{"id":444096,"date":"2026-11-01T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444096\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:56:09","slug":"mothers-and-sons-opens-in-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444096\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mothers and Sons\u2019 opens in Stuart |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART \u2014 \u201cMothers and Sons\u201d is a meditation on love and hate, loss, homosexuality, AIDS, regret, parenthood, and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The drama is written by multiple Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Terrence McNally, who is considered one of the fiercest and most prolific chroniclers of gay life in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMothers and Sons\u201d premiered on Broadway in 2014 and opens at the A.C.T Studio Theatre on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Described as poignant, powerful, mournful and affecting, the play is centered around Katharine Gerard, a woman who lost her son to\u00a0AIDS\u00a020 years ago \u2014 and is still deeply pained by it.<\/p>\n<p>Katharine pays an unexpected visit to the New York Apartment of her late son\u2019s partner, Cal, who is now married to another man and has a young son.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s modern family life provides a stark contrast to Katharine\u2019s grief and bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMothers and Sons\u201d runs weekends Nov. 6 through 22. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $28 and may be purchased online at <a href=\"http:\/\/actstudiotheatre.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actstudiotheatre.com<\/a>\u00a0or by phone at (772) 932-8880.<\/p>\n<p>A.C.T. Studio Theatre is located in the Cedar Pointe Plaza, at 2399 SE Ocean Blvd., Stuart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART \u2014 \u201cMothers and Sons\u201d is a meditation on love and hate, loss, homosexuality, AIDS, regret, parenthood, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-444096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444096","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=444096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}