\ud83c\udfad NEW! Central Pennsylvania Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n
Following a celebrated professional staged reading at New York City\u2019s Theater Row, a regional production of the new musical comedy about the making of the film \u201cCleopatra,\u201d\u00a0The Last Days of Cleopatra\u00a0with book, music and lyrics by Charles Barnett<\/a> (When We Get There), will be presented by the Crowded Kitchen Players in association with Ice House Performing Arts Collaborative in Bethlehem, PA. Eyeing Off-Broadway and other regional productions with a professional cast of New York City and regional performers, six performances will be staged\u00a0from June 13-22, 2025\u00a0at\u00a0The Ice House, 56 River Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfad NEW! Central Pennsylvania Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n Ara Barlieb directs a cast of 13, including Sami Kennett*\u00a0as Elizabeth Taylor<\/a> and\u00a0Albert Nelthropp*\u00a0as Richard Burton<\/a> with\u00a0Jenna Atkinson, Bruce Brown, Lauren Curley, Nina Elias<\/a>, Sharon A. Ferry, Robert Jacobs, Herman Marsh, Robert Tollinger, Dan VanArsdale, Pamela McLean Wallace,\u00a0and\u00a0Sawyer Whitted*.<\/p>\n An entertaining romp of a farce about love, betrayal, and triumph, all told in a setting of strife and midcentury-modern glamour. It\u2019s 1961. After a calamitous start in London, the cast and crew of the film \u201cCleopatra\u201d move to Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios in Rome to restart the film. The dazzling Elizabeth Taylor<\/a> has stayed on in the role of Cleopatra, but she has a new co-star: Richard Burton<\/a>, a famed Shakespearean actor, who has joined the cast as Mark Antony. With the largest budget in Hollywood\u2019s history and an acclaimed new director, Joseph Mankiewicz,\u00a0the production seems to be back on track. But in reality, this esteemed cast and crew are in the process of making one of the biggest turkeys of all time. All while Taylor and Burton strike up a world-famous adulterous affair that ends Taylor\u2019s marriage and drenches the production in scandal. As Taylor learns hard lessons, though, other troupers meet sunnier fates, finding friendship or true love on the set of this colossal disaster.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Central Pennsylvania Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Central Pennsylvania & beyond.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-111747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}