Tickets are complimentary.
The staged reading is a chance for the actors and writers to present the material with scripts in hand, and minimal costume, props and lighting. It affords audiences and authors the opportunity to see the production in its raw, unrefined stage. Beasts and Saints features a group of professionals from the Boston area with serious Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theater credits in their portfolios. The author of the book and lyrics is Mindi Dickstein, a Chestnut Hill native who has received playwriting fellowships from the New York foundation for the Arts, as well as numerous other awards and accolades. The cast includes Maureen Brennan, a Stoneham resident who was given a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Cunegonde in a Broadway production of Candide, Allen Fitzpatrick, a Boston native and alumnus of Brookline's Park School, and Joe Machota, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory, who performed in the Boston Music Theatre Project production of Joan of Arc.