Preview of Pocatello at CRT

STORRS, CT – Connecticut Repertory Theatre continues its 2024-2025 season with Pocatello by award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter. Pocatello previews March 27 and runs March 28 – April 6 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn Storrs campus.

Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in a small American town that is slowly being paved over with strip malls and franchises. As pressures mount, he strives to keep his hometown feeling like home, one soup and salad special at a time. A heartbreaking comedy about love and connection in a shifting world. Directed by CRT guest artist Paul Mullins and featuring Equity guest artists Carol Halstead and Dale AJ Rose, Pocatello features scene design by Zach Farmer, lighting design by Cody Tellis Routledge, costume design by Emma Sowards, and sound design by Abigail Golec.

“Powerful.” - ChicagoCritic
Paul Mullins is an associate artist at both Santa Cruz Shakespeare and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where he has acted and directed for thirty years. For SCS he has directed King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Agitators, Pride and Prejudice, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The 39 Steps, Hamlet and Henry V. He has also directed plays for The Old Globe, Chautauqua Theater Company, Jewel Theatre Company, The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC., Dorset Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, American Stage, The Yale School of Drama, NYU Grad Acting and The Juilliard School.

Carol Halstead has worked on and off Broadway and extensively in regional theatres around the country. Most recently, she was the standby for both Patti Lupone and Mia Farrow in the Broadway production of The Roommate. Other credits include Ouiser in Steel Magnolias; originated the role of Margaret Quinn in the world premiere adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, the National Tour of C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Carol lives in New York City where she trains as a 4th degree black belt in Seido Karate. She is a graduate of Florida State University & San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. TV: Madame Secretary, Elementary, Law & Order. Upcoming films: Books & Drinks, Damages and Collisions. @carol_halstead; carolhalstead.com

POCATELLO
by Samuel D Hunter
Directed by Paul Mullins
The Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
March 27 – April 6, 2025
Performance schedule:
Preview: Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 pm
Press Opening: Friday, March 28 at 8pm (reception to follow)
Saturday, March 29 at 8 pm
Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 pm (talkback to follow)
Friday, April 4 at 8 pm
Saturday, April 5 at 2 pm (talkback to follow)
Saturday, April 5 at 8 pm
Sunday, April 6 at 2 pm (PATRON MASKING REQUIRED)
Location
The Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, University of Connecticut, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, 1st Floor, 2132 Hillside Road, Unit 3014, Storrs, CT 06269
Health and Safety
There will be one masked-only performance on Sunday, April 6 at 2 pm. Masks are welcome but not required for other performances.