New Theatre in South Camden on Target for Fall Opening

by KYW's Paul Kurtz

A new theatre is beginning to take shape in South Camden, NJ.

"It looks like we're going to be opening in October."

That's Joe Paprzycki (right), playwright and artistic director of the South Camden Theatre Company, who is watching a dream come true. 

He says the Waterfront South Theatre will seat  98 people when it opens this fall, at Fourth and Jasper Streets:

"The foundation's in the ground, the steel's up, and we're movin'!"

Paprzycki has been producing plays in the basement of the nearby Sacred Heart Church for several years. 

Now, with more than a half-million dollars in financing and donations from a nonprofit organization and a community group, he's looking at the next phase of the theatre company's development and the redevelopment of a neighborhood:

"To see that this new life is really happening is just incredible."

(File photos from South Camden Theatre Co.)