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A Good Time with Rogue

The entire cast of “A Bad Year for Tomatoes.”

Rogue Theater will bring back A Bad Year for Tomatoes written by John Patrick and directed by Stuart Champeau for numerous performances in September.

The story follows famous TV actress Myra Marlowe as she leaves her acting career in Hollywood and leases a tiny New England cottage for a year to write her autobiography and escape the craziness of show business.

She successfully rejects her long time agent’s offers for a new television series, but dealing with her nosy omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away she invents a mad homicidal sister who she says is locked away in her bedroom. The mad sister (Myra in disguise) pulls off the ruse until a backwoods lumber jack/skunk trapper falls for her. A couple of officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented “Sister Sadie” and a local spiritualist decides witchcraft is the only way to fix her.

The cast includes Lola DeVillers, Stuart Champeau, Chris Milton, Donna Johnson, Jamie Buesing, Chris Weidenbacher and David Clowers. A Bad Year for Tomatoes will play at The Depot Performing Arts Center, 341 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay. Performances are Packer-friendly: Sept. 11 – 13 and 18 – 29 at 7:30 pm, with Sept. 14 at 1 pm and Sept. 21 at 4 pm. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased in advance at Greco Gallery/Avenson Photography, or by calling The Depot PAC at 920.818.0816.