Summer's over and the fuse is lit.

The blog has been on vacation, and we'd like to thank Aline Ordman for filling in on a couple of occasions during the summer. Her paintings from up in Maine are beautiful, and almost make me feel guilty about relaxing for a while. But the relaxing is over, and work has begun on our fifth season.

Our fifth season! It was a real question for a while, because we needed to raise $50,000 to allow us to do a fifth season. Thanks to the generous support of many friends of the theatre, we have raised half of that amount. We decided to go ahead with the plans for the season, believing that we would be able to raise the remaining amount during the course of the season.

We were very fortunate to have gotten the rights to do a great play - Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies. It was a huge critical and popular success in New York last year, with an award winning cast - Laura Linney, Brian D'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone. This is an amazing and timely play, and our cast is also stellar. Coming back to SBT is Brandy Zarle, who blew us all away in Boston Marriage. Joining Brandy in the cast is her husband, Tim Rush (yes, he does look a lot like Colin Firth), Caitlin Glasgo (Boston Marriage, Dead Man's Cell Phone) and Dan Weintraub (Sylvia, Time Flies). Our rehearsals begin on September 19th, and we're all cranked up and eager to get going. The tools are out, we've begun building the set, and now I'm ready to get the actors in here and get the magic started. 

Ready to attack that big pile of lumber