<div><br></div><div><br></div><img src="cid:ii_12e9fc22aee91fee" alt="BOATTS Card.jpg" title="BOATTS Card.jpg"><br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; ">HMT and The Shuster Reading Series present a staged reading of Roberto Aguirre-Sacassa's romantic-comedy "Based on a Totally True Story".<br>
<br>A contemporary comedy that moves at the speed of lightning, BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY chronicles the hilarious, bittersweet misadventures of twenty-something New Yorker Ethan Keene. A semi-successful comic book writer by day (he writes The Flash for DC Comics) and struggling playwright by n<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; ">ight, Ethan's world is turned upside down when a veteran Hollywood producer decides she wants to turn one of Ethan's unproduced plays into a big-budget horror movie—possibly starring Nicole Kidman. With that tasty carrot clouding his vision, Ethan struggles to be a loving, supportive, giving partner to his boyfriend Michael Sullivan, a Village Voice reporter and budding novelist. On top of which, Ethan's lovable dad announces that he's leaving Ethan's mom for a married woman—and can he please stay with Ethan and Michael until he finds a new place to live? Hearts are broken, lessons learned, and dreams deferred in this quirky, offbeat romantic comedy of manners.<br>
<br>Directed by Aaron Holbritter<br><br>Cast:<br><br>Ethan: Ian LaChance<br>Michael: Aaron Holbritter<br>Mary Ellen: Jennifer Davidson<br>Ethan's Dad: Gary Maggio<br>Tyler, et al: Jimmy Cupp</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; "><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "><br>
</span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">THIS JUST IN: Playwright Roberto Aguirre Sacasa called in to do re-writes on troubled musical "SPIDER-MAN - Turn Off The Dark". </span></font></div>