Community Theatre League Showing of The Hobbit

About this Event

Join the Lycoming County Library System at the Community Theatre League for a private theatre performance of The Hobbit!

Each Lycoming County Library has 29 seats to fill due to limited seating in the theatre. Please reach out to your home library to see if spots are available.

Please arrive between 1:30 pm-1:50 pm as Library staff will check you in and the show starts promptly at 2:00 pm.

This show is recommended for ages 8+. This stage adaptation of The Hobbit by Edward Mast is family-friendly and suitable for upper elementary audiences through adults. It contains mild fantasy danger and suspense (goblins, spiders, Smaug), presented in a non-graphic, theatrical manner.

Approx. Show time: 120 minutes with a Q& A after the show with cast and crew members.

Summary of the show: It’s unusual for a modern work to become a classic so quickly, but Tolkien’s “ring” stories, which began with The Hobbit, clearly are in this very special category. They stir the imagination and intellect of everyone they touch. Bilbo, one of the most conservative of all Hobbits, is asked to leave his large, roomy and very dry home in the ground in order to set off as chief robber in an attempt to recover an important treasure. It’s the last thing that any sensitive Hobbit would want to do, but great benefit eventually results—not only for Bilbo but for all of the Hobbits who inhabit Middle Earth—and the hearts of those children and adults who continue to enjoy this kind of magic.

This private showing of The Hobbit at the Community Theatre League is brought to you by the Lycoming County Library System.