For their March dinner production, The Highlands Cashiers Players have a new venue and a new play to be presented in a dramatized reading. The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Highlands is the place for the dinner, with seating beginning at 6:00 p.m. and the performance at 6:30. The audience will be seated at tables that accommodate eight.
The play, Middletown USA, was acquired by special permission from award-winning playwright Dan Clancy. It concerns two couples who have been friends for 33 years, sharing each other’s joys, trials and sorrows in a beautifully told story filled with laughter and tears.
The couples are played by four outstanding HCP actors with impressive theatrical backgrounds and experience. Adair Simon, Lauretta Payne, and Michael Lanzilotta were recently seen in HCP’s productions of Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike. Ralph Stevens has also appeared in a number of HCP plays, most memorably in Proof. The ensemble is directed by Ellen Greenwald.
The box office, 526-8084, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center opens for HCP season subscribers on Thursday and Friday, February 23 and 24. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.highlandscashiersplayers.org. The dinner theater play is the third play of the subscription series at no extra charge. Others may make reservations beginning Saturday, February 25, at a cost of $32 per ticket for play and four course dinner. The play runs Thursday through Saturday, March 2, 3, 4 and March 9, 10, 11. There will be no Sunday matinees.
If the HCP line, 828-526-8084, is busy, please leave a message for a call-back.