Past Productions
The Proposal
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! Lanes Coven presents fundraiser performances in support of the 2024 summer season. Anton Chekhov’s hilarious “The Proposal,” a comedy about neighbors, land & dogs. April 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th ONLY, presented upstairs at Short & Main.
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
directed by Justin Genna
August 4th - 20th, 2023 Windhover Performing Arts Center. Lanes Coven achieved it’s first 3 - week run outdoors for this fresh, new, exciting take on the classic of all classics complete with dancing, sword fights and fun for the whole family! Link to Cast / Crew Bios
Poster Design, Mike Van Epps
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
“This was the best play I have ever seen!”
— William Taylor of Gloucester
June 30th - July 9th, 2023 Windhover Performing Arts Center
Directed by Lily Narbonne, with this production, Lanes Coven delighted and surprised audiences, with sheer comedic delight, excellent acting and language skills, innovative staging, and an entire drag number after the curtain call! Link to Cast / Crew Bios.
13 Plays & The Deciding Vote
October 27th, 2023, Shalin Liu Performance Center
with Cape Ann Finns, for FinnFunn Weekend, Lanes Coven presented a variety show of sketches about Finnish culture, including a short comedy about John Morton adapted by Wayne Soini, a Finnish American man, who was the deciding voter in ratifying the Declaration of Independence.
Pictured: the Ensemble Cast of Resident Company from Right to Left Justin Genna / Eryn O’Sullivan / Malachi Rosen / Caroline Harvey / Lily Narbonne (also Director.)
Thank you to the FINLANDIA FOUNDATION!
Photo: Jason Grow
As You Like It: a Candlelight Masque & Listening Party
Saturday January 21, 2023 in Annisquam
Lanes Coven joined Scott Moore in presenting his ballet score of As You Like It, by reading supportive excerpts of the Shakespeare text. Presented at the Annisquam Village Church, this magical, and fun evening of music and theater was organized by the Music Department of the AVC, and open to all for free!
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
August 11th-21st, 2022 at Windhover Performing Arts Center
Directed by Justin Genna, Lanes Coven Theater Co presented a thunderous production with epic acting, sound, lights, original composed music by Scott Moore broadswords and stage blood. The wooded setting of Windhover helped us rise to the challenge of this age-old tale, and relaxed audiences into the overall theatrical experience.
Adrianna Mitchell, Oliver Shirley* and Kadeem Ali Harris*.
Poster design, by Morgan Dyer and Mike Van Epps
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
May 10th, 11th & 12th, 2022 upstairs at Short & Main
The Dumb Waiter might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's plays. A dark comedy with a scarcity of information, an atmosphere of menace, working-class small-talk in a claustrophobic setting; overalll an oblique but palpable political edge and, in so doing, is seen as containing the germ of Pinter's entire dramatic oeuvre. PICTURED: Justin Genna & Max McNamara Photo by Brendan Pike
Monkey by Rachel Greenhoe
November 11th - 20th, 2022 at Gloucester Stage
Monkey is a new comedy centering queer relationships, neurodivergence and disability. When Susan starts dating Maige (they/them) she confronts the stresses of adulthood as they relate to her “monkey mind.”
PICTURED: From Left to Right, Caroline Harvey (they/them), Madeline Yagle (she/her) and Juliet Wolfe (she/they)
Photo by Jason Grow
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
August 26-29, Lanesville Community Center, September 3-5, Hale House in Beverly, 2021
Directed by Oliver Shirley, Lanes Coven performed Shakespeare’s hilarious and controversial comedy (or might we consider it one of his “problem plays”) at our beloved local
Lanesville Community Center August 26-29 and then down at Hale House & Farm where we were invited to perform, and were sponsored by The Cabot September 2nd-5th in Beverly.
PICTURED: from left to right: Lily Narbonne, Justin Genna, Max McNamara and Beatriz Miranda Torres*.
Photo by Jason Grow
What This House Has Seen
September 2021
A Lanes Coven presentation for the Cape Ann Museum’s Community Opening Day of the CAM Green, about the Babson Alling House, the changes it has seen, from then till now, and how we look forward. Written by Dylan Waite, performed by Lily Narbonne & Dylan Waite, Directed by Justin Genna
Fitz Henry Lane's "View of the Babson and Ellery Houses, Gloucester"
21 Plays at the Cultural Center on Rocky Neck
Lanes Coven was asked by Rocky Neck Art Colony, to present a theatrical piece as part of “40under40” in June 2021, supporting Cape Ann artists under 40.
We presented “21 Plays” a variety/improv show featuring improv exercises, dancing, singing, live-painting by Morgan Dyer, live music, confessionals, Shakespeare monologues and tequila shots.
Savannah a radio play by Dylan Waite
A virtual production created from November 2020 - April 2021
Directed by Justin Keim, Savannah is a highly original 60 minute play by Dylan Waite. Without being about COVID-19 at all, Dylan’s characters evoke a world of introversion, voyeurism, isolation…feelings and phenomena we came to know so well in a pandemic. Featuring Belle Aykroyd, Beatriz Miranda, Rivka Borek and Vincent Randazzo.