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THEATRE AT-A-GLANCE BLITHE SPIRIT Cape May Stage www.CapeMayStage.org When novelist Charles Condomine hosts a séance as research for his next novel, he gets a little more than he bargained for. Initially skeptical and dismissive, Charles soon learns the error of his ways as the eccentric medium he hires turns out to be far more than the ‘quack’ she seems. Now he is stuck in history’s strangest love triangle as his dead wife’s ghost does her best to drive away his current (living) wife. Mischief ensues as she haunts the house and their marriage in a misguided attempt to win back her husband’s love. The production runs August 6 through September 19. LUCKY ME New Jersey Repertory Company www.njrep.org Sara Fine’s having a bad week. The light bulbs in her apartment keep burning out; the aquarium is perpetually full of dead fish; the cat’s gone AWOL, again, and her blind, elderly father -- who chased off her last beau -- is immediately suspicious of Tom, the new neighbor, a TSA agent who just brought Sara home from the emergency room on New Year’s Eve with a fractured 5th metatarsal. The production is a National New Play Network Rolling Premiere by Robert Caisley that runs from July 31 through August 31. Visit us online at http://www.NewJerseyStage.com pg 37