Mercer Theatre is proud to announce their production of Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grill. The production marks the final performance at Mercer’s Back Door Theatre, a venue that the Theatre Department has utilized since 1979. Hundreds of performers and thousands of audience members built important memories in the sixty-seat basement space, an intimate venue that has served the program and the community well. Mercer Theatre will begin producing in their new venue, The Tattnall Square Center for Community Arts, in the spring of 2015. Join us for the sentimental farewell and the exciting new beginning for Mercer Theatre!

The Back Door Theatre
Oct. 16, 17, 18 7:00 P.M.
October 19 2:00 P.M.
October 23, 24, 25 7:00 P.M.
October 26 2:00 P.M.

The world is coming to an end. You have one day left. What do you do?
This is the question tackled by Bruce Graham’s apocalyptic comedy/drama, Early One Evening at The Rainbow Bar & Grille. Forget mass hysteria and anarchy in the streets. If your name is Shep and you tend bar in a small northern town, it’s one last day of business and some rather odd decisions.

"A wonderfully ghoulish fantasy in which people are released from their inhibitions and elect to spend their last few hours fulfilling themselves…Written with a zest for laughter and comic wit…[it] should have a healthy career here and in New York and any place else where people go to the theatre for a laugh." – Philadelphia Inquirer

"The preposterous, but often affecting and almost always hilarious proceedings are peppered by visual shtick and one liners." – Variety

"An engaging, entertaining evening of theatre." – New York Post