Cape May Event Calendar

In time for Halloween, stories by the master of the macabre presented by professional actors.

Presented by Gayle Stahlhuth Maurine Dallas Watkins’ (1896-1969) Chicago was a hit on Broadway in 1926 before Kander, Ebb, and Fosse created the musical based on her play. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) co-founded The Provincetown Players. Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) created Stage Women’s War Relief, raising almost seven million dollars for the allies. Mary P. Burrill dealt… Read more »

Professional playwright Gayle Stahlhuth guides participants in getting dialogue going through simple writing exercises that trigger the imagination. The workshop is geared for those who have written plays, as well as those who have always wanted to try their hand at writing a play. Gayle will look at plays participants are working on before the… Read more »

Performed by Phil Pizzi Based on “Will Rogers U.S.A.” revised by Gayle Stahlhuth Special Pre-Show Stand-up Performance by Mal Knapp End of the Road Theater

Enjoy lemonade and tasty treats compliments of Frank Smith. Performances are on the porch, but we go inside when the weather is not cooperating. Highlights from 2024 with 10 different performers: Plays about caregiving, the life of Edna Ferber, and Will Rogers; lectures on Civil War heroes: Black and White; Harlem Renaissance and The Algonquin… Read more »

Presented by Stephanie Garrett and Gayle Stahlhuth Stephanie Garrett focuses on stories about the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967) and Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) and Gayle Stahlhuth discusses the Algonquin Round Table, the founding of The New Yorker 100 years ago, Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) and Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).

Presented by Gayle Stahlhuth Beginning with Our American Cousin in 1865, the musicals of Harrigan and Hart, on to the provocative Provincetown Players, Why Marry? the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918, and comedies and dramas that deal with women’s rights, war, racial conflicts, homosexuality, and everyday life, all before 1930.

Warren Kliewer—The East Lynne Company’s founder and first producing artistic director—was a much-published poet before he ran away to join the theatre. Those two loves melded in his Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres. Warren completed that manuscript before his death, in 1998. It’s been rediscovered, and just released, by Gelassenheit Publications,… Read more »

Two Bad Men by Ed Simpson is set in Randolphsburgh, PA, just 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, in the unassuming office of a local Property Management and Tax Services. The story follows a troubled man who returns to his hometown, only to be accused of a crime he may or may not have committed. Carrying… Read more »