Mainstage Summary
2009-2010 Our 44th 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. No time for dinner? Order BARN PICNICS from participating local restaurants. Tickets are 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.Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on September 20th & 27th Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors(62) & Students $20
This comedy/farce involves the unstable lives of two New Yorkers searching for a stable romantic relationship and the 'advice' they receive from their equally unstable psychiatrists. The line between neurosis and insanity blurs as complications....and comedy....inevitably follow.
Book by John-Michael Tebelak
November 13th - December 12th, 2009
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on November 22nd, 29th & December 6th
Tickets: Adults $26; Seniors(62) & Students $22Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, this musical has enduring popularity as a contemporary adaptation of the life of Christ and his disciples, filling the stage with joyous music and hit songs such as Day by Day, All for the Best, and O Bless the Lord.
March 12th - April 3rd, 2010
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on March 21st & 28th
Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors(62) & Students $20 This autobiographical drama by America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright was written in the later years of O'Neill's career. In it, James Tyrone rents a small farm to Phil Hogan and his daughter Josie. When Phil uses Josie in a plot to convince James to sell him the farm, the outwardly-gruff Josie discovers that despite the chasm that separates them, she shares much common ground with James. Critically recognized as one of O'Neill's finest works.
THE MEMORY OF WATER
Written by Shelagh Stephenson
May 28th - June 19th, 2010
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees on June 6th & 13th
Tickets: Adults $24; Seniors(62) & Students $20After years of separation, three sisters come together for the funeral of their mother, finding that each of their memories of events in their lives are very different. These different recollections force them to confront their perceptions with introspection and humor. The play asks searching questions, such as 'who are we without our memories'. While it remains firmly in the genre of family comedy, what makes this play better than most, is the way it reveals emotional pain and complexity beneath the outward facade.
