Centenary College's Marjorie Lyons Playhouse has announced performance dates and cast member for its upcoming production of Tina Howe's Pride's Crossing . The box office will be open from 12 to 4 p.m. starting Feb. 1.
Performances are free to Centenary faculty, staff, and students.
The play is about Mable Tidings Bigelow, who at 90 insists on celebrating her daughter and granddaughter's annual visit with an archaic croquet party. As the drama unfolds, Mabel relives her past in vignettes, subtly interweaving past and present to reveal the moments of opportunity lost and love rejected that define her life. Her Boston blue-blood family expected daughters to applaud from the sidelines, but Mabel had her shining moment when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Patric McWilliams, who has received Times Drama Awards for best director for Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Funny Girl , and 42nd Street , directs Pride's Crossing . The play won the 1998 New York Drama Critics Award for Best American Play.