Eagle Theatre’s Performance of Native Gardens Blooms With Laughter

Cincinnati.com heralds it as,“A Skillful Comedy…Bright and Witty and Clever.” The Star Tribune called it,“…the best stage comedy of the summer.” If you’re love of the stage is planted in a light comedy with just the right amount of heft, then you’ll want to be there when the curtain goes up for the Eagle Theatre’s performance of Native Gardens.

Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarias, who is one of the most produced playwrights in America and the core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, brings this brilliant, new flower-flinging romp to the stage. In the production, cultures clash when  well-intentioned neighbors turn into feuding enemies. The play is sent in Washington D.C., where rising attorney Pablo and his very pregnant wife and doctoral candidate Tania, purchase a home in a historic neighborhood next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established couple with a prize-worthy garden. When a disagreement ensues about their property line, things soon spiral into an full-fledged war of taste, class, culture and, of course, gardening.

One laugh at a time, Zacarias’ Native Gardens pushes boundaries and shatters biases and is a show you won’t want to miss. Native Gardens runs March 22 through April 14, 2019, at the Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, NJ 08037. Showtimes are Wednesday and Thirsday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and matinees Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Eagle Theatre is South Jersey’s lone year-round professional Equity theatre. Under The Direction of Ted Wioncek III and Ed Corsi,the award-winning regional theatre is home to more than 160 live productions annually, including Broadway caliber, full-scale premiers and revivals.

The Eagle Theatre is located at 208 Vine Street in Hammonton. For information and tickets to Native Gardens and other great productions call 609.704.5012 or visit http://www.eagletheatre.org/tickets/.