Gateway Players

Will Hold AUDITIONS for 

Joseph Robinette's Adpatation

of E.B. White's 

"CHARLOTTE'S WEB"

Adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette

Based on the book by E.B. White

Directed by Lou-Ellen Corkum

Produced by Stephanie Ruggiere

AUDITION DATES:

February 24, 2026 at 6:00pm 

March 1, 2026 at 4:00pm

Where: Fellowship Hall at Elm Street Congregational Church, 61 Elm Street, Southbridge. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script and role playing.  

This is a Youth Production for ages 7-17.  

Performance dates are May 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9. 

REHEARSALS:

Rehearsals will be held on Thursdays at 6pm and Saturdays at 2pm.  

Presented by permission through special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing. 

CHARACTERS:

• Fern Arable - young girl 
• John Arable - her father 
• Martha Arable - her mother 
• Avery Arable - her brother 
• Homer Zuckerman - her uncle 
• Edith Zuckerman - her aunt 
• Lurvy - a hired hand 
• Wilbur - a pig 
• Templeton - a rat 
• Charlotte - a spider 
• Goose, Gander, Sheep, Lamb - farm animals 
• 3 Narrators 
• Ensemble: Reporter, Photographer, Spectators Judges, Fairgoers, Announcer, Uncle ( a pig), Spiders

For more information, please contact Gateway at # 508-764-4531.  

Performances:

May 1, 2026 through May 9, 2026

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times)

Performances to be held at Fellowship Hall of Elm Street Congregational Church, 61 Elm Street in Southbridge, MA. 

Entrance is on Park Street (around corner).

This program is supported by a grant from the Southbridge Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

TICKETS:

Online credit card ticket sales are available at www.gatewayplayers.org 

For more information call # 508-764-4531 or visit www.gatewayplayers.org 

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ABOUT THE SHOW

The Children's Literature Association named "CHARLOTTE'S WEB" as "the best American children's book of the past two hundred years," and Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B. White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. 

All the enchanting characters are here: 

• Wilbur, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; 
• Fern, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; 
• Templeton, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; 
• the Zuckerman family; 
• the Arables; 
• and, most of all, the extraordinary spider, CHARLOTTE, who proves to be “a true friend and a good writer.”

Determined to save Wilbur, CHARLOTTE begins her campaign with the "miracle" of her web in which she writes, "Some pig." 

It's the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to CHARLOTTE.

ABOUT GATEWAY PLAYERS THEATRE OF SOUTHBRIDGE

GATEWAY PLAYERS THEATRE, INC. is an all-volunteer community theater providing quality live theatre performances and workshops to Southbridge, Sturbridge, and Charlton, Massachusetts and surrounding areas. GATEWAY PLAYERS THEATRE, INC. started in 1975, when a group of interested community members decided that Southbridge needed a theater group to bring live productions to the area. First using local schools and borrowed rehearsal and storage space, GATEWAY then moved into its current home in 1978, when Ruth Wells (of the American Optical Company Wells family) donated her home on Main Street as a cultural center in Southbridge. GATEWAY PLAYERS THEATRE offers a full season of productions, usually performed at Elm Street Congregational Church, 61 Elm Street, Southbridge, MA. as well as workshops for youths and adults. Auditions are open to all, and new members are always welcome.

GATEWAY PLAYERS THEATRE, INC.

P.O. Box # 171

Southbridge, MA. 01550

# 508-764-4531 

www.gatewayplayers.org