Playhouse 1960 — Attraction in Jersey Village

It needs a lot of work. I understand how hard local theaters work, trust me its not easy. Getting little to no pay, depending on peoples charity, trying to figure out how to create the next play on a shoe string budget. Not always easy but possible. This one though I get the sense the owners stopped caring years ago. A lot of the staff are kids or perhaps friends/family member of whoever owns the place. I note this because when I went to buy my tickets and no one knew what they were doing on top of that waiting 20 minutes tells me that they really don't care. That's what happens sometimes when you don't pay people for work. This is may guess though. Along with that its been time after time bad productions, like I said I understand how local theaters work. Though when you meet challenges you're suppose to think of creative ways to work around it, not skimp because you don't have the production cost. A lot of the kids looked like their parents forced them into it or since their friends where doing it they decide to do it too. Way too much breaking out of character, a lot of going of script. I get the sense most of them want to be the "funny" guy so they all try to one up each other with one liners to see who gets the most laughs at the end of the show. I agree with the last comment the kids do not need mics, its so obvious that they don't. All in all I can see at one point how someone might have tired but lost the magic. Which is such a shame this place does have potential to make some...

We were there for the Alice in Wonderland play. We got front seats. It is definitely a community sponsored theater. We loved the small community feel. The play was exceptional. All the actors were good and we enjoyed seeing so many ages of children on the stage together. During intermitant, they auctioned off a signed poster. I thought that was an added bit of entertainment. At the end of the play was the only time I thought the temperature was warm. It definitely wasn't hot (no sweating here), so no complaints, really. I hope they are able to get the a/c fixed for the benefit of the actors though. The actors were so good that it inspired my 10 year old to consider...

No or very little air conditioning. No emergency exits properly marked. Poor technology - most actors wore mics that either didn't work at all or were static filled. The mics aren't needed because this is a small venue. Acting was mediocre high school at best. Tickets over-priced. One ticket seller while the other window was strictly for will call but no line. We left 15 minutes into the play due to hard to hear plus 80+deg temps. I got the impression most patrons are friends/family of performers. We won't go back. In this case, you don't get what you pay for. $18...