By admin June 1, 2022
In 1839, in Peterboro, NY, Thomas Leonard, a freed slave, helps Harriet Powell escape from her Southern owner who is visiting the area. While hiding in an attic, a price on her head, waiting to be taken to Canada in the dead of night, Harriet is with abolitionist Gerrit Smith and suffragette Elizabeth Cady (before… Read more »
By admin April 19, 2022
Since Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007), the author of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” would have been 100 this year, the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company is celebrating the occasion by offering three of his charming stories in “Who Am I This Time? (& Other Conundrums About Love.)” Adapted by Aaron Posner, these humorous tales filled with heart… Read more »
By admin April 4, 2022
“The question is the sequence of events leading from the jewel-case at one end, to the stomach of a goose at the other.” Sherlock Holmes is speaking to Dr. Watson as they begin an investigation that might save an innocent man from prison. Step back in time when the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company… Read more »
By admin April 4, 2022
Miss seeing East Lynne Theater Company’s world premiere of “Dorothy Parker: A Certain Woman” last fall? Good news! She show is running from June 15 – July 23, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30 PM at The Cape May Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes Street, Cape May, NJ. This one-woman show tells the story of one of America’s… Read more »
By admin March 25, 2022
Featuring back-to-back one act plays, “Double Play” starts with an exploration of the life of one of America’s most iconic baseball players in the new play “Becoming Satchel Paige”. After the seventh inning stretch, we present “Happy”, about a baseball fan who travels to Delray Beach to find “Happy” Haliday, a favorite baseball player from his youth,… Read more »
By admin March 25, 2022
Featuring back-to-back one act plays, “Double Play” starts with an exploration of the life of one of America’s most iconic baseball players in the new play “Becoming Satchel Paige”. After the seventh inning stretch, we present “Happy”, about a baseball fan who travels to Delray Beach to find “Happy” Haliday, a favorite baseball player from his youth,… Read more »
By admin March 17, 2022
East Lynne Theater Company presents a reading of the one-act play “Aftermath” by Mary P. Burrill for free, due to support from The New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s “Stages Festival.” “Aftermath was first published in April 1919 in Max Eastman’s periodical, “Liberator” before it was produced by the Krigwa Players in The Little Theater Competition (performing… Read more »
By Michelle Giorla January 28, 2022
“Sherlock Holmes & Send in the Clowns” Join fellow sleuths over a weekend of mystery with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson, in an original mystery, “Sherlock Holmes and Send in the Clowns!,” written by Jacklyn Fazio. The play begins Friday evening and ends on Sunday… Read more »
By Michelle Giorla January 28, 2022
“We’re not getting all the evidence. Unless some lucky chance comes our way, I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes.” Sherlock Holmes is speaking to his loyal friend Dr. Watson. They are trying desperately to prove that a young lawyer did not commit murder, while Inspector Lestrade… Read more »
By Michelle Giorla January 28, 2022
“The Trouble with Silver Spoons” Enjoy a four-course dinner and watch as the mystery and drama unfold around you during “The Trouble With Silver Spoons,” an original mystery by Jacky Fazio. Isabella Duffield has had everything handed to her her entire life, and now that also includes the family estate and the large fortune that… Read more »