WESTPORT–Tomorrow evening, the Westport Community Theatre will debut an original one-man production “Dooley at the Bar.”
Created and performed by Alexander Kulcsar and directed by Michael Stanley, the play opens Westport Community Theatre’s 68th Season.
It will run for ten performances, Sept. 12 – 28.
According to press materials promoting the play, Gilded Age America’s favorite sage, sociologist, philosopher, and news analyst was “Mr. Dooley.”
Mr. Dooley was a bartender invented by a Chicago newspaper writer and editor, Finley Peter Dunne. Though hardly remembered today, Dunne’s humorous newspaper columns were touchstones of American life, devoured in Chicago and, after the column was syndicated, all over the country and around the world.
“Dooley at the Bar” will be performed:
- Friday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Sept. 14 at 2 p.m.
- Thursday, Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m.
- Friday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m.
Westport Community Theatre
110 Myrtle Avenue
Westport
Box Office 203-226-1983
We saw “Dooley at the Bar” with another couple on Saturday night. Extraordinary performance by Alexander Kulcsar. Over 60 minutes without interruption, acted totally from memory.
Several different stories woven together, including one that is very relevant to our political situation today in the United States. Well worth seeing.