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Bucks County Playhouse
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Performing Arts Arts & Entertainment Cinema Performing Arts, Cinema [Edit]
70 S Main StNew Hope, PA 18938
(215) 862-2041
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
3 reviews for Bucks County Playhouse
3 reviews in English
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Review from Karen F.
2/23/2009
I agree with Gourmet G. The building is an historic place - and while the quality of the productions can vary greatly from "What was THAT?" to "Broadway Quality", I have seen many a show here under many incarnations of this great play house.
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Review from Christopher C.
Bethlehem, PA
1/18/2011
It will be interesting to see what becomes of the playhouse if/when it reopens after all of the drama and games that led to it's current closing as of the end of 2010.
My wife and I have been going off and on for about fifteen years and like another reviewer said, the quality of the shows was very uneven especially in the last few years.
But the building itself is very neat and like everything in New Hope the parking situation for the playhouse is crazy in that you could either get hosed by parking on site or park verrrrrrrrrrrrry far away for less.
Hopefully a new stable ownership can bring adult and children's shows back to the playhouse at a reasonable price that will allow the place to thrive. -
Review from Gourmet G.
San Francisco, CA
8/7/2005 1 photo
A national landmark rich in theatrical history, the Playhouse has seen some of the biggest names in show business grace its stage, some appearing for the first time in a professional production. Originally a grist mill dating back to 1790, the building - threatened with demolition - was purchased by a group of individuals, including playwright Moss Hart, for the purpose of presenting a summer theater program in the bucolic town of New Hope, a weekend retreat for Philadelphia and New York City residents. It opened in July 1939, and rapidly developed a reputation as the country's premier playhouse. The classic play 'Harvey' and Neil Simon's 'Barefoot in the Park' (then titled 'Nobody Loves Me') both had runs here prior to their Broadway openings. Among the performers who have appeared here are Helen Hayes, Colleen Dewhurst, Shirley Booth, Lillian Gish, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Roddy McDowell, and Walter Matthau. Although run in a strictly professional manner, the building's ambiance is closer to that of a barn where Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and friends would put on a show than that of a Broadway theater. In more recent years, the season has been devoted primarily to popular musicals starring B and C-list headliners like Joyce DeWitt as Mama Rose in 'Gypsy,' which draw not only the tourists, but hordes of Manhattan theater aficionados unable to resist a combination of camp and surefire disaster.
