PHOTO PROVIDED “Tiny Island” is the next production in the RiverStage spotlight with showtimes slated for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, April 7, 8, 14 and 15, and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on April 16.

LEWISBURG — The magic of the movies is the theme of RiverStage Community Theatre’s next production, “Tiny Island” by Michael Hollinger, coming to the stage in April, according to a recent press release.

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, April 7, 8, 14 and 15, and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on April 16, at the Greenspace Center, 815 Market St., Lewisburg.

Tiny Island tells the story of two sisters, Muriel and Hazel, who grew up outside Philadelphia in the 1950s. As little girls nestled in the tiny projection booth of their family-owned movie theater, the two girls imagined flying across the world with their mother to exotic destinations, lofted by the plane-like whir of the projectors, the release said.

The play begins in 1984, when Muriel returns to the fading movie palace where Hazel is still working, because she’s been hearing little girls’ voices at night and wants her sister’s help in saving the theater and her marriage at the same time. The play contains some infrequent coarse language and alcohol, but is generally suitable for ages 13 and up, the release said.

“With touches of magical realism, time travel, 80s pop culture, and a great sense of humor, Tiny Island is a beautiful little play about sisterhood and the movies. We are also so pleased to have had assistance from Andy Seal at the Campus Theatre in Lewisburg to help us re-create the set of an authentic movie projectionist’s booth,” said Director Jove Graham. “This play has a lot of touching, funny things to say about how sisters get along with each other (or not), and it’s a really sweet story about love and the movies. If you’ve never seen it before, we hope you won’t miss this chance!”

Tiny Island features a cast of four actors playing six characters. Hazel is played by Maggie Able, who has appeared many times at RiverStage, Valley Players and Community Theatre League (Gaspipe One-Act Play Fest, “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,” “A Streetcar Named Desire”), and her sister Muriel is played by Sarah Bell, who has also been seen in many past RiverStage productions (“The Secret Garden,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Black Comedy”). The movie theater’s usher, Mike, and a teenage version of Muriel’s future husband, Norm, are played by Ross Wiley (who was recently in the One Act Play Festival and starred as the Major-General in RiverStage’s “Pirates of Penzance”). Finally, making her debut at RiverStage, Heidi Peña Yanes, of Danville, plays the teenage Muriel and video store clerk Brenda.

The production is directed and designed by Jove Graham, with costumes by Barbara Ross, set construction by Dennis Merkle, and custom design and construction of two large reel-to-reel movie projectors by Peter Wiley.

RiverStage Community Theatre was founded in 2003 as a nonprofit group of artists committed to bringing top-notch theatre to the Greater Susquehanna Valley.

For more information, visit www.riverstagetheatre.org, send email to info@riverstagetheatre.org or call 570-989-0848.