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Who Should Audition
If you're 8, we've got a part for you. If you're 80, we've got a part for you. If you've done a hundred shows or you've never been on a stage in your life, you walk into the same room.
Our Town needs kids and parents and grandparents. Neighbors who know everyone's business. A milkman, a choir director, a constable, a Stage Manager who holds the whole thing together. Wilder wrote a play that needs an actual community to put it on. So we're not really casting a show. We're gathering a town. :)
Why Free
Seemed like the right thing to do. PaperMap is picking up the licensing, the materials, the space, all of it. You bring yourself and your schedule. That's it.
The Story
Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. An ordinary morning in an ordinary town. The Stage Manager pulls up a chair and starts telling us about the folks who live there — the Gibbs family, the Webbs next door, the people who deliver the milk and run the paper and sing in the church choir.
What happens after that is best discovered in the room. We'll just say this: it's funny, it's true, and folks tend to remember it for the rest of their lives.
It's the kind of American story Norman Rockwell would have painted if Norman Rockwell wrote plays — front porches and ice cream sodas and the church choir on a Wednesday night, and underneath it all, something quieter and bigger and harder to name. The week of the Fourth of July felt like the right time to tell it.
Auditions
In-Person Auditions: Saturday, May 30, 2026 — 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM at PaperMap
or… Video Submissions Due: Friday, May 29, 2026 at midnightNo monologue. No song. No pressure.
Come on in, read a scene with us, sit and talk for a few minutes. If walking into a room feels like a lot, send a video — introduce yourself, read any passage that grabs you, and we'll go from there.
We cast based on ensemble balance, chemistry, and what the story needs. Auditioning is how we meet you. It's not a promise of a role, but it's the only way through the door.
Rehearsals & Performances
Rehearsals begin: June 6, 2026 Early evenings, to accommodate folks with day jobs.
Performances: June 30, July 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at PaperMap Curtain at 6:30 PM each evening.
Spend the week of the Fourth with your neighbors, on Summerlin Avenue, watching a story about a small town that turns out to be about every town.
Casting at PaperMap
Casting is thoughtful, intentional, and ensemble-first.
Roles are assigned based on:
ensemble balance and chemistry
the needs of the story
the right opportunity for each cast member
the overall health of the cast
Every cast member has meaningful stage time and real responsibility. There are no "background-only" roles. This is a shared creative effort.
What to Expect
A room that takes the work seriously without taking itself too seriously. Folks who believe rehearsal is where the art actually lives. Long conversations about small moments. Neighbors turning into a cast, and a cast turning into something close to a town. We adventure through theater, together. ✧
