10.06.2025

Thank you to everyone who was part of our “Witches Brew” on Sunday night! Our seven tales of witchery and witchcraft were enjoyed by our great audience along with those watching and listening from offstage. Eleven years after the first “Witches Brew” at the old Vintage Theatre, this second version at the current Vintage was a wicked delight. Thank you to our actors – Anna, Maria, James, Kaity, Debbie, Linda, Ara, Emily, Joi, Bethany, and Ayden – for their portrayals of witches, witch friends, and witch victims. Thank you to directors Lorraine, Kathryn and Matt for bringing these magical stories to life, and thanks to Beth, Jeremy, John, Doug, Tyler and the ushers for adding sound and light and making the evening run smoothly. Thank you to Vintage Theatre for letting us tell our midnight tales in their home, and thank you to Witch Marcheska for casting the fishbowl-drawing spell.

 

I feel like doing another “Witches Brew” right away for our next show, but instead we’ll be dreaming up our show themes for the 2026 season. We’ll announce those in November and our next One Night Stand will be in February. Thank you all!

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10.03.2025

 We have finished rehearsals for our “Witches Brew” staged readings and are performing the show on Sunday night! On October 5, 7:30 p.m. at Vintage Theatre we’ll be sharing our short plays and stories of witches, magical women and sorcery, including “The Steps of Salem,” “Friendship Brew” and “Early One Evening at the Miskatonic University Ladies Auxiliary Book Club.” The cast and I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Here are two more quotes from our cauldron of magical tales:

 

“The world seems to repeat old mistakes in new costumes.” – The Wyrd Sisters by Dana Hall

 

“Please tell me you’re not about to pull a wand from your purse.” – Within One Month’s Time by Steven Korbar

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09.26.2025

We have completed our first week of rehearsals for “Witches Brew” and I have enjoyed working on these tales of witches, powerful women, a demon or two, and a few hapless victims. I hope you can join us for these fun plays and stories on Sunday night, October 5 at Vintage Theater. From the steps of a Salem courthouse to a local occult shop, it's an evening of comedy and drama, history and a little horror (and two screams so far).

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Here are quotes from three of the plays we’ll be featuring:

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“He did ask me to ask you to leave your pointy little hat at home.” – Friendship Brew by Toby Inoue

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“I’m not sure what two-headed cows have to do with anything.” – The Steps of Salem by Jeffrey O’Leary

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“When your writer’s name is Lovecraft, it sort of follows that it might be kind of… lusty.” – Early One Evening at the Miskatonic University Ladies Auxiliary Book Club by John Busser

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09.16.2025

We are happy to announce the cast of our next One Night Stand Theater show, “Witches Brew.” The show features actors Ayden Armstrong, Linda Swanson Brown, James Crapes, Kaity Gray, Joi Hiatt, Debbie Knapp, Emily Koehler Mathena, Maria Ortiz, Bethany Lillis Tisdale and Anna Wagner…and we welcome new (to One Night Stand) actor Ara Sedaka! Matt Davis, Kathryn Gourley, Lorraine Scott and Jim O’Leary will be directing. We hope to see you October 5 for these plays and stories about witches and other magical women. Here are quotes from two of the pieces we’ll perform that night:

 

“But you know one little witch who will not sleep till dawn, who will cast a spell to stay up all night relishing her candy bar.” – The Neighbor by Gina Wencel

 

“Of course, I really don’t believe in any of this. I just think it would be fun to, you know, see if it works.” – Common Grounds by P.D. Cacek

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09.02.2025

We have selected the plays and stories for our next One Night Stand Theater production, “Witches Brew.” Thank you to all the playwrights and writers who sent in their plays, stories and poems for our October 5th evening of female magic and mystery. Here are the five short plays and two stories that make up our cauldron of wicked tales:

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• A modern-day sorceress takes on her romantic rival in “Common Grounds” by P.D. Cacek.

• Family, infidelity and witchcraft collide in “Within One Month’s Time” by Steven Korbar.

• A friend concocts a potion to prevent a bad marriage in “Friendship Brew” by Toby Inoue.

• An enthusiastic witch and her confused accuser meet on “The Steps of Salem” by Jeffrey O’Leary.

• A book club meeting goes off the rails when one of its members shows up possessed in “Early One Evening at the Miskatonic University Ladies Auxiliary Book Club” by John Busser.

• Spend Halloween with a neighborhood witch in “The Neighbor” by Gina Wencel.

• Meet the local college’s witches in residence in “The Wyrd Sisters” by Dana Hall.