TRU 1/24/25 - Opening Night

TRU

by Jay Presson Allen

Directed by David Youse

January 24–February 2, 2025

Celebrating Truman Capote’s centennial year, actor Chuck Yates recreates his critically acclaimed performance that he created for Coyote StageWorks in 2013 (“Performer of the Decade,” Broadway World/Palm Springs).

Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently been published in Esquire and the author's friends, recognizing the characters as thinly veiled versions of themselves, have turned their back on the man they once considered a close confidant. Alone and hurting, Capote soothes himself with pills, alcohol, and chocolate truffles while musing about his checkered life and career.

“Theatrical lightning in a bottle … Yates just shines … It’s an evening of theatre one doesn’t soon forget.” (Jack Lyons, DesertLocalNews.Com)