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of Mt. Gretna... since 1927!

Outreach Program

Gretna Theatre’s recent revival of AMELIA EARHART: LOST HERO by Kim McCaul Amer premiered at the Mt. Gretna Playhouse on August 27, 2011.  This brand new edition of one of our most popular educational outreach shows is available for booking in February of 2012 by schools, retirement communities and other groups. 

Gretna Theatre’s production of KEEPING MR. LINCOLN by Sandra Fenichel Asher premiered at The Allen Theatre in Annville, PA in 2010 and toured in February, 2011.  This production will also be available for bookings in February, 2012.

Any of Gretna Theatre’s “American Hero Biography Series” programs is always free to area educators and activites directors who are invited to preview our Outreach Programs for presentation in their schools whenever we present them.

The “American Hero Biography Series” has entertained and educated over 10,000 students and seniors in the south central PA region, with THE ROAD TO FREEDOM,  THE FIRST LADIES: WIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS, AMELIA EARHART: LOST HERO and KEEPING MR. LINCOLN in previous years.

To find out how this program can travel to your school, retirement community, meeting, fundraiser or other event or facility, please contact Program Director Renee Krizan at

717-964-3322 or drop us a note.

Brian Milesi, Benjamin Zep Misek, Darren Wagner, Amy Shea

Gretna Theatre is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), Capital BlueCross through the Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, The Olewine Charitable Trust, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC), Robert H. Ranck, Inc., Edna & Jeanette Barnes, The Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation, The Franklin H. and Ruth L. Wells Foundation, Target, Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company, and many individual donors. For information on how you can support this programming please call 717-964-3322.