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History
The New Main Street Theater, Inc. was founded in the spring of 2007 by actor and director Jeanie Rapp, of Deep River, Connecticut, who has produced highly-acclaimed play readings locally with her previous company, Queen of Heart Productions. These include You Can’t Take It With You, by George S. Kaufmann and Moss Hart, and The Women, by Clare Booth Luce – both featuring large casts of theater professionals and community members.
In the spring of 2006, Queen of Heart Productions provided a hint of the future (morphing intoThe New Main Street Theater) when it staged at the Chester Meeting House the first reading of a new play, Worth Avenue, by Lary Bloom, featuring veterans of the New York stage Peter Walker, Scotty Bloch and Warren Kelley.
The New Main Street Theater was born out of Rapp’s desire to create provocative theater for and within the community by casting plays with professional actors, seasoned amateurs and local novices. In June 2007 the New Main Street Theater’s inaugural production Trying On Shorts played to sold out audiences at the historic Deep River Town Hall Theater. MST rounds out its first season with Arlene Hutton's award-winning Nibroc Trilogy. The company will hold future productions in a variety of area locations. It has also made plans to have acting classes for teenagers and adults and encourage new works for the stage, including an international playwriting competition. |
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