NJ Repertory Company's HOUSWIVES OF MANNHEIM Extended Until 5/31

The New Jersey Repertory Company located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch presents the world-premiere of The Housewives of Mannheim a compelling new comic-drama by Alan Brody. The play, which has been extended until May 31st, centers around four women living in an apartment building in Brooklyn in 1944, during World War II.

May is the neighborhood beauty who is struggling with a growing restlessness. Alice is the local busy-body and self-proclaimEd Moral compass of the community. Both of their husbands are overseas fighting the Nazis. Billie is a free-spirited entrepreneur selling linens out of her apartment to make a better life for her son.

The three women are part of a tight-knit Brooklyn community where everyone knows everyone else as well as everyone else-s business, and they are marking the days until the war is over and the men return.

Every day has its unhurried rhythm as the women care for their children, maintain their households, visit one another to catch up on gossip, drink coffee, trade ration cards, listen to the radio and shop at Waldbaum's.

Into this carefully crafted world enters Sophie, an older woman who has fled the horrors of war-torn Europe. The sophisticated Sophie brings with her a view of life that the other women have been sheltered from, and her appearance on the scene threatens the delicate equilibrium that May, Billie and Alice have so skillfully created.

Next up at NJ Rep:

Evie's Waltz by Carter W. Lewis, directed by Suzanne Barabas stars Warren Kelley, Kate Kenney, and Andrea Gallo. Tickets are now onsale for this New Jersey premiere playing June 18 through July 26.

By the author of last season-s runaway hit Women Who Steal, Evie's Waltz is a comic-drama about a serious subject, young people who feel alienated within society and their own family. We meet a typical family - Clay and his wife Gloria. They are barbequing, entertaining their son's girlfriend, Evie. But all the while they are unaware of what is going on with their son, and pressures start to mount as secrets are revealed in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.

Call the box-office at 732-229-3166 to reserve your tickets today!

For more information, visit http://www.njrep.org/.

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