The set is built; the costumes are ready; the choreography is settled. The stage is set for the Oswego Players’ October production of “Old Money, New Habits”, an acclaimed classic-style farce written by local playwright Alexis Martin and directed by Sherri Metz. The play will be performed on weekends October 9th – 18th at the Frances Marion Brown Theater in Fort Ontario Park. A theatre company like the Oswego Players is made up of people from the community: teachers, students, parents, neighbors, professionals and retirees, all united in a love of theater and a desire to entertain. The two “old timers” of this production typify this sentiment. Bill Cowham, playing The Butler, and Eric Cronk, playing The Executor, are both retired professionals who use theater to remain mentally active and who enjoy bringing characters to life on stage.

The Oswego Players’ Fall show is the hilarious farce “Old Money, New Habits”, written by local playwright Alexis Martin and directed by Sherri Metz. In classic farce fashion, the play is set ‘somewhere in England’ in the 1930s and will be performed October 9th – 18th at the Frances Marion Brown Theater in Fort Ontario Park. Featuring temperamental aristocrats, insecure siblings, conniving wives and a butler, the plot weaves its way through murder, inheritance, skullduggery, infidelity and the odd glass of port.

Rehearsals are well under way for the Oswego Players’ Fall show for the 2026 season, “Old Money, New Habits”, written by local playwright Alexis Martin and directed by Sherri Metz. The play will be performed October 9th – 18th at the Frances Marion Brown Theater in Fort Ontario Park. Juniper Briggs and Jennifer Hitchcock play the classically mismatched newly weds Monty and Felicity Davies in this farce set in the 1930s in England. Monty is an easy going, devoted husband, while Felicity is the domineering and conniving wife who must get everything she desires. Both have secrets and they would do anything to avoid their exposure.

“Undiscovered Country” has taken top honors in the Oswego Players 2026 Don J. McCann Memorial One-Act Play Writing Contest. By Dana Leslie Goldstein, of Brooklyn, “Undiscovered Country” examines losing a loved one and how, through memories, lost love can be found. A panel of 15 volunteer judges praised it for its flow of dialog and richly developed characters. Goldstein receives a $250 cash prize. Garnering a $150 second-place prize is Ben Dworken, of New York City, for “I Am Enough.” It’s a story of a young autistic man who struggles to conquer his inner insecurities before a big audition. The $75 third-place prize is awarded to “All for a Buck,” by Keith Whalen, of Peekskill. Whalen’s play is about a son who discovers who his father truly was through his best friends.

The Oswego Players’ Fall show for the 2026 season is a debut Season Run of “Old Money, New Habits”, written by local playwright Alexis Martin and directed by Sherri Metz. The play will be performed over two weekends in mid-October and is a full-length version of the entry script with which Martin won the Don McCann One-Act Playwriting Contest in 2023. “Old Money, New Habits” is a farce set in an English Estate in the 1930s (why wouldn’t it!), featuring murder, suspects, animosity and the odd glass of port.