Carole Schweid

Feature: CT THEATER WOMEN AWARDS at A.C.T. Of CT
by Lauren Yarger - Feb 24, 2025

Marsha Mason, Jacqueline Hubbard, Semina De Laurentis among honorees at CT Theater Women Awards March 3 in Ridgefield. Songs and dramatic excerpts will round out the night.

BWW Feature: PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD'S LOVE NOTES at DARIEN ARTS CENTER
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - Feb 8, 2022

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a date night of theatre? Play With Your Food, in collaboration with JIB Productions, is offering just that with Love Notes on February 12 at the Darien Arts Center Weatherstone Studio.

THE MAGIC OF STAGED READINGS at Westport Country Playhouse
by Lauren Yarger - Oct 7, 2021

Producers speak about staging readings in the age of Covid at CT Chapter's first in-person get-together of the season.

Photo Flash: Stephen Schwartz Performed at a Benefit To Support JIB Productions
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 30, 2019

Broadway legend (and Connecticut resident) Stephen Schwartz performed for over 100 people at a private home in Westport as part of a benefit to support not-for-profit Westport-based arts organization JIB Productions. JIB brings the Play With Your Food lunchtime playreadings series and SHORT CUTS Film Festival to Fairfield County, CT each year and was founded by Artistic Director Carole Schweid. Schweid's connection to Stephen Schwartz goes back decades to when she performed in the national tour of Pippin so it felt natural to reach out to her Connecticut 'neighbor' to help raise funds for her performing and visual arts organization.

Stray Kats Theatre Company Presents STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS-2019!
by A.A. Cristi - May 7, 2019

The Stray Kats Theatre Company presents the 3rd Annual 'Still Crazy After All These Years!" festival of one-act plays celebrating the lives of today's senior citizens; healthier, more active and engaged than ever before. The Newtown Festival consists of eight new one-act plays culled from over 130 submissions, showing passionate, lively seniors whose lives have taken interesting new twists and turns.

Broadway Pals Enter the Ring for PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD Benefit Gala
by BWW News Desk - Nov 5, 2016

'What do you do when you have to stop dancing?' This is the question Zack asks the dancers at the end of A Chorus Line. Original Broadway cast member Carole Schweid has a unique answer to that question.

Broadway Pals Enter the Ring for PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD Benefit Gala
by BWW News Desk - Oct 26, 2016

'What do you do when you have to stop dancing?' This is the question Zack asks the dancers at the end of A Chorus Line. Original Broadway cast member Carole Schweid has a unique answer to that question.

BWW Review: CROSSING DELANCEY Projects Cozy Warmth
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - May 9, 2016

Lewiston's Public Theatre's closing play of the 2015-2016 season, Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey is the perfect Mother's Day offering, projecting cozy warmth and fond memories of an unforgettable Jewish grandmother. The 1985 play, which takes a bemused look at the clash between traditional Jewish- American immigrant culture and the more modern aspirations of the next generations, serves up a quintet of characters one cannot fail to embrace

Play With Your Food to Present Excerpts from THE AUDIENCE, TORPID & More in April
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 17, 2014

Programs take place at Toquet Hall in Westport (April 1-3) and Fairfield Theatre Company (April 8). Lunch will be provided by Terrain Garden Cafe in Westport and Garelick and Herbs in Fairfield.

Play With Your Food Lunchtime Theatre Series Features MOLLY AND JAMES, THE INTERVIEW and BABY FOOD, Now thru 3/11
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2014

Play With Your Food (PWFY) - Fairfield County's innovative lunchtime theater series -- has announced the selections for its upcoming productions in Westport (today, March. 4-6) and Fairfield (March 11).

Play With Your Food Lunchtime Theatre Series to Feature MOLLY AND JAMES, THE INTERVIEW and BABY FOOD, 3/4-11
by Diana Heisroth - Feb 25, 2014

Play With Your Food (PWFY) - Fairfield County's innovative lunchtime theater series -- has announced the selections for its upcoming productions in Westport (March. 4-6) and Fairfield (March 11). The selections for March will be filled with excitement and humor, promises Artistic Director Carole Schweid. Productions will include Molly and James by Sheila Walsh, The Interview by A.R. Gurney and Baby Food by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire.