LRT is Brooklyn & Vermont based and presents new and classic plays driven by innovative direction, canny design and great acting. Audiences share in a unique theatrical intimacy that draws each observer into a more personal relationship with the play. 

In the summer of 2012 founders Randolyn Zinn and Allen McCullough mounted Anton Chekhov's The Seagull as an anniversary gift to each other. When the production resonated with audiences and actors, a theatre company was born.

 

Making theatre is a collaborative art.

LRT brings each play to life by incorporating site specific spaces inside and out, found materials, music, movement and unusual staging techniques.

The company rehearses with good cheer and imagination, exploring characters' needs and conflicts in thorough scene work and improvisation to reveal the depths of each script.

Installing a resurrected cherry tree (with silk blossoms) for The Cherry Orchard that could be seen from within the theatre.

Installing a resurrected cherry tree (with silk blossoms) for The Cherry Orchard that could be seen from within the theatre.

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About The Founders

Randolyn Zinn  is an actor, director, writer and choreographer. She directed her own plays Her Name Means Memory and Lucy’s Wedding, Adam & Evie (Vt & NYC),  Men of Tortuga (Vt & NYC) The SeagullUncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Exit The King and Playing With Fire for LRT. As an actor; Constellations, Nora in A Doll’s House Part 2, Masha Three Sisters. Other productions include her own play, Portrait of Frida, Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons for The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Circle in the Square, Juilliard, and The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall. New Georges produced her play Frank/Frank in New York, in which she also appeared and co-directed. Her fiction has been published by Taint Taint Taint, Maisonneuve, The New School Fiction Prize, Carve, Best of Carve, Conclave, 3 Quarks Daily, Driftwood and Vox

Zinn’s choreographic work includes the original Pulitzer-prize-winning production of Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway, Guys and Dolls at the Guthrie, as well as two Shakespeare plays with director Liviu Cuilei; Electra, and Ring Round The Moon at Juilliard directed by Michael Kahn; Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat with the New York Philharmonic, and Jack Heifner’s Colette: Music Hall Sidelights at the Lion Theatre Co. She choreographed two films starring Harvey Keitel, has taught actors at Julliard and Circle in the Square Theatre School.

Allen McCullough LRT co-founder. For LRT: Her Name Means Memory, Constellations, A Doll’s House Part 2, Three Sisters, Circle Mirror Transformation, Men of Tortuga, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull.   Film & TV; Dead Ringers, FBI Most Wanted, Divorce, Blindspot, Sweetbitter, The Marvelous Mrs Maizel, Vinyl, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Law and Order C.I.  Recent –Our Brother’s Son, Signature NYC - Nixon in Frost/Nixon Palo Alto, Amy & the Orphans- Roundabout, As You Like It, R & J, Folger Theatre; Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Baltimore Center Stage; also- 2nd Stage, Long Wharf, Westport, Williamstown, Pioneer, Irish Rep and others; Broadway tour of Twelve Angry Men. As a Director, Shaw’s Overruled for LRT, All My Sons and Our Town at Hubbard Hall. Allen was born and raised in North Bennington, Vt. allenmcc.com

 

LRT often stages its work on the grounds of Historic Park-McCullough House. We thank its Board and Members, the Fund for North Bennington, private donors, and volunteers who make this unique theater experience possible.

Historic Park-McCullough House

1 Park Street

Bennington VT 05257

Reservations phone:  802. 442. 5322


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Excited to return in 2021 for our 10 year anniversary.

Excited to return in 2021 for our 10 year anniversary.

Eating is an art and we feed our artists well

Eating is an art and we feed our artists well