The Santa Maria Civic Theatre is closing its 56th season with a production of Brooklyn Boy, opening April 24 and running on Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. through May 16 and closing on May 17 at 1:30 p.m. Brooklyn Boy explores the character Eric Weiss, a struggling author who finally gets success by telling his story of growing up in Brooklyn. The production is directed by civic theater veteran Stuart Wenger, a native New Yorker, who pulled from his past when preparing the play.
“So much of the humor and the sound of the conversations reminds me of my relatives when I was growing up,” Wenger said in statement released by the Civic Theatre. “On a more general note, I was drawn into the script’s focus on the sacrifices we make to become the person we want to be, the sacrifices that turn out to be justifiable, and the sacrifices that can come back to haunt us later in life.”
The Santa Maria Civic Theatre is located at 1660 N. McClelland St., Santa Maria. Cost is $15. More information is available at smct.org.
This article appears in Apr 16-23, 2015.
