Sitting in on a rehearsal for Now and Then at Erie's Performing Arts Collective Alliance (PACA), I was struck by two things. First, the set is gorgeously impressive, and secondly by the familial feeling between the cast and crew putting it all together.
The play premiered at the Peninsula Players Theatre in Wisconsin in 2018 from playwright Sean Grennan. It centers around four characters, meeting at a bar.
Taking place in 1981, we begin as Jamie (played by Stephen Kovacs) closes up the bar he works at, when an older man named Jimmy (Mike DeCorte, in his first role on stage) comes in and the two start talking. Later, we meet Abby (Adele Crotty), and a mysterious woman (Lisa Simonian), all of whom have equally substantial parts throughout each act.
