Richard Easton Kicks Off Food For Thought's New Season in THE PATIENT Tonight

Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre, opens its new season at The Players (16 Gramercy Park South) tonight, March 20th.

Tony Award winner Richard Easton kicks off the season in Agatha Christie's one-act play called "The Patient" along with Susan Charlotte's "The Pirates." Both plays, directed by Antony Marsellis, are mysteries but of a very different sort. Christie, in her inimitable manner, has written an entertaining and suspenseful Who-Done-It play. There is a patient who doesn't speak and a cast of characters who have plenty to say. Charlotte's play revolves around a man and a woman at a dinner party who each have a story to tell. The man is convinced that his story is the more interesting of the two, until he hears what the woman has to say and then he can hardly finish his tale of pirates, knives and a near-death experience!

There are twelve shows in total, which include the wickedly funny "The Lover" by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, starring Tony Nominees Tony Roberts and Penny Fuller on May 1. On May 23rd Food For Thought presents the hilarious one-act, "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying" by Oscar Nominee Murray Schisgal, starring Tony Nominee Bob Dishy.

All shows begin at 2pm and are followed by a Q &A with the cast and director as well as a reception.

For additional information, call 646-366-9340 or email info@foodforthoughtproductions.com.

SCHEDULE:

March 20
The Patient by Agatha Christie
& The Pirates by Susan Charlotte & Pascal Aubier
with Richard Easton
Directed by Antony Marsellis

April 4
Cigarettes and Chocolate*
by Anthony Minghella

April 8
A Cheever Evening Part 1
by A.R. Gurney

April 10
A Cheever Evening Part 2
by A.R. Gurney

April 22
Real to Reel
by Frank Gilroy

April 24
The Municipal Abattoir
by Tennessee Williams

May 1
The Lover
by Harold Pinter
with Penny Fuller & Tony Roberts

May 9
For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls
by Christopher Durang

May 17
The Bald Soprano
by Eugene Ionesco

May 23
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying
by Murray Schisgal
with Bob Dishy & Judy Graubart

May 29
O'Flaherty VC
by George Bernard Shaw

June 5
The Real Thing
by Henry James
adapted by Susan Charlotte