21st Annual Shakespeare Awards – Announcement

MacGuffin’s 21st Annual Shakespeare Awards for Excellence in Acting All are welcome to attend our annual Shakespeare Awards! Each January MacGuffin celebrates the acting achievements of our amazingly talented actors. Actors who’ve participated in our productions in 2019 have been considered for nominations. Essentially, it’s our version of the Tony Awards.  It’s a wonderful evening…

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Videos from The Lorax, 2018

During the summer of 2018 MacGuffin produced a musical version of Dr. Seuss’, The Lorax adapted by John Rea with songs by John Rea. Here are 3 of the songs from the show: Supposed to Be, Look What We’ve Done and Grow a Forest.

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Spotlight On… Ava Lazin

MacGuffin senior, Ava Lazin, will be playing Maria in our fall production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. She has been a veteran of many MacGuffin productions including: Little Shop of Horrors, Hamlet, Orpheus, More Than Anything: The Movie, More Than Anything, Metamorphoses, Rent, The Music Man, The Fiery Furnace, Wicked, and The…

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2018 Shakespeare Award Ceremony

2018 Shakespeare Awards Ceremony On January 12, 2019 MacGuffin held its 20th Annual Shakespeare Awards for Execellence in Acting and Leadership. The ceremony was held at Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. There were 17 awards in 15 categories. Nominations were announced in December 2018. It was a dress up affair catered by Miles Table. Awards…

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Shakespeare Award Nominations 2018

                      L-R: Emma Ditnes (Associate Artist/Administrator), Liz Fredette (Associate Artistic Director), Mariana Leone (2017 MacGuffin Lifetime Achievement Award winner), John Rea (Artistic Director) On January 12, 2019 at 7 PM MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company will host its 20th Annual Shakespeare Awards for Excellence in Acting. The ceremony will be held at Penn Charter’s Kurtz…

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Orpheus Audition Songs

Below you will find the audition information for MacGuffin’s fall musical, Orpheus. Auditions will be held on Wednesday, September 12 from 6-8:30 PM for actors between the ages of 9 and 18. We will start with a vocal audition and proceed to a dance audition. When actors come to the audition they will immediately fill…

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Orpheus – Character list

Below is a list of characters from John Rea’s new musical, Orpheus. The show has 2 sets of characters. One set appears in the Upper World and the other set appears in the Under World ruled by Hades. It recommended that actors interested in auditioning for the musical to review the myth of Orpheus and…

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More Than Anything: The Movie Premiere Interviews

On April 22, 2018 MacGuffin held its world premiere of More Than Anything: The Movie. The full length feature was shown at the International House in Philadelphia to a crowd of 360 people. We partied and dressed like movie stars. The 40 member cast saw the film for the first time and their reactions are…

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More Than Anything – the Movie Trailer #3

Check out our new trailer for More Than Anything – the Movie. In this scene Potter is introducing our hero, Samantha, to the kids of Tinkerton High School. It’s her first day at her new school. The song is called, ‘Capital T’ with music and lyrics by John Rea. Max Mester plays Potter and Isabella…

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Spotlight on… Isabella Martorano

Isabella Martorano will appear in the leading role of Samantha Anderson in More Than Anything: The Movie on April 22, 2018. She has been a member of MacGuffin’s comedy improv troupe, This Side Up, for the last two seasons. She has appeared in Wicked, Hamlet Cubed, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 13 the Musical,…

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