Dracula swoops down

on Grey Towers

MILFORD, PA — Tickets for a dramatic reading of “Dracula” are now on sale at Grey Towers National Historic Site. The American Readers Theatre Company will present two comic melodramatic readings of this classic Halloween tale on Saturday, October 27, at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of Grey Towers.

Dramatic readings were a common form of entertainment for 19th-century families. The U.S. Forest Service re-creates this tradition at Grey Towers, ancestral home of the Pinchot family, as part of its Conservation and the Arts program. The comic adaptation of Dracula was created by ART co-founder Jeffrey Stocker, and is based on the 1926 Broadway play that starred Bela Lugosi. “This is a comic melodrama and very campy played for laughs... a real Halloween trick or treat,” Stocker said.

The show is appropriate for high school age and older. Tickets cost $15 per person and can be purchased at Grey Towers, by phone (credit card orders only) or by mail with a check written to the U.S. Forest Service, PO Box 188, Milford, PA, 18337. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

For more information visit www.fs.fed.us/gt or call 570/296-9630.