Encore Entertainment Productions Presents HAUNTED HOUSE 10/25-11/3

Encore Entertainment Productions is pleased to present Owen Davis' The Haunted House, directed by Tom Holmes. The Haunted will play a limited engagement at The Crowne Theatre in the Producer's Club (358 West 44th St. New York 10036.) Performances are October 25 through November 3. Press are invited to all performances.

Newlyweds, Jack and Emily arrive at her father's summer cottage for their honeymoon, only to find nothing is as it seems. After a visit from Jack's ex-girlfriend who had followed them there, she is found outside, dead. The local Sheriff, a New York detective, and the famous mystery author who lives next door try to solve the mystery. After many arrests, including the bride and finally her father, the mystery turns out to be a humorous storm in a teacup.

The production stars Trip Plymale, who has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway, way off Broadway, and in theatres all over the country...and, many moons ago, he was one of THE DIAMONDS of Little Darlin' fame, as Ed.

The production features scenic by Casper de la Torre. The stage manager is Kelly Ruth Cole.

The Haunted House plays the following schedule:

Sunday October 25 at 8 pm

Monday October 26 at 8 pm

Tuesday October 27 at 8 pm

No show on Wednesday

Thursday October 29 at 8 pm

Friday October 30 at 8 pm

Saturday October 31 at 6 pm

Sunday Nov 1 at 8 pm

Monday Nov 2 at 8 pm

Tuesday Nov 3 at 8 pm

Tickets are $18 and are now available online at www.theatermania.com. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater box office half-hour prior to performance.
Running time: 125 minutes (one 10 minute intermission)

BIOGRAPHIES

Owen Davis (Playwright) (1874-1956) Born in Portland, Maine, the Harvard?educated Davis proved unsuccessful at blank?verse tragedy, so, to support his family, he began churning out cheap melodramas for popular touring companies. Finishing them at the rate of one every second or third week, he wrote over two hundred, with titles such as Edna, the Pretty Typewriter; Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model; Driven from Home; and Convict 999. In his autobiography Davis called them "practically motion pictures," observing, "One of the first tricks I learned was that my plays must be written for an audience who, owing to huge, uncarpeted, noisy theaters, couldn't always hear the words and who, a large percentage of them having only recently landed in America, couldn't have understood them in any case. I therefore wrote for the eye rather than the ear." When dialogue was necessary he filled it with "noble sentiments so dear to audiences of that class." Davis was first represented on Broadway with the Hippodrome musical spectacle The Battle of Port Arthur (1908), and his first regular play to reach New York was Making Good (1912). It was a quick failure, but he scored commercial successes with The Family Cupboard (1913), Sinners (1915), Forever After (1918), and Opportunity (1920). To many playgoers' surprise, Davis then wrote two highly praised dramas: The Detour (1921) and Icebound (1923), the latter winning a Pulitzer Prize. Although several of his other plays, such as The Nervous Wreck (1923) and Mr. and Mrs. North (1941), were commercially profitable, they did not fulfill the promise he briefly displayed. Many of his later works were dramatizations of other writers' stories. Autobiographies: I'd Like to Do It Again, 1931; My First Fifty Years in the Theatre, 1950. (*Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Davis, Owen." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Oxford University Press. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 7 Oct. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.)

TOM HOLMES (Director) last project was, Joe MacDonald's Reed in the Wind and prior to that, John Wyeth's Beiderbecke's Last Drunk for Love Creek Productions. Other directing credits include: Eugene O'Neil's Beyond The Horizon, John Wyeth's Freddie's Big Deal, Christopher Durang's Naomi In the Living Room, Le Wilhelm's You Don't Have to Go to Kansas City to Meet the Devil, Frederick Stroppel's Morning Coffee, Warren Schults' DatingDotCom and MyManSpam. He was Assistant Director for Le Wilhelm's The Shattering of the Golden Pane that appeared at the 59E59 Series. He would like to thank Estelle Parsons, Deborah Dixon and Brenda Hearing at The Actors Studio for help on this production as well as Le Wilhelm and Kathy Towson at Love Creek/RCL. He is a past Samuel French 1-Act festival winner, directing Frederick Stroppel's Single and Proud.