The Boothbay Playhouse was the collective vision of fellow classmates, Sherwood Keith and Joseph Celi, from the Boston Leland Powers School of Theater.  With the financial assistance of Sherwood’s father, Sherwood & Celi purchased the Jasper Wyman farm on Route 27 in Boothbay, Maine.  Construction of the then state of the art barn theater included a fly house and modern theater lighting; and was completed on July 1, 1937.  Over the past eight decades, the Playhouse barn theater has hosted local, regional and national talent to include TV and movie actors such as Christopher Reeve (Superman), Oscar nominated Tom Hulce (Amadeus), Maeve McGuire (Edge of Night, All My Children, Another World, and the film Working Girl), Oscar nominated writer John Gay, Sherwood Keith (The Andy Griffith show), and Polly Holliday (Flo from TV’s Alice).  The Playhouse was also featured as point of interest in the June 1968 issue of National Geographic.