2025 Season
Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Justin Genna
July 12th – July 27th
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Windhover Performing Arts Center / Outdoors, Under the Tent
Indulgent bands of lovers abound; a group of academics think they can swear off love and replace all temptation with rigorous study…good luck!
Love’s Labour’s Lost is a lyrical farce — romantic nobles meet comedic clowns. Like an early version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream — both titles were private commissions that Shakespeare wrote for the aristocratic Southampton family during the English plague 1592-1593. Another opinion says Love’s Labour’s Lost is the prequel to Much Ado About Nothing (subtitled in some versions as “Love’s Labour’s Won.”)
7:00PM Performances / July 12th – July 27th
3:00 Matinee Performance / Sunday, July 13th
Directed by Justin Genna
Justin is an actor, director, dancer, and Co-Artistic Director of Lanes Coven with his wife Lily Narbonne. With Lanes Coven: Topdog/Underdog (Sound Design), The Servant of Two Masters (Truffaldino), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Proposal (Director), The Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo & Juliet (Director + Role of Tybalt), Macbeth (Director), The Dumb Waiter, Taming of the Shrew. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Justin worked with Milwaukee Ballet for 8 years, and trained at Houston Ballet and Virginia School of the Arts. OFF BROADWAY: Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick Theater). REGIONAL THEATER: Marie, Dancing Still (5th Avenue Theater Seattle), Cyrano (SPARC formerly known as Livermore Shakespeare Festival), Little Dog Laughed & Rock of Ages (Santa Rosa Rep), A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater). TV/FILM: Law & Order SVU, “Little Women.” MFA, American Conservatory Theater. justingenna.com
Let's Celebrate
Lanes Coven’s 5th Season
Friday, July 11, 2025
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Windhover Performing Arts Center
257R Granite Street, Rockport, MA 01966
Join us for a love-filled celebration of food, libation, and performance at Windhover. Experience the opening night of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost under the tent with a fully catered dinner by Short and Main.
Whether you're coming solo, with a date, or with a group of friends, this event promises to be a night to remember!
Festivities
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Beverage, Cheese & Mingling
at the picnic tables
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Buffet Dinner is served (Thanks Short & Main!) under the tent
7:20 PM – 7:30 PM
Remarks from Justin & Lily
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Love's Labour's Lost performance
outdoors, under the tent
Tickets
$150 / each
Includes beverage and cheese mingling hour, buffet dinner provided by Short & Main, followed by a performance of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
SOLD OUT
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Kadeem Ali Harris
May 30–June 15, 2025
Windhover Performing Arts Center
Written in 2001, Topdog/Underdog is a Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about brothers Lincoln & Booth begrudgingly living together. In 2002 the New York Times wrote, “‘Topdog’ is of course a variation of sorts on the story of Cain and Abel…” Their father named them as a dark joke. The play explores themes of family, rivalry, race, and destiny through the complex relationship between these brothers.
This is a historic production with two female actors playing Lincoln & Booth.
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“Walker and Mitchell approach the play like a musical composition, by first and foremost following the contours of Parks’ text: the breaths and breaks, the diminuendos and crescendos, and most importantly the “reps and revs,” as Parks describes her iterative, jazz-like technique.”
Full “New England Theatre Geek” review HERE
“Black Girls Do Theater Center Stage” Interview:
Hotel / Restaurant Recommendations
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Cape Ann is made up of four towns; Lanes Coven is on the island part where it’s 2 towns: Gloucester & Rockport. Windhover Performing Arts Center is technically in Rockport, but very close to the Gloucester town line.
Financial Accessibility 2025
Theater is for everyone.
If money is ever an issue, and/or if you are an educator, it is Lanes Coven’s policy, since the beginning, that you may reach out and ask for a complimentary ticket.
Card to Culture
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier.
EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders can use the code C2C5 to purchase a $5 ticket to any performance Lanes Coven offers, excluding fundraisers. This is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Tickets may be reserved online. But we cannot guarantee that walk-ins can receive this discount. We encourage online reservations, as our capacity at Hammond Castle is 75 seats, and at Windhover is 125 seats, and we do sell out. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
$5 Buck Sundays - 2025 - made possible by CAPE ANN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, July 13th at 7PM, Love’s Labour’s Lost
In 2024, $5 Buck Sundays were SOLD OUT! And made possible by ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Creative County Initiative.
Want your name on the bill as the sponsor for these accessible nights of theater? Reach out to Lily at lanescoven@gmail.com about subsidizing tickets for this program!
Own a business? Want to underwrite admission for audience? REACH OUT! lanescoven@gmail.com
Windhover Performing Arts Center
257R Granite St, Rockport, MA 01966
Enter where you see the Lanes Coven Sandwich Board / Windhover blue & white sign
Performances are outdoors under a large performance tent
Parking provided
Please bring 1) sunscreen 2) bug spray 3) a layer to stay warm when the sun goes down
The performance space and restrooms are ADA accessible
Bring Your Own Wine/Beer and Picnic. No alcohol for sale!
