by Emily Edelman Living Room Theatre’s “Amor & Psyche: A Mythological Comedy” is taken from the classical story included in the second-century work “Metamorphosis” by Apuleius. LRT co-founder Randolyn Zinn’s retelling moves quickly with updated language and situations that connect with a modern audience without undermining the source material. Director…
by Emily Edelman Nick Payne’s “Constellations,” currently being staged by Living Room Theatre in North Bennington, Vermont, was written to be played by two actors working through the relationship of physicist Marianne and beekeeper Roland. LRT utilizes six actors (three for each part), which might be confusing in any other…
by Roseann Cane Henrick Ibsen’s A Doll’s House famously ends with the sound of a slamming door. This caused a great ruckus in 1879. Nora Helmer, who apparently lives an ideal married life in a beautiful home with a nanny to look after her two children, a passel of servants,…
TO CELEBRATE OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON, LIVING ROOM THEATRE PRESENTS A D O L L’ S H O U S E, P A R T 2 by Lucas Hnath Directed by Kirk Jackson withAllen McCullough, Gaia Visnar, Janis Young & Randolyn Zinn “A smart, funny and utterly engrossing play.” — The…
by Gail M. Burns “Elderly” folks like me may remember the late Dudley Moore’s classic skit (if you don’t you can watch it HERE) where he plays multiple variations on the Colonel Bogey March and then is unable to end it. He plays coda after coda after coda, but they…
Bees are buzzing, roses are blooming and the Living Room Theatre is in rehearsal with an American comedy written by our own Randolyn Zinn. Lucy’s Wedding will mark LRT’s fourth new play since we began in 2012 and the third by a female playwright. Set in the early 1980s (before Google and…
What a grand experience! Sitting on the lovely lawn of the Park-McCullough House with the (real) fireflies dancing about and the (real) bats swooping gleefully overhead watching the (fake) cockroach and (fake) cricket and (fake) alley cat perform… What? This sounds a tad bizarre to you? Well, I grant you…
