Mystery Dinner Theatre Celebrates Halloween

Oct. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- The Kean Theatre, 5847 Meridian Road, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a season of award-winning plays and musicals, popular concerts and hilarious interactive dinner theatre shows including “Halloween Mystery Dinner Theatre” on Friday Oct. 26 and Saturday Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Kean Theatre’s on-site Mount Vernon Restaurant. Tickets are $34, available by calling 724-444-5326 (KEAN) or by visiting www.keantheatre.com. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund.

Is it merely the wind making a chilling scream as it whips through the night air? Do you feel like somebody is hiding in the shadows watching you? Maybe it’s not just your imagination. The Kean Theatre is throwing a Halloween Mystery Dinner Party and they are simply dying for you to join in the fun. A spooky good time is guaranteed as those who are brave enough try to unravel the ghostly mystery and win some terror-ific prizes!

“Halloween Mystery Dinner Theatre” is written and directed by Tom Madden, the Managing Director of the Kean Theatre.  Madden, who has more than 25 years of experience in front of and behind the curtain, has created, written and directed all 18 installments in the Kean’s Mystery Dinner Theatre Series.  Performing in “Halloween Mystery Dinner Theatre” will be many of the Kean Theatre’s regular actors, including Tom Bickert of Evans City, Michelle LeWay of Pittsburgh, Annette Quinn of Cranberry Twp., Mike Regan of Hampton Township, Kristen Scannell of Franklin Park and Tom Smithyman of Franklin Park.

The sponsor of “Halloween Mystery Dinner Theatre” is UPMC Health Plan, the Academy sponsor of the Kean Theatre. Armstrong and Trib Total Media are the Grammy sponsors and NET Xperts is the Tony sponsor. Proceeds from the Kean Theatre benefit the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund, which in 2011 alone provided more than $5.2 million to poor and low-income residents at St. Barnabas Nursing Home, Valencia Woods at St. Barnabas and The Arbors at St. Barnabas.

The Kean Theatre is open to the public and has built a reputation for its convenient location, free parking, quality entertainment and elegant setting.  The theatre is operated by St. Barnabas Charities, the fund-raising arm of St. Barnabas

Health System.  St. Barnabas Health System includes St. Barnabas Nursing Home, Valencia Woods at St. Barnabas, The

Arbors at St. Barnabas, The Village at St. Barnabas, The Woodlands at St. Barnabas, White Tail Ridge, The Washington Place at St. Barnabas, St. Barnabas Medical Center and Rudolph Auto Repair.