This Friday the Newton Nomadic Theater will be hosting a performance this Friday of “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me” as a benefit for the fund to raise money to buy a wheelchair-enabled van for Newton activist Robert Solomon. The show is at 7:30 PM, Fri Oct 14 at Gregorian Rugs in Lower Falls and proceeds will go to Robert’s fund so we’re hoping to pack the house that night. Tickets are $20 – Click here
If theater’s not your thing, consider donating directly to the fund.
If theater is your thing, but you’re already booked that night, we’ve got five additional performances left.
- Sat Oct 15 7:30 PM – Gregorian Rugs in Lower Falls
- Fri Oct 21, Sat Oct 22 7:30 PM – Steve Siegel-Theresa St-John’s home in Waban
- Fri Oct 28 7:30 PM – Carroll Center for the Blind, Newton Corner
- Sun Oct 30 5:30 PM Dunn Gaherins Pub, Upper Falls
Click here for tickets for any of those shows.
Here’s what audiences have been saying so far …
- “amazing
- “astonishing”
- “stunning performances”
- “knocked my socks off … I may come see it again.”
- “It was a phenomenal show! Completely unexpected, riveting, and moving…”
- “I just wanted to say how excited I am to have discovered the Newton Nomadic Theater”. It had been a while since I had been at the theatre, and the intimacy of this particular theatre experience helped me see that something important had been missing from my life.“
- “the acting is too fine, the writing too real, the directing too perfect“
- “I was expecting excellence, and I was not disappointed”
- “positively engrossing and moving”
Closing night at Dunn Gaherins is sold out but tickets still available for next two weekends.
We had a sold out show for Robert Solomon’s benefit tonight. Three of the remaining four regular performances are also SOLD OUT. The word-of-mouth on this show is off the charts.
Only a few more chances to see it. A few tickets are still available for next Sat (10/22, 7:30 PM) living room show at Steve Siegel’s house in Waban (Fri is sold out). This Sunday (10/16, 7:30 PM) there’s a FREE show at the Brendan Behan Pub in Jamaica Plain. Tickets are first-come-first-served, just show up at the pub early enough. Friday Oct 28, 7:30 PM there is also a special FREE performance for a mostly blind audience at the Carroll Center for the Blind. Tickets via [email protected]
Don’t miss this show. It’s amazing!
We wish we could extend it but schedules don’t allow so see it while you can.
Jerry enhanced my enjoyment of the show by explaining that it is set in Beirut in the 1980’s and is loosely based on the experiences of Terry Anderson and his fellow hostages.
(His autobiography Den of Lions and that of his daughter should be extraordinary reading.)
Mr. Anderson expressed hope at the betterment of the human race in a statement after his release. Sadly the improvements he hoped for have not come true. The hostage takers of the new century are more brutal than their predecessors. Beheadings have replaced captivity.