East Lynne Theater Company

Cape May's Home of American Stage Classics!  The East Lynne Theater Company was founded in 1980 to produce provocative classics and history-based contemporary entertainment that deal with the uniquely American experience.  The Equity professional actors, directors, musicians, and designers work together throughout the year to create quality productions not seen anywhere else.  

Tickets cost $28 adults, $23 seniors, $13 students.  Children under 12 admitted free!

2010 SEASON SCHEDULE:

March 19-20 at 8 pm: SHERLOCK HOLMES' ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE, adapted from the work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Craig Wichman. Step back in time, as ELTC presents this tale in the style of a vintage radio broadcast, complete with live sound effects and commercials, just like Sherlock Holmes’ radio series on NBC that premiered on Oct. 20, 1930. Holmes and Watson try to discover how a precious blue stone came to be in a goose on Christmas Eve.

June 16-July 10 at 8:30 pm: EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE (World Premiere) written and performed by NYC-based actress Lorna Lable, directed by Karen Case Cook.  Wise and witty, Emma always spoke
her mind, whether it was on women’s rights or the widening gap between rich and poor.  She was a fascinating woman in a fascinating time:  America in the early 1900s, teaming with immigrants like herself, all longing for a better way of life.

July 6 at 8 pm: A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, performed by students in ELTC’s Summer Theater Workshop, admission-free, based on Mark Twain’s adventure of Hank, living in 1889, who is magically transported to England at the time of The Knights of the Round Table - and Merlin.
 

July 14-July 24 at 8:30 pm: PAUL ROBESON THROUGH HIS WORDS AND MUSIC performed by Derrick McQueen, and written by Gayle Stahlhuth, is an is an interweaving of two dozen songs that were sung by Robeson, with a narrative of his life as an actor, singer, activist, and humanitarian.  Last performed during ELTC’s 2006 Season for only 4 performances, its return has been requested by many..

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July 28-Sept. 4 at 8:30 pm: THE DICTATOR by Richard Harding Davis.  Brooke Travers  flees NYC by jumping aboard a ship, which lands him in Puerto Banos, in Central America.  Believing he could be arrested at any moment, he assumes different names, and even swaps identities with the American Consul, Colonel Bowie.  Who’s in charge of this Banana Republic is  anyone’s guess in this 1904 Broadway comedy that ELTC first performed in 2001.

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Sept. 22-Oct. 23 at 8 pm: BERKELEY SQUARE by John L. Balderston.  An American, who inherited a home in London’s Berkeley Square, becomes so fascinated reading the letters and diaries of his ancestors, that he’s sent back in time to October 23, 1784, a year after the end of the American Revolution.  This highly original romantic comedy/drama based on The Sense of the Past, an unfinished novel by Henry James, opened on Broadway in 1929, starring Leslie Howard, who also co-produced, and was in the 1933 film version.
(No performance on Wed. Oct. 6; added performance on Sun. Oct. 10 at 7:30)

November 5-6 at 8 pm: SHERLOCK HOLMES' ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE, adapted from the work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Craig Wichman. Step back in time, as ELTC presents this tale in the style of a vintage radio broadcast, complete with live sound effects and commercials, just like Sherlock Holmes’ radio series on NBC that premiered on Oct. 20, 1930. Holmes and Watson try to discover how a precious blue stone came to be in a goose on Christmas Eve.

Nov. 26, 27, Dec. 5, 10, 11 at 8:30 pm: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS, adapted from the L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz)1902 classic, presented in storytelling fashion by Gayle Stahlhuth portraying 30-plus roles in this charming tale about Claus’s early years to how he became immortal.