The Manor-Murder and Madness at Greystone return engagement of the hit immersive crime/scandal drama. Performances run January 18, 19, 25, 26, as well as February 1 and 2, 2024. See below for times & ticket prices.
Murder Madness at Greystone
The Manor-Murder and Madness at Greystone is by now a Los Angeles/Beverly Hills institution. The play, returning for a nineteenth season, surpassed its 200th performance in 2014. This will mark its first engagement since 2020.
The show is a roman a clef, a fictionalization based on real events with the actual historical characters given new names. To lend authenticity to the presentation, the show is presented in the grand and glorious architectural landmark in which the events of 95 years ago actually took place. Audience members are led from room to room in the lovingly restored marvelous Greystone Mansion as different scenes of the narrative are portrayed, leading up to a shocking and apparent murder and suicide.
Synopsis
The Manor-Murder and Madness at Greystone depicts momentous changes in the fortunes of the fabulously wealthy MacAlister Family (fictional surrogates of the oil-rich Doheny Family). Family patriarch and mining tycoon Charles makes an illegal if well-intentioned loan to Senator Alfred Winston (a stand-in for Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall). Therefore both men face imminent disgrace and worse in the oncoming Teapot Dome bribery scandal. This involves the Warren Harding administration. A scion of the MacAlister family faces violent death.
Production Team
Kathrine Bates is the playwright. Her other works include TALHOTBLOND, The Color of Rose, Roar of the Crowd, Evil Legacy, as well as a stage adaptation of Double Indemnity. She is also an actor. Martin Thompson directs. He is familiar to Theatre 40 audiences for his many appearances there, in addition to roles in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Perfect Timing, Hellman v. McCarthy, Night Watch, Light Up the Sky and more.
Actors
The Manor-Murder and Madness at Greystone company includes Darby Hinton, Eric Keitel, Daniel Leslie, Carol Potter, Nathalie Rudolph ,David Hunt Stafford, Amy Tolsky, John Combs, Katyana Rocker-Cook, Gail Johnston, Kristin Towers-Rowles, and Peter Mastine.
Produced for Theatre 40 by David Hunt Stafford, with sound design by Bill Froggatt. The original production was directed by Beverly Olevin.
ADMISSION
Tickets are $75 per person; Visit the website to purchase tickets or call (310) 364-3606. Advance reservations necessary. Please reserve early, as many performances will sell out.
What: The Manor-Murder and Madness at Greystone
Where: Greystone Mansion, in Greystone Park, 905 Loma Vista Drive (above Sunset Blvd.), Beverly Hills, 90210. Free parking onsite.
When: January 18 – February 3, 2024; Thursday and Friday Evenings at 6:00pm on January 18, 19, 25, 26, February 1 and 2; Sunday Matinee at 1:00pm on January 28.
Website: https://theatre40.org/
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