The theater community here in the Twin Ports is an embarrassment of riches. There are dozens of professional, community, and college theaters, comedy troupes, improv groups, and ephemeral groups that form, disband and re-form. Some draw from all of these categories.
This is great if you're an avid theater-goer, but what if you're just a person who'd like to be in a show but can't accomodate months of a grueling rehearsal schedule? What if you played Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" in high school but nowadays, your memory isn't up to all of Amanda Wingfield's lines?
Add a new category of theater to the community: Not Quite So Intense. The new GROW Theatre (Grassroots Opportunities for Women in Theatre) is committed to providing local women theatre artists opportunities in all aspects of theatre, including "robust and diverse women's roles."
And if that means dusting off a jewel like the Lux Radio Theatre's adaptation of "Little Women" and presenting that next weekend at Zeitgeist as its inaugural production, the strong female characters and the ability to perform with scripts makes it a perfect fit for the new company's mission.
You can read more about the history of "The Lux Radio Hour" here.
