Long Wharf Theatre Announces A Host Of Holiday Shows

Warm up your holiday season with Long Wharf Theatre. Experience the essence of the holidays with a healthy dose of humor - find yourself and your family in our stories My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays, the all new play by Steve Solomon, and the hit Sister's Christmas Catechism, by Maripat Donovan.

In Sister's Christmas Catechism, written by the author of Late Nite Catechism, Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages - whatever happened to the Magi's gold? Employing her own scientific tools and assisted by local choirs as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any ever seen. With gifts galore and bundles of laughs, Sister's Christmas Catechism is sure to become a new holiday tradition. The show runs from Dec. 1-20. Tickets are $28.

Travel back home for the holidays with Steve Solomon's one-man-show My Mother's Italian, my Father's Jewish, and I'm Home For The Holidays. Solomon sold out 14 consecutive times this summer with his original crowd-pleaser My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy. This hit comedy will run Dec. 28-31 and Jan. 2-3. Tickets are $38.

Long Wharf Theatre is located on 222 Sargent Drive, in New Haven. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the box office at (203) 787-4282 or visit the theatre's website at www.longwharf.org.

ABOUT THE THEATRE

Long Wharf Theatre (Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director and Ray Cullom, Managing Director), in its 45th season, is recognized as a leader in American theatre, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American premieres. More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually intact to Broadway or Off-Broadway, some of which include Durango by Julia Cho, the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn. Last season's hit production of The Glass Menagerie will move to New York in spring 2010. The theatre is an incubator of new works, including last season's A Civil War Christmas by Paula Vogel and Coming Home by Athol Fugard. Long Wharf Theatre has received New York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle and the Tony® Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

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