Contact:
Keith Stevens, Managing Director, (603)924-9344
kstevens@peterboroughplayers.org

The Peterborough Players will open their 2006 season (as well as their newly renovated theatre space) with the acclaimed play, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, June 21 – July 9 and the production will star James Whitmore as Morrie, and his son James Whitmore Jr. as Mitch. Co-authored by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is the autobiographical story of Mitch and Morrie, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career and his former college professor. The production will be directed by Players Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen.

Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie's appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease. They are reunited and what starts as a simple visit becomes a weekly pilgrimage and finally a last class in the meaning of life.
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE features scenic design by Charles Morgan, costume design by Meagan Becker, lighting design by William Armstrong and sound design by Adam Bellao. This stage adaptation of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE premiered in an acclaimed production at New York Stage and Film in Poughkeepsie, New York in Summer 2002.

The Peterborough Players is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation. The 2006 Media Sponsor is the Keene Sentinel.

Season subscriptions are now on sale at the Players Box Office. For reservations and further information, call (603) 924-7585, or visit the Peterborough Players web site at www.peterboroughplayers.org.

Tuesdays with Morrie is rated “PG,” and is sponsored by Monadnock Paper Mills.