First Flight is devoted to presenting the plays of 20th century American playwright Maxwell Anderson as well as other playwrights who instill poetry in their writing.
The Hermitage and the First Flight Theatre Company presented an outdoor production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at the Hermitage, 335 N. Franklin Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
on Saturday and Sunday, July 26 & 27, 2025. ​​
Our 7th Season of Presenting Theatre
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DICKENS PFRESENTS
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE MUSICAL
by Jean Oberholtzer with original music by Ben Masterton
and directed by John Lange.
FOUR PERFORMANCES: Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 3pm, December 13, 14, 20 & 21 at the Hermitage,
335 Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423.
For tickets: www.thehermitage.org/events
PICTURE US!
Photos below from VALLEY FORGE (2022), and LITTLE WOMEN, MINA and DICKENS BY CANDLELIGHT: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2023).
Photos from Past Productions THE SCARECROW, and SATURDAY'S CHILDREN, followed by a Zoom video of the Prologue of Maxwell Anderson's 1923 Broadway play WHITE DESERT from our Zoom production in 2021 featuring Zander Kirby and Charlie Gillette. Toward the bottom is our BLOG section featuring full programs from our past productions.
The Cast of The Scarecrow at
The Hermitage
David Green, Lynn Manuell,
Alexa Elmy, Zander Kirby,
Charles Kennedy,
Julio Ramon, Richard Width,
Maddie Kirby and Frank Farrell
Maxwell Anderson's SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in Chicago 2023
Kevin Blair and Alexandra Jaymes as Rims and Bobby.
SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in NYC 2023
Danny Crawford and Haley Karlich
as Rims and Bobby.
BLOGS of Past Programs
Photo from First Flight's 2022 production featuring Jennifer Kim and audience members.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Where did the name First Fight Theatre Company come from? Pictured is a postage stamp called "First Flight Wright Brothers 1903." It's a cool stamp! But the company was not named after the Wright Brothers flight. It was named after Maxwell Anderson's third Broadway production called First Flight, about young Andrew Jackson when he was a frontier lawyer and how he was trying to convince the soon to be West Virginia territory to become part of the United States of America. Our company is devoted to producing plays by Maxwell Anderson, specifically poetic dramas where poetry is part and parcel of the language spoken in the play. First Flight is a good name for a company with that poetic theatre agenda.