Middle-aged Barney Cashman, who married his high school sweetheart, wants to have one sweeping extra-marital romantic fling in his tranquil, faithful, marriage before life passes him by. On three different afternoons, he brings women to his mother’s apartment while she’s at the hospital doing work. Behind plentiful laughs is a tender portrayal of a decent fellow who just can’t succeed in sinning.

This is a comedy that will linger with you even when the laughs become an appreciative memory.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Generously sponsored by Clark Group and PCI Medical.

R. Bruce Connelly * (Barney Cashman)

Katherine Aisla Hubbard * (Bobbi Michele)

Bonnie Black * (Jeanette Fisher).  Bonnie Black is delighted to be making her debut at Ivoryton Playhouse.   Her Off-Broadway and NYC credits include HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre,  the musical  The Fan Tan King  (NY International Fringe Festival),  Pan Asian Repertory Theatre,  Horton Foote’s  The Roads to Home  (78th Street Theatre Lab),  The Comedy of Errors  (Equity Library Theatre),   and  The Usher’s Ball  (CAP 21).   Other theatre work:  residency with Adrian Hall’s Trinity Square Repertory Company and company memberships with the Alley Theatre (notably Regina in the production and tour of  Another Part of the Forest) and Great Lakes Theatre Festival (notably Kate Nickleby in  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby).  Guest artist appearances with regional and stock theatres throughout the country include Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound with Karen Ziemba at The Old Globe;  Copenhagen at Riverside Theatre;  the one-woman show When Something Wonderful Ends at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey;  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre Company and Sylvia with Bruce Connelly at Centennial Theatre Festival.  Television:  Law & Order,  Law & Order: Criminal Intent,  several soap operas,  recurring as Cathy Wilson on Loving and Life Among the Lowly and The Grimke Sisters for PBS.

Directed by:  Maggie McGlone Jennings

Stage Manager:  T. Rick Jones *

Set Design:  Rachel Reynolds

Lighting Design:  Marcus Abbott

Costume Design:  LisaMarie Harry

Hair Designer:  Joel Silvestro

* member of Actors Equity

This performance is a benefit for the Essex Community Fund. 

Join us for an opening night reception with the cast after the performance on Friday, June 8.  Light refreshments will be served under the tent.

More information will be available here soon.