Photo Flash: Hampton Theatre Company's DEAD ACCOUNTS

"Dead Accounts," Theresa Rebeck's darkly comic take on the chasm that divides Americans in the Midwest from their countrymen living in New York, will be the second play of the Hampton Theatre Company's 2015-2016 season, opening on January 14 at the Quogue Community Hall and running through January 31. Check out photos from the show below!

New for this production, the HTC has scheduled an audience talkback with members of the cast and the director following the performance on January 21.

"Dead Accounts" tells the story of Jack Leonard, a native son of Cincinnati, Ohio, who returns unexpectedly after a brief career in high finance in New York, and his sister Lorna, who is now living at home and helping their mother, Barbara, take care of their ailing father. The homecoming is rendered more fraught by questions about what has become of Jack's wife and how he managed to become an overnight millionaire.

As much as the play examines the different values of the heartland and the East Coast, it is also very timely in its focus on the challenges of trying to live in the ever-widening gap between the middle class and the 1 percent.

Calling the 2012 Broadway production "an exceedingly interesting night at the theater" in which "the laughs don't stop," Terry Teachout described "Dead Accounts" in The Wall Street Journal as "a dead-serious comedy about what happens to people who, like Jack and Lorna, wake up one morning and realize that their lives haven't lived up to their dreams."

The cast of "Dead Accounts" features four Hampton Theatre Company veterans and one newcomer, Mary McGloin, in the role of Lorna. Playing Jack is John Carlin, who made his debut with the HTC last winter in "Time Stands Still." The siblings' mother, Barbara, is played by HTC Artistic Director Diana Marbury, last seen on the stage in last spring's "Hay Fever."

Rebecca Edana, last seen in Quogue in last season's "Clybourne Park," has the role of Jenny, Jack's wife. Peter Connolly, who appeared in the HTC's 2010 revival of "Bedroom Farce," plays Jack's high school friend Phil.

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