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Apple Hill Playhouse
Located in Delmont, Pennsylvania, Apple Hill Playhouse is a community theater that brings culture, history, and entertainment to audiences of all ages.

Theatres were more usually called playhouses in Shakespeare's time. . Groups of travelling players had long been performing in municipal buildings, and in the halls of great houses and universities, as well as in the open air. Many of Delmon't buildings that were built in the 19th century were still standing in 2011. One building in particular is the Apple Hill Playhouse. "It all began more than half a century ago," explained Pat Beyer, the Executive Producer and owner of Apple Hill Playhouse. "The renovated barn which comprises the main theatre building was part of a local farm and has a pre-civil war history. It even housed mules used to work the local mines, but in 1952, with the last of the mule leavings scrubbed away, an aspiring country theatre was born. For ten years it was the William Penn Playhouse, becoming Apple Hill after a change in ownership in 1962."

“One of the most popular forms of theater is the summer theater, which is an old mode of entertainment for Americans…. More recently there was great interest in the presentation of Shakespeare’s plays, and several important summer festivals sprang up devoted to presenting them …” A portion of Apple Hill Playhouse is the Johnny Appleseed Children's Theater, a summer theater camp for children preteen to adult. A portion of the Playhouse's mainstream theater begins in the mid-summer, as well.

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