BILOXI BLUES Opens at Theatre Arlington

 305 W. Main Street Arlington, TX 76010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Release Date – August 8, 2022 

Contact: 

Kim Lawson Turner 

Sales & Marketing Director 

817.261.9628 ext. 202 

kim@theatrearlington.org 

Theatre Arlington has a case of the Biloxi Blues 

Arlington, TX, August 8, 2022: 

ATTENTION! Theatre Arlington is set to open Biloxi Blues by  

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon on Friday, August  

19. The second in Simon’s semi-autobiographical trilogy, Biloxi  

Blues was the winner of the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play.  

Local actor Eric Berg who captured the hearts of Theatre  

Arlington’s patrons in 2019 when he portrayed Eugene Jerome  

in their production of Brighton Beach Memoirs reprises his role  

as Eugene, a young army recruit during WW II. When the  

audience first met Eugene he was coping with adolescence in  

1930’s Brooklyn, but it is now 1943 and he finds himself in basic  

training in Biloxi, Mississippi, learning about life and love while  

dreaming about being a writer. 

Theatre Arlington’s production of Biloxi Blues is directed by  

Larry W. Cure. The production stars Eric Berg as Eugene Morris  

Jerome, Caleb De La Torre as Roy Selridge, Maximilian  

Swenson as Joseph Wykowksi, Sean Sicard as Don Carney, John Marshall as Arnold Epstein, Michael Phillip Thomas as Sgt.  Merwin J. Toomey, Landry Beckley as James Hennesey, Rhonda Triana as Rowena and Lauren Floyd as Daisy Hannigan. 

Stage Manager, Maria Leon Hickox, heads up the production team which includes Stephanie Metz (Assistant Stage Manager),  Jacob Oderberg (Assistant Director/Understudy), Kevin Brown (Set Designer), Bryan Stevenson (Lighting Designer), Victoria  Esquibell (Sound Designer), Janice Pennington (Costume  

Designer), Robin Dotson (Properties Designer) and Angie Glover  

(Scenic Artist).  

Biloxi Blues opens on Friday, August 19 and runs through  

September 4. There will be no post-show reception due to the  

theater’s Covid guidelines per Actors’ Equity Association.  

Performances will continue through September 4 with the  

following schedule: 

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm 

Sundays at 2:00 pm  

Appropriate for audiences ages 15 and up 

Strong language 

Adult subject matter 


Photos by Eric Younkin 

Photo Credit 1: (back row/left to right) John Marshall, Maximilian Swenson, Sean Sicard, Landry Beckley  (front row): Eric Berg 

Photo Credit 2: (left to right) Sean Sicard, Eric Berg, Landry Beckley Maximilian Swenson  

  

More photos available upon request 

For more information and to purchase tickets: www.TheatreArlington.org 

Box Office: 817.275.7661 

Biloxi Blues is presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.  www.concordtheatricals.com 

ABOUT THEATRE ARLINGTON:  

Located in the center of Arlington's Cultural Arts District, Theatre Arlington is one of the largest semi-professional, non-profit theaters in the  Southwest with roots that date back to 1973 and a gypsy theater group known as The Potluck Players. Forty-eight years later, the staff and  board of directors are still as dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in North Texas by presenting superior, diverse, artistic experiences  through performance, production and education as they were during their humble beginnings. 

In addition to a regular season featuring seven productions, an all-youth musical and a club series, the theater runs a year-round theater school  including spring break and summer camps, and partners with the Arlington ISD and local community organizations to provide free and low cost art enrichment programs for area children and teens. The theater is also proud to perform under an Actors’ Equity Small Professional  Theatre contract. Theatre Arlington has become a key player in enriching the city’s cultural environment.


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