Cardinal
Opening Night: January 30, 2018
Closing: February 25, 2018
Theater: Tony Kiser Theatre
Paint it red. So begins Lydia’s wild idea to invigorate her Rust Belt town. But when a whip-smart entrepreneur co-opts her scheme, a precarious rivalry is born. A battle for the town’s soul ensues, causing its obsessive mayor, its defiant matriarch, and the rest of its residents to question who they are and where they’re headed.
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January 30, 2018
Great ideas are not always good ones, as the characters in Greg Pierce’s new play, “Cardinal,” learn. The great idea in this case is Lydia’s. A sparkler of a young woman who has been burned a few times, Lydia (Anna Chlumsky) returns from a life in Brooklyn to her depressed Rust Belt hometown with dreams of saving it from further disintegration. Already the population has declined by 50 percent since her school days there.
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