by Donald Margulies
directed by Kevin Holden

February 23 - March 11, 2012

Dinner with Friends

When Karen and Gabe’s best friend Beth shows up to dinner without her husband, Tom,Karen and Gabe don’t yet realize that this is the beginning of a breakup that will rock their very foundation. As things change drastically for Beth and Tom, Karen and Gabe fight to retain the status quo, and realize that they, too, must adapt. As scenes (set mostly around meals) unfold, these four friends laugh, fight and cry about what it means to be good partners, good parents, and good friends in the modern world.

  • Philip Lehl as Gabe

    Shelley Calene as Karen

    Kim Tobin as Beth

    Drake Simpson as Tom

    with Jackson Foley & Kalin Black providing “kids’ voices”

  • Stage Manager | Eva De La Cruz

    Assistant Director | Miguel A. Roman

    Lighting & Set Design | Kevin Holden

    Original Music & Sound Design | Chip Schneider

    Set Construction | Anthony Contello

    Costume Design & Props | Corey Stano

    House Manager | Regina Ohashi

    Running Crew | Lauren Ramsey

  • Donald Margulies won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends and was a finalist twice before for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. His many other plays, which include Long Lost, The Country House, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still and the Obie Award-winning The Model Apartment, have been produced on and off-Broadway and in theaters across the United States and around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

    He was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the 2014 recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career and the 2015 William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater. He has developed numerous screenplays, teleplays and pilots for HBO, Showtime, NBC, CBS, Warner Bros., TriStar, Universal, Paramount, and MGM. The film of his screenplay, The End of the Tour, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, was nominated for the Film Independent Spirit Award and the UCLA Scripter Award for Best Screenplay. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University.

    (Biography from Yale University)