Towngate Theatre
Oglebay Institute's award-winning Towngate Theatre has been producing live theater productions in Wheeling for over 35 years. Over 100,000 people have enjoyed the many performances on this community stage. The theater tours productions in regional schools and colleges, conducts a summer Parcel Players program for Ohio Valley high school and college students and encourages the continued writing of new plays through the Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Contest. Get your season tickets today.

National Playwritting Contest Rules

2007-2008 Towngate Theatre Season
Admission is $12.50/$11 OI Members
Curtain 8pm; 2pm Sunday matinees

Dates
 Performance

Mar 7-9 & 13-15

“The Dining Room”
by A.R. Gurney
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc
A richly humorous pattern of American life emerges in a series of comic vignettes set in the dining room of an upper-middle class family.

Apr 18-20 & 24-26

"The Cemetery Club"
by Ivan Menchell
Touching, wise and gloriously wittyplay about three superannuated, feuding Jewish women.

May 30, 31 &Jun 1, 5-7

“Witness for the Prosecution”
by Agatha Christie
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
A suspenseful thriller that is capped with an uncanny triple flip-ending that only Agatha Christie could produce. A “who-dunnit” mystery and a Tony Award Winner for Best Foreign Play.

 

 

 

 
Contacts
Towngate Theatre & Cinema
2118 Market Street Wheeling WV, 26003
Call today for your season tickets and reservations!
304.242.7700 or
1-88-TOWNGATE