The Greater Reading Alliance of Community Theaters Penn State Berks Theater Department Present A Staged Reading of "Our American Cousin" Tom Taylor's comedy classic in a new version by Lowell Swortzell through special permission of Dramatists Publishing Company and directed by Patricia Perfect Friday April 17th at the Berks History Center 940 Centre Ave, Reading, PA.

Curtain time 7pm Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets on the Internet or by calling the theater at 610-375-9106 and are $10. It will also be performed at Penn State Berks Theater on Penn State's Campus Broadcasting Rd. Wyomissing on Saturday April 18th with a matinee at 3pm and an evening show at 7pm. The play will close on Sunday 19th with a matinee at 3pm and the last performance 7pm Sunday evening.

It has been 150 years since the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

"We want to Commemerate this event with the offering of this play. Come see the ending that President Lincoln never did. Learn the history of the day and the events at Fords Theater. Meet Laura Keene, Lincoln's favorite actress, and her Theater Troupe as they rehearse for a play known at the time as 'the most performed play in America and Europe' until that fateful night when it became a part of an American Tragedy."