We don’t usually have a chance to see New York actors on stage in Wolfeboro, but you’ll have that opportunity as Wolfeboro native and Academy Award winner, Estelle Parsons, brings ReEntry: Actors Playing Jazz, to The Village Players Theater.

ReEntry: Actors Playing Jazz is free form theatre; “playing jazz” is a nod to the improv taking place on stage. The show explores the challenges of reentering society faced by six formerly incarcerated men. They have come together after their release from prison to start a theater group to keep them on the straight and narrow.

It may surprise many to hear that the recidivism rate for people who have participated in theater programs while in prison is strikingly lower compared to that of the general prison population. Many organizations are working to bring arts programs into prisons. Re-Entry explores how theater has transformed these men’s responses to society’s biases against them. The stories you’ll hear in Re-Entry are riveting, astounding, and real.

Migdalia Cruz, award-winning playwright wrote to Parsons, “Your Re-Entry is fantastic. I found myself in tears.” “I was charged up by the performance. Great work.” praised Mark Russell, director of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival.

ReEntry was developed at the Actor’s Studio in New York, under the direction of Estelle Parsons, whose credits include various awards and notable theater productions.

The actors, all members of the Actors Studio, have numerous New York stage, TV and film credits.  They are Javier Molina, Leland Gantt, Erick Betancourt, Gabriel Furman and Alfredo Diaz.  The production’s creative team includes Peter Larkin as set consultant, Shukkun Hue as costume consultant and music by J. S. Bach.

Tickets are $25, available below, at Black’s Paper and Gifts in Wolfeboro, and at the door. 

Online ticket sales are now closed, but we have plenty of tickets available at the door.

Tickets purchased online will be held for you at our box office.