Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher 
Based on the play ROPE’S END by Patrick Hamilton  
Directed by Melia Bensussen 

First Rehearsal: September 9, 2025
First Preview: October 10, 2025
Opening: October 17, 2025
Closing: November 2, 2025

NOTE: All characters speak with a British dialect.

BRANDON: Male, 20s-30s. Fine featured, smart, cultured, expensively dressed. Cool, self-satisfied, amused, confident.

LEWIS: Male, 20s-30s. His junior partner. Also expensively dressed. Good looking, polite. He is the less confident specimen.

KENNETH: Male, 20s-30s. A handsome young man of bracing normalcy.

MR. KENTLEY: Male, 60s. Rich, conservative, cultured, kind.

MERIEL: Female, 20s-30s. One of the Bright Young Things, pretending to be more shallow than she is.

RUPERT CADELL: Male, 40s-50. A Byronic ruin. Brilliant, dry, wry, caustic, and very entertaining. He lost most of one leg in The Great War. Now he walks with a limp. He uses a cane.

By Charles Dickens 
Adapted and Directed by Michael Wilson

First Rehearsal: November 4, 2025
First Preview: November 21, 2025
Opening: December 3, 2025
Closing: December 28, 2025

MRS. CRATCHIT: Female, 30s. A wonderful mother with a strong heart. Endures much hardship but carries on with pride.

BELLE / MRS. FRED: Female, mid-20s. BELLE: Scrooge’s ex-fiancé. A free-spirited, smart woman who prioritizes love and happiness. MRS. FRED: Kind and good-hearted. Tries to see the good in people. A loving mother.

ALL OTHER AEA ROLES ARE CAST.

By Sandy Rustin 
Directed by Zoë Golub-Sass 

First Rehearsal: December 9, 2025
First Preview: January 16, 2026
Opening: January 23, 2026
Closing: February 8, 2026

NOTE: There will be an unpaid holiday break the week of December 22, 2025.

All characters speak with an RP British dialect. Deirdre slips into a lower-class dialect at times. Seeking actors who have a facility with physical comedy.

SYLVIA: Female, 30s-40s. A lovely and rash romantic.

BEAU: Male, 40s. The best-looking man in Britain.

MARJORIE: Female, 30s-40s. 8 months pregnant, pragmatic and a tad spicy.

CLARKE: Male, 40s. A distinguished gent with a lover’s spirit.

DIERDRE: Female, late 20s-early 30s. An awfully pretty, sometimes wise, nincompoop.

RICHARD: Male, 30s-40s. A murderous, yet gentle soul. 

By Arthur Miller 
Directed by Melia Bensussen 

First Rehearsal: January 27, 2026
First Preview: February 27, 2026
Opening: March 6, 2026
Closing: March 22, 2026

WILLY LOMAN: Male, early 60s. Humor often covers his disappointment, but the frustrations in his life have accumulated now to a point where he feels he is breaking. Memories are flooding him, and his sense of reality is slipping – as much as he tries to cover, he feels a frailty in himself he didn’t before. Smart. Never at home anywhere.

LINDA LOMAN: Female, late 50s. Willy Loman’s wife. She is Willy’s champion and takes it upon herself to reconcile her family. Intensely empathetic and wise. Loves her boys, has been idolized by both to a degree she doesn’t realize. Very human, great sense of humor and presence.

BIFF LOMAN: Male, mid-30s. The Lomans’ older son. Struggling with his relationship with his father. Strong, handsome, athletic, he’s still not quite grown up – is 35 but feels a decade younger. Charismatic and with a good sense of humor, he is still very attached to his mother, struggles to make peace with his upbringing and how to move forward.

HAPPY LOMAN: Male, early-30s. The Lomans’ younger son. Handsome, charming, kid-like in his pursuits, an avid and competitive womanizer – uses his victories with women to feel more of a success, as he is privately feeling quite the failure. Prone to exaggerating his position, his money, his everything, covering up his deep insecurities.

UNCLE BEN: Male, 40s. Willy’s older brother, in Willy’s memory around 40. Positive, deeply American in the Go-Getter, Optimist vein. Big voice, charisma, Mr. Personality. Could have written a book titled How I Made my Fortune: A Self Help Guide.

CHARLEY: Male, early-60s. A long-time acquaintance of the Lomans’. Kind, gentle. Willy’s age. Content with his life, proud of his son and deeply at home in the world. Patient, good sense of humor.

BERNARD: Male, mid-30s. Charley’s son. Same age as Biff, 35. When we meet him as a teenager, he is borderline nerdy, easy to make fun of due to his earnestness. Hard working, straightforward, good heart.  As an adult he is successful, busy, competent, on top of things but not arrogant.

THE WOMAN: Female, 30s-40s. Hard working secretary. Has a great laugh and enjoys Willy’s company, as well as the company of other salesmen who come through.  Attractive, but works at it – her sense of humor keeps her aloft despite her loneliness.  Knows exactly what is up with each person she interacts with – is under no illusions with Willy, but does enjoy his company and his gifts.

HOWARD WAGNER: Male, 30s. Willy’s current boss. Very pleased with himself. Feels he’s “earned” everything (even though he actually inherited the business from his father). Little empathy for others, a good Capitalist who puts himself and his family first.  Very self-involved.

JENNY / LETTA: Female, mid-20s. Attractive in a conventional sense, good sense of humor, knows her way around men. Used to being “picked up.”

MISS FORSYTHE: Female, mid-20s. Attractive in a conventional sense, good sense of humor, knows her way around men. Used to being “picked up.”

STANLEY: Male, 40s. Waiter at a restaurant.

By Karen Zacarias 
Directed by TBA 

First Rehearsal: March 17, 2026
First Preview: April 17, 2026
Opening: April 24, 2026
Closing: May 10, 2026

TANIA DEL VALLE: Female, late 20s-early 30s. Smart, likeable, positive, passionate, fit and highly energized pregnant PhD candidate and gardener.

PABLO DEL VALLE: Male, early-mid 30s. Smart, likeable, ambitious, savvy young attorney.

VIRGINIA BUTLEY: Female, 50s-60s. Smart, likeable, assertive, direct, no-nonsense engineer.

FRANK BUTLEY: Male, 50s-60s. Smart, likeable, excitable, caring, detail-oriented Federal employee and gardener.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 
Book by Hugh Wheeler 
Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond 
Directed by Rob Ruggiero 
In Partnership with TheaterWorks Hartford 

First Rehearsal: May 5, 2026
First Preview: June 5, 2026
Opening: June 12, 2026
Closing: July 5, 2026

NOTE: This is an intimate chamber production. Most actors will double with other ensemble roles. Seeking actors with excellent dialect skills. All characters speak with British dialects, except Pirelli, who speaks with an Italian and Irish dialect.

SWEENEY TODD: Male, 40s-50s. An impassioned, emotionally tormented man imprisoned on a false charge. He returns as a murderous barber seeking revenge and reconciliation with his family, which ultimately turns to dark obsession. He finds vengeance in his razors by systematically slitting the throats of all his enemies. He becomes consumed by his thirst for blood. Strong baritone/bass who can whistle. Speaks with an Estuary or London dialect. Vocal range top: Gb4. Vocal range bottom: F2

MRS. LOVETT: Female, 40s-50s. Hardy and entrepreneurial owner of a pie shop on Fleet Street. Hard-edged but with a savvy sense of humor. She is in love with Todd and hopes that he’ll forget the past and build a new life with her. Lovett aids Sweeney in his massacre by making meat pies out of his victims. Her love for him clouds her judgement and is ultimately her undoing. She is charismatic, and has great comedic timing with depth. Speaks with a Cockney accent. Has an excellent mezzo-soprano voice.  Vocal range top: E5. Vocal range bottom: G3.

ANTHONY HOPE: Male, 20s. Anthony is the idealistic handsome young sailor, befriended by Todd whom he rescued during the voyage home. He is idealistic, romantic and a little reckless. His passions sometimes get the better of his reason and his enthusiasm sometimes makes him unintentionally comedic. Over the course of the show he awakens to the horrors around him and becomes disillusioned with London. Trusting, optimistic and romantic, he is prepared to fight for his beliefs. Speaks with a British accent, and has an excellent baritone voice with strong falsetto for ensemble moments. Vocal range top: F4. Vocal range bottom: Bb2.

JOHANNA: Female, late teens to early 20s. Johanna is Sweeney Todd’s daughter, stolen from the barber many years ago by Judge Turpin who has taken her in as his ward. Locked up in her room, Johanna dreams of freedom outside. She is rebellious, subversive and has a romantic streak longing to escape her confinement. Johanna is aware that Judge Turpin isn’t her real father and suspects that he might be a predator. Like her father, she has experienced trauma and possesses a buried capacity for violence. Youthful and innocent with a quirky side. Speaks with a British accent. Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: Bb3.

TOBIAS RAGG: Male, late teens to mid-20s. Young, waifish and vulnerable. A bit of an urchin with a good heart. Apprenticed first to Pirelli and then to Mrs. Lovett. He is industrious and eager to please, with a good sense of humor. Uneducated, but innately clever and observant, Tobias responds quickly to the kindness of Lovett but grows increasingly suspicious of Sweeney. He comes to view Mrs. Lovett as a surrogate mother figure. Speaks with a thick Cockney accent. Vocal range top: Ab4. Vocal range bottom: Bb2.

JUDGE TURPIN: Male, 50s-60s. Pompous, self-centered, and powerful.  A lecherous public official who portrays himself as a sanctimonious authoritarian. He takes advantage of his position to imprison Todd, assault Lucy, and take Johanna in as his ward. Embodies Puritanical hypocrisy. He lusts after Johanna, even as he professes to keep her innocent, and plans to marry her. Powerful, unforgiving, rich, and egocentric. Speaks with a British accent. Strong bass/baritone voice. Vocal range top: Gb4. Vocal range bottom: E2.

THE BEADLE: Male, late 30s-50s. Sleazy, pompous, menacing henchman of the Judge. He possesses a dry, deadpan sense of humor and enjoys wielding his power. He is not a sniveling civil servant. He is deeply loyal to Turpin, though in his heart of hearts he believes he’s better than the judge. He can be subtly terrifying or outright threatening yet, equally fastidious, and fussy. Speaks with a British accent. A tenor with a strong falsetto. Vocal range top: D5. Vocal range bottom: D3.

BEGGAR WOMAN: Female, 40s-50s. An eerie, poor soul living on the streets of London. Once glamorous “Lucy,” she’s a mentally unstable unhoused woman and prostitute. Seemingly helpless and naïve until she lifts up her skirts and propositions any man who walks by.  Emotionally damaged and out of touch by the hard life she has lived. It turns out that she is the wife of Sweeney, the man she loved deeply many years ago. Has significant music skills, in particular a high, legit soprano. Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: Ab3.

ADOLFO PIRELLI / JONAS FOGG: Male, 30s–40s. ALFREDO PIRELLI: A flamboyant Italian rival barber; a charlatan with a secret past. An “Italian” not traveling salesman/scam artist who invents a hair tonic and sells it to the inhabitants of Fleet Street. Long-winded, self-absorbed, and brazen, he challenges Sweeney to a shaving match – and loses.  Later he is revealed as the Irish former employee of Sweeney trying to blackmail Todd. Unconventional, darkly comic. Speaks in both an Italian and Irish accent. Has a high operatic tenor voice. revealed later as the Irish former employee of Sweeney. JONAS FOGG: The owner of Fogg’s Asylum. He sells the hair of madmen to wigmakers.