Academy Award Nominee Lindsay Crouse and Radio Personality Christopher Lydon Star in One Night Only Performance of A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

Gloucester Stage proudly presents a one-night only benefit performance of Dylan Thomas' moving holiday classic, A Child's Christmas in Wales, directed by GSC Artistic Director Robert Walsh and starring Gloucester Stage favorite: Academy Award nominee and Gloucester resident Lindsay Crouse, and host of WBUR's Open Source, Christopher Lydon on December 16 at 7:30 pm at 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA.

All proceeds from the evening benefit Gloucester Stage, a 37 year old non-profit professional theatre. The festive evening begins with a special Backstage Pre-Show reception featuring hors d'oeuvres from Willow Rest, fine wine, and craft beer, plus an exclusive opportunity to explore behind-the-scenes at Gloucester Stage. At 7:30 a short live auction of unique items begins on the stage led by auctioneer Jeff Zinn, Gloucester Stage's Managing Director, followed by music from Meridian featuring Olivia Gale and Colin de la Barre, then the main event, a one-time only performance of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. Following the performance the cast and audience can enjoy a fine dessert buffet and gourmet coffees in the lobby. Tickets are $150 per person for the entire evening of events including the backstage pre-show reception, performance and post-show dessert buffet, or $75-$50 per person for the performance and post-show dessert buffet only. All proceeds benefit Gloucester Stage. For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Gloucester Stage Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visit www.gloucesterstage.com

Lindsay Crouse made her Gloucester Stage debut in 2007 in The Belle of Amherst; followed by a return to Gloucester Stage in 2008 in Going To St. Ives, in 2010 in Table Manners, in 2011 in Living Together and in 2012 in Round and Round The Garden and most recently, in 2013 in Driving Miss Daisy. In 2016 Ms. Crouse starred in the GSC's critically -acclaimed comedy Lettice and Lovage. A long-time veteran of the New York stage, Lindsay Crouse has performed off and on Broadway, and has won the Obie and Theater World Awards. At the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles, she starred with John Mahoney in Conor McPherson's The Weir, breaking the theater's box office records. On television, Ms. Crouse has guest-starred on C.S.I., Criminal Minds, Law and Order, E.R, NYPD Blue, Colombo, Murder She Wrote, Touched By An Angel, Hill Street Blues, Frasier, ARLI$$ and Alias. She spent a season as the infamous Professor Maggie Walsh on Buffy The

Vampire Slayer. She appeared on all three television networks simultaneously playing recurring characters on Providence for NBC, Hack for CBS, and Dragnet for ABC. She has played three different characters on Law and Order, and appeared as the formidable Judge Andrews on Law and Order SVU. A feature film veteran, some of Ms. Crouse's best known films include The Insider, The Verdict, House of Games, Slapshot, Communion, All The President's Men, Prince Of The City, Daniel, The Arrival, Indian In The Cupboard, Mr. Brooks and Places In The Heart, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

Ms. Crouse currently teaches around the country a class that is unique in the world, combining principles of Buddhism with principles of drama, creating a fresh approach to acting, writing and directing in all media. A longtime Gloucester resident, Ms. Crouse began spending her summers in Gloucester as a child and is now a Gloucester resident. Her parents began summering in Gloucester in the late 1940's as an escape from New York City. Lindsay's father playwright Russel Crouse found inspiration on Cape Ann. He often worked here with his longtime partner and collaborator Howard Lindsay. Their partnership of over 28 years is one of the longest in theatre history and responsible for such hits as The Sound of Music, Anything Goes, Life With Father and the Pulitzer Prize winning The State of the Union among others.

Christopher Lydon, multi-media journalist, is the host of WBUR's Open Source, a weekly conversation about arts, ideas and politics. He was the original host of The Connection on NPR, widely syndicated around the US in the 1990s. A graduate of Roxbury Latin School and Yale University, Mr. Lydon covered national politics with the New York Times from the Washington bureau in the 1970s, and anchored the Emmy-winning Ten-O'Clock News on WGBH-TV in Boston through the 1980s. While a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003, he began recording in-depth interviews focused on blogging and politics. Mr. Lydon is credited (with Dave Winer) with creating the first podcast in July, 2003. So his widely read Open Source podcast is the oldest continuous entry in the now-booming field of "Internet radio." Mr. Lydon appeared at The Poets' Theatre in 2014 playing several characters in Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood. On his selected list of theatrical credits, he performed as on-stage interviewer with refugees as part of Peter Sellars' production of Euripedes' Children of Herakles at the American Repertory Theater through the month leading up to the US war in Iraq.

The one-night only benefit performance of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales directed by Bob Walsh starring Lindsay Crouse and Christopher Lydon is December 16 at 7:30 pm at Gloucester Stage, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA. All proceeds benefit Gloucester Stage. For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Gloucester Stage Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visit www.gloucesterstage.com.