The Man Who Came to Dinner Comes to Landmark on Main

Landmark Radio Theater's latest production is an original adaptation of the classic 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner. It will be performed on stage at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater in Port Washington before a live audience and recorded for online streaming and future broadcast.

This "old-time radio" production, including live sound effects, period-style station breaks and songs between acts, takes place Sunday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a satirical comedy about an acid-tongued cultural critic on a lecture tour who condescends to dine with a prominent local family in small-town Ohio, only to slip on the front steps and break his hip. Forced to stay indefinitely to recuperate, he takes over the household and meddles in everyone's lives, while scheming to keep his own from being upended when his trusted secretary falls for a local newspaper reporter.

A cast of 16 talented voice actors, many of them veteran radio drama performers, will bring the story's 24 characters to life on stage, reenacting a coast-to-coast broadcast from March 1950 that starred Lucille Ball and Clifton Webb.

Landmark Radio Theater's radio-drama adaptations of classic films have been a hit with audiences, growing in popularity from the first production, Stagecoach, (2017), to Stage Door (2018). Everyone is invited to get in on the fun with The Man Who Came to Dinner this year.

Tickets are on sale now, online or at the box office at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street in Port Washington. All seats are $10.

Landmark Radio Theater is a co-production of Expressive Elocution and Landmark on Main Street.

Landmark Radio Theater is sponsored by Maureen & Joseph Wekselblatt.

Landmark's Community Programs receive support from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock.

Landmark’s 2019-20 Season is made possible thanks to our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation, Peter & Dorette Forman Foundation, Kornhaber Dental Group, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek Partners, Town of North Hempstead, the and Winthrop University Hospital. Landmark on Main Street also receives support from the New York State Council on the Arts.