On Friday, the Main Street Theatre in Quakertown celebrates its eighth season with a gala buffet dinner before its season opener 'Fiddler on the Roof.' Executive producer Don Robinson reports that he has hired some exciting new personnel for the summer, but more on that in future columns. While it has Loads and Loads of Characters, the stars of the strip are a boy named Charlie Brown note and his pet beagle Snoopy. Schulz, debuted on October 2, 1950.Schulz went on to write and draw Peanuts for 49 years, 3 months and 1 day. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, through Aug. One of the most popular and influential Newspaper Comics of all time, Peanuts, created by Charles M. And one of the most inventive performances was that of court jester George Romeril, who balanced a long stemmed red rose on his nose. Schubert, who is retiring at the end of the season, was surprised with the first annual Bard Award. The entire festival staff was in costume, including marketing director Paul Willistein, who looks great in tights, and who topped his attire with a Seussical-like velvet hat.īut of all the performances, none was as moving as Festival founder Father Schubert's recitation of Shakespeare's 18th sonnet.

At its Queen's Feaste Sunday at DeSales University, guests sat under a giant tent, on a straw strewn floor watching Queen Elizabeth (Vanessa Webb), her court, and Will Shakespeare (Joel Kabik). Charlie Brown wants to fly his kite, but it is always getting 'eaten' by the 'kite-eating tree.' He pitches for a baseball team that never wins. The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival tried a new kind of gala to celebrate the 2001 summer season. The existential struggles of the boy named Charlie Brown, the adventures (real and imagined) of his beagle, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang, seem timeless.

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