Dear Friend of TriArts,

We just wanted to remind you that this coming weekend features a very special event in our Bok Gallery. Edward and Star Herrmann have generously offered their time and talents over Thanksgiving weekend for a production of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney.

Please check out the attached podcast of an interview with Ed and Star Herrmann and Marshall Miles of WHDD radio. You’ll be immediately reminded of how fortunate we are to have such talent in our community and on our stage.

A benefit performance at 5 PM on Friday evening, November 27 will include a cocktail reception with the Herrmanns at the Sharon home of Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler, featuring their extraordinary and extensive art collection. The Tyler’s have donated a limited edition, handmade, hand-colored Robert Motherwell lithograph to be raffled off.

Benefactor tickets are $150 pp and benefits include the performance, the post-show reception, and automatic entry into the drawing for the lithograph. The artwork will be raffled off Friday night, adding to the drama of the event. Indeed everyone in the audience is a potential winner, creating a unique bond as we all become performers in a drama whose ending is to be enacted that evening! Titled "Hollow Man's Cave", it is a framed piece, of 100% archival and museum quality,and currently valued at $8,500. The Motherwell can be seen at our website, www.triarts.net.

If you can’t make it on Friday, there is a performance on Saturday at 5 PM for $50. Doors open at 4:30 for both performances.

Please RSVP soon as there is limited seating and we hope you’ll be there with us! We are grateful to the Herrmanns and the Tylers for keeping the arts alive in our little neck of the woods. Call 860-364-7469 (SHOW) or go online for your reservations.

Sincerely,
Alice Bemand and Michael Berkeley

Fun facts: what role did Edward Herrmann play in the Gilmore Girls?

Answer: Richard Gilmore, patriarch of the Gilmore family.

Time magazine named Gilmore Girls to their list of the top 100 television shows of all time. It ran for seven seasons, beginning in 2000. You don’t have to netflick the series to enjoy the rich and resonant voice of one of America’s premier actors…just head over to TriArts this weekend.

More recently, Ed just finished filming an Adam Sandler film, "Born To Be A Star" and they will both be filming "Root Beer Christmas" in December. You heard it here first!

Love Letters

A.R. Gurney's Love Letters chronicles the relationship between a man and a woman solely through their correspondence. The play tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd and Melissa Gardner, whose poignantly funny friendship and ill-fated romance takes them from second grade through adolescence, maturity, and into middle age.

The production traces the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Saxon) and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner (Reynolds), the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written - and what is left unsaid - in their letters. The words are both hysterical and moving, the audience comes to know both of them intimately – from their strict WASP upbringing, through later life political aspirations, love affairs, military service and artistic ambitions.

A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling only Gurney can command.

Order Tickets Today

Love Letters will be performed at the TriArts’ Bok Gallery in Sharon on November 27 and 28 (Friday and Saturday) at 5pm.

Sponsored by the Sharon Hospital and Sharon Health Care Center

Friday night benefit performance is $150 and includes reception with the Herrmanns at Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler's Sharon home, as well as entry in a drawing for a Robert Motherwell lithograph generously donated by the Tylers. For $250 you will receive four entries into the drawing and priority seating.

Saturday night, performance only, is $50 per ticket.

Special Rate for Students for Saturday's performance: only $20 when you call and reserve and say you saw it in the Trumpet.

Seating in the Bok Gallery is limited.

Call the TriArts Box Office at 860-364-7469 (364-SHOW) or visit www.triarts.net.

WHDD Radio Interview

Click Here to listen to an interview with Marshall Miles on WHDD with Ed Herrmann and Star Herrmann.

"Hollow Man's Cave" can be viewed at the White Gallery, 342 Main Street in Lakeville, CT. It's open weekends from 11 - 4pm, but you can't miss it just by driving by the Gallery in Lakeville. Even if you are not a fan of abstract art, you can't help but be dazzled by this incredible piece of art. It is housed in a museum-quality, white gold leaf frame and Mothrwell created it in collaboration with Ken Tyler as part of a series of larger-scale prints first "painted" with colored pulps and dyes in the Tyler Graphics Ltd paper mill onto wet, newly formed handmade paper, and then over-painted in lithography. "Hollow Man's Cave" radiates luminosity, as daylight seen from the dark confines of a cave.