Make Believe

September 6 – 30, 2018

By Bess Wohl

Directed by Jackson Gay

Approximate Running Time: 85 minutes, with no intermission.

Recommended Ages: 18+

Ticket Prices

$100 | $75 | $50 | $30

Includes all fees. Prices subject to change without notice.
All Regular Season Student Seats $20.

Bess Wohl’s uncanny, gently funny and touching play, set in the 1980’s, follows four young siblings as their childhood is upended by the mysterious problems of the adults in their lives and tracks how moments from our childhood resonate with us forever.

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Events & Talks

HPL @ Hartford Stage

Hartford Public Library and Hartford Stage invite you to dig deeper into the world of the plays onstage. Take out a book today! Select books available at the theatre and at each Hartford branch library.

AfterWords Discussion

September 18, 25 & 26

Join members of the cast and our Artistic staff for a free discussion, immediately following select 7:30 p.m. performances on Tuesday or 2 p.m. Wednesday matinees. FREE

Sunday Afternoon Discussion

September 16

Steven Marans, Ph.D. is Director of the Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center and is the Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and is trained both as a child and adult psychoanalyst. Dr. Marans has over 25 years of experience developing, evaluating and disseminating intervention approaches for children exposed to violence, in addition to treating children, adolescents, adults and families. He is founder and director of the Child Development-Community Policing (CD-CP) Program, a model for police-mental health collaborative responses to violence and catastrophic events, that has been replicated and served as a model for similar programs in in communities around the US and abroad. Dr. Marans is also co-developer of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI), the only evidence-based early, trauma-focused intervention for children and families that interrupts and prevents the development of PTSD and related disorders. He has responded to mass-casualty shootings and other mass casualty disasters around the country, including the attacks on 9/11 and the Sandy Hook shooting. Over the years, Dr. Marans has provided consultation to the White House, Members of Congress, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal agencies and other colleagues on issues related to children’s exposure to violence and interventions to reduce the traumatic impact of violence and other catastrophic circumstances. He is an internationally recognized expert on collaborative interventions and acute/early treatments for traumatized children and families and has published widely on this topic.

Immediately following the 2 p.m. Matinee. FREE.