Cheryl Doyle

A captivating period comedy brightens the Heritage Center stage weekends December 2-18 as ActorsNET of Bucks County presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. 

ActorsNET of Bucks County, in residence at Morrisville’s Heritage Center Theatre, has set its October 2022 – June 2023 production schedule.

William Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy King Lear returns to the stage in this area after a 20-year absence. From June 10 through 26, ActorsNET of Morrisville, Pennsylvania presents Shakespeare’s towering drama two decades after they first presented it in 2002. The company’s Artistic Director, Cheryl Doyle, once again directs the play at the company’s intimate theater along the Delaware River. The title role will be played this time by George Hartpence.

Communists weren’t the only ones hunted during the “Red Scare” of the 1950s. Gays and lesbians were also targeted as threats to the USA as part of the “Lavender Scare.”  “Coming out of the closet” was almost unheard-of, as it could easily end a career or even a life. And no one even considered the possibility of gay marriage.

As life approaches normalcy, ActorsNET continues its 25th season and brings a classic American melodrama with a big serving of comedy to the Heritage Center stage in March.

Bucks County life is played for laughs onstage as the non-profit ActorsNET co-produces a new play with the newly emerging New Hope Repertory Theater Company.

ActorsNET celebrates the holidays by premiering a free online video presentation of Dear Brutus – a fantasy drama for grownups by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. The play’s title comes from a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves…”

In keeping with the tradition a?oethe show must go on,a?? ActorsNET has released on YouTube a video of their March production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, it was announced in a press release by Cheryl Doyle, the theatre company's artistic director.

Once considered scandalous, George Bernard Shaw's witty Mrs. Warren's Profession takes to ActorsNET's Heritage Center stage March 13 through 29, starring area stage veterans Carol Thompson and George Hartpence.

ActorsNET continues its 24th season January 31 a?' February 16 with Spider's Web a?'London West End's second longest-running Agatha Christie murder mystery.

When a diplomat's wife discovers a dead body in their drawing room shortly before her husband arrives home with a V.I.P., she tries to dispose of the corpse so the visit will be uneventful. Confusion and hilarity ensue! The play will be produced by ActorsNET and performed on the Heritage Center Theatre stage in Morrisville, PA.

You may know the familiar tale of A Christmas Carol a?" three spirits visit miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and inspire him to change his ways ...  But what if it was all a hoax?  A scam?  A fraud?

THE BIG BAD WOLF is an Adult Fairy Tale About Fear, Forgiveness and Sexual Identity. Emmy Award-winning writer Christopher Canaan has penned a 'deliciously naughty' comedy about famed fairy tale characters in their later years.

THE BIG BAD WOLF is an Adult Fairy Tale About Fear, Forgiveness and Sexual Identity. Emmy Awarda?"winning writer Christopher Canaan has penned a a?oedeliciously naughtya?? comedy about famed fairy tale characters in their later years. When the Big Bad Wolf and his a?oehench wolf,a?? Wayne, escape from the Moscow Zoo's prison, they hunt down those who testified in court against them: Peter (of Peter and the Wolf fame), Red Riding Hood, Sig Pig (the sole survivor of The Three Little Pigs) and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. The wolves' prey barricade themselves inside a fortress, but nothing stops the Big Bad Wolf. The play performs on The Heritage Center Theatre stage in Morrisville, PA. Co-Starring David Sullivan, Righteous Jolly, John Helmke, Emily Perry, Paul Frank and Nyiema Lunsford. Produced by Cheryl Doyle. Directed by Joe Doyle. Stage managed by Renée Root. Costume and set design by Cheryl Doyle. Lighting design by Andrena Wishnie. Sound design by Chris Root.

ActorsNET presents a staged reading of a new play by Emmy Awarda?"winning writer Christopher Canaan.

Absurdities abound in Eugene Ionesco's comic drama, Exit the King, during its three-weekend run May 31 through June 16. Considered the father of "the theatre of the absurd," Ionesco conjured up the tale of King Berenger the First - a monarch so powerful he was once able to rule over the forces of nature and will all his subjects to obey his every command. But, after 400 years, those powers have begun to fail.

The Heritage Center stage is transformed into a courtroom in Purgatory as ActorsNET presents Stephen Adly Guirgis' thought-provoking and darkly comic stage play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. It runs weekends April 26 - May 12.

ActorsNET presents the world premiere staging of The Crimes of Diana Eastlake by Mort Paterson.

ActorsNET has changed titles for its March production - replacing Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale with the world premiere staging of The Crimes of Diana Eastlake by Mort Paterson.

James Goldman's modern classic comic drama, The Lion in Winter, takes to the stage of the Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the holiday season.