The lineup has been revealed for Nantucket Perfomring Arts Center (NPAC)'s summer season, which will bring two acclaimed plays to the Massachusetts beach town.
Heidi Schreck's Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer-nominated What the Constitution Means to Me will play the venue July 3-17, with Amanda Charlton directing. In it, Schreck's teenage self (who earned her college tuition by winning constitutional debate competitions) is embodied as she explores the founding document鈥檚 profound impact on not just her own life, but the past four generations of women in her family, starting with the first to set foot in America: a mail-order bride. Nina Hellman and Jeremy Shamos will star in the production.
Next will come Paul Slade Smith's Theatre People, Or the Angel Next Door, running August 1-15. Mark Shanahan will direct the adaptation of Ferenc Molnar鈥檚 classic Hungarian farce, Play at the Castle. Set in 1948 in a Newport mansion populated with playwrights, actors, a young starstruck author, and a housekeeper who would like all of them to leave, this comedy is in love with theatere and is about people in love with theatre. Joe Delafield, John Rapson (Sweeney Todd) and Richard Henry will lead the production.
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