Press Release: On Tidy Endings

Keith Dougherty Productions Performs On Tidy Endings in Brewster

Harvey Fierstein’s On Tidy Endings Emotional Roller-Coaster Exploration of Grief and Love

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 The Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition is presenting Harvey Fierstein’s On Tidy Endings on Friday, June 23rd, and Saturday, June 24, at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, at 2:00 p.m. at the Studio Around the Corner, 67 Main St. Suite 101, Brewster, NY.  This one-act play is an emotional, roller-coaster exploration of grief and love: a man has died of AIDS, leaving behind a son, a male lover, and an ex-wife. The New York Post called On Tidy Endings, "Sparkily illumined by Fierstein's wicked and wonderful camp humor, and his gleaming humanity." 

The play is produced by and features the creator of the interactive entertainment company Murder Mystery Manhattan, Keith Dougherty. Performing alongside are Laurel Riley-Brown, Patricia Holzhauer, and Brewster’s Christian Sciarrillo. Tickets for this event are $25 and can be purchased online at www.culturalartsco.com.

Murder Mystery Manhattan, www.murdermysterymanhattan.com, has been Dougherty's passion and creative project for over 30 years. Taking the interactive murder mystery genre to the next level, Dougherty, who also writes and directs all the shows, keeps abreast of what is trending and classic, puts his own spin on it, and presents laugh-out-loud, interactive murder mysteries that spoof and celebrate some of your favorite television shows and film. Stemming from Murder Mystery Manhattan, Dougherty has branched out With Keith Dougherty Productions, presenting non-interactive straight plays and comedies. Dougherty starred in On Tidy Endings for Cornerstone Theatre Arts in Goshen, NY in 2021 and presented his Golden Girls Gone Wild, an interactive Murder Mystery, at the Studio Around the Corner in 2022 also.

Blessed with some loyal followers for over 20 years, Murder Mystery Manhattan has been seen all over the tri-state area, including upstate New York, Rhode Island, Westchester, New Jersey, Staten Island, Brewster, and for such clients as Citibank, City Winery, Spectrum Cable, Don’t Tell Mama, Doubletree Inns, The Falkirk Estate and Country Club, Oheka Castle, The Milleridge Inn, The Villa Roma Resort, Clove Creek Dinner Theater, and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouses.

Some of Murder Mystery Manhattan’s most popular interactive shows are their Golden Girls and Sopranos series, I Loved Lucy, The Hunnymooners, Killing the Kartrashians, Scary Potter, Walt Disnee on Ice and Sunsex Blvd, starring aging film goddess, Gloria Swansong, and looks forward to bringing another fun, interactive Murder Mystery to Brewster again as well.