Long Wharf Theatre to Premiere LEWISTON, 4/6-5/1

Long Wharf Theatre will present the world premiere of Lewiston, by Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Eric Ting from April 6 through May 1 on Stage II. Tickets are $26 to $85.

The press opening will take place on Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 pm.

The cast includes Randy Danson (Alice), Arielle Goldman (Marnie), Martin Moran (Connor), and Lucy Owen (Female Voice). The creative team includes Wilson Chin (sets), Paloma Young (costumes), Matthew Richards (lighting), Brandon Wolcott (sound), and Charles M. Turner III (stage manager). Casting is by Calleri Casting. The production is sponsored by Whitney Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice's long lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other's deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy.

In addition, Long Wharf Theatre is inviting audiences into a more intimate relationship with the act of theatrical making. The SPARK program is designed to engage audiences in a series of hands-on experiences surrounding the development, rehearsal and production of Lewiston. Participants will follow the process from first rehearsal to final dress, learn specific skills for reading a play, meet the cast and creative team of the production, explore the director's role, and hear from the playwright himself about the challenges and victories of creation.

Access to the entire series is being offered at $30 - which goes to support Long Wharf Theatre's efforts to develop and produce emerging playwrights and their work.