New Jersey Stage 2016: Issue 9 | Page 69

On Stage: Theatre Biography East Lynne Theater Company - 500 Hughes Street, Cape May Richard Kurt asks internationally known portrait painter Marion Froude to write her autobiography for his magazine. At first she laughs off the idea, but it’s Manhattan in 1932, during the Depression, and she can use the money. The prospect dismays a former lover, Leander Nolan NJ STAGE 2016 - ISSUE 9 from Tennessee who is running for United States Senate and is engaged to the daughter of one of Knoxville’s wealthiest families. Nolan and his future father-inlaw exercise their influence to try to kill the story. The production runs from September 21 through October 15. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 69