Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Play Reading Series

Lynn University Announces Opening of

Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Play Reading Series

With MURDER ON GIN LANE By Tony Finstrom

October 24 at Wold Performing Arts Center  

Lynn University and Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, announced the opening of Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Play Reading Series. It will be held on Monday, October 24, at 7:30 p.m. 

The first play to be featured will be MURDER ON GIN LANE by Tony Finstrom. Wayne Rudisill will direct the reading and the all-star cast will include Jeffrey Bruce, soon to be seen in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Iris Acker, the host of the local Beacon TV series Onstage with iris Acker; Beth Holland, New York actress and local Board of Directors President of The Symphony of the Americas; and Ms. McArt, who is widely recognized as the First Lady of Florida's Musical Theatre.  

"MURDER ON GIN LANE is a delicious murder mystery set in South Hampton," said Ms. McArt. "I'm particularly excited that the October 24 event will be the first time that the play has ever been read in public. Because we anticipate that a number of area theatre directors and agents will be attending, we are moving the play reading to the main stage of the beautiful Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center on the campus of Lynn University." 

GIN LANE is a narrow Southampton road filled with ocean-front mansions, out on the end of New York's Long Island. Max Greenway, a Broadway producer/director, died there last spring - apparently a suicide. But his widow, the former stage star Delphine Davenport, thinks it was... murder! She and her French maid Fifi are spending Labor Day weekend at this country cottage with her stepsister, Winnie and an old boyfriend, Inspector Benjamin Walker, formerly of Scotland Yard. And she intends to solve this 'homicide' before Monday... if it kills her. 

The cost to attend the play reading of MURDER ON GIN LANE is only $10. Reservations can be made by calling 561-237-9000. 

MURDER ON GIN LANE replaces the previously announced PALMBEACHTOWN. Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Play Reading Season will also present the SOUTH FLORIDA PLAYWRIGHT'S FESTIVAL on December 5 and LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE on March 26. 

Tony Finstrom worked as a journalist at New York's After Dark Magazine and at The Soho Weekly News, prior to his playwriting studies at The Circle Repertory Company, at Primary Stages, and at the Bay Street Theatre on Long Island. His drama, LARGER-THAN-LIFE, was produced in 1996 at The Public Theatre of South Florida. In 2000 he founded Footlights Inc Theater Company of Fort Lauderdale and wrote their premiere production, AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT, OR THE FAMOUS TRAGIC HISTORY OF LADY Jane Grey, which won the "Best Play of the 2001 South Florida Theatre Season" (City Link) and was nominated for a 2001 Carbonell Award as "Best New Work." In 2003 he won The Theatre League of South Florida's "HeART" Short Play Competition for his one-act comedy THE HAPPIEST COUPLE, produced in 2005 at Island Rep, on New York's Fire Island. In 2006 The Palm Beach Dramaworks' Playwright's Festival named his comedy KNISH ALLEY! "Best Play of the Year." It was then produced in 2009 by the Broward Stage Door Theatre Company. The Theatre League of South Florida awarded him their 2006 Remy Award for outstanding service to the local theatre community, and a 2008 Silver Palm Award for his outstanding contribution to the 2008 South Florida Theatre Festival. The Mosaic Theatre named him a recipient of the Jack Zink Spirit Award for 2011, having "demonstrated excellence in the areas of leadership, creativity, commitment and passion for the arts." He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the South Florida International Press Club, is the chairman and co-founder of South Florida's Silver Palm Theater Awards, is a South Florida Carbonell Theatre Award Judge, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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