About A Cold, Creepy Reading of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

About A Cold, Creepy Reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones and Sleepy Hollow are names that conjure up vivid memories of haunted country sides of long ago as told by Washington Irving, one of America’s first authors of notoriety and acclaim. It’s a harvest party at the Van Tassels’ homestead where Ichabod dances, feasts and listens to ghost stories. His real goal is to ask for the hand of Katrina. His well-laid plans never materialize. But something else does. Something pop. And something dark, dangerous, foreboding and, yes, creepy because it’s headless!

The Lantern Theatre presents a harvest party that is becoming another family tradition in The Big, Red Barn. Come for cider, cocoa, baked goods, songs, poems and A Cold, Creepy Reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving’s inspired and scary sketch of early American history. 

A Cold, Creepy Reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is for the whole family and presented October 27 & 28, Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m. Admission is $12. Children 12 and under: $8.  For information call (216) 401-5131.

Our Season

THE LANTERN THEATRE co-founded in 2012 by Bill Hoffman, David Wingenfeld and Jacqueline Percher, is dedicated to producing theatre for the whole family that reveals and celebrates the history of our region, state and country.

THE OLD GLEESON FARM, now CANAL CORNERS FARM & MARKET, at the corner of Canal Road and Tinkers Creek Road in Valley View, Ohio, is just a stone’s throw away from the Ohio-Erie Canal and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Towpath.  Most folks from the area know its 1905 Wisconsin-Style, dairy barn as The Big, Red Barn and now more and more people are learning that this impressive structure is home to The Lantern Theatre, a new theatre company producing theatre for the whole family.