Murder at the Cafe’ Noir – Cast Announcement

October 7, 2018 No Comments
CAST ANNOUNCEMENT for Strauss Theatre Center’s production of “Murder at the Café Noir.”  Click HERE for cast list.
This Dinner Theatre production is a separate offering from our season membership.  Tickets can be purchased at our Box Office – 323-6681.  Show dates are November 8th, 9th, 10th.  Dinner to be catered by Chef Pat Nolan
“Murder at the Cafe’ Noir” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Letters – Holding Families Together in WW2

October 7, 2018 No Comments
LETTERS – HOLDING FAMILIES TOGETHER IN WORLD WAR II – Jerry Holmes
 
Ronn Robinson’s play brings thought about communication during WWII between soldiers on the front and those loved ones at home: letters provided the major link between them.  These days with Skype, Facebook, and your handy news agencies that want to cover as many “particular truths” as they can find to boost ratings, many of those abroad are able to let those at home know where they are and often what they are doing.

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Director’s Update

October 6, 2018 No Comments

Director’s Update – Brenda Rowan
Last night we had full costume rehearsal.  We are looking more and more like the 1940s.  Only a few glitches to clean up with wardrobe.  We had planned a rehearsal for Friday, but my extraordinary cast performed so well, they don’t need it.  So I gave them the night off!  You should have seen the excitement and heard the whoop whoops!  I may be working them too hard.

Director’s Update – Brenda Rowan

October 5, 2018 No Comments

When I read The Cover of Life, I couldn’t put it down.  I love this story set in the South.  Sterlington LA no less!  And I wanted so badly to direct it. The powers that be said “Ok.” And away I went!  Auditions, it turned out, was filled with wonderful talent, and though it was hard to choose, I believe I picked a stellar cast.  They all work hard and are as determined as I am to get the story told in such a way that audiences love it as much as we do.  Come see if we get that accomplished.

Playwright’s Mother’s Past Inspired “Life”

October 4, 2018 No Comments
Playwright’s Mother’s Past Inspired “Life”
Article Excerpt from The Hartford Courant, April 09, 1993|By FRANK RIZZO; Courant Staff Writer

 

Sometimes the best stories in life are found in your own living room.That’s what R.T. Robinson discovered when he decided to write the play that eventually became “The Cover of Life.”

After years of struggling as an actor and musical writer, Robinson decided in the late ’80s to write a play “about what I knew about and about what mattered.”  So he looked at his own family and focused on his mother’s life in 1943, when she and two other sisters-in-law all lived with their mother-in-law in Louisiana while their three husbands were in the service. In the play, a reporter for Life magazine visits to write a cover story on the women.

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