2025 Season - Third Avenue PlayWorks

Third Avenue PlayWorks

The 2025 Season at Third Avenue PlayWorks in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin is full of big stories, big laughs, and bigger thrills! Enter the Steve & Jackie Kane Theatre and transport yourself to a small town funeral parlor, the basement of a Malibu mansion, a runaway train careening through the English countryside, a spooky Pittsburgh barroom, and, of course, a 1940’s radio studio. Join us this season for theatre worth talking about!

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Three Viewings

There's a story behind every farewell!
April 30-May 18

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Buyer and Cellar

The highly acclaimed hit comedy!
June 4-22

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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

100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action!
July 16 - August 10

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Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night

A World Premiere!
Sept 24 - Oct 12

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A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play

The WBFR Radio Players are back!
December 3-28

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2025 Season Blogs

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Generosity of Spirit

A Christmas Carol has become a time-honored holiday tradition for many families marking the passage of another year while reminding us to celebrate what truly matters in our lives. First published December 19, 1843 as a novella, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By the end of 1844, thirteen editions had been released. Charles Dickens, himself revisited A Christmas Carol beginning in 1853 when he began holding public readings of the story, which continued through 1870, the year of his passing.

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“Ryan’s Pub: Trivia Night” World Premiere! @ Third Avenue Playworks (Sturgeon Bay, WI) | Sound Design Notes

For years now, Jacob has been wanting to get his long time friend and fantastic Milwaukee based percussionist Nick Lang to be involved on a project with Third Avenue Playworks. When envisioning the music world and genre of this play, I knew it wanted to live in a rock territory. We’ve got a dive bar jukebox slinging hits from the 80’s, 90’s & today. Heck, just being set in a midwest dive bar made me think of my local dive, which always had metal playing. Plus, the story involves a deal with the devil, I mean come on – it’s gotta be rock’n roll baby. I knew that drums would really come in clutch as a centerpiece to the music sound that transitioned us between scenes. Jacob wanted short, snappy transitions infused with energy, and drums are perfect for that. So we reached out to Nick and he was down! I went over to his home studio in Milwaukee for a day and we had so much fun jamming out together on drums and bass. I really love playing this style of music, getting filthy mc nasty on the jazz bass is such a blast. Really made me want to play this music we created live!

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Starring Doug Mancheski

Door County audiences may already be familiar with one of our stars in Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night from over two decades of performance history with Northern Sky Theater in Fish Creek where he was best known for playing Marvin in Guys on Ice (a role he performed over 2,000 times!). Although Doug has played many enjoyable roles throughout his long career, he says that he most identified with the role of Marvin. He also loved hearing the audience’s laughter as they recognized Marvin’s traits in their own family and friends.

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