Production History

Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) established itself as a vibrant hub for theatrical innovation since 2012. Now as a year-round professional theatre, Third Avenue PlayWorks offers diverse productions, captivating audiences with compelling narratives, dynamic performances, and avant-garde interpretations, solidifying its reputation as a premier destination for theatrical excellence in Door County. The production history here spans both eras.

2025 Production History Gallery

2025 Production History

The 39 Steps is two hours and fifteen minutes of fast-paced theatre fun and thrilling action with one fifteen-minute intermission with concessions available at Third Avenue PlayWorks in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The show runs July 16th through August 10th, 2025
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2024 Production History

PlayWorks Play Reading Series
Ushuaia Blue
Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night

2023

I Carry Your Heart With Me (’24 ATCA/Steinberg Citation)
Daddy Long Legs 
Boeing Boeing
The Mystery of Irma Vep: a penny dreadful
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

PlayWorks Play Reading Series
Murder Girl
Hopper

2022

Slow Food
The Book Club Play
The Last Five Years
Birds of North America
A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play

PlayWorks Play Reading Series
Dairyland
Mrs. Harrison
The Last Match

2021

Gutenberg! The Musical!

PlayWorks Play Reading Series
The Children
Fifth of July
Sunset Baby
Natural Shocks
A Lost Leonardo
The Kissing Girl
The Understudy
Molly Sweeney
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Two Henrys

2019

Shooting Star
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
The Dig
La La Lucille
Will Durst in BoomeRaging
Tomfoolery
A Tuna Christmas

Winter Play Reading Festival
An Enemy of the People
Into the Breeches!
Orson’s Shadow
Fifth of July
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
A Life In the Theatre

2018

Gray’s Anatomy
Stella and Lou
Lungs
Shinbone Alley
Durst Case Scenario: Mid-Term Madness
Billy Bishop Goes to War
Velvet Gentleman

Winter Play Reading Festival
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
And a Nightingale Sang
Venus in Fur
How to Write a New Book for the Bible
The Dig
The Roommate

2017

True West
Velvet Gentleman
Red
Candide
Every Brilliant Thing
Durst Case Scenario
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

Winter Play Reading Festival
Birthday Boys/Dolores
Stella and Lou
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Effect
Dear Elizabeth
The Goat
Constellations
When the World Was Green

2016

The Amish Project
A Walk in the Woods
Patio/Porch
Isaac’s Eye
Madame Sherry
The Gin Game
Will Durst: Elect to Laugh
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

2015

Souvenir
Oleanna
Maid to Marry
Educating Rita
Steel Magnolias
Sylvia
I Love a Piano
The Santaland Diaries

2014

Souvenir
The Drawer Boy
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Talley’s Folly
Trick Boxing
BoomeRaging
Private Lives
The Fantasticks
Blue Collar Diaries
Yuletide Tales

2013

Love Letters
Almost, Maine
Tapestries
Trick Boxing
The Glass Menagerie
Greater Tuna
The House of Blue Leaves
The 39 Steps
This Wonderful Life

Winter Play Reading Festival
The Trip to Bountiful
The Rainmaker
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Mornings at Seven
The Diary of Anne Frank
Duet For One

2012

The Subject Was Roses
Souvenir
Shirley Valentine
Almost, Maine
The Santaland Diaries

Staged Reading
The Normal Heart

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