Drinks Before Dinner

Hold on to your highballs! Witness a slice of the high life. Eavesdrop on eccentric socialites. Catch the apocalyptic conversation of the season in E.L. Doctorow’s Drinks Before Dinner. Join your hosts Claudette and Joel, the arts maven and her blissfully successful husband; the social-climbing newlyweds Andrea and Michael; meet Grace, who says she’s an artist; Joan, a cut-throat artist’s rep, and her womanizing philosophic hubby, Edgar; and of course a very important surprise guest of honor. Mirroring a trend our real-life media has been tracking in recent months – that people are devoting more leisure time to commune with friends and loved-ones – Doctorow’s eclectic group gathers as usual to dine, and a twist of fate forces them to examine their lives and relationships with newfound sincerity.

Inside Art Not-For-Profit Theatre Company, an exciting, young group that believes people can make a difference simply by enjoying a night of theatre, will donate all net proceeds from this production to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund, established to provide for the long-term well-being of children orphaned on September 11th.