Lynn University to Launch 2016-17 New Play Readings Series with 'A KING! A PLOT! A GUN! A SHOT!'

Lynn University and Producer Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, are launching this season's series of Jan McArt's New Play Readings on Monday, October 31. Under the leadership and guidance of McArt, this program develops new plays by highly acclaimed playwrights through staged readings.

Sponsored by Beth Holland, Florence Carples, Dr. Donald Janower, Harriet and Joshua Kalin, Don LoCascio and Robert Murphy, Rhea and Morton Mandell, Myrna Gordon Skurnick, Joan Landgren and the late Art Landgren, Mary Anna Fowler and Jim Davis, and Ruth Wright, this four-part series will be held October through March at the university's Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center. Series tickets are $36.

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Oct. 31

A King! A Plot! A Gun! A Shot! And All That Followed (Quite a Lot)

A new play by Tony Finstrom

Directed by Wayne Rudisill

Starring Jan McArt

Monday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center

Tickets: $10

TIME: March 1792. PLACE: The Royal Palace of Stockholm, Sweden. Chaos reigns following a masquerade ball in which an assassin's bullet may have mortally wounded King Gustav III.

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The remaining three shows next year in this season's series of Jan McArt's New Play Readings will be The Long Reunion, a seriocomedy by Peter Pileski, on Jan 23; Love and Other Unnatural Acts by Don Webster on Feb. 13; and The Camp, a new drama by Michael McKeever, on March 6.

Tickets may be purchased in person at the Lynn University box office, located in the Wold at 3601 N. Military Trail, online at www.events.lynn.edu or by phone at +1 561-237-9000.

Lynn University is an independent college based in Boca Raton, Florida, with approximately 3,000 students from 100 countries. U.S. News & World Report ranks Lynn among the top five most international schools and the top 25 most innovative. Lynn's NCAA Division II Fighting Knights have won 23 national titles, its Conservatory of Music features a world-renowned faculty of performers, and its nationally recognized Institute for Achievement and Learning empowers students with learning differences. The school's Dialogues curriculum and award-winning iPad program help Lynn graduates gain the intellectual flexibility and global experience to fulfill their potential in an ever-changing world. For more information, visit www.lynn.edu.

The 750-seat Wold Performing Arts Center, located on Lynn's campus in the heart of Boca Raton, is easily accessible by both I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. Recently ranked by Best Value Schools, an online publication, as one of the "25 Most Amazing University Performing Arts Centers," the Wold features superb acoustics, a modern lighting system, a large, light-filled lobby, and flexible space well-suited for dramatic productions, concerts and other cultural events. With an elegant salon, outdoor sunset terrace and intimate black-box studio, this new center is home to numerous concerts and events, including professional theatrical performances by the theatre arts program's Libby Dodson's Live at Lynn Theatre Series, the Live at Lynn American Songbook Series, and Jan McArt's New Play Reading Series, as well as performances from the Lynn University Conservatory of Music and the Drama Department in the College of International Communication. For more information, visit www.lynn.edu/events.

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