PATRIOTIC GAMES Will Come to Theatre 40
Joel Zwick directs David Hunt Stafford and Isaac W. Jay in the staged reading at Beverly Hills High School.
Staged reading of a new play, Patriotic Games will come to heatre Forty, in the Mary Levin Cutler Theatre, 241 S. Moreno Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. This is on the campus of Beverly Hills High School. Ample free underground parking is available via a driveway at the intersection of Durant and Moreno Drives.
WHO: Written by Victor Bardack and Edward Michael Bell, directed by Joel Zwick, and presented by Theatre Forty, performances will run June 2 and June 3, 2026.
Patriotic Games is described as the battle for the soul of America. War rages in Europe. The Nazis have conquered most of the continent. President Roosevelt wants to send aid to England, now being bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe.
Charles Lindbergh, the most popular man in Americs, and the head of the powerful America First Movement, is virulently opposed to sending military aid. America should remain neutral. "The oceans will protect us. America doesn't need another foreign war!," says Lindbergh.
The American people are divided. The future of our country is in peril!
Victor Bardack and Edward Michael Bell (Hillary and Monica) are the playwrights. The director is Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters).
The cast includes David Hunt Stafford as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mouchette Van Helsdingen as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Ghatan as Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Isaac W. Jay as Charles Lindbergh.
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