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Category: 2026 Season
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Get to Know Plum Bottom Gallery
Get to know Third Avenue PlayWorks playbill advertiser, Plum Bottom Gallery, in Egg Harbor, Fish Creek, or Sturgeon Bay in Door County WI.
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Get to Know Peninsula Pulse
Get to know Third Avenue PlayWorks playbill advertiser, Peninsula Pulse, in Baileys Harbor in Door County WI.
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Audience Guide: Red Herring
A red herring is an idiom that is a “piece of information, clue, or subject that is deliberately or accidentally used to mislead, distract, or divert attention away from the central, most important issue.” This idiom derives from the practice of using a pungent, salted, and smoked fish (herring) to draw hunting hounds off a scent. The playwright uses a literary “red herring” to mislead the audience into believing one thing, when another may be true. How many red herrings can you find in the play? The nonpungent, idiomatic kind, of course.
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Cold War Comedy Heats Up TAP
Red Herring by Michael Hollinger is the third show of the 2026 season at Third Avenue PlayWorks (TAP), running from July 15 through Aug. 9, with performances by Ellie Duffey, Seth K. Hale, Carolyn Hoerdemann, Alicia Rice, Ethan Serpan and Noah Simon.
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Sets and costumes play co-stars on TAP stage
It is not easy to go from a nursing home in France to a writers' room in California to a detective's office in Boston in the span of nearly three months, but not all places are Third Avenue PlayWorks. Rehearsals have begun for TAP's next production, Red Herring. The comedy follows a female detective in Boston as she tries to solve a murder while navigating her relationship with an FBI agent during the Cold War.
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Third Avenue PlayWorks Reveals Next Play
Third Avenue PlayWorks has a new play on the way. They have just announced an upcoming production of Red Herring by Micael Hollinger. This is their 3rd show of the 2026 season and will run from July 15th through August 9th.
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Kopischke Earns Tenure
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents formally approved local performing artist Alan Kopischke’s promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in UW-Green Bay’s Theatre and Dance Department, effective in the fall of 2026. Kopischke’s record also stood out for his continuing work as an actor, producer, stage intimacy choreographer and nonprofit board member. Kopischke most recently performed in Heroes by Tom Stoppard at Third Avenue PlayWorks, where he has also recently rejoined the board. He produces the Door Kinetic Arts Festival, which will celebrate its 10th year of developing new work in a variety of arts disciplines in September.
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Kopischke earns tenure at in UW-Green Bay Theatre and Dance Department
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents formally approved Alan Kopischke’s promotion to associate professor with tenure in UW-Green Bay’s Theatre & Dance Department effective in the fall of 2026. Kopischke most recently performed in Heroes by Tom Stoppard at Third Avenue PlayWorks, where he has also recently rejoined the board.
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A WHIRLWIND OF ROMANCE, MURDER, AND COLD WAR INTRIGUE IN ‘RED HERRING’
Third Avenue PlayWorks (TAP) is proud to announce the upcoming production of Red Herring, by Michael Hollinger. The third show of the 2026 season at Third Avenue PlayWorks runs from July 15 through August 9, 2026, featuring performances by Ellie Duffey, Seth K. Hale, Carolyn Hoerdemann, Alicia Rice, Ethan Serpan, and Noah Simon.