STAGE TUBE: First Look at Highlights of TEA WITH EDIE AND FITZ
By: Christina Mancuso May. 01, 2013
Dead Writers Theatre Collective is proud to announce the Chicago premiere of Adam Pasen's Tea with Edie and Fitz, directed by Jim Schneider, April 26 - June 9, at the Greenhouse Theater Complex, 2257 North Lincoln Ave The performance schedule is Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. beginning May 18. Ticket prices are $30 for the scheduled run. All tickets are available at deadwriters.net, greenhousetheater.org or 773.404.7336. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
Fitzgerald and his beautiful and troubled Southern wife, Zelda (Nora Ulrey), and Wharton with the ghost of her mentor and longtime companion Henry James (Michael D. Graham). Tea with Edie and Fitz calls into question themes of gender, sanity, time, the purpose of art and the nature of love and loss.
Additional Tea with Edie and Fitz cast includes Christina Irwin, Luke Renn, Ben Muller, Peter Esposito, Bill Chamberlain, Sara Minton, Nelson Rodriquez, Megan Delay, Brandon Johnson and Bill Zorn.
The production staff also includes Kari Warfield, production stage manager; Matthew Bonaccorso, assistant stage manager; Reed Motz, assistant director; Kendra Kargenian, dialect coach; Edward Matthew Walter, set designer; Elizabeth Wislar, costume designer; Angela Guest, properties mistress and Kris Kontour, technical director.
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