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John Bourne, Founding Member of Heights Players, 1924-2015

John Bourne, a founding member of Heights Players, died on Friday, January 9. Last November his 90th birthday was celebrated at a Players’ performance of The Boys from Syracuse. From the Heights Players: John Bourne was one of the founding members of the Heights Players, Brooklyn’s oldest self-sustaining community theater organization. In 1956, a small […]

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Last chance for Murder on the Nile at Heights Players

The current Heights Players production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile is a murder mystery that takes place aboard a cruise ship in Egypt. The play, adapted from Christie’s novel Death on the Nile, debuted on Broadway in 1946. This is the second time the Heights Players have done a production of the play, and both […]

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