GRANDVIEW, WV (WOAY)- Grandview offers more than just scenic views and nice hikes. It offers a place to bring creativity, performance, and most importantly, community to the outdoors.
Theatre West Virginia will be putting on “Honey in the Rock,” “Hatfields and McCoys,” “Into the Woods,” and “Suessical Jr” at the Grandview stage for audiences to enjoy. Grandview is an outdoor amphitheater right in the national park and it offers a unique experience for everyone involved.
“This place has a way with people, you know, being able bring out a different type of energy into them that, I feel like not every necessarily venue would, I guess, can offer because this place is very unique. There’s only a select few of them left in the country that do outdoor theater like this at all,” explained Austin Seipp, an Actor in the shows. “So being able to come here and transition from our little spaces to coming up here is always a journey and stuff like that. But it’s always really, really cool to see how much more we can work and be able to develop what we can and what we have in our scripts and in our scenes with each other.”
Theatre West Virginia has been sharing stories since 1961. Year after year many actors from around the country come to the Grandview to bring these stories to life, including Brooks Cline, a West Virginia native, who comes back each year to rejoin his TWV family.
He says that theatre is another way to learn from the past and build for the future.
“Sort of a beautiful like oral history of passing things down, the oral history of storytelling from one year to the next. That kind of passes traditions that aren’t exactly like in the scripts that we’re doing, like and sort of iconic moments and stuff,” said Brooks Cline, an Actor in the shows. “And we’re always trying to mine what are the new, exciting things that we can bring, you know, what can we do in 2025? That’s, that’s going to really drive people out here. It’s going to make people know that like, you know, we’re out here doing something that has never been done before with these shows. We’re honoring tradition, but we’re also redefining them.”
They are happy to continue to bring these stories to the heart of southern West Virginia.
