Algonquin Seaport Theater Presents An Afternoon with Mark Twain

Algonquin Seaport Theater presents "An Afternoon with Mark Twain", featuring Ron Crawford, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1pm throughout April and May.

"An Afternoon with Mark Twain" re-creates Twain's lectures from a hundred years ago, his adventures as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, his mining days out west, the Hawaiian Islands, and his first tour of Europe along with his caustic, humorous observations (and a few tall stories). Ron enacts selections from classics including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Adam and Eve. The purpose of Twain's lectures, he reminds us, is to point out the value of traveling to keep us from becoming a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean person.

Ron has performed this show in large theaters, college and high school campuses, middle schools, libraries and even living rooms for small intimate gatherings. Audiences of any size and any age have always responded to the show enthusiastically. Actor and creator Ron Crawford appeared in the original Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf production of "The Grapes of Wrath" as it progressed from Chicago to London and to Broadway and became a television special on PBS. Around the country in regional theaters some of Ron's favorite roles have included the hapless white realtor in "A Raisin in the Sun"; the black and white heroes of Fugard's wonderful "Valley Song"; ancient Nonno in "The Night of the Iguana"; Candy, the pathetic one-armed ranch hand in Of Mice and Men; Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and the grumpy grandfather in "Ragtime".

Tickets are $10.00. Algonquin Seaport Theater is located on the second floor of Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport.