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Mission
Ten Chimneys Foundation’s Mission
- Preserve and Share the buildings, furnishings, collections, and grounds of a national treasure – Ten Chimneys, the estate created by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
- Serve as a continuing resource and powerful inspiration for theatre, the arts, and the art of living.
- Offer public programs consistent with the Lunts’ varied interests and core values, while maintaining the integrity and intimacy of this extraordinary estate.
Ten Chimneys is a National Historic Landmark, a “Save America’s Treasures” project site, and is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Ten Chimneys is owned by the non-profit 501(C)3 organization Ten Chimneys Foundation, Inc.
Rarely Produced Short Plays by Noël Coward to be Featured at Ten Chimneys
August 19, 2010
“TONIGHT AT 8:30”
Monday, August 30 at 7pm
Tonight at 8:30, a delightful (and rarely produced) collection of short plays by Noël Coward will be read by the Milwaukee Rep’s Intern Company on August 30, the latest in the Play Readings at Ten Chimneys series. The evening will include a selection of four plays, interspersed with live performances of Coward songs. Tonight at 8:30 was written in 1936, originally performed by Noël Coward and his lifelong friend Gertrude Lawrence.
On Monday, October 18th, the Milwaukee Rep interns will return to Ten Chimneys for a reading of Design for Living, widely regarded as one of Noël Coward’s greatest, and funniest, plays. The original production starred Coward and his dear friends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It was the culmination of a plan the trio hatched before any of them had “made it.” And, as Coward predicted in 1921 letter to his mother, when the play premiered in 1933, “the theatre world had a new cosmos.”
Tickets for each play reading are $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. To reserve tickets, call (262) 968-4110.
Top of PagePublic Programs News
- 01/03/12–“Music in the Drawing Room” with John Eaton, April 19th-21st
- 08/01/11–Olympia Dukakis Presents Two Public Programs at Ten Chimneys, July 29-30
- 05/03/11–Play Reading at Ten Chimneys: “Chekhov: Two Hours, Four Plays”
- 05/02/11–Christine Ebersole and Edward Hibbert Sing Noël Coward at Ten Chimneys
- 08/31/10–Noël Coward Short Plays Revived at Ten Chimneys
- 08/19/10–Rarely Produced Short Plays by Noël Coward to be Featured at Ten Chimneys
- 06/28/10–Concluding Presentation of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program ~ Saturday, July 17 ~ 8:00pm
- 04/10/10–Ten Chimneys Welcomes Dick Van Patten
- 03/22/10–Ten Chimneys and The Milwaukee Rep Present “Pygmalion”
- 01/11/10–Mark Your Calendar: Ten Chimneys Foundation’s 2010 Public Programs
- 11/18/09–Author Linda Mutschler Shares the “Fast Track to Fine Dining”
- 10/13/09–This Fall At Ten Chimneys
- 10/06/09–Noël Coward’s Riotous Masterpiece “Hay Fever” Charms Ten Chimneys
- 09/01/09–Ten Chimneys and The Milwaukee Rep Present “The Play’s the Thing”
- 06/08/09–Two Public Programs with 2009 Master Teacher, Lynn Redgrave
- 06/08/09–“120 Years of Broadway” at Ten Chimneys
- 05/05/09–Ten Chimneys and The Milwaukee Rep Present “Idiot’s Delight”
- 04/20/09–KT Sullivan Delights During Music in the Drawing Room
- 04/13/09–Spring 2009 Public Programs At-A-Glance
- 03/24/09–“Blithe Spirit” Play Reading
- 08/08/08–Fall 2008 Public Programs At-A-Glance
- 11/05/07–Robert Osborne’s “Conversation at Ten Chimneys” Garners Record Audience
- 10/22/07–“Present Laughter” Play Reading
- 09/24/07–“The Country Cousin” Play Reading
- 04/30/07–“The Visit” Play Reading
- 03/26/07–“Doctor’s Dilemma” Play Reading
- Ten Chimneys News Room
