"Happy Days" in its Final Two Weeks! "TopDog/ Underdog" Takes The Stage!

"World without end" is the end of one of Winnie's prayers in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days but the play will end this Saturday night so catch the final four performances of this astonishing piece of theatre. It is not a common occurrence that a theatre will have a performer like Lynn Cohen in such an important piece of literature.

Cape May Stage continues to push the envelope with the next production on its roster.

Next week, Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks will preview on Wednesday and open on Thursday. This play won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2002 and has been performed all over the world. Ms. Parks is the recipient of a Genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Emmy nominee James Reynolds (a Cape May favorite) directs his son, Jed in this groundbreaking play! Joining Jed Reynolds is Stephen Rider who was featured in a film called The Great Debaters produced and directed by Denzel Washington. Denzel has now become a very active mentor of Stephen.

Topdog/Underdog is a funny, probing look at who is on top and who is on the bottom. The play is a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. It tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of the future. Variety said, "… the vitality, freshness and gritty lyricism of Parks' writing are unlike anything to be heard on a Broadway stage". This production comes to us from the Fremont Theatre Center in California. Cape May Stage partnered with the Fremont to co-produce this extraordinary play! It is just one of the innovative moves that Cape May Stage is doing to keep the best work in front of its audience.

Opening night at Cape May Stage always includes a gala after-party with the cast and production team. Come celebrate with a special group of revelers! The set and lights are by Shawn Fisher who designed Proof last season.

The Second Stage is particularly proud to present Killadelphia on October 4 at 8PM. This critically acclaimed one-man show is written and performed by Sean Christopher Lewis and is described as a "mix tape of a city". In the summer of 2008 it was often said that that Philadelphia had "more bodies than days". Lewis introduces us to inmates of the Graterford Prison, their victims, the mayor, local rappers, conservative talk show hosts, trauma surgeons and the citizens of the City of Brotherly Love. The stunning result will be on Cape May Stage.