A Tomato Can’t Grow Can’t Grow in the Bronx, a multi-award-winning drama by playwright-novelist Gary Morgenstein, opens at Chain Theater on Friday, December 2 for a limited 10-performance engagement through Saturday, December 17. Bernice Garfield-Szita directs.
Featured in the cast are Jackie Kusher (Joyland), Andrea Bell Wolff (2022 Perry Award Winner, Best Actress), Mike Roche (Night Over Taos at INTAR), Holly O’Brien (Two by Two), Marina Rebecca Chan (Asian American Girl) and Spencer Neumann (Les Miserables).
Set in a working-class neighborhood of the Bronx during the racial and political unrest of the 1960s, the multi-generational play portrays the dysfunctional family dynamics between a married couple, Sammy (Mike Roche) and Eleanor Abrams (Holly O’Brien), and Eleanor’s overbearing parents, Harry (Jackie Kusher) and Gladys Simms (Andrea Bell Wolff), who live in the apartment next door. When the couple’s rebellious teenage son Elliot (Spencer Neumann) gets mugged, it triggers Sammy’s desire to defy his powerful father-in-law and move to Long Island to claim his share of the American Dream.
A Tomato Can’t Grow Can’t Grow in the Bronx performance schedule is as follows: Fri 12/2, Sat 12/3, Thu 12/8, Fri 12/9, Sat 12/10, Fri 12/16 and Sat 12/17 at 7:30 PM with matinees on Sun 12/4, Sun 12/11 and Wed 12/14 at 2 PM. Tickets here, are $25
The Chain Theater is located at 312 W. 36th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
