EP Candlelight Theatre Resets 'George Washington Slept Here'

EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre's production of Moss Hart and George Kaufman chestnut “George Washington Slept Here” has been reset for June 23, June 24 and June 25. The show was unexpectedly postponed earlier this month, but it's back on.

Tickets are $12 for adults, and $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the Evergreen Park Recreation Department, 3450 W. 97th St. Tickets will be sold at the door, if available.

“George Washington Slept Here” chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves—and gets—"a little place in the country to call his own.” Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted elopement of the daughter with a summer theater actor, and the usual invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt relative, according to Dramatist Play Services.

Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday June 23, and Friday, June 24, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 26, in the Performance Hall of the Evergreen Park Senior Center, 9547 S. Homan Ave.