Lunchtime Lecture: RUMORS
Schedule
Wed Jan 28 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc. | Manchester, CT
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Wednesday, January 28th @NoonFree In-Person, Indoor Event at Cheney Hall
AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SHOW
Join David Garnes as he discusses LTM’s upcoming production of RUMORS with members of the cast and creative team.
Free and open to the public, Lunchtime Lectures offer an opportunity to learn about LTM’s productions, providing insights into the creative process, background information about the play, its production history, and the playwright, and much more about theatre and the arts. These discussions are an informal lecture style with an opportunity to ask questions after the chat.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
THE PARTY HAS BEGUN... BUT THE COVER-UP IS THE REAL SHOW!
Welcome to the anniversary party of the year! Four high-society couples have gathered at a luxurious New York townhouse to celebrate their hosts, the Deputy Mayor and his wife.
But when the first guests arrive, they find the host unconscious with a gunshot wound (thankfully, only a flesh wound!), the wife is missing, and the staff is nowhere to be found.
What follows is a brilliant, manic rush of confusion and miscommunication as the couples desperately try to invent an explanation before the next guests arrive. They find themselves trapped in a hysterical web of secrets, rumors, and mistaken identities. Get ready for a night of non-stop, glorious physical comedy and rapid-fire dialogue that only comedy master Neil Simon could deliver.
ABOUT DAVID GARNES
For the past several seasons, LTM member and dramaturg David Garnes has led Little Theatre’s Lunchtime Lecture Series. David is the author of four books: Back to Manhattan: A Life in New York; Waitin’ for the Train to Come In: A Novel of World War II; From My Life: Travels and Adventures; and After the War Was Over: Poems of an American Childhood. His essays have appeared in many publications, including America in WWII, The Isherwood Century, Telling Tales Out Of School, Latin Lovers, Stories From The Other Side, Chicken Soup For the Volunteer’s Soul, Liberating Minds, When A Lifemate Dies, A Loving Testimony, Mourning Our Mothers, and various newspapers and academic reference books. Garnes’ forthcoming books are the novels Sal's War and Morningside Drive.
The event is free but registration is requested.
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Where is it happening?
Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc., 177 Hartford Rd, Manchester, CT 06040-5922, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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