Upcoming Events:

  • LOVE LETTERS — Feb. 4, 5, 6, 7*Reserve Online or call the Box Office: 203-775-0023
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  • Feb. 19:   staged reading of Auntie MameReserve Online
  • March 5, 6, 7*, 11, 12, 13:   The Laramie Project—Purchase Tickets Online
  • March 7—AUDITIONS! for Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Visit audition.html for more information.
  • The Paddy Awards—NEW DATE: Sat., April 10, 2010.
    Watch for more information coming soon!
  • March 27:   Brookfield Film Festival
  • April 30:   Our 2010 Season begins with the opening of   Last of the Red Hot Lovers
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Now Showing:
Love Letters

Love Letters


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Someone once said, “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

A.R. Gurney tells us of the friendship between Melissa Gardener and Andrew Makepeace Ladd, III by inviting us to get to know them by looking over their shoulders at the letters that these two souls wrote to each other over the length and breadth of their lives. Theirs is certainly a bittersweet relationship – a warm and complicated entwining of two people similar in their backgrounds, but very different in their points of view. The title of the play, “Love Letters” might lead one to believe that this is a collection of perfect verse, romantic and poetic writings shared between two perfect lovers.

This would be very wrong. In fact, this life-long exchange of thoughts and expressions written on paper and sent back and forth by these two people highlights their weaknesses as well as their strengths. We learn as much from them by what they say to each other, as we do from what is left unsaid. Through it all we learn that Andy and Melissa care about and for each other. They know each other as well as one person can know another and remain, imperfectly in each others’ life in spite of what they know.

“Love Letters” was first brought to the stage at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven on November 3, 1988 with performances by John Rubinstein and Joanna Gleason. Countless productions of this special and touching work have been performed on Broadway and in theaters around the world since then. I saw it performed for the first time a couple of years ago in Ridgefield and am delighted to be presenting it to you along with my friend, Marilyn Olsen.

We wish to express our thanks to the Board of The Brookfield Theater for the Arts and to its’ Artistic Director, Michael Burnett, for giving us the opportunity to bring it here to you. We hope that you enjoy it, obviously, but also that it may help each of us to give thanks for those who have touched our lives, and whose lives we have touched in return.

— Thomas Sheehan, Director

Fri., Feb. 19: FREE staged reading of Auntie Mame



Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis
Adapted for stage by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
FREE staged reading directed by Joseph Russo



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In the late 1920s, young Patrick Dennis is sent to New York to live with an aunt he has never met -- Mame Dennis, a fast-living, sharp and decidedly eccentric woman beset by both the fads and fashions of the day and the money and social connections with which to indulge them. Mame runs riot through the Roaring Twenties, survives the hysteria of the Depression and along the way gets involved in theatrical performances, fox hunts, Southern country society, a wealthy husband, an Irish poet, a college lover, and most famously her beloved nephew's unfortunate engagement to the shallow and snobbish Gloria Upson. Each comic disaster is more memorable than the last, and Mame herself lingers in the mind as an inspiration to live! Live! LIVE! life to the fullest no matter the consequences. After all, life’s a banquet and more poor suckers are starving to death!

— Joe Russo, Director

Coming Soon:
The Laramie Project

by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Michael Burnett
Recommended for audience members 13 and older.


March 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
at 8:00 pm

Matineee on Sun., March 7
at 2:00 pm


FREE preview on Thurs., March 4 for high school students with valid ID

$20 General Admission / $15 with Student ID
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Partial proceeds from The Laramie Project to support The Matthew Shepard Foundation and the TBTA scholarship fund.

In October 1998 Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is one of the most performed plays in America today.

Because of the social importance of this production, the cast of The Laramie Project will be offering a free "Talk Back" after each performance. This will be an open forum for questions and discussion with cast members and production staff.

— Michael Burnett, Director

Our 2010 Season!

The Brookfield Theatre for the Arts is excited to announce its 2010 Season. More information will be available soon. Visit again soon as information will be updated on an on-going basis.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers       Once On This Island

Spelling Bee       Wait Until Dark

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