OUR STORY
A STAGE WITHOUT CURTAINS
For more than four decades, Stained Glass Playhouse has brought people together through live theatre in an intimate and unique setting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
SGP is a community theatre shaped by performers, volunteers, audiences and stories—stories that entertain us while opening space to explore the meaningful parts of life, relationships and community.
SGP PRODUCTION OR VENUE IMAGE
STAINED GLASS PLAYHOUSE
COMMUNITY THEATRE IN AN INTIMATE SETTING
Stained Glass Playhouse is a nonprofit community theatre specializing in affordable, professional-quality productions presented in a small, intimate setting.
The Playhouse performs in the former sanctuary of Marvin United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. This distinctive setting places performers and audiences close together, creating an immediate live-theatre experience all its own.
MORE THAN A TAGLINE
WHAT DOES “A STAGE WITHOUT CURTAINS” MEAN?
“WE LAUGH, WE CRY, WE LIVE, AND WE LEARN ABOUT LOVE, JOY AND PEACE, WITH NO CURTAINS TO HIDE BEHIND.”
Longstanding in the Playhouse’s identity, the phrase speaks to the physical character of the theatre and to the openness of a shared live experience. On this stage, the story is close. The people are close. Nothing stands between the moment and the audience experiencing it together.
THE BEGINNING
ROOTED IN COMMUNITY
FROM AN OLD SANCTUARY TO A COMMUNITY STAGE
The former sanctuary of Marvin United Methodist Church had been vacated as the church’s primary worship space in 1960. In the early 1980s, a core group began renovating it as seasonal Easter and Christmas productions grew into something more.
The space developed into a dedicated performance environment. Stained Glass Playhouse traces its beginning to 1981 and became an incorporated nonprofit organization in 1997.
This is only the opening scene of a much longer story.
BUILT BY COMMUNITY
EVERY PRODUCTION TAKES A TEAM
Onstage and off, community theatre is made by people who choose to create something together. Performers, directors, designers, technicians, builders, costumers, backstage and front-of-house volunteers, supporters, sponsors and audiences each help bring a production to life.
Whether you have years of experience or are simply curious about where you might fit, Stained Glass Playhouse welcomes the energy, ideas and presence that people bring to the room.
THEATRE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY
STORIES THAT ENTERTAIN, CHALLENGE AND CONNECT
ENTERTAIN
The joy of a live performance begins with a story worth sharing and an audience ready to experience it together.
REFLECT
SGP productions and events have encompassed moral messages, family values and community issues without insisting that every story speak from one viewpoint.
CONNECT
At its best, theatre gives us another way to consider people, relationships, choices and the communities we share.
A LIVING STORY
MORE THAN FOUR DECADES ON STAGE
THE BEGINNING
STAINED GLASS PLAYHOUSE INCORPORATES
30 YEARS ON STAGE
40 YEARS ON STAGE
THE NEXT ACT
KEEP EXPLORING
EXPLORE STAINED GLASS
THE STORY
OUR HISTORY
Explore more than four decades of Stained Glass Playhouse.
ON OUR STAGE
PRODUCTION ARCHIVE
Discover productions that have appeared on the SGP stage through the years.
THE PEOPLE
LEADERSHIP
Meet the people helping guide Stained Glass Playhouse today.
THE NEXT ACT IS ALWAYS BEGINNING
BECOME PART OF THE STORY
Attend a performance. Audition for a role. Volunteer behind the scenes. Support the Playhouse. However you choose to participate, there’s a place for you in the continuing story of Stained Glass Playhouse.