{"id":141317,"date":"2026-02-02T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/141317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:50:10","slug":"tuesdays-with-morrie-imbues-audiences-with-resolve-to-live-every-day-to-the-fullest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/141317\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ imbues audiences with resolve to live every day to the fullest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accomplished journalist Mitch Albom promised his Brandeis University professor, Morrie Schwartz, he\u2019d stay in touch, but life got in the way. Florida Rep Producing Artistic Director Greg Longenhagen describes how the two reunited 16 years after Albom\u2019s graduation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s watching the news one day and sees Ted Koppel interviewing his old professor and he finds out during that interview that Morrie has Lou Gehrig’s disease. He feels terrible and he decides he’s going to go visit his professor before he passes away.\u201d<\/p>\n

What starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a beautiful lesson in humanity, compassion, and friendship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s about life. It’s about dying. It’s about how to be a good human being and it’s really a touching story,\u201d Longenhagen added.<\/p>\n

While its themes may be weighty, the script is replete with humor, imbuing audiences with the renewed resolve to live every day to the fullest.<\/p>\n

\u201cTuesdays with Morrie\u201d is performed in the ArtStage Studio Theatre through March 8.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Florida Repertory Theatre<\/p>\n

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‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ is performed in the ArtStage Theatre.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTuesdays with Morrie\u201d is the autobiographical story of the friendship between Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz. At the end of Schwartz’s life, the two reconnect, swapping life stories and advice about living life to the fullest.<\/p>\n

\u201cTuesdays With Morrie\u201d is the best-selling memoir of all time, with nearly 10 million copies sold worldwide. Albom, along with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted the book into a hit play. It premiered at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, on June 21, 2002. It was then produced off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre on Nov. 19, 2002.<\/p>\n

It has since been performed in regional theaters throughout North America.<\/p>\n

Hatcher wrote the book for the Broadway musical \u201cNever Gonna Dance.\u201d His Off-Broadway credits include \u201cThree Viewings and A Picasso\u201d at Manhattan Theatre Club; \u201cScotland Road\u201d and \u201cThe Turn of the Screw\u201d at Primary Stages; \u201cMurder By Poe,\u201d \u201cThe Turn of the Screw\u201d and \u201cThe Spy\u201d at The Acting Company; \u201cNeddy\u201d at American Place; and \u201cFellow Travelers\u201d at Manhattan Punchline.<\/p>\n

He also wrote \u201cCompleat Female Stage Beauty,\u201d \u201cMrs. Mannerly,\u201d \u201cMurderers,\u201d \u201cMercy of a Storm,\u201d \u201cSmash,\u201d \u201cArmadale,\u201d \u201cKorczak’s Children,\u201d \u201cTo Fool the Eye,\u201d \u201cThe Falls,\u201d \u201cA Piece of the Rope,\u201d \u201cAll the Way with LBJ,\u201d \u201cThe Government Inspector,\u201d \u201cDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u201d and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children’s Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad.<\/p>\n

His film and television credits include \u201cStage Beauty,\u201d \u201cCasanova,\u201d \u201cThe Duchess,\u201d and episodes of \u201cColumbo.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has received grants and awards from the NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation and Barrymore Award Best New Play.<\/p>\n

Hatcher is a member and\/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild and New Dramatists.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Mitch Albom<\/p>\n

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Journalist and playwright Mitch Albom <\/p>\n

Mitch Albom is a best-selling author, a nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist (with the Detroit Free Press), a radio host (with WJR-AM), and a television commentator (with ESPN and ABC).<\/p>\n

Albom\u2019s first novel, \u201cThe Five People You Meet in Heaven,\u201d was published in 2003 and was on the New York Times best-sellers list for two years. With a screenplay by Albom, \u201cFive People\u201d was adapted into an ABC movie that aired in December 2004 and starred Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeff Daniels.<\/p>\n

Albom has founded three charities in Detroit: \u201cThe Dream Fund,\u201d \u201cA Time To Help,\u201d and \u201cS.A.Y. Detroit,\u201d which helps Detroit\u2019s homeless people. He serves on numerous charitable boards around the country and makes his home in suburban Detroit.<\/p>\n

Support for WGCU\u2019s arts & culture reporting comes from the Estate of Myra Janco Daniels, the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation, and Naomi Bloom in loving memory of her husband, Ron Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accomplished journalist Mitch Albom promised his Brandeis University professor, Morrie Schwartz, he\u2019d stay in touch, but life got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-141317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}