THE WAITING ROOM Comes to Hamilton Stage

 American Theater Group will present the premiere reading of Paul Marsh’s new comedy The Waiting Room as part of its free Monday Night Play Reading Series on February 10th at 7pm at Hamilton Stage in Rahway, NJ.  The cast will feature Broadway’s Brenda Braxton, William Selby, Jennifer Smith, and Doug McLaughlin.

It's Super Bowl Sunday, and the attendants in the Goldstein Waiting Room at Plymouth Community Hospital in Plymouth, MA assume they are in for a quiet evening of rooting for the Patriots.  But when the Blooms arrive, waiting for emergency surgery, followed shortly by The Waiting Room’s donor and his pregnant movie star wife, all hope of a relaxing night watching football is lost.  Throw in a clueless security guard, an overworked ER doctor and a drug-seeking burglar, and the night turns downright chaotic.  Through it all, characters will learn there is a time to wait patiently, a time to stop waiting and take action -- and that sometimes what you are waiting for has been with you all along.

Rounding out the cast will be Jamiel Burkhart, Gina Naomi Baez, Stephanie Rosenberg, Jeffrey Williams, Brendan Walsh and Kari Nicholaisen.

Playwright Paul Marsh is a resident of Dover, MA, who has spent most of his theater career as an actor, only recently turning his attention to writing.  His first three plays were all one acts (A Final Shabbos, Unfinished Masterpiece and First Day of School), with A Final Shabbos having been performed by the TBD Westwood Players.  Marsh’s fourth play, The Waiting Room is his first full length play, as well as his first comedy.  The first draft received a reading by The Walpole Footlighters.