Cape May Event Calendar

Classic American Tales (CAT) once more presents TALES AT THE DORMER HOUSE. Guests are treated to lemonade and tasty treats while listening to stories by American authors like O. Henry, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mark Twain. TALES’ topics have included war, frontier expansion, immigration, intolerance, and the joy and hardships of everyday life that make… Read more »

Presented by Stephanie Garrett and Gayle Stahlhuth, Garrett focuses on stories about the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967) and Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) and Stahlhuth discusses the Algonquin Round Table, the founding of The New Yorker 100 years ago, Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) and Dorothy Parker (1893-1967). Stephanie Garrett and Gayle Stahlhuth have been part of Cape May’s storytelling… Read more »

Classic American Tales’ (CAT) artistic director, Gayle Stahlhuth, is presenting a free lecture as part of Cape May MAC’s “Lunch and Learn” series. Beginning with Our American Cousin in 1865, the musicals of Harrigan and Hart, and on to the Provincetown Players, Why Marry? The first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918, and the rise of Eugene O’Neill, George… Read more »

Warren Kliewer—The East Lynne Company’s founder and first producing artistic director—was a much-published poet before he ran away to join the theatre. Those two loves melded in his Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres. Warren completed that manuscript before his death, in 1998. It’s been rediscovered, and just released, by Gelassenheit Publications,… Read more »

Two Bad Men by Ed Simpson is set in Randolphsburgh, PA, just 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, in the unassuming office of a local Property Management and Tax Services. The story follows a troubled man who returns to his hometown, only to be accused of a crime he may or may not have committed. Carrying… Read more »

“Redress at St. Brigid’s” by local playwright Steve Murray takes place in 1990 and tells the tale of three Irish friends who hatch a scheme to get back at the nuns who they feel ruined their lives but are no match for the elderly nuns who send them to the hospital.

This heartwarming dramatic comedy takes place on Christmas Eve. When a young woman new to the neighborhood attempts to return a misdelivered package, she meets her elderly neighbor for the first time. What begins as a simple favor turns into an unexpected adventure as she discovers his one holiday wish: to catch Santa Claus. This… Read more »

This heartwarming dramatic comedy takes place on Christmas Eve. When a young woman new to the neighborhood attempts to return a misdelivered package, she meets her elderly neighbor for the first time. What begins as a simple favor turns into an unexpected adventure as she discovers his one holiday wish: to catch Santa Claus. This… Read more »

Set in 1992 New York City, this thought-provoking play follows a chance encounter between two young men—one Black, one white—on a subway ride. As their journey unfolds, this compelling play examines race, privilege, and the complexities of human connection, revealing hidden tensions beneath seemingly ordinary interactions.