The curtain was painted by local artist Charles Child and depicts the town of New Hope, Pennsylvania with the townsfolk going through their daily lives. The Playhouse is featured prominently on the right side of the curtain. Other local landmarks are Bowman's Tower (bottom left), Logan Inn (top middle) and New Hope Railroad Station (top left). The Playhouse appears to be having a matinee with a huge crowd preparing to enter the theatre. With New Hope's reputation as an "artist's colony" painters with easils are seen in various parts of the asbestos canvas. One of the more popular sightings is the nude sunbather (middle of the curtain).

After a brief career at Harvard University, where he was art editor of The Lampoon, Charles Child spent five years travelling and studying in Europe and Asia, which contributed to his great versatility as an artist. He made portraits, murals, and landscapes, illustrated children's books and poems, and designed fabric. He painted the stage curtain for the Bucks County Playhouse and a mural for the Doylestown Post Office. In 1942, he directed the art and music section of the Cultural Board of the State Department and later as an advisor on the arts and humanities, helped develop the cultural exchange program. He illustrated and wrote a book in 1965, Roots in the Rock, which was a non-fiction account of the building of his summer home in Maine. For many years Child wrote a weekly column for the New Hope Gazette called The Inner Eye , often focusing on his travels and his observations of contemporary life.

Today the curtain remains hanging but is rarely pulled down. Still a great work of art, much of the lower portions of the curtain are fading due to previous water damage. Also, the fact that it is asbestos, as the curtain is raised and lowered, portions tend to flake off each time it is moved. Below are images of the curtain.