Take a transcendental journey with a dying man and his beloved pupil as they reflect upon and explore the meaning of life at Tuesdays with Morrie.
The show is the story of career-driven Detroit Free Press sportswriter Mitch Albom (Dennis Edwards of West Chicago), who reconnects with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz (Richard Westphal of Aurora), after seeing him on TV discussing his terminal illness.
Albom flew to Boston for Tuesday visits with Morrie until he died, and the conversations and lessons learned were chronicled in the bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, which the Tampa Tribune called "an elegantly simple story about a writer getting a second chance to discover life through the death of a friend."
Mitch Albom met Morrie Schwartz at Brandeis University in the 1970s.  Professor Schwartz, who received a PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago, became a father-figure to Mitch, who promised the crying Morrie at graduation that he would visit often.  Sixteen years go by without a visit, and Mitch, who is now a promising sports writer with a time-consuming and demanding career, happens to see his old mentor on the TV show Nightline.  A Tuesday visit with Morrie in Boston turns into weekly trips from Detroit, during which time the old friends reconnect and form deeper bonds as Morrie shares all of the knowledge, experience, hopes, fears and dreams of a lifetime.
The book touched the hearts of millions worldwide and soon after, Albom and co-writer Jeffery Hatcher turned it into a play. The New York Daily News declared it, "a touching, life-affirming, deeply emotional drama with a generous dose of humor," and a reviewer for the New York Post remarked, “I was unprepared for how moving and powerful Tuesdays with Morrie turned out to be."
Tuesdays with Morrie opens Friday, April 1, and runs through Saturday, April 23.  Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00pm.
In addition, SBT and RX Cafe are pleased to offer Tuesdays with Morrie Lunch Theatre performances, with lunch at RX Cafe at 11:30 and a show at 1 p.m., on Wednesday, April 20 for $34, show, lunch, tip and tax included.  Choose from four (4) fixed-price lunch items.