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Register 35 Seats Remaining

Women of American Theater:

1910 - 1930. Performed by Gayle Stahlhuth

2025-08-26 16:00:00 2025-08-26 17:00:00 America/New_York Women of American Theater: Cape May City - Events Room North, Events Room South

Tuesday, August 26
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-08-26 16:00:00 2025-08-26 17:00:00 America/New_York Women of American Theater: Registration requested. Cape May City - Events Room North, Events Room South

Cape May City

Events Room North, Events Room South

Registration requested.

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Maurine Dallas Watkins’ (1896-1969) Chicago was a hit on Broadway in 1926, decades before Kander, Ebb, and Fosse created the musical based on her play. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) co-founded The Provincetown Players, which not only produced her own plays, including Trifles, but those of Eugene O’Neill and other up-and-coming playwrights. Alice Gerstenberg (1885-1972) wrote the first successful adaptation for the stage of Alice in Wonderland. Ruth Draper (1884-1956) delighted New York audiences and European royalty with her monologues. Rachel Crothers (1878-1958), while a successful Broadway playwright, actor, director, and producer, found time, along with six other women in theater, to create the Stage Women’s War Relief in 1916, raising almost seven million dollars for the allies in World War I.  Black writer and teacher, Mary P. Burrill, dealt with treatment of Black soldiers in The First World War in her play Aftermath. Zona Gale (1874-1938), in 1921, was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edna Ferber (1885-1968) saw Showboat open on Broadway, for which she wrote the book that the musical was based, and her own play, The Royal Family, that she co-wrote with George S. Kaufman open on Broadway with 24 hours of each other in 1927. And that’s just the beginning. . . . .     


Gayle Stahlhuth is an actor, director, playwright, producer, storyteller, and teacher. From 1999 through 2022 she was the producing artistic director of East Lynne Theater Company and currently is the founding artistic director of Classic American Tales. She has performed off-Broadway, in touring shows, regional theater, TV and film. She has given lectures on different aspects of American Theater at universities, as part of the Road Scholar experience, and on the Chautauqua circuit. The National League of Professional Women honored her in 2016 for her work as a theater professional and she is listed in the newest edition of THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO AMERICAN THEATRE (2008).  

Classic American Tales was founded to tell America’s stories “one tale at a time.” To learn more, visit https://www.ClassicAmericanTales.org


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Cape May City

Phone: 609-884-9568

Hours

Cape May City

Mon, Aug 04 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Tue, Aug 05 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Aug 06 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Thu, Aug 07 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Aug 08 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Aug 09 9:00AM to 4:30PM
Sun, Aug 10 Closed

Upcoming events

Mon, Aug 11, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Aug 11, 10:00am - 11:30am
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Mon, Aug 11, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room
Registration is now closed

Mon, Aug 11, 10:00am - 10:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Mon, Aug 11, 10:00am - 10:30am
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Cancelled
Mon, Aug 11, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Cape May City

Mon, Aug 11, 10:30am - 1:30pm
Sea Isle City - Conference Room

Mon, Aug 11, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Cancelled
Mon, Aug 11, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Cape May City

Mon, Aug 11, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Cape May Court House - Presentation Room

Mon, Aug 11, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Mon, Aug 11, 5:30pm - 6:15pm
Upper Cape - Events Room

Mon, Aug 11, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Mon, Aug 11, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sea Isle City - Conference Room

Mon, Aug 11, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Tue, Aug 12, 9:30am - 10:30am
Cape May City - Multi-Purpose Room
This event is full

Tue, Aug 12, 9:30am - 10:30am
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Tue, Aug 12, 10:00am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Tue, Aug 12, 10:00am - 10:30am
Upper Cape - Events Room

Tue, Aug 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Tue, Aug 12, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cape May City - Multi-Purpose Room
This event is full

Tue, Aug 12, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cape May Court House

Tue, Aug 12, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Tue, Aug 12, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Tue, Aug 12, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Tue, Aug 12, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Tue, Aug 12, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Wed, Aug 13, 10:00am - 11:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Aug 13, 10:00am - 11:00am
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Aug 13, 10:00am - 11:00am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Aug 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Aug 13, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Aug 13, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Cancelled
Wed, Aug 13, 5:00pm - 7:30pm
Lower Cape

Wed, Aug 13, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Wed, Aug 13, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 1st Floor Events Room
This event is full

Wed, Aug 13, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Aug 13, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Aug 13, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Cape May Court House
This event is full

Thu, Aug 14, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Thu, Aug 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Thu, Aug 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Thu, Aug 14, 10:00am - 11:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Thu, Aug 14, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Thu, Aug 14, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room
This event is full

Thu, Aug 14, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Cancelled
Thu, Aug 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cape May City

Thu, Aug 14, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Thu, Aug 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Thu, Aug 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Thu, Aug 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Thu, Aug 14, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Thu, Aug 14, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Thu, Aug 14, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Cancelled
Thu, Aug 14, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Cape May Court House

Fri, Aug 15, 9:15am - 10:15am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Cancelled
Fri, Aug 15, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor

Fri, Aug 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Cancelled
Fri, Aug 15, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Stone Harbor

Fri, Aug 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Sea Isle City - Conference Room
This event is full

Fri, Aug 15, 11:00am - 11:30am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Fri, Aug 15, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Fri, Aug 15, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 1st Floor Events Room
This event is full

Fri, Aug 15, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Fri, Aug 15, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Fri, Aug 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Fri, Aug 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Upper Cape - Events Room

Sat, Aug 16, 9:30am - 10:30am
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Sat, Aug 16, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Upper Cape - Events Room

Sat, Aug 16, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Sat, Aug 16, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room