Things are amiss in Bea and Lenny's "Dreamhouse" in the new comedy of the same name, premiering at Centenary Stage Company (CSC) this month. Their barco-lounger has a mind of its own, voices are coming out of the TV, and there are footsteps overhead, as Bea embarks on an unusual plan to set things right again.

Audiences may remember her Fox Night at the Movies teleplay, The Haunted, starring Sally Kirkland and Jeff De Munn. Cloud's adaptation of Willa Cather's O'Pioneers was filmed for PBS' American Playhouse, and just left on National Tour with John Houseman's famed Acting Company this past December.

Some of her other works for the stage include The Stick Wife, The Sirens, American Siddhartha and Heartland ( a musical which has just been optioned for Broadway, with Susan Schulman directing). Cloud is an alumnus of the renown Iowa Writers Workshop, and a member of The Dramatist's Guild and New Dramatists.

DREAMHOUSE will feature Equity actors Shelly Delaney, who CSC audiences will remember as the lead in Educating Rita, Robert Boardman, who portrayed mercenary producer in CSC's Speed The Plow, by David Marne, and Tom Demenkoff will portray Bea's Husband, "Lenny." Demenkoff has performed in professional theatres from New York to California, including The Mark Taper Forum, The Goodspeed Opera house, The American Globe and Royale Theatre (Grease). He has been seen on the television programs Law & Order, Fantasy Island and General Hospital and in several films, including the recent Battlestar Galactica.

Also featured in the production will be Merry LaRue (Changewater), Megan O'Toole (Hackettstown), Kevin Wisch (Hackettstown), Doug Spaulding, Carmine Covello (Oak Ridge) and Tad Carducci (Hackettstown).

Dreamhouse Performance Details
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Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2:30 pm, Thursdays at 7:30 pm, and Wed Feb 28 at 2:30 pm, and Wed March 7 at 11 am.

Sunday, March 4 matinee will include a "Meet the Playwright" session following the performance

Wed, March 7 performance will be "Audio Described" for the visually impaired, and will include a sensory session prior to the show

Wed, March 7 is also the Student matinee performance, featuring heavily discounted tickets to student groups, and a "Meet the Playwright" session following the show.

Tickets

Regular tickets prices range from $12.50 to $17.50. Thursdays are "family nights" with two-for-one tickets, available at the door only (this is a "rush" seat). All Sunday performances include a "Buffet Option" ($20 for buffet and show inclusive). The "Buffet Option" is also available on any matinee date, for groups of 15 or more. For Tickets and reservations, call the CSC Box Office at 908-979-0900. CSC Box office is open M - F, from 2-5 pm, and 2 hours prior to curtain. A printable Tickets/Ordering Form is available on this site and locally, tickets will be available at Baron's Hallmark in the Hackettstown Mall.

"Meet the Playwright":

February 5-21 - Workshops in the creative writing process available on location,
by arrangement

March 4 at 2:30pm - Session and Symposium discussion - "Domestic Drama and the New Realism"

March 7 at 11am - Student Matinee

Performances at CSC are made possible in part through the generous support of
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Arts Guild Sponsors.

"Dreamhouse" was developed in CSC's Women Playwrights Project

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