The Stray Kats Theatre Company (SKTC) is planning a staged reading next month of a new comedy by Kate Katcher, The Little Sisters of Littleton.

The reading is scheduled for Saturday, September 18, at 7:30 pm, in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Tickets are $30. Those who purchase a block of ten tickets will be thanked with advertisements of their sponsorship on SKTC’s website, in the program, and with signage at the event.

Katcher, who is also the artistic director of the Newtown-based theater company, says she loves writing for today’s senior citizens.

“We are living longer with greater quality than our parents or grandparents ever dreamed of,” she said. “We are vibrant, active, and engaged, funny, curious, tender, and wise. We should be celebrated!”

The Little Sisters of Littleton introduces audiences to two strong, witty women in their 70s. When younger sister Ann sneaks Emily’s ex-husband into the house for a tryst, the bitter divorcée is forced to deal with the man who abandoned her some thirty years ago.

What starts out as a door-slamming comedy soon reveals deep feelings between Emily and her estranged husband.

The play will be performed script-in-hand by Katcher and Don Striano of Newtown, and Carole Schweid of Westport. All are professional actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

The reading will be followed by a talk-back and complimentary refreshments.

Tickets may be purchased online at straykatstheatrecompany.org or by calling 203-516-0606.

Socially distanced seating will be observed. Masks are requested for unvaccinated guests.

The Performers

Kate Katcher is an actor, director, and writer. She debuted on Broadway opposite Zero Mostel and later played Tzeitel in Jerome Robbins’ revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

She wrote and very recently appeared in Missus Dobbs, American at the Rogue Theater Festival.

Other credits include Daddy Issues Off-Broadway, Wonderful Town with Lauren Bacall, and Two for the Seesaw directed by Judith Ivey.

Katcher’s film, TV and new media work includes Nurse Jackie, Jon Benjamin Has A Van, Guiding Light, and Made for Each Other; the shorts A Nice Drive and Planning Ahead on YouTube; Tiny’s Halloween and Mother for the internet horror anthology series Scared Stiff TV; and Connecticut Film Works’ award-winning Betaloop.

Among her short plays, Scarsdale was published in the Best Short Plays of 2021, and Bread will appear in Laughter is the Best Medicine: 45 Five-Minute Plays in the Time of Covid, both published by Smith and Kraus. She teaches theatre at UB and Western Connecticut State University.

Carole Schweid’s on-stage highlights include Pippin (for Bob Fosse), Minnie’s Boys, and the original Broadway cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Chorus Line.

Other appearances include Caroline, or Change (Baltimore's Center Stage), Cabaret, Over the River and Through the Woods, Crossing Delancy, and Ruthless!

Schweid studied theatre at Boston University, and earned a BFA in dance from Juilliard.

She has directed more than 100 staged readings of short plays in her role as co-founder and artistic director of CT's popular lunchtime play-reading series, Play With Your Food. She was the author of Staged Reading Magic, published 2017 by Smith and Kraus.

Don Striano recently appeared as the homeland security agent and Mike Pence lookalike in Missus Dobbs, American at New York’s Rogue Theater Festival.

Film credits include Rivers Wash Over Me, Made For Each Other, We Follow the Rules, Pacing the Cage, East Tremont Blues, and Betaloop.

He has appeared on The Sopranos, Guiding Light, One Life to Live and the Onion News Network. Theater performances include 9/12 at the Culture Project, Our Lady of Allapattah by Christopher Demos Brown, and numerous appearances with SKTC in such classics as The Price and The Subject Was Roses.

He has also appeared in the webisodes A Nice Drive and Planning Ahead with Katcher, to whom he is married.

Founded in 2006, SKTC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional theatre company with a mission of presenting contemporary classics and new works.

For further information, contact Kate Katcher at 203-516-0606 or info@straykatstheatrecompany.org.