"Charlotte's Web" - adapted by Joseph Robinette based on E.B. White - Gateway Players (Southbridge, MA.)
Gateway Players
Presents 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
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.
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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.
P.O. Box # 171
Southbridge, MA. 01550
# 508-764-4531
