Quinn Cassavale, Steve Perlmutter and Jolynn Baca
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CROTON FALLS, New York – The Schoolhouse Theater wraps up the 2008-2009 season with Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, a riveting spectacle of the everyday realities of life and love. The play opens on Thursday, May 14 at 8 pm, with performances scheduled May 15-17, May 21-24, May 28-31, and June 4-7. Tickets are $28 on Thursdays and Fridays, $30 on Saturdays and Sundays. Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 pm. Sunday performances are at 4 pm.
Dinner with Friends is about two suburban Connecticut couples who “expect to grow old and fat together” but whose friendship is fractured in unexpected ways by the shockwaves that radiate when one couple decides to split up. The play is directed by Pamela Moller Kareman, who has directed a long line of critical successes at The Schoolhouse since it opened 10 years ago.
The cast for Dinner with Friends is a quartet of Schoolhouse Theater veterans: Steve Perlmutter, Quinn Cassavale, Jolynn Baca and Chris Yates, who has also appeared in several Broadway National Tours, including Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, Jekyll and Hyde and Drood.
In addition to winning the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Dinner with Friends also received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Outer Critic Circle Award, the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a Drama Desk Award nomination.
The Schoolhouse is a unique setting for the arts in Westchester. Built in 1926, the brick building served as an active school until 1976. Galleries exhibit many fine local artists, while the theater seats small but enthusiastic audiences of less than 100. Theater-goers enjoy the intimate quality of the space, as well as the all-Equity casts who bring theatrical excellence and experience from Broadway to Croton Falls.
The New York Times has called The Schoolhouse Theater “Westchester’s sole claim to consistent, professional theater, where people can see plays they are not likely to see elsewhere.” The Schoolhouse is a regional Equity theater, dedicated to presenting professional theatrical performances by award-winning American playwrights.
The Schoolhouse is located at 3 Owens Road, Croton Falls, NY, just off exit 8 on I-684. For information and reservations, call 914-277-8477. Visit the Schoolhouse on the web at www.schoolhousetheater.org
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