In recent years, The Westmoreland Players Theatre, 16217 Richmond Road, Callao, has offered audiences a lush smorgasbord of comedies, dramas and musicals. The company’s latest offering, “Now and Then,” playing November 1-17, is a complete departure from the ordinary. It is a haunting and at times hilarious story of love, ambition, choices, consequences, regrets and second chances.
The story is about a young couple, Jamie and Abby. It’s 1981 and Jamie is an aspiring jazz pianist working in a Chicago bar called—appropriately, as it turns out—“Mulligan’s.” Abby is an aspiring writer slinging waffles at the pancake house. Late one night, an older man walks into the bar and offers the couple an absurd sum of money to have a few cocktails with him after hours. They need the money; what’s the harm?
The revelers drink together and talk about hopes, dreams, the past and the future. There’s something off, though….There's more to this story...
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