Contact: Jon L. Egging, Marketing Director, (603) 924-9344

On Wednesday, June 20, The Peterborough Players will begin performances of the compassionate and touching comedy Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron. This award-winning off-Broadway hit will run through Sunday, July 1, 2007.

One of the most widely performed plays around the world, Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron, is a poignant, at times hilarious, and heartwarming portrayal of the collision of two men – one a devout Jewish widower, the other a young hot-shot American Express executive – each of whom harbors painful secrets. What starts out as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together beautifully evolves into a gripping and emotional drama. The production stars television and film veteran (He has been seen in such films as Crimes and Misdemeanors, Meet Joe Black, and The Substance of Fire) David Howard as Mr. Green and Players company member Kraig Swartz as Ross. The Asolo Theatre's retired Artistic Director Howard Millman makes his Peterborough directing debut with this production and Franklin Pierce College professor Lee Dunholter designs the sets.

Visiting Mr. Green is Jeff Baron's first play and has earned international recognition, having been translated into 21 different languages and won numerous awards in the United States as well as in Israel, Greece, Germany and Turkey. It opened Off-Broadway in 1997 at the Union Square Theatre, starring Eli Wallach and David Alan Basche and ran successfully for 354 performances.

The Peterborough Players was founded in 1933 and is housed in a newly renovated, air-conditioned Theatre located three miles from downtown Peterborough at the bottom of scenic Hadley Road. It is one of New Hampshire’s longest running, most award-winning professional theatre companies and is now beginning its 74th anniversary season.

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 2007 Media Sponsor is the Keene Sentinel. The 2007 season sponsor is Monadnock Paper Mills.

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.

Visiting Mr. Green is rated “PG,” and is sponsored by Monadnock Paper Mills.

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