Evening – 1910

Evening – 1910 tells the story of Henry (Michael Sheehy), an Irish immigrant who comes to New York just as kinetoscopes to exhibit motion pictures are replacing the city’s vaudeville shows. In a theater owned by George Spencer (James Scheider) and stage-managed by Frank (Justin McEllroy), the showgirls (Shira Averbuch, Lynn Mancinelli, Stephanie Lynne Mason and Katie Rose Summerfield) dream of a better life working in the garment factory nearby. Determined to become the new American success he has imagined, Henry is pulled by heart and hunger toward disparate and uncertain destinies, like a loving heiress’ (Emily Kratter) fortune, a hopeful laborer’s dignity, and flickering visions of greatness that yet persist in the darkness of our city.