A Reading of The Lady Hamlet on Tuesday, October 20th at 7:30PM

Join us on Tuesday, October 20th at 7:30 for a reading of The Lady Hamlet, a hilarious new play about two 1920’s stage divas competing to play the role of Hamlet on Broadway. A comedy with a brain and a heart, The Lady Hamlet is written by Sarah Schulman, one of the artists featured in the “ACT UP New York” exhibition that opened yesterday at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard, this reading will feature Tony-nominated actress Kate Burton, who will read the role of Madame Helene de Montpelier opposite Jennifer Van Dyck as Margo Stayden Burns. Huntington Theatre Artistic Director Peter DuBois will direct the reading.

WHAT: The Lady Hamlet
WHEN: Tuesday, October 20th, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public

Publication date: October 17, 2009

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