Third Fridays...in the Gallery presents FDR Play in Barrington March 18

Barrington Cultural Arts Center and TesserAct Theatre are continuing their “Third Fridays…in the Gallery” series with a special reading of the new stage-play, “A Fireside Chat: A Conversation with FDR,” starring Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, resident Gary Stamm, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This performance will be on Friday, March 18, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., at the BCAC Gallery, located at the Ice House Mall, 200 Applebee Street in Barrington, Illinois. A reception with refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5.

The Salem, Wisconsin based Brown-Ullstrup Foundation for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce this new stage-play will have its world premiere at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park New York on April 29, 2011. In addition, it will be performed at the Cunneen-Hackett Performing Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, located in Dutchess County, New York, just a few miles away from the FDR Library and Roosevelt home, both in Hyde Park.

The play is written by Salem, Wisconsin residents Steven Brown and Michael Ullstrup and is directed by Steven Brown.

For more information, go to www.BrownUllstrup.com

“Third Fridays…in the Gallery” is a monthly program sponsored by BCAC and TesserAct Theatre and is an evening to promote community theatre and thespian fellowship in the Barrington area. It is open to all area residents aged high school through adult. The groups have an ambitious plan for the year that includes open-mikes and stagings of musicals and dramas. Auditions for those who wish to act will be held in BCAC's Gallery on Sunday, March 6 from 2 – 4 and Tuesday, March 8 from 7 – 9. For more information call Nita Hunter (847) 710-2027 or look in the BCAC website: www.barringtonculturalartscenter.org