ROCKPORT — Everyman Repertory Theatre continues its 2025 season, Saturday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., at Pascal Hall, in Rockport, with the first of three Forgotten Classics of the 1930s, 40s, 50s - The Philadelphia Story.

This smash Broadway comedy, about an eventful wedding weekend at the estate of a wealthy American family, inspired an Oscar-winning film and the hit musical High Society.

"It may be a stretch to refer to one of Katharine Hepburn’s most famous films as a 'forgotten classic,' but that was the movie, not the play," said Everyman, in a news release. "None of us can remember a production of the play anywhere recently, and the play came first."

A staged reading is a performance that resembles a fully-staged production much more closely than a simple reading, where the actors are seated and read from their scripts. With a staged reading, the only difference between it and a fully-staged show is that the actors have their scripts in their hand. There are entrances and exits, costumes, furniture.

Cast includes Laura Houck, Michael Amico, Jim Reitz, Dagney Ernest, Cory Burns, Joseph Cote, Beverly Scott, Jennifer Hodgson, Scott Anthony Smith, and Paul Hodgson, who also directs.

The second and third in the series are Bus Stop by William Inge on Saturday, March 15, at 7 p.m., and Detective Story by Sydney Kingsley on Saturday, April 12, also at 7 p.m. All productions will be at Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Avenue, Rockport.

Tickets are available at www.everymanrep.org. They will also be available at the door, as well as from Left Bank Books in Belfast. You can also call the box office and reserve tickets: 207-236-0173. 

Bangor Savings Bank is the Series Sponsor.