summer playhouse

Based in Silver Spring, Md., Mezzocchi maintains strong ties to New Hampshire: Since 2015, he has been the producing artistic director at Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, which he attended as a kid and where he now implements many of his ideas about the interconnection of community, art and technology.

You often talk about community-building, which has included instituting talkbacks at Andy’s Summer Playhouse.

When I started doing this in college in Montana at the Bigfork Summer Playhouse—and when I still had hair—I was the leading man in “Brigadoon,” played a character role in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and was in the chorus of another show the next night.

Once the May sweeps are over, the network schedules become almost wall-to-wall reruns, occasionally interrupted by new episodes of series we thought we'd seen the last of and batches of rejected pilots gathered into umbrella series with disingenuous titles like Summer Playhouse.

Opening this week at a Michigan summer playhouse is a political satire about a conniving ward heeler, Ballots Up!