Our season opens with the gripping mystery-thriller Night Watch, by Lucille Fletcher. As the curtain rises we see Elaine Wheeler pacing about in her luxurious Manhattan apartment near dawn, unable to sleep. While her husband is trying to calm her, she spots something through her window, inside an apartment in a building across the way, disturbing, distant, yet clearly visible to her – a raggedy chair, half in shadow...  As seeming illusion melds with existing reality and her haunting memories, Elaine is confronted by family, friends, and the authorities, and slowly drawn into a fearsome web of intrigue and foreboding. As the plot ever thickens, the atmosphere of menace and suspense builds to a chilling climax.

(Note:  Unlike our other shows this season, there will be NO performance on the third Sunday, 10/4)

★ Swift-moving • Riveting • Chilling★

THE CAST
ELAINE WHEELER	Pierlisa Chiodo-Steo
JOHN WHEELER	Walter DeShields
MATILDA	Cherri Poet
VANELLI	Ed Mancinkiewicz
CURTIS APPLEBY	Richard Geller
BLANCHE COOKE	Bonnie Grant
LIEUTENANT WALKER	Bob O’Neal
DR. TRACEY LAKE	Sonya Aiko Hearn
SAM HOKE	Gary Labowitz
DIRECTOR	Tracie Lango

Fletcher (1912 - 2000), an accomplished author, playwright, and screenwriter, enjoyed a lifelong writing career, developing a well-earned reputation as mistress of suspense and intrigue. Among her dramatic works, one of the best known is the taut chiller, Sorry, Wrong Number (1943), a radio play which Fletcher adapted in 1948 to create the iconic film starring Barbara Stanwyck. Another of her better-known radio pieces, Hitchhiker, was adapted for TV in a signature episode of The Twilight Zone. Night Watch opened on Broadway in February of 1972, to rave notices, as typified by the New York Post, “ ... fulfilling all the requirements for an evening of satisfying menace and mystification.” It enjoyed an extended run and spawned the 1973 film featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. The play has seen regular revival throughout the nearly four decades since it was written.