
Painting Churches
by Tina Howe
June 6 - July 5, 2025
Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless.
This play was directed by Sam Martinez & Soraya Ahmadi and featured Barbara Brandt, Adrian Collinson & Carrie Lee Sparks with Maddie Koenig, Amelia Knowles & Kathryn Collins backstage and London Tye in the tech booth.
Cast & Crew

Sam Martinez
Director
Soraya Ahmadi
Assistant Director
Barbara Brandt
Fanny Sedgwick Church
Adrian Collinson
Gardner Church
Carrie Lee Sparks
Margaret (Mags) ChurchKelly Swinehart Wehrer
Understudy
Maddie Koenig
Stage Manager
Amelia Knowles
Stage Crew
Kathryn Collins
Stage Crew