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BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts presents the world premiere play “The Cure: An Adirondack Story” by Canton playwright Frederic Glover, featuring a cast and crew from across the North Country.

The show will run from Sept. 21 to 28, opening at the Arts Center and touring to venues across the Adirondacks as the final production of the 2024 ADK LAKES Theatre Festival.

Set during the summer of 1936 and earlier, “The Cure: An Adirondack Story” spotlights events both fictional and historical in Saranac Lake. Margaret, a writer from New York City, is seeking “the cure” for her case of tuberculosis at the famous Saranac Lake sanatorium. Her story intertwines with the life and struggles of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, a driven, deeply compassionate man who devoted himself to finding a cure for the dreaded disease in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The stories of Margaret and Dr. Trudeau combine to celebrate the importance of community in healing and the many sides of the natural world while emphasizing the struggle to transcend a deadly pandemic.

The production opens at the Arts Center in Blue Mountain Lake at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, followed by performances at View Arts Center in Old Forge at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22; Tupper Lake Middle High School in Tupper Lake at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24; Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26; and Tannery Pond Center in North Creek at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28.

Tickets and more information are available at adirondackarts.org/altf.

The all-star cast features Saranac Lakers Terry Kemp as E.L. Trudeau, Laura-Jean Swanson as Lottie Trudeau and Jason Brill as Dr. Loomis, with Laura Farrell as Margaret, Sean Orman as Frank, Megan Land as Cora and William Sandiford as Tyler. Kent Streed is stage director and designer of this production, with George Cordes as assistant director and doing sound, Dave Naone on lights, Peggy Orman as stage manager and Ben Jones doing projections.

The ADK LAKES Theatre Festival is made possible by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Cloudsplitter Foundation, David Myers in memory of Anne Vaccaro and Jayson Grigsby, Pine’s Country Store, Barbara Sullivan, Cecilia and Michael Mathews and Richard Woolley. Also sponsoring this production is the Adk Trading Post in Long Lake. North Country Public Radio is the media sponsor.

The development of “The Cure: An Adirondack Story” was made possible by a New York State Council on the Arts 2023 Support for Artists grant, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts is located at 3446 state Route 28, Blue Mountain Lake. More information on the festival can be found at adirondackarts.org.