Season tickets cannot be bought online.  Our ticketing service, which is really helpful to us and you in a number of ways, is only designed for sales for individual shows.  However, we try to make it as easy for you as possible to become a season ticket holder.  You can call the theater at (706)253-2800 and talk to someone or leave a message and we will call you back.  You can send us an email for more details at taterpatchplayers@gmail.com. For either of these options, we’ll let you go ahead an reserve your seat(s) for the show and leave your tickets at the box office.  When you come in you can pick up your season ticket and pay by cash, check or credit card.  Or, you can buy your season ticket when you come to the show, without reserving a seat in advance.

Season Tickets for the last 3 productions of the season are $38, which is a 15% discount off the regular adult prices and will allow the ticket holder to make reservations for each show. Once you are a season ticket holder, you can call or email before the upcoming season show and tell us the date and seat(s) you want and they will be reserved for you. One of our season ticket holders has already picked and held his seats for the whole season! When you come to the theater, just check in with the box office for your seating stubs.  What could be easier?

The three shows that you get with your season ticket this year are going to be terrific:  The Foreigner, Gypsy, and The Miracle Worker.  We think it’s our best season ever.  You can go to the calendar page to see the show dates and and other activities.  And if you ever have any question, you can call or email.  Someone will always get back to you as promptly as possible.

For those auditioning for The Foreigner, Bruce Pilgrim,  the director, has provided these descriptions of the characters in the show:

Catherine:   Female lead role.  Age:  20-28.  Friendly, energetic, emotional at times, and very concerned about her future marriage to David.
David:  Leading man type.  Age: 28-35.  He plays most of his responses in a straight style.  A Preacher who appears honest, friendly, and open, but holds a dark secret.
Froggy:  Career British military:  Age: 35-45. A man with responsibility.  Brave, polite, and must react with surprise at the twists and turns of the plot he helps to create.
Owen:  Great character part.  Brooding, scheming, uneducated, dirty, unsophisticated,  mean,  but a true coward at heart.  Owen can be aged from 25-55.
Betty:  Older woman aged 50-70 who owns the fish camp.  She is worried about the future of her business.  She is loud and brass and makes herself known whenever she enters a room.  She is quite brave and game for an adventure.
Ellard:  Younger brother of Catherine.  Age: 16-20.  He is just a little odd and out of touch.  Some might think him stupid or dimwitted, but he is just awkward. The actor playing this role must have a great sense of comic timing.
Charlie:  Lead male role:  Age: 28-40.  Charlie is quite shy around others but opens up by the end of the play.  He is the Foreigner who pretends not to know English.  He must be able to portray great facial expressions and have a great sense of comic timing.

And the tentative rehearsal schedule for the show can be accessed by clicking here.

Please note new show dates below!  Sunday shows at 2PM, all others at 7:30 PM:

The first play of our 2012 Season is The Dixie Swim Club.  This hilarious comedy features five women who swam together on their college team.  Every year, they get together at the same beach house for a weekend to reminisce, unwind, and catch up.  During the course of the show, they age from 44 to 77, but their friendship and laughter never age.  Sheree is the All-American soccer mom, organized and practical and she will be played by Kimberly Martin. Lexie is a flamboyant, multi-married event planner and decorator and will be brought to life by Lynn Mulkey.  Dinah, portrayed by Janet Vardaman,  is a wise-cracking high powered lawyer.  Jeri Neal  is a one-time nun with an always positive outlook and some new things in her life.  Jackie Bauer will play her.  And brought to life by Ellen Painter,  Vernadette,  in spite of bad luck with husband, job and kids, always tries to find the silver lining.  Their pull-no-punches humor with each other is balanced by the same team spirit they had as a swim team in college.

Director Robert Countryman has scheduled the first rehearsal for December 12, wanting to get right to work on bringing you this great play.  Performance dates are February 10-12 and 17-19 and 27-28 . The show will be produced by Kenneth Farmer and Alex Nawrocki, costumed by Patti Caruso-Hunt, and stage managed by Nan Nawrocki.  They’ve already met and want you to know that any pre-show and behind the scenes help you’d like to give would be welcome.  Contact them through the Tater website at taterpatchplayers@gmail.com.

The Tater Patch Players are laughing out loud.  The Haunted House is now a spooky memory,  but something new has taken its place.  Beginning November 17, for four shows only, people will be laughing in their theater (not screaming with fear).  The upcoming Laugh Out Loud show is this year’s director’s workshop.  Two  new directors, along with one experienced director, have put together an evening of comedy for the Tater’s fans.
Aaron Locatelli and Jan O’Kelley are directing, between them, five short plays that make up the first act of the evening’s entertainment.  You will meet a granddaughter who hasn’t got time to teach grandma any “new tricks” — or does  she?  You will go to the museum with a couple who aren’t really a couple, to see art, which isn’t really art.  Then you will meet a young woman wants a quiet afternoon reading in the park. She does not want to deal with some “wacko” from a loony bin, or maybe from a galaxy far, far away.  And speaking of wackos,  a mad scientist starts haranguing  his mumbling assistant — Igor, is it?  But who is really mad?  And how mad is he?  And finally, we take you to the Pillsbury Bake-Off.  What could be more wholesome and friendly?  Until a woman with a little bit of an “attitude” takes on her male competitor, and ultimately, confronts the Doughboy himself.
All this combines to make a side-splitting Act One.  This is followed, in Act Two,  by all the actors who you have seen onstage, plus a few extras, taking you to the not-so-wonderful world of dating. This is a one-act comedy called “Check,Please”.  Rehearsals for this show are being disrupted by laughter, as this cast brings to life every bad date you have ever had.  Will Guy and  Girl ever find Miss and Mister Right?  Things aren’t looking too hopeful.  Come see which of these date nights bring back (bad) memories as you Laugh Out Loud.
Join the Tater Patch Players for an evening of hilarity.  The show will be performed November 17,18, 19 at 7:30 PM, November 20 at 2 PM, at the Tater Patch Players Theater at 95 Philadelphia Lane.  Ticket prices are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors (65 and older) and $13 for students.  Because Tater Patch wants everyone, regardless of their financial ability, to be able to enjoy great theater, they offer their dress rehearsal, at 7:30 on November 16 as Share and Share Alike Night.  If you come to the theater and share your laughter, reactions, and opinions with the cast and directors, they are pleased to perform for you at no charge.  To make this a real “sharing” night, if you come to this rehearsal, you are asked to bring canned goods or non-perishables that will be donated to the Community Food Bank.  For more information, visit the troupe’s website at www. taterpatchplayers. org or call the theater at (706)253-2800.

This month, the Tater Patch Players theater is buzzing with activity.  The Talmadge Brothers Funeral Home and Casket Company has moved into the theater space on the main floor, and will be there scaring folks through Halloween, but up above the funeral parlor, the theater is alive with activity.
Auditions have been held for the next production, Laugh Out Loud, which is a collection of short and funny plays that will be presented on November 17-20.  These are being directed by a couple of Tater Patchers who wanted to try their hands at directing — Aaron Locatelli and Jan O’Kelley.   This  production is  sponsored by Julia Jorns, CPA and Community Bank of Pickens County. The new directors and their casts will be rehearsing in the upstairs spaces until almost show time.  And as soon as the haunted house is done, the theater has been rented for a private party.  After that the onstage rehearsals can begin.  And meanwhile, every Tuesday at 5PM, Camille Hammond leads her yoga class in the theater’s upstairs meeting room.
Meanwhile, the Tater Patch Board has met and is preparing for its end of year Wassail celebration PLUS a concert by Hickory Wind both to take place in December.  On December 4 and 5 auditions will be held for The Dixie Swim Club.  This will be the first show of the 2012 season, to be presented in February.  It is a hilarious comedy featuring five women who were on their college swim team and who meet every year at a beach house for a weekend get-together.  The play spans more than thirty years, and the audience will find more to laugh at with every scene, as the women get older, but not always wiser.  The play is not a “chick” play — men have been heard roaring with laughter at productions of this show as well.  All actresses, be on the lookout for audition information and times.  This is an opportunity for you to shine.
The troupe’s production planning calendar is filling up with names of directors, producers and stage managers who have been picked for the upcoming four-show season.  After February’s show,  May will bring The Foreigner, another great comedy.  The summer will be filled with singing and dancing as Tater Patch Players bring the first big musical to their new home in the form of Gypsy.  There are great parts for both adult and young singers and dancers here.   November will herald a serious but wonderful play with the timeless The Miracle Worker.  And of course the troupe expects to bring you one or more activities and camps for Pickens youth, host the Talmadge Brothers next October, and they tell me they are  working on a few surprises.  Their motto is: If it’s entertaining, it’s Tater Patch — and they say they intend to live up to it in their first full year at their theater.  They invite you to check out their webpage at www.taterpatchplayers.org or telephone the theater at (706)253-2800 to learn more.