
Classic American Tales presents Scene Night
Total strangers of various backgrounds and ages signed up for CAT’s Theater Workshop, and here they are performing, script-in-hand, under the direction of Gayle Stahlhuth, with less than 10 hours to rehearse. The evening includes Fourteen by Alice Gerstenberg (1919), a one-act comedy about a woman hosting a dinner party during a snowstorm; a scene from Why Marry? (1917), a comedy that received the first Pulitzer Prize; and Defending the Federal Theater, a short one-act about Hallie Flanagan, National Director of the Federal Theater Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), being questioned by Martin Dies, Chairman of the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities in 1938.