Just in time for Halloween, a radio theater-inspired production of “Dracula” will play at the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23.
The performance, presented by L.A. Theater Works, will feature a Charles Morey adaptation of the classic horror story of a count surviving on the blood of the living. In the production, Count Dracula slips quietly into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil. The city seems helpless against Dracula’s frightful power and only one man — the smart and resourceful Dr. Van Helsing — can stop the carnage.
The story sets up an epic confrontation of good versus evil as Van Helsing is tasked with uncovering Dracula’s lair and piercing the vampire’s heart with a wooden stake.
Under the leadership of producing director Susan Albert Loewenberg, L.A. Theatre Works has been the foremost radio theater company in the United States for more than two decades. L.A. Theatre Works is broadcast weekly in America on public radio stations, daily in China on the Radio Beijing Network, and aired internationally on the BBC, CBC and many other English-language networks. On the road, L.A. Theatre Works has performed for audiences in more than 300 cities, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Beijing and Shanghai.
Tickets for “Dracula” are on sale online, at the Lied Center box office at 12th and R streets, and by phone at 402-472-4747. Ticket prices start at $38 and are available for half price to UNL students with a valid NCard.
