Photo Flash: First Look at TheatreWorks New Milford's NOVEMBER

On September 14, TheatreWorks New Milford will premiere the hilarious political comedy NOVEMBER by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet. The show runs for four weeks. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

NOVEMBER is the 2008 Tony Award-winning, scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win. Set just days before a presidential election, incumbent Charles Smith’s (Tom Libonate, Danbury) chances for re-election are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money’s running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. But Smith isn’t going down without a fight. As per White House tradition, the President pardons a couple turkeys before Thanksgiving, and it is this simple PR event that inspires Smith to risk it all in a hilarious attempt to make an eleventh-hour comeback.
“The first thing people should know is this show is not based on any president to sit in the White House,” said director Richard Pettibone of New Milford. “It’s not left, right, or center. Put simply, it’s very funny political satire based on a fictional president who will, literally, stop at nothing to get re-elected. Add to that the sharp-witted dialogue provided by master playwright David Mamet and you have the recipe for a laugh-filled night out.” Pettibone also designed the show’s set and lights. Please note: NOVEMBER contains language for mature audiences.

Besides Libonate, the cast features some of the area’s finest actors: Robyn Maitland (New Fairfield), Mike Ritts (Oxford), JoNathan Jacobson (Litchfield), and Matt McQuail (Newtown).
NOVEMBER made its Broadway debut on January 17, 2008 at the Barrymore Theater with Nathan Lane in the role of the President. The play was called “a hilarious, timely, decidedly un-Mamet-like laughfest” (The Hollywood Reporter), “extremely funny” (The New York Times), and a play that “rollicks from one politically incorrect punch line to the next” (The San Francisco Chronicle).

TheatreWorks is an award-winning, regional theatre company located on 5 Brookside Avenue, just off Route 202 (next to the CVS), in New Milford, Conn. For tickets, scheduling and more information, go to www.theatreworks.us.

Photo credit: Richard Pettibone

Tom Libonate as President Charles H.P. Smith, Robyn Maitland as Clarice Bernstein, JoNathan Jacobson as Archer Brown, and Mike Ritts as "The Turkey Guy"

JoNathan Jacobson and Mike Ritts

Mike Ritts and Tom Libonate

JoNathan Jacobson, Tom Libonate, and Robyn Maitland

Tom Libonate, JoNathan Jacobson, and Robyn Maitland