ArtHouse Live

ArtHouse Live is a contemporary theater company based in Easton, Maryland, formed in 2006 by Brandon Hesson, Mark Mangold and Tim Weigand. The group performs its shows at the Talbot County Historical Society Auditorium, a 250-seat theater in downtown Easton.
Cricket Theatre
Hesson, Mangold and Weigand met at Mangold's father's pool hall, Easton Billiards, and started their own public-access television show, What's Going On, with Erik Higgins in 1994. While studying film and television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in an attempt to raise money for his senior thesis, Mangold asked Weigand, Hesson and Higgins to help him produce a play as a fundraiser. The group formed Cricket Theatre and performed their first show, Sam Shepard's Fool for Love at the Avalon Theatre in 1998.
Cricket Theatre went on to produce eleven shows at the Avalon from 1998 to 2003. Mangold directed most of the shows, with Weigand acting in the majority of them and Hesson in charge of the plays' production. They focused on American playwrights such as Shepard, Woody Allen, Beth Henley and Christopher Durang. They also produced Side Man by Warren Leight and How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, and a community-oriented production of A Christmas Carol. Mangold left the group in 2003, but Cricket produced two more new productions before folding in 2005.
ArtHouse Live
Hesson, Mangold and Weigand formed ArtHouse Live Productions in January 2006. Their first show was Craig Pospisil's Life is Short, which ran from April 6 to 8, 2006. Their first season also included Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio and David Auburn's Proof. The group also participated in the National Film Challenge from October 21 to 23, 2006, where teams were required to write, shoot and edit a six- to eight-minute film in one weekend. Their entry was titled "Closed Doors".
ArtHouse Live began at the Avalon Theatre before moving to the Historical Society Auditorium, where they are able to produce their shows for more than one weekend. A fundraiser for the company, featuring alt-country singer-songwriter Scott Miller, took place on February 3, 2007, and marked the group's first production in their new home. The group's 2007 season began with their production of Eric Coble's The Dead Guy. The performance incorporated a multi-media presentation that simultaneously broadcast the theatrical production live as a television show during the performance. The remainder of the season featured Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and Donald Margulies' Brooklyn Boy.

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