New Rep Announces The Last Five Years a musical by Jason Robert Brown
March 14, 2011
New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is pleased to announce it will be producing Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical The Last Five Years. The Last Five Years opens for the press on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7:30pm and plays through Sunday, April 17, 2011 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Black Box Theater.
“The Last Five Years is such an appealing and passionate show,” states Kate Warner New Rep’s Artistic Director. “Besides the incredible music and story, the characters are so real, and allow audience members to relate and connect personally with them.”
Jim Petosa, director of The Last Five Years, comments, “Since its debut, The Last Five Years has attained a following of ardent admirers, and with good reason! The musical is an emotional gymnasium of opportunity for two actor/singers as it tells the story of a love won and then lost in this imaginatively structured tale where one character moves forward in time while the other moves backward. I'm delighted to join this team of creative theatre artists in bringing the story to life in the intimacy of the Black Box Theater."
The Last Five Years features New Rep favorite Aimee Doherty (New Rep’s Darling Divas Deck the Holidays, Hot Mikado, Speed-the-Plow, Cabaret, tick, tick… BOOM!, The Wild Party, Ragtime, and Into the Woods) as Cathy and Mark Linehan who is making his New Rep debut as Jamie.
In this award-winning musical by Jason Robert Brown, audiences are taken on an intimate journey, witnessing both the birth and the unraveling of a young couple’s five year relationship. Brown’s alluring music interweaves the past and the present of a romantic and tumultuous love affair. Join Cathy and Jamie as they share their emotional stories through celebrated songs, such as “Still Hurting” “The Next Ten Minutes,” and “Shiksa Goddess.”
New Repertory Theatre presents provocative and intelligent works of both established and emerging playwrights in an intimate setting that involves and engages the audience. New Rep has earned a reputation for dynamic productions that honor the writers and feature talented professional actors from the New England Theatre community as well as guest artists from around the U.S. New Rep has received Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for outstanding acting, scenic design, directions, and production. Programming for New Repertory Theatre is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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