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New Edith Wharton One-Acts Get Staging at The Mount Thanksgiving Weekend

(LENOX, Mass.) – Two new adaptations of Edith Wharton short stories, “The Long Run” and “The Rembrandt,” will receive a Thanksgiving Week run at The Mount from Wednesday, November 26, to Sunday, November 30, 2014. In “The Long Run” (1916), Ames, a gentleman engineer, returns to his social circle in New York after twelve years’…

Wharton Salon Celebrates Edith Wharton’s 150th Birthday with One-Woman Show Adapted from Her Autobiography

(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon joins The Mount’s year-long celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday by putting Edith Wharton herself onstage this year in The Inner House, running from Wednesday, August 15 through Sunday, August 26, 2012, at The Mount. Adapted by Dennis Krausnick from Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance, actress Tod Randolph…

Edith Wharton’s “Autre Temps” Gets Set in Another Time

Rory Hammond as Leila and Diane Prusha as Mrs. Lidcote in the Wharton Salon's "Autre Temps" (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – Edith Wharton’s century-old story, “Autres Temps…,” about divorce American-style, is being given a new staging in a different time – the Mad Men year of 1962 – by the Wharton Salon theater company at Wharton’s old estate, The Mount. This Autre Temps includes real-life mother and daughter Diane Prusha and Rory Hammond…