Play's CT Premiere Kicks Off 30th Season For Stratford Company

Via Square One Theatre: STRATFORD, CT — The bold and often hilarious new play, "Admissions," is the opening production of Square One Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season. Described as having "the force of a bulldozer and the precision of a scalpel" (Metro), "Admissions" will leave the audience “questioning the status quo.”

Winner of the New York Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Play, this will be the Connecticut premiere "Admissions," written by Joshua Harmon.

The play tells the story of Sherri Rosen-Mason, who heads the admissions department of a New England prep school, fighting to diversify its student body. She and her husband, the school’s headmaster, have succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the 21st century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values with convulsive results.

Directed by Tom Holehan (Stratford), "Admissions" features Lucy Babbitt and Robert Thomas Halliwell (both of Stratford), plus Ruth Anne Baumgartner (Fairfield), Pat Leo (Monroe) and Janet Rathert (New Canaan).

"Admissions" opened 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7., and continues at 8 p.m. Fridays, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through Sunday, Nov. 24, at Stratford Academy, 719 Birdseye St.

Square One Theatre subscriptions are $50. Single tickets are $22 for each adult single ticket and $20 for senior and student single tickets. Single tickets and subscriptions may be purchased by calling 203-375-8778, at squareonetheatre.com, at the box office 60 minutes prior to each performance or by mail by sending a self addressed, stamped envelope and check payable to Square One Theatre at 656 Longbrook Ave., Stratford CT 06614-5117.

Stratford Academy is wheelchair accessible. Please inform the box office of any special needs when reserving tickets.