Babette’s Feast, based on Isak Dinesen’s short story made famous by the 1987 Academy Award-winning film, this new stage adaptation tells the story of Babette, a French refugee who finds asylum in a pious Norwegian village. With boundless generosity, she throws a lavish feast that becomes an agent of transformative grace to heal the fractured community.

Featuring Michelle Hurst (Orange is the New Black), Juliana Francis Kelly, Abigail Killeen, Jo Mei, Elliot Nye, Steven Skybell, Sorab Wadia, Sturgis Warner, and Jeorge Bennett Watson

“A glorious production fit for the new millennium!” – Portland Press Herald

International theater director Karin Coonrod has a fierce commitment to whatever text she is working with, whether it is the drama of Shakespeare, the stories of Flannery O’Connor or the poetry of Walt Whitman. Her work has been seen at The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience, BAM/Next Wave Festival, American Repertory Theater among others. She is founder/director of two theater companies. Downtown Theater Ensemble Arden Party from 1987-1997 focused on re-imagining the classics and the Compagnia de’ Colombari, an international collective of performing artists, generating theater in surprising places since 2004. Their acclaimed production of The Merchant of Venice produced for the 500th anniversary of Venice’s Jewish ghetto in 2016 had its US premiere last year for Peak Performances at Montclair State University. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. Now Ms. Coonrod has taken on another narrative, Isak Dinesen’s short story “Babette’s Feast,” mainly known as a beloved 1987 Academy Award winning film. Her theatrical rendering of “Babette’s Feast” is a sumptuous production that engages the imagination, hearts and souls of audien …Read more