HART presents

Arthur Miller’s Classic Drama

ALL MY SONS Beginning August 5

HART’s next production is a special one for Executive Director Steve Lloyd. The show has been on his bucket list for years. Lloyd rarely appears on the HART Stage, considering his job to provide opportunities for others. All My Sons has been a particular favorite and he has long hoped for an opportunity to do the show with long time HART veteran Suzanne Tinsley and his protegé Adam Kampouris. Lloyd and Tinsley have worked together before in The Subject Was Roses and for both, that was one of their favorite experiences on stage. Kampouris was an intern under Lloyd and has gone on to receive his B.F.A. in theater from UNC-G and is now an actor in NYC. This show unites three of HART’s most experienced actors in a play they have waited years to do together.

All My Sons opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (to whom it is dedicated), produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman, and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, beating Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. It starred Ed Begley, Beth Miller, Arthur Kennedy and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller’s then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio newspaper. The news story described how between 1941 and 1943 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use. The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Senator Harry Truman’s congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. Ryan, and Major William Bruckmann were relieved of duty and later convicted of neglect of duty.

HART’s production offers audiences a rare chance to see HART’s Executive Director on stage and rounding out the stellar cast is Emily Crock, Hunter Henrickson, Mike Yow, Josh Merrell, Holly Cope, Ashley Huber and Mary Grace “MG” Mullinix under the direction of Julie Kinter.

All My Sons has performances August 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30 and August 7, 14 and 21 at 2pm.  Special discounts are offered for Thursday performances. To make a reservation call the HART box office at (828) 456-6322, Tuesday through Saturday from 1-5pm or go online to www.harttheatre.org. All performances are at the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville.

PERFORMANCES: August 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 7:30 and August 7, 14, & 21 at 2pm