Arts & Entertainment
Final Performances of "The Dining Room" at Square One Theatre
A comedy of manners featuring actors from Stratford, North Haven, New Haven Woodbridge, Milford and Fairfield
Stratford's Square One Theatre Company, which had been closed since March 2020, due to the pandemic, reopened on Thursday, November 3 and this weekend will complete its final performances of The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney.
Gurney’s classic comedy, a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, takes place in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household. The Dining Room is a remarkable play of days long gone. Some audience members may not even remember the ‘good ol’ days’ when families sat down around a dining room table, talking, reminiscing and getting caught up on family news and events…no cell phones, no television, no internet, no distractions…just conversations around one table in each household.
According to The New York Times The Dining Room is “funny and rueful and, by the end, very moving.” The New York Post describes Gurney’s play as “Hilarious and touching…as each comic sketch crazily succeeds another comic sketch a whole pattern of American life emerges.” Variety calls it “A thoughtful and superbly written comedy!”
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Directed by Tom Holehan (Stratford), The Dining Room features Bruce Murray (Stratford), Josie Kulp (North Haven), Ryan Hendrickson (New Haven), Lillian Garcia (Woodbridge), Danielle Sultini (Milford) and David Victor (Fairfield).The final The Dining Room performances are:
Friday, November 18 at 8pm
Saturday, November 19 (two performances) at 4pm (twilight matinee) AND 8pm
Sunday, November 20 at 2pm
Single Tickets are:
$25 for limited number of front row tickets
$22 for each adult single ticket
$20 for each senior citizen & student
Tickets may be purchased:
By phone: box office at 203.375.8778(24/7)
Online at: squareonetheatre.com
In person: at box office 60 minutes prior to each performance
Stratford Academy is located at 719 Birdseye Street in Stratford, Connecticut. Ample FREE parking is available.
Stratford Academy is wheelchair accessible. Please inform the box office of any special needs when reserving tickets.
For more information, up-to-date news about the theatre, the play and the actors visit squareonetheatre.com
