Kentwood Players Present FARRAGUT NORTH at the Westchester Playhouse

Kentwood Players will proudly present FARRAGUT NORTH, a political thriller by Beau Willimon, opening Friday, September 8 through Saturday, October 14, 2017 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045. There will be a complimentary pre-show champagne and dessert reception between 7:00-7:30pm for season subscribers and their guests attending the Saturday, September 9 performance.

The production is directed by Sherry Coon and produced by Lynn Gutstadt and Jenny Boone for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service. Featured in the cast in alphabetical order are Philip Bartolf, Nicholas Dostal, Mikki Hernandez, Manfred Hofer, Philip Iadevaia, Tiana Randall-Quant and BrIan Patrick Roach.

FARRAGUT NORTH is a 2008 political thriller written by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), loosely based on former Governor Howard Dean's 2004 Democratic primary election campaign for U.S. President. Set in Des Moines in the weeks leading up to Iowa's statewide caucuses, the play is "a classic tale of hubris set against a contemporary landscape - about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it." No trick is too dirty, no lie is too outrageous, no spin is too ingenious if it gets your candidate over the top, including the dirty tricks and brutal backstabbing of those conducting the spin war for aspiring presidents as they attempt to reignite our tapped-out passion for political one-upmanship.

The political thriller, which had its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in 2009, may not be able to compete with the stranger-than-fiction cast of our recent election battle or offer us any stop-the-presses scoops about our presidential campaign culture, but it does capture the frenzied scheming and counter-scheming of would-be Washington kingmakers.

Reserved seat tickets are $20 with a $2 discount for seniors and students. To purchase tickets, please call (310) 645-5156 during box office hours, Wednesday through Saturday from 4:00-7:00pm. You may also purchase tickets online at www.kentwoodplayers.org. For group ticket sales of 10 or more, please call the box office for group rates.

For more information about Kentwood Players including our current production and upcoming auditions, please visit the Kentwood Players website at www.kentwoodplayers.org. You can also find Kentwood Players information on Facebook and Twitter.

To meet the FARRAGUT NORTH production team and learn more about Kentwood Players and what goes on at the Westchester Playhouse, the public is invited to attend our membership meetings, which are free and held on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located two blocks west of the San Diego Freeway and two blocks north of Manchester at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045.

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