THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Updated performance date TBA. For any questions or if you have purchased tickets, please email cultural@sunyorange.edu.

The Paper Bag Players are coming with singing, dancing, and lots of laughs to SUNY Orange in Middletown, on Sunday, January 28 to start off the 2024 Cultural Affairs performance events programming.  At 2pm, the fast-paced play accompanied by live music composed and performed by pianist John K. Stone introduces the audience to the new play It’s A Marvelous Paper Bag World!  

Then, actors Ceili Fitzgerald, Erika Mesa, and Claire Lundin take the stage of the William and Helen Richards Theatre at Orange Hall with director/Equity actor Kevin Richard Woodall, a 27-year veteran of the Bags. Also, James Huggans is returning for his 23rd season as production supervisor/manager.

The play features cardboard and paper sets, paper bag costumes with brightly-colored shoes, classic sketches and brand-new works centered around hilarious stories of dancing cookies, a dancing robot, a friendly dragon, painting on a giant easel, and audience participation. Lost in the Mall, Big Red Day, and Hot Feet are classics to be performed along with new works Mama Baby Kitty, Miss Mixup, and It’s a Marvelous Paper Bag World, plus many more. Come and enjoy and participate.

Now celebrating its 65^th year, this innovative company has set the standard for original productions that speak directly and vividly to children, while amusing adults with sly wit. Perfect for children ages 3 through 9, the Paper Bag Players’ plays are lively, colorful, and thought-provoking performances for any theatre-goers.

Tickets will be available at the Orange Hall box office the day of the performance starting at 1:15pm and online anytime at http://sunyorange.edu/arts_comm/ticketing.shtml

Online purchasing comes with a $1.50 surcharge per ticket.

Admission: Children --$5;  Adults/Seniors/Faculty/Staff/Alumni --$6;

SUNY Orange students- free

 A new feature has been added to the children-oriented afternoon.

Arrive early because at 12:45pm just a few steps from the theatre in Orange Hall Gallery author Jim Tarvin, accompanied by illustrator Tessa Schaumburg, will give a free Story Reading with large screen projection of Once There Was a Deep Forest.

Q & A plus a book signing.

Free parking is available in lot #1 which is adjacent to Orange Hall. GPS: 24 Grandview Ave. - corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown. Questions may be directed to Cultural Affairs at cultural@sunyorange.edu Also, check out website www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs