Second Street Players
Milford, Delaware
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This website was last updated June 13, 2025
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Second Street Players / Riverfront Theater / 2 South Walnut St. / Milford, DE 19963
Mail to: PO Box 470 Milford, DE 19963 / Info: (302) 422-0220 / info@secondstreetplayers.com
Second Street Players is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.
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FEB 7-8-9
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MAR 28-29-30
MAY 9-10-11
& MAY 16-17-18
OCT 10-11-12
& OCT 17-18-19
JUL 11-12-13
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NOV 28-29-30
& DEC 5-6-7
Our Summer Broadway Musical...
The Secret Garden
Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman / Music by Lucy Simon
Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Directed by David Button and John H. Hulse
Fridays JULY 11 & 18 at 7:00p
Saturdays JULY 12 & 19 at 7:00p
Sundays JULY 13 & 20 at 2:00p
SSP's Riverfront Theater / 2 South Walnut Street, Milford DE
Show Info, Cast Listing, and Online Tickets CLICK HERE!
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AUDITIONS! AUDITIONS!! For Our Late Summer Family Series Show...
Director Guy Crawford and Assistant Director Ally Deihl will hold
— AUDITIONS —
for SSP's Late Summer Family Series Show
VILLAIN SCHOOL
written by Brian D. Taylor
on Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21, 2025
6:30p both nights at SSP's Riverfront Theater / Downtown Milford DE
Cast Requires 16 Youths ages 10-17 and 5 Adults ages 18+
(NOTE: One Character has to sing a little bit...)
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
QUESTIONS? Please email Guy at thebus1968@yahoo.com
SHOW DATES: August 29-30-31, 2025
Villain School is presented through
special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service.
DIRECTOR NEEDED for 2025 HOLIDAY SHOW!
Due to a scheduling conflict, we need a director for our 2025 holiday show!
The current director is willing to support the incoming director for SSP's November 2025 production of The Homecoming as much as possible to ensure a smooth transition.
Applications, are due by Monday, June 23rd, 2025
Interviews will be held June 24th through the 27th.
There are two separate applications.
Dates for this 2025 production: NOV 28-29-30 & DEC 5-6-7
DIRECTOR WANTED!
DIRECTOR WANTED!
ANNOUNCING Our 2026 Season of Shows and Call for Directors...
SSP is SEEKING DIRECTORS for 2026
MAINSTAGE SHOWS
The Diary of Anne Frank • Girl's Weekend • Gypsy
Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Coney Island Christmas
FAMILY SERIES SHOWS
Cheaper by the Dozen • Beetlejuice Jr.
Second Street Players is now accepting applications to direct for all of our seven productions.
Note there are two separate applications to direct—please click one:
Show dates as well as the licensing company for each show are listed on the applications.
Applications are due by July 7, 2025.
Interviews will be held beginning the week of July 14, 2025, and run through July 27, 2025.
Notification of director selections will be completed no later than August 8, 2025.
CLICK HERE for Show Synopses and Production Dates
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THE SHOWS OF SSP'S 2026 SEASON
The Diary of Anne Frank (synopsis from Dramatists Play Service) – In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne's voice shines through: "When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death." This is a new adaptation for a new generation. JAN 30-31 FEB 1 & FEB 6-7-8, 2026
Cheaper By the Dozen (SSP Family Series) (synopsis from Dramatic Publishing) - Suppose you're an attractive high-school girl and you're not only a member of a large and unique family but your father is, in fact, one of the great pioneers of industrial efficiency. Then suppose he decides, for no apparent reason, to apply his unorthodox methods to you and to the rest of your big family. The results are terribly embarrassing, funny and—it must be admitted—extremely effective! To Anne, however, the chief effect seems to be that of making them seem ridiculous to everyone else at school—especially to the boys! Dad pushes ahead with better organization for his large and delightful family. He puts up a chart for the young people to initial after completing each household task, uses a rung as an imaginary bathtub to demonstrate how to take a really efficient bath and appoints a utilities officer to levy fines on wasters of electricity. While the situations are often uproarious, there's a serious reason. Dad has a heart condition that he's keeping secret. The children don't understand them. Anne, the oldest, rebels. Both Dad and she are miserable at the lack of understanding between them. Then in a deft and moving scene, Dad becomes aware of how much Anne has grown up. MAR 20-21-22 & MAR 27-28-29, 2026
Girl’s Weekend (synopsis from Dramatic Publishing) - In this lightning-quick farce, four women travel to Dot’s Northwoods cabin to consume copious amounts of wine, laugh at their lives, trade stories and chat about their book club’s latest selection. However, after the third case of wine comes through the door, it becomes clear there will be more stewing than reviewing. Carol, who is monitoring her temperature for the best “window of opportunity” to get pregnant, gets a ride to the cabin from her husband, Rick, who is hoping the “time is right” for a quick tryst. She sends him home, frustrated, in a snowstorm, only to discover that her temperature shows she IS ready, and calls him to drive back and hide out in a shed until she can sneak him in with a special porchlight signal. Meg, recently widowed, is having a secret affair with Dot’s son, only to find he has shown up at the cabin unexpectedly and wants to further their relationship in stealth. Meg sends him to hide in a boathouse until he sees her special porchlight signal and the coast is clear to rejoin her in the cabin. Ellie, the youngest and Meg’s daughter, would rather not be a part of the weekend with her “elders” and meets a young townie, inviting him to hide out in a barn. When he sees her special porchlight signal, he climbs into her bedroom window and sneaks her out to a local bar after the other ladies
retire. The only obstacle to each of the ladies’ secret endeavors is Dot, who wants to stay up all night and party with the girls. So they make sure they ply her with plenty of party favors, and Dot proceeds to pass out. The ladies move Dot’s lifeless body from floor to closet to room, as the bottles tip up, the secrets spill out and the men sneak in. The madcap, door-slamming chaos comes to a head when Dot wakes up and discovers her girls’ weekend is full of men! MAY 8-9-10 & MAY 15-16-17, 2026
Gypsy (synopsis from Concord) – Regarded by many theatre professionals as the finest musical every created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success – while secretly yearning for her own. Set all across America in the 1920s and 30s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, Arthur Laurents’ landmark show explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart and sophistication. The celebrated score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim boasts one glorious hit after another, including “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” Let Me Entertain You,” “Some People,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me,” “ If Momma Was Married,” “all I Need Is the Girl,” “You Gotta Get a Gimmick,” “Small World,” and “Together Wherever We Go.” JUL 10-11-12 & JUL 17-18-19, 2026
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (synopsis from Concord) – Get your deerstalker cap on – the plays afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how are from elementary the truth can be.
AUG 21-22-23 & AUG 28-29-30, 2026
Beetlejuice Jr (SSP Family Series) (synopsis from MTI) - It's our show now, kid. The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in Beetlejuice JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager, still grieving the loss of her mother and obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, she and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium. With music and lyrics by Tony Award- nominee Eddie Perfect and a book by Tony Award-nominated pair Anthony King and Scott Brown, Beetlejuice was nominated for eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical. A viral "sucks-yes" on social media, this musical struck a chord with young theatre lovers who adored its unabashed humor and emotional honesty. Created for the generation that made it a hit, Beetlejuice JR. is a wacky theatrical party for all! OCT 9-10-11 & OCT 16-17-18, 2026
Coney Island Christmas (synopsis from Dramatists Play Service) – Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in this new seasonal classic. A holiday show for people of all ages and all faiths, Coney Island Christmas introduces us to Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who (much to her immigrant parents’ exasperation) is cast as Jesus in the school’s Christmas pageant. As Shirley, now much older, recounts the memorable story to her great- granddaughter, the play captures a timeless and universal tale of what it means to be an American during the holidays.
NOV 27-28-29 & DEC 4-5-6, 2026
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