About Us
Watts Hall Community Players is a group of individuals who enjoy bringing things alive on-stage. From trained actors to beginners, to painting sets and sewing costumes, we do it as community.
Our Mission
Watts Hall Community Players is a 501c(3) not-for-profit community theater group whose primary purpose is to provide opportunities for people of all ages, abilities and experience to have fun participating in all aspects of live theater.
Our Goals
- productions are an opportunity for people to have fun, grow, and learn;
- productions promote growth and learning by varying stage roles and production duties (ie director, stage manager, etc) as able
from production to production; - proceeds from performances are applied toward improving the Watts
Hall stage and auditorium.
Some of our performances throughout the years...
1991 – The Music Man
1992 – ‘Lil Abner
1993 – Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat
1994 – Once Upon a Mattress
1996 – Annie Get Your Gun
1997 – 1776
1998 – South Pacific
1998 – You Can’t Take it With You
1999 – Kiss Me Kate
1999 – On the Razzle
2000 – The Man Who Came to Dinner
2016 – The Music Man
2017 – Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat
2017 – Darrow
2018 – Pirates of Penzance
2019 – Once Upon a Mattress
2019 – Short & Sweet: an evening of comedic one-acts
2020 – Love Letters
2021 – Songs of Summer: A review of WHCP show music
2022 – Count Me In!
2022 – Darrow
2023 – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
2023 – HMS Pinafore
Annual reading – Child’s Christmas In Wales
PRESS RELEASE: HISTORIC HALL RECEIVES PRESERVATION GRANT
January, 29, 2023: Thomaston, ME – Watts Hall Community Players, a community theater group whose mission is to bring folks of all ages and abilities to the stage, announced today that it has received a $300,000 grant to support the renovation of historic Watts Hall. The preservation project is funded in part by the Save America’s Treasures grant program, through the Historic Preservation Fund, as administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. This award, matched by the town of Thomaston, the Davis Family Foundation, and private donations, will allow much needed safety and general use improvements.
This federal award and local support will provide for adding a new HVAC system, improving fire escapes, bathrooms, and kitchen facilities. “We’ve done a lot with volunteer power and this will elevate the space to the next level.” said Watts Hall Community Players board president Daryl Hahn.
The hall has been a gathering and performance space for Thomaston and surrounding midcoast Maine community since the turn of the 20th century. Now managed by the non-profit group Watts Hall Community Arts, the hall hosts plays, musicals, concerts and community events of all kinds for all ages. The upgrades will improve use for current programming, increase building functionality for other local arts and community groups and preserve this historic building for future generations.
“We are extremely grateful for this department of interior award and the local community for rising to meet the match.” added Hahn. “Watts Hall Community Players and Community Arts are honored to be the stewards of this next phase. We are shown again and again the value of art, of historic preservation and our desire to gather under one roof.”