(CAPE MAY, NJ) The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company presents two events in time for Halloween: "Nosferatu," the 1922 silent classic horror film, accompanied by Wayne Zimmerman on the organ on Friday, October 22 at 7:00pm, and "Poe by Candlelight" on Saturday, October 23 at 8:00pm. Both are being presented at The Cape May Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes Street in Cape May, where the theater is in residence.
East Lynne Theater Celebrates Women s History Month With Reading of SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR
Actors include Pat Dwyer ( Silent Sky ), Rachel Holt ( Dracula and Ah, Wilderness! ), Jared Mason Murray ( Summerland ), and more.by BWW News Desk
East Lynne Theater Company will present a reading of Something to Vote For by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for free, due to support from The New Jersey Council for the Humanities through its NJ Women Vote: The 19th Amendment at 100 initiative, and The New Jersey Theatre Alliance s Stages Festival.
Gilman (1860 - 1935) known for her novel The Yellow Wallpaper, published this forty-minute one-act in her monthly magazine, The Forerunner, in 1911. Such plays were important for the suffrage movement because they could be read aloud and/or staged in private homes, bringing this controversial topic into living rooms. Many of the British suffrage plays survived - most of the American ones did not. This both witty and profound play takes place in t