Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Theatre Westminster will present Red Herring Feb. 24-27 in Beeghly Theater.
The cold war play by Pennsylvania playwright Michael Hollinger covers "three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage plot in a noir comedy about marriage and other explosive devices."
It's 1952: America's on the verge of the hydrogen bomb, Eisenhower's on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy's on Monday nights. Senator Joe McCarthy's daughter was just engaged to a Soviet spy and Boston detective Maggie Pelletier has to determine who dumped the dead guy in the harbor-or lose out on a honeymoon in Havana.
Curtain time Thursday-Saturday is 7:30 p.m.; Sunday's matinee is at 2:30 p.m. Reservations can be made online by following the "ticket reserve" link at www.westminster.edu/drama or by calling the Box Office at (724) 946-7241. Prices for general admission adults are $10, and senior citizens and non-Westminster students are $7.
The production is under the direction of John Gresh, Westminster adjunct instructor of theatre and a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. He is the founder and artistic director of The Caravan Theatre of Pittsburgh. He has directed The Music Lesson and Corps Values for Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater. As an actor, Gresh has performed at Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater, Bricologe, Unseam'd Shakespeare, and the REP at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. For the past three years, he was a guest artist at California University of Pennsylvania, playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Musical.
Contact Gresh at (724) 946-7260 or e-mail greshjf@westminster.edu for more information.
