MAY 2ND @ 2PM (IN PERSON) & MAY 8TH @ 8PM (IN PERSON) SOLD OUT!

MTC MainStage presents
Tru
by Jay Presson Allen
Sound Design by Will Atkin
Prop Design by Sean Sanford
Costume Design by Diane Vanderkroef
Scenic Design by Lindsay Fuori
Lighting Design by RJ Romeo
Stage Managed by Jim Schilling
Directed by Kevin Connors

TRU is generously sponsored by

with support from Central Insurance Companies

MTC MainStage presents

TRU

April 23 - May 9

Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. All times are EST.
In person performances at MUSIC THEATRE OF CONNECTICUT 
509 Westport Avenue (Route 1) in Norwalk
(Click here for directions)
Live streamed performances will be shown online through a link provided to ticket holders one hour before the show. Online ticket sales close one hour before the performance.

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes including a short intermission

In Person Discount:

About

Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently been published in Esquire and the author's friends, recognizing the characters as thinly veiled versions of themselves, have turned their back on the man they once considered a close confidant.

Production Photos

All photos courtesy of Alex Mongillo

Who’s Who

Jeff Gurner (Truman Capote)
is thrilled to return to MTC for his fifth show, having previously been seen in Ragtime, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Jekyll & Hyde, and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Broadway: The Lion King. Off-Broadway/NY: Five Course Love, The London Cuckolds, The Man of Destiny, The Normal Heart, The Truth About Santa, The Water Coolers, The Comedy of Errors. Regional: The Music Man (Goodspeed Opera House), Billy Elliot (Gateway Playhouse), Peter & the Starcatcher (Pioneer Theatre Company), A Christmas Story (St. Louis Rep), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Playmakers Rep), Harold & Maude The Musical (Papermill Playhouse), Brimstone (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Silver Dollar (Goodspeed - Norma Terris), Five Course Love (Geva Theatre Center), Buddy! (Ordway Music Theatre), Pump Boys & Dinettes (Cherry County Playhouse), 7th Inning Stretch (Mile Square Theatre). Television credits include: FBI, Homeland, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Mercy, Rescue Me, Third Watch, Wallykazam! Jeff has recorded hundreds of voice-overs for television and radio commercials, video games and animated series, and he is an award-winning audiobook narrator. Proud to be a Nutmegger, dad to Ethan and Jonah, and husband to Michelle!

KEVIN CONNORS (Director, Executive Artistic Director & Co-Founder) Off-Broadway: Play Like a Winner (NYMF award-winner), Prime Time Prophet, Jukebox Saturday Night, The Abandoned Loves of Frederick R., Life Anonymous, Lover: The Valentino Musical, Babes Off Broadway, Saloon and Suzy Q. Selected regional productions: The Fantasticks, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Babes in Toyland, A Christmas Carol and Baby; with such stars as Joan Rivers, James Naughton, and Johnny Mathis. He has directed over 100 MTC Equity MainStage productions including Next to Normal, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, Evita, Doubt, Master Class, Gypsy, (all Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award Nominations/Winners), and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, (Moss Hart Award Winner). BroadwayWorld Award Winner as Best Director for MTC’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Connecticut Critics’ Circle Best Director winner for MTC’s Ragtime, and recipient of the Tom Killen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Connecticut Professional Theatre. As a composer he has penned the score for numerous musicals including It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play and A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play (both published by Playscripts, Inc.), and served on the faculties of The Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, Sacred Heart University, the University of Bridgeport and Musical Theatre Works in NYC. www.kevin-connors.com

Tru is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals