night Watch • Not Now Darling • 50th Season Annie Get Your Gun • Never Too Late • The Day They Kidnapped the Pope • 51st Season Chicago • Foxfire • Lloyd George Knew My Father • 52nd Season Brigadoon • Caught in the Net • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten • 53rd Season A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Charley's Aunt • Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 • 54th Season Nunsense • Other People's Money • Picnic • 55th Season Working • Fools • Social Security • 56th Season The Fantasticks • The Glass Menagerie • Death of a Don • 57th Season Something's Afoot • Greater Tuna • Steel Magnolias

Greasepaint Players’ 22 Seasons of Family Entertainment!
1st Season – Rumpelstiltskin is My Name • The Princess & the Goblin • In One Basket • 2nd Season – Winnie-the-Pooh • Cinderella • Wizard of Oz • 3rd Season – Alice in Wonderland • Christmas in the Land of Oz • Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs • 4th Season – Rapunzel & the Witch • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Pinocchio • 5th Season – A Christmas Carol • You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown • Sleeping Beauty • 6th Season – Hansel & Gretel • Raggedy Ann & Andy • Red Riding Hood • The Velveteen Rabbit • 7th Season – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Beauty & the Lonely Beast • Jack & the Beanstalk • 8th Season – Nutcracker • The Emperor’s New Clothes • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp • 9th Season – A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley • Alice in Wonderland • Pinocchio • 10th Season – The Littlest Angel • The Magical Pied Piper • Twelve Dancing Princesses • 11th Season – Charlotte’s Web • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs • 12th Season – Ali Baba & the Magic Cave • Nutcracker • Puss in Boots • 13th Season – Cinderella • Mr. Scrooge • The Tale of Peter Rabbit • 14th Season – A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail • Hyronomous A. Frog (The Frog Prince) • 15th Season – The Littlest Angel • Raggedy Ann & Andy • 16th Season – Abracadabra Aladdin! • Princess & the Pea • 17th Season – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Rapunzel • 18th Season – The Rented Christmas • Hi, Ho Robin Hood • 19th Season – The Nutcracker • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest • 20th Season – Fee, Fi, Fo Fum! • Alice in Wonderland • 21st Season – The Littlest Angel • King Arthur's Calamity • 22nd Season - The Dickens Christmas Carol Show • The Emperor's New Clothes • 23rd Season - A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail • Narnia

Previous Shows: Please enjoy some pictures from 1999's Oklahoma and 2000's Guys and Dolls at the link below.
Previous musicals