Roberta Colindrez Joins Last Summer at Bluefish Cove at Classic Stage

Cynthia Nixon is directing the one-night-only reading of the Jane Chambers play for the Off-Broadway company.

March 12, 2026 By Logan Culwell-Block

Roberta Colindrez (Cult of Love) has joined the cast of Classic Stage Company's upcoming one-night-only benefit reading of Jane Chambers' Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, set to perform at the Off-Broadway company's Lynn F. Angelson Theater March 23. Cynthia Nixon is at the helm.

Colindrez replaces the previously announced Louisa Jacobson, who can no longer participate. The cast will also include Molly Bernard (Cult of Love), Rachel Crowl (Prince Faggot), Moses Ingram (The Queen's Gambit), Hari Nef (Barbie), Dascha Polanco (Orange is the New Black), Sarin Monae West (Richard II), and Amalia Yoo (John Proctor is the Villain).

The work, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1980, follows eight queer women sharing a life-changing summer at a beach home.

"Last Summer at Bluefish Cove was a landmark achievement, putting positive portrayals of queer women on stage in a time when that was hardly the norm," said CSC Artistic Director Jill Rafson in an earlier statement. "Jane Chambers was able, with this piece, to give her own community the same gift that the gay male community had found through The Boys in the Band many years earlier. Yet this work isn't given nearly the same attention as that counterpart, and this celebratory evening felt like a perfect chance to shine a spotlight on this classic of its genre."

"Before this play, lesbian characters were all but invisible on stage," added Nixon. "In those rare instances when they did appear they were either tragic, shameful, or threatening (think The Children's Hour or The Killing of Sister George). Last Summer at Bluefish Cove was truly a first of its kind, and it deserves to be seen by modern audiences, who will find these women vibrant, funny, and wonderfully three-dimensional."

Tickets are at ClassicStage.org.