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A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx

Dec 02 Through Dec 17 | Fri |
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This is award-winning play takes place during 1968, a particularly tumultuous year, yet these richly identifiable and flawed characters confront many of the same social issues that we face today, struggling to communicate, connect and love each other. Their hopes and fears and dreams belong to any age, and to any family.

Set in a working-class neighborhood of the Bronx during the racial and political unrest of the 1960s, the multi-generational story portrays the dysfunctional family dynamics between a married couple, Sammy (Mike Roche) and Eleanor Abrams (Holly O’Brien), and Eleanor's overbearing parents, Harry (Jackie Kusher) and Gladys Simms (Andrea Bell Wolff), who live in the apartment next door. When the couple's rebellious teenage son Elliot (Spencer Neumann) gets mugged, it triggers Sammy's desire to defy his powerful father-in-law and move to Long Island to claim his share of the American Dream. Harry has other ideas.

Dates and Times: Fri 12/2, Sat 12/3, Thu 12/8, Fri 12/9, Sat 12/10, Fri 12/16 and Sat 12/17 at 7:30PM with matinees on Sun 12/4, Sun 12/11 and Wed 12/14 at 2PM. Tickets are $25.

Venue: The Chain Theater

312 W. 36th Street Map
248-892-1251