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This insider's look into what it takes to work behind the scenes in the theater skewers the business practices and often shady backstage politics of regional houses but has at its heart a genuine love for those who have answered the siren's call to create and present art.

A picturesque shoreline home becomes the setting in which a combination of good intentions, bad timing, and emotional instability provide all the fixings for an awkward and potentially volatile weekend.

The suffering of others

Square One Theatre's second production of its 24th Anniversary Season is Time Stands Still, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies,described as warm, funny and humane and is acknowledged as one of his best plays.

Stratford's Square One Theatre Company concluded its twenty-third anniversary season recently announced its annual Subscriber Award-Winners. The eighteenth annual awards were announced at a recent Readers Theatre Showcase event held at the Stratford Library. The theatre's over 1,000 subscribers voted for performers in various acting categories from the company's three-play, 2012-13 season. Scroll down for a photo of the winners!

Tradition! Tradition! Tradition!

The final production of Square One Theatre's 23rd Season is the gentle comedy, Black Tie, by the prolific contemporary American playwright A.R. ('Pete') Gurney. Black Tie opens tonight, May 17 and continues todays, Saturdays, and Sundays through Saturday, June 1 (2013) at Square One's home base, the Stratford Theatre, located at 2422 Main Streetin Stratford, Connecticut.

The final production of Square One Theatre's 23rd Season is the gentle comedy, Black Tie, by the prolific contemporary American playwright A.R. ('Pete') Gurney. Black Tie opens Friday, May 17 and continues on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through Saturday, June 1 (2013) at Square One's home base, the Stratford Theatre, located at 2422 Main Streetin Stratford, Connecticut.

Up next in Westport Community Theatre's ETC Staged Reading series - an entertaining evening of theatre with the very funny, very provacative off-Broadway hit ' Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead' by Bert V. Royal, directed by Kevin McNair. The reading will take place tonight, March 1, at 8 p.m. No admission, no reservations required.

Up next in Westport Community Theatre's ETC Staged Reading series - an entertaining evening of theatre with the very funny, very provacative off-Broadway hit ' Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead' by Bert V. Royal, directed by Kevin McNair. The reading will take place on Friday, March 1, at 8 p.m. No admission, no reservations required.