New Performance of Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas BingeAdded This Thursday at 8 p.m.
While many remaining performances of Mrs. Bob Cratchit… are sold out, there are still plenty of seats available for Thursday, December 18th, at 8 p.m. You can make reservations for Thursday or any other performance here.

Is a Show Sold Out? Maybe Not. Find Out Online
As of right now, performances on December 19th, 20th, and 21st are either sold out or nearly close to sold out. However, we do get some cancellations. The best bet is to check back a couple times a day online (not on the phone) to instantly see if seats have opened up for a particular performance. You never know, so keep checking here!

Ring in 2009 at TheatreWorks…While You Still Can!
Tickets are going fast for our annual New Year’s Eve Gala, which includes free hors d’oeuvres, an open bar of beer, wine, and soft drinks, and a great evening of theatre. Tickets for this year’s fundraising event are $50 per ticket (only $30 per ticket for season ticket holders). Purchase your tickets now before the New Year passes you by!

Mrs. Bob Gets a Rave Review!
“TheatreWorks has created a wildly cynical yuletide comedy sure to cure the bah-humbugs of the season and eradicate the sickeningly sweet treacle of many holiday productions...a night at TheatreWorks just may have you exclaiming, ‘God bless us, everyone!’” — Housatonic Living Click here for entire review

Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge Featured Actor — Susan Abrams
Susan Abrams of Warren has the honor of playing Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge’s eponymous character that Charles Dickens clearly never envisioned when penning “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. However, if the off-beat and zany playwright of Mrs. Bob Cratchit, Christopher Durang, had ever met Mrs. Abrams, he may have tagged her for the part from on sight.

“There isn't one moment of seriousness in this play,” Mrs. Abrams said. “We just get to completely misbehave for a couple of hours and we're loving it! Mrs. Bob, in particular, is so rotten and absurd that I just hope people won't walk away thinking I'm really like that.”

Rest assured, folks, Mrs. Abrams is not like that. She is a sweet, intelligent, and very accomplished actress who is a joy to work with…and she does carry a diverse background of theatrical work along with her. A native of Indiana, Mrs. Abrams was cast in a professional touring production of Godspell at age 14. By age 17, she was the official TV “spokeswaitress,” along with comic legend Jonathan Winters, for a chain of pizzerias located throughout the Midwest.

After relocating to Connecticut to attend Fairfield University and subsequently starting a family, Mrs. Abrams made her TheatreWorks debut in 1998 as Kate, perhaps the only “straight woman” in the off-beat A.R. Gurney play, Silvia. She returned to the TheatreWorks stage in 2007 in the role of Blanche ― once again, perhaps the only character with no funny lines in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Now, she’s doing what she can do best: using her penchant for comedy to make people laugh with an utterly absurdist character in an absolutely outrageous play.

“This show is fun and silly and like no Christmas story you’ve ever seen. If you're looking for ‘true’ Dickens, or something warm and fuzzy and touching, this isn't it. If you want a really good belly laugh…this just might do the trick.” Mrs. Abrams said.

But again, Mrs. Abrams has had her share of diverse acting challenges in recent years, from thrillers like Wait Until Dark to classics like Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband to dramas like Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), all performed at The Sherman Playhouse. Mrs. Abrams added the role of “director” to her résumé in April when helming the 9/11 introspective drama, The Guys, also at The Sherman Playhouse.

Well, we can say definitively that TheatreWorks New Milford is honored to have Mrs. Abrams back on the boards here in what audiences are calling one…funny…play! And the feeling from Mrs. Abrams seems to be mutual…

“TheatreWorks has been great…it's so professional and the shows here are of such high-caliber that it's very impressive both to perform here and to watch from the house,” Mrs. Abrams said. “As an audience member, I feel like I'm committing theft because I always see such a great show, and I’m not spending a fortune to go into New York City to see a high-quality production.”

Words of wisdom given the current economic climate and the Holiday climate that’s in the air. So give yourself a gift of nonsensical belly laughs and see Mrs. Abrams as Mrs. Bob Cratchit when you purchase your tickets here!