Brooklyn Underground: Theatrical stories from the Green-Wood Cemetery

A new play by The Artful Conspirators
Directed by Artistic Director David A. Miller

Brooklyn Underground is a new play which features the “characters” buried at Green-Wood.  Hear the first hand account of the Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1885 (memorialized in a monument and burial ground at Green-Wood) from actress Kate Claxton, witness a scene from Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene (buried at Green-Wood) on the night that Lincoln was shot, and be wooed by the Mad Poet of Broadway (buried at Green-Wood thanks to his wealthier fans).  Fast forward to the present to listen in on a Brooklyn bar conversation between fans, detractors and cemetery guards who all think that they know a little something more than the others about these historic grounds.  And finally, meet Alfred, buried (unfairly) at the back of the Whitlock family plot, and understand just how rough his afterlife has been.

A theatrical evening inspired by the many lives of those who work and live in and around the Green-Wood Cemetery.  Culled from the stories of the 560,000 permanent residents (the famous, the infamous and the little known), those who work in the cemetery, the residents of the surrounding communities and anyone who has a story to tell about their cemetery experience.