Dracula comes alive at Grey Towers

MILFORD — Tickets for a dramatic reading of Dracula, that valiant vampire who has come to symbolize Halloween, are now on sale at Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford. The American Readers Theatre Company will present two comic melodramatic readings of this classic Halloween tale on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., in the Great Hall of Grey Towers. 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 explained. Dracula continues the Grey Towers tradition of providing a community event with a Halloween theme. The show is appropriate for high school age and older. Tickets are $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 US Forest Service, PO Box 188, Milford, PA, 18337. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. For more information, call 570-296-9630 or visit the website at www.fs.fed.us/gt Dramatic readings were a common form of entertainment for 19th century families. The US Forest Service re-creates this at Grey Towers, ancestral home of the Pinchot family, as part of its Conservation and the Arts program. The US Forest Service provides these programs also as a way to carry on the family’s tradition of community hospitality. The American Readers Theatre (ART) is a nonprofit performing arts organization dedicated to promoting literacy through the art of dramatic readings.