In a feature article about the project in America Magazine, Andrew Garavel wrote “Thanks are due to Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater for bringing such a distinctive voice from the past so satisfyingly into the present.” Under Bank’s leadership the Mint has earned an international reputation as the source for high-quality revivals of forgotten works and has become, in the words of The New York Times’ Jason Zinoman, “the leading New York entrepreneur” of the neglected play business. In his review of Mint’s 2018 production of Conflict by Miles Malleson, Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal described Jonathan Bank as “one of a handful of theater artists in America whose name is an absolute guarantee of quality.”

MINT THEATER COMPANY was founded in 1992. Jonathan Bank became artistic director in 1995 and began to shape the company’s mission, focusing on neglected plays from the past. Since then, the Mint has introduced theatergoers to dozens and dozens of terrific forgotten plays, by authors as renowned as Hemingway and Tolstoy, and as obscure as Teresa Deevy and Allan Monkhouse. In the words of New York Times critic Ben Brantley, Mint Theater is the “resurrectionist extraordinaire of forgotten plays.” The Mint takes great pride in the many successful productions, from the first major success in 1999: the American premiere of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley GranvilleBarker, to the four-time Drama Desknominated So Help Me God! by Maurine Dallas Watkins in 2009, to London Wall by John van Druten in 2014 and Fashions for Men by Ferenc Molnár in 2015—both of which were broadcast on WNET Thirteen’s “Theater Close-Up.” Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Mint has “a near-perfect track record of exhuming forgotten plays of the previous century that deserve a happier fate.” In 202021, Mint offered free streaming from their extensive library of three-camera archival recordings, reaching an international audience of grateful theatergoers stuck at home, while paying union salaries & benefits to over 100 artists.

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

Frankie Nolan, First Man, Johnny Nolan..........................CHRISTOPHER BROWN

Leonard Kress Sr................................................................................JEB BROWN

Woman...........................................................................ANTOINETTE LaVECCHIA

Tessie, Florry, Flapper......................................................................JILLIAN LOUIS

Jimmy O’Neil............................................................................JACK MASTRIANNI

Mr. Maloon..............................................................................JASON O’CONNELL

Max, Agent, Leonard Kress Jr...................................................SCOTT REDMOND

Ma Nolan..........................................................................................PEARL RHEIN

Francie Nolan.......................................................................MADELINE SEIDMAN

Pa Nolan, Solitary Man.............................................................PHILLIP TARATULA Collegiate Youth.....................................................................................TIM WEBB