A DICKENS OF A MASH-UP COMEDY!
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June 14 - July 15
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30 PM Tickets: $35 General Admission $30 Seniors $20 Students & Military Ages 12 and under are always free PHOTOS: Jim Walsh |
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TWO ACTORS, ONE EPIC...
A WORLD PREMIERE
In this theatrical comedy, two men play out their own version of Dickens’ classic, arguing as they go: How best to tell the story? Why does it matter? And what does it mean to audiences today?
Starring Ezra Barnes and Jon J. Peterson
Developed in front of New Jersey audiences at New Jersey Rep and Centenary Stage.
A WORLD PREMIERE
In this theatrical comedy, two men play out their own version of Dickens’ classic, arguing as they go: How best to tell the story? Why does it matter? And what does it mean to audiences today?
Starring Ezra Barnes and Jon J. Peterson
Developed in front of New Jersey audiences at New Jersey Rep and Centenary Stage.
COMPANY BIOS
Ezra Barnes (Avery) is happily making his East Lynne debut. Off Broadway: Breakfast With Mugabe (a NY Times Critics’ Pick nominated for Best Play by the Off Broadway Alliance), Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird (Queens Theatre in the Park), In White America (New Federal), Far and Wide (Mint). Regional: McCarter, Geva, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Pioneer, Paper Mill. TV: currently, the hit YouTube series Group, an innovative show about a therapy group, previously on New Amsterdam, Jessica Jones, Orange is the New Black, The Sinner, Bored to Death, Law & Order, SVU. Film: Motherless Brooklyn, birth/rebirth, Unintended, Noah, Joshua, Once More With Feeling. Ezra was awarded the Connecticut Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding Direction for his production of Diary of Anne Frank at Playhouse on Park. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Connecticut’s Shakespeare on the Sound festival and led the company from 1996-2008. Ezra is a Brooklyn resident, where he runs the Young Actors Workshop.
Jon J. Peterson (Bunce) Theatre work includes: (Broadway) Cabaret. (Off-Broadway) George M. Cohan Tonight!, Barefoot In The Park, Midnight At The Never Get. (Regional) Half A Sixpence, The Producers, Anything Goes, Annie, Peter And The Starcatcher, He Wrote Good Songs, Song Man Dance Man, Singin’ In The Rain, The World Goes Round, Rocky Horror Show. (West End & UK Theatre) Lionel Bart’s Blitz!, The Sound Of Music, A Chorus Line. Dames At Sea, She Loves Me, Y, Sophisticated Ladies, Cavalcade, Whoop-Dee-Doo!, Cats, On Your Toes, Inner City. (Film) George M. Cohan Tonight!, Phenomerotica, Looks That Kill, Late Night, The Lost City Of Tomorrow, Rick’s Pawn Shop, Death’s Waiting Room, Like The Spider, The Color Of War, Anna Ballerina, Mail Order Wife, Surviving Picasso.
Craig Fols (Playwright / Director) is the new Artistic Director of East Lynne Theater Company. READ MORE
