Mainstage Summary
2010-2011
Our 45th Season!
We hope you are as excited as we are about our NEW SEASON!
All Mainstage shows are cabaret style. Doors open one hour prior to curtain and audiences are invited to bring their own food and beverages to enjoy before the show and during intermission. Tickets will be available on-line. Seating is reserved with tables assigned upon arrival at the theater. If you have handicapped seating requirements or wish to be seated with another party, use our "SEATING REQUEST" option. If you prefer, you may email us at theaterbarn@snet.net or call us at 203-431-9850.
No time for dinner? Order BARN PICNICS from participating local restaurants. Each of our sponsoring restaurants provides a little 'something extra' for our patrons who use their take-out service to bring dinner to a Theater Barn event.
Again this season, we will offer coffee, tea, and bottled water at all main stage performances. The coffee and tea will be available in do-it-yourself individual servings before the show and during intermission. A donation of $1 is requested for each serving to offset our costs.
THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Matt Austin
September 10th - October 2nd, 2010
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on September 19th & 26th at 2 pm
Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20
Auditions: July 11th 1pm-5pm & July 12th 7:30-9pm
The story revolves around the escalating problems of a middle-aged couple living on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York City. Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age. An intense summer heat wave and a prolonged garbage strike just exacerbates his plight to no end as he and his wife Edna deal with noisy neighbors, loud sounds emanating from Manhattan streets up to their apartment and even a robbery of their apartment during broad daylight. Neil Simon walks a tightrope between comedy and drama in this bittersweet production.
ENCHANTED APRILWritten by Matthew Barber
Directed by Brian DeToma
November 19th - December 11th, 2010
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on November 28th & December 5th at 2 pm
Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again—rediscovering themselves in ways that they—and we—could never have expected.
PARADE
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Alicia Demptser
March 4th - April 2nd, 2011
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on March 13th & 20th
Tickets: Adults $26; Seniors (62) & Students ($22)
The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is brought to emotional and theatrical life in this Tony Award-winning play. In 1913, Leo Frank is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.
SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCER
Written by Don Nigro
Directed by Sherry Cox
June 3rd - June 25th, 2011
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on June 12th & 19th at 5 pm
Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors (62) & Students $20
On a solitary late night walk along the misty Cape Cod coast, an aspiring novelist fishes a drowning young woman out of the surf. So begins this offbeat romantic comedy about love at first sight and what follows. Set against the social currents of the seventies, the couple is cast into a calamitous romance propelled by his distant emotionality and her self-destructive nature. Flirtatious gibes drift into personal arguments that reveal the visceral chasm between them. Seascape with Sharks and Dancer is a raw play in which the unlikely lovers find themselves in a war about intimacy and understanding that neither can afford to lose.
