AH, WILDERNESS!
AH, WILDERNESS!
Cape May, NJ
“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam! That’s the best of all! ‘A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness,’” says seventeen-year old Richard, defending his choice of literature to his parents. Richard's letters to the love of his life, Muriel, contain quotes from Khay...
Wed, Jul 26 2017
8:00 PM
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Sat, Sep 2 2017
10:30 PM
SOMEONE MUST WASH THE DISHES: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
SOMEONE MUST WASH THE DISHES: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Cape May, NJ
“Woman suffrage is the reform against nature,” declares Marie Jenney Howe’s unlikely, but irresistibly likeable, heroine. Howe, a pro-suffragist, wrote her Anti-Suffrage Monologue in 1912—eight years before women at last won the vote. Her fictional speaker is a charming, guileless enthusiast who ...
Sunday, August 13 2017
8:00 PM
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9:00 PM
ZELDA & SCOTT: love letters (and others).
ZELDA & SCOTT: love letters (and others).
Cape May, NJ
The greatest, and most tormented, literary love story of the 20th Century was the relationship and marriage of the writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Their poignant, playful, thoughtful and varied correspondence– from passionate love letters to the details of daily life to h...
Monday, August 7 2017
8:00 PM
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9:30 PM
TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE
TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE
Cape May, NJ
TILLIE’S NIGHTMARE, written by A. Baldwin Sloane, and starring Marie Dressler, was such a hit on Broadway, that it was adapted for a Keystone Film Company production, complete with the Keystone Cops. Dressler, who plays a country girl, meets Charlie Chaplin, a stranger from the city. When Chaplin...
Sunday, August 6 2017
8:00 PM
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9:30 PM
WILL ROGERS' U.S.A.
WILL ROGERS' U.S.A.
Cape May, NJ
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you,” said Will Rogers (1879-1935), famous humorist, writer, philosopher, and performer. As a young man, he worked on ranches, and being a master of the lariat led to his performing in Vaudeville. By 1917 he w...
Wed, Jun 14 2017
8:30 PM
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Sat, Jul 22 2017
10:30 PM
2017 SEASON TICKETS
2017 SEASON TICKETS
Cape May, NJ
Season Tickets come in packs of 4 for only $88.00 and are flexible. See 4 different shows, use all 4 for one performance, give seperate tickets to friends, it's up to you. Bring the ticket print-out to the box office to receive the 4 individual tickets. If you need them ahead of time, contact ...
Thu, Dec 1 2016
12:30 PM
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Sat, Jul 15 2017
11:30 PM
DONATE TO EAST LYNNE THEATER COMPANY
DONATE TO EAST LYNNE THEATER COMPANY
Cape May, NJ
East Lynne Theater Company (ELTC) is a proven destination for theater lovers who crave the adventure of discovery! By celebrating the American Spirit on Stage through timeless classics and provocative new works, the company provides a portal to the past that provides a better understanding for t...
Wed, Jan 1 2014
12:00 AM
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Mon, Jul 31 2017
11:30 PM
DETECTIVES HOLMES AND CARTER
DETECTIVES HOLMES AND CARTER
Cape May, NJ
ELTC’s popular vintage-radio style production, complete with live sound effects and commercials, with two mysteries back-to-back on the same night, with the cast of six going from Holmes’ Victorian England, to Carter’s Manhattan during World War II. The scripts are Sherlock Holmes Adventure of th...
Fri, Nov 6 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, Mar 18 2017
9:30 PM
YULETIDE TALES
YULETIDE TALES
Cape May, NJ
Typical this time of year, East Lynne Theater Company’s artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth, after plowing through dozens of stories, selects a few to present for the holidays in storytelling fashion. This means that everything is memorized and at least 30 different characters are interpreted, man...
Fri, Nov 25 2016
8:00 PM
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Sat, Dec 10 2016
9:30 PM
THE SHEIK (1921): starring Rudolph Valentino with Wayne Zimmerman on the organ
THE SHEIK (1921): starring Rudolph Valentino with Wayne Zimmerman on the organ
Cape May, NJ
Based on Edith Maude Hull’s popular novel, The Sheik was directed by George Melford and starred Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, and Adolph Menjou. It met with immediate box office success, catapulting Valentino to the first on-screen sex symbol. Filmmaking was still in its infancy, and the like...
Sunday, November 13 2016
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
