Erie Playhouse

The award-winning Erie Playhouse was founded over 100 years ago with a focus on performing quality live theatre for the Erie community. Our mission is to educate, entertain, inspire, transform, and support the community through theatre - and we can't do it without you! At the Playhouse, we are: 

🎭 Inclusive. Professional. Grateful. Impactful. Passionate. 🎭

Our red hot 110th season of world class theatre includes MEAN GIRLS, A DOLL'S HOUSE, 1776, HAIRSPRAY, COME FROM AWAY and RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER! Youtheatre is in full swing with JUNIE B'S ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL GUIDE TO SCHOOL JR, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS YOUTH EDITION, and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: TYA! Add in PLAYtime, camps and classes - the Playhouse has something for everyone! 

Since 1983, we’ve been in our current home at 13 West 10th Street, the former Strand Theatre, which was built as a movie house in 1947. Our 12,000+ square foot theatre features a proscenium-style stage, with a sunken orchestra pit, backstage dressing rooms, and seating for 424 patrons plus handicapped accessible seating and restroom facilities. 

What can your support do?

🎭Your $25 donation helps fund: 

- one can of paint
- wig caps & hair pins for the run of a show
- laundry detergent and supplies for a run
- the glue sticks used in a show
- all the thread used in one production 

🎭Your $50 donation helps fund: 

- one piece of foam board to carve for sets 
- the styling and maintenance of one wig
- one box of screws for set construction
- supply of music stand lights so the pit musicians can play without struggling to see sheet music 

🎭Your $100 donation helps fund: 

- lighting cables 
- one U-Haul rental to transport sets and costumes
- replacement parts for regularly used instruments in need a tune up for the highest quality of sound

🎭Your $150 donation helps fund: 
- haze (special effects) for the run of one production 
- average cost of one tailored suit

🎭Your $200 donation helps fund: 
- the typical amount to buy fabric to build one women's costume
- the sound program needed for a Keyboard player to enrich the quality of the orchestra - making the sound as close to the original Broadway production as possible
- zippers and notions (hooks & eyes, snaps, zipper stops, buttons, etc.) in a typical show 

🎭Your $500 donation helps fund: 

- the lumber for the set construction of one production


🎭Your $700 donation helps fund: 
- drop rentals (background visuals on stage) 

🎭Your $1000 donation helps fund: 
- dry cleaning expenses for one production 
- one new light for the theatre 
- special effects equipment and fixtures 

Thank you for your support of the Erie Playhouse!