Grand Rapids Civic Theatre Open Season With Great Gatsby

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre is proud to celebrate their 90th season by opening with the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. Opening September 11 and running through the 27th, the Jazz Age comes alive in Simon Levy’s delicate and haunting stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic novel, The Great Gatsby. As the only stage play authorized by the Fitzgerald Estate, Levy’s adaptation provokes historic excitement and is nothing less than magnificent in its powerful realization of the acclaimed novel’s Roaring Twenties, set in a world of prohibition, wealth, and privilege,

Jay Gatsby is a young and mysterious character consumed by his passion and obsession with a beautiful former debutante, Daisy Buchanan. Driven to recreate himself as something magnificent and the belief that fiction can be willed truth, Gatsby becomes entangled in a web of deception that will cost him the ultimate sacrifice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this story in 1925, the same year The Grand Rapids Civic Theatre was born, so opening with Gatsby is the perfect way to celebrate.

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For information on the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre or to purchase tickets, call 616-222-6650 or visit www.GRCT.org.