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Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Tennessee Williams' brilliant ghost play about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, went extremely well. Check out some reviews below:

"Montgomery Sutton offers strong, sympathetic support as a solicitous intern and Zelda's French flyer."
David Sheward, Backstage

"Standouts" include "Montgomery Sutton in the dual roles of the Intern and Edouard."
Lynn Marie Macy, NYTheatre.com

"Montgomery Sutton is delightful as the impressionable young asylum aide who is smitten with Zelda and also, in a second role, as an ace French Air Force flyer."
Frederick M. Winship, United Press International

It was followed a few weeks later by EBE Ensemble's third annual Elephants on Parade festival of new one-act plays. I'm a founding member and the executive director with the company, but--while I've had the fortune to direct several shows with EBE--this was my first time returning to the stage with the company since August 2008. The plays were a huge success: great audiences, reception, and awesome new relationships established with some incredibly talented playwrights. Very excited to start taking submissions for next year's festival this summer!

Check out Michael Roderick's rave review at BroadwayWorld:
"Perhaps even more impressive than the well written scripts...is the crisp and varied performances by a very talented group of young actors. Montgomery Sutton transitions seamlessly from Jersey frat boy to creepy taxidermist...This Ensemble really knows how to produce!"

EBE's next show is coming up this summer. More news on that as soon as I'm allowed to make it public!

"Clothes for a Summer Hotel" - February, 2010

I've just been cast in White Horse Theater Company's revival of Tennessee Williams' "Clothes for a Summer Hotel," a beautiful and haunting play about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald that was Williams' last Broadway play.

The show runs February 5-21, 2010 at the Hudson Guild Theater, and is directed by Cyndy A. Marion, one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year for 2007. Check back here for more information, or visit www.whitehorsetheater.com.

"dont u luv me?" on Nancy Churnin's blog

Check out a mini-review by Nancy Churnin (of the Dallas Morning News) of "dont u luv me?" on her blog.

If you've seen the show, add a comment to her blog and help us get the word out to teenagers and their parents.

Here's an excerpt:
"This world premiere by Linda Daugherty blew me away. In one hour, she conjured up a frightening (and well-researched) scenario in a fictionalized story of a young girl (played affectingly by University of North Texas junior Lauren Rosen) who falls for a charismatic upperclassman (in a smoldering performance by recent NYU grad Montgomery Sutton who has been performing on DCT stages since age 3)."

"dont u luv me?" on neighborsgo.com

Check out this press release posted on neighborsgo.com about my upcoming show, "dont u luv me?" by Linda Daugherty: http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/32295

"dont u luv me?" is a great new play, aimed at late adolescents, that takes teenage dating violence and rape head on. With the recent Rhianna crisis, the play is really tapping into a disturbing reality that is too often overlooked in our country.

What's most appealing about "dont u luv me?" to me, though, is that despite its unhesitating examination of its principle topic, it really takes an interest in all of its characters and doesn't ever resort to oversimplification. The complexities of teenage life, emotion, and inner struggle are embraced and explored in a variety of ways, and it tackles a very difficult subject in a really human way. I play C.J., the abusive boyfriend of the protagonist, and diving into his world is a whirlwind of terror and exhilaration. Much theater over the course of the past century hasn't hesitated to take on heavy loads of darkness and brutality, but the simple, horrific honesty of how C.J. and Angela's relationship spirals downward, out of control, from a beautiful courtship to a tragic catastrophe is in many ways more deeply affecting than McDonough's most stomach-turning set piece. It’s a classic Greek fall from grace, only experienced through an amazingly acute lens of contemporary adolescent life.

If you're in Dallas this April, I hope you'll drop by the Rosewood Center to check out this great new play.

On the tube

I joined several other EBE Ensemble members along with actors and designers from Elephants on Parade 2009 on Episode 1 of a series on New York theater on MNN's "Digitally Speaking," which aired March 3rd at 8pm in New York. For more information on the program, check out Digitally Speaking's website. They also snatched some audience reactions for the program. Working on some of our own footage from rehearsals and tech to put up on YouTube in the next couple of weeks, so check back here to see the kind of madness that goes on when we're poorly rested, cabin fever infested, and not sitting in a nice studio.

I had to miss the airing, though, for a rehearsal for Linda Daugherty's "dont u luv me?" at Dallas Children's Theater, which opens April 2. For more information on that, visit DCT's website.

New Website

Welcome to the new Montgomery Sutton website. The redesign should make keeping up to date easier than ever. Photos and videos will be coming soon.