Martin Denton To Give 'Summer and Smoke' Talkback 8/27

The Big Sky Theatre Company is proud to present a special post-show Talk-Back with Martin Denton of nytheatre.com, following the 8:00 pm performance of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row on August 27th, 2008. The Talk-Back will include the cast of Summer and Smoke and director Tlaloc Rivas. Tickets for this and all performances can be purchased at Ticket Central, 212-279-4200. Summer and Smoke will be performed Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $18.00.You can also purchase tickets online at: www.ticketcentral.com.   

MARTIN DENTON is the founder, editor, and chief reviewer of nytheatre.com. He is also Executive Director of nytheatre.com's nonprofit parent organization, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE); the editor of NYTE's annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies, along with the collections Playing with Canons and Unpredictable Plays; and the founding producer of nytheatrecast, NYC's first original, regularly scheduled theatre podcast. Martin is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and the Drama Desk; he's been revieing theatre professionally for nearly 12 years. Martin blogs at the nytheatre I  (http://nytheatre.blogspot.com).

 A sensuous story of longing and rebellion, Tennessee Williams' Summer & Smoke was hailed by The New York Times as "a gently torrid parable of body and soul ... charged with passion and anguish". A lonely minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller (Mary Sheridan), lives in her stifling parent's home in a small-minded Mississippi town. Her only solace: a secret lifelong love for the former boy-next-door, Dr. John Buchanan (Michael Frederic), now a fully-grown, wandering-eye bachelor. Tortured by her unrequited passion, Alma's spiritual devotion becomes pitted against John's sensuous need for physical desire, and their turbulent relationship becomes an emotional battle of wills that will irrevocably alter each of them forever.

Cast members: Mary Sheridan; Michael Frederic; Samuel Adams, Jessica Angleskhan; Mia Bankston; Harry Barandes; Lena Hurt; Clyde Kelley; Jorge Montenegro; Stu Richel; Melodie Wolford; Rachael Hip Flores.