Boston, Fuller, Gardner, Rooney, et al. Set for Emelin Theatre Season

The Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, New York has announced its offerings for its first season under new artistic director Michael Bush.

The season will kick off with a Theatre in Concert Festival, November 17-December 6, which will feature eight different shows. The festival will include two works about Tennessee Williams, Jeremy Lawrence’s Everyone Expects Me to Write A Streetcar and the musical Becoming Tennessee starring Gretha Boston and Brian Chares Rooney; The Kleinbort Collection, a revue of songs by Barry Kleinbort; A Tribute to the Bluebird Café: The Sounds of Nashville, a revue of country music starring Marcus Hummon and Sherrie Austin, and solo cabaret shows by Boston, Penny Fuller, Rita Gardner, and Joel Silberman.

The season will continue with a production of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Murderers, a trio of monologues about killers in a retirement community, and the world premiere of Pure Heaven, a musical about legendary author and singer Kay Thompson, written and performed by Broadway veteran Ruth Williamson.

As previously announced, the theater will honor actresses Tovah Feldshuh and Leslie Uggams at a special fundraiser to be held on Thursday, October 11 at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle. Proceeds will go the theater’s $10 million “Next Stage” project, which will allow it to incorporate its existing theater into a new performing arts center.

For more information, visit www.emelin.org.