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Middletown Arts Center and Dunbar Repertory Company presents "Green Honey Love"

originally published: 05/07/2025

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center, in conjunction with Dunbar Repertory Company, presents the spring comedy, Green Honey Love, across two weekends from May 16-25, 2025. The play, written by Gail Wynn Huland El and directed by Damien S. Berger, is a story about adultery, deceit, greed, and conspiracy of murder – your everyday comedy.

Except for her lover, everyone, including her husband George, thinks Belinda still has the mind of a child after being involved in a terrible car accident that caused severe head injury. What George doesn’t know is that Belinda and her lover are conspiring to kill him before the settlement check arrives. Dunbar Repertory Company’s production features Sequoia Franklin (Belinda), Mike Vails (George), Vivette Alston (Grace), DiShawn Gandy (Harry) and Bellamy Shivers (Sam).

Performances take place Friday, May 16 at 8:00pm; Saturday, May 17 at 3:00pm & 8:00pm; Sunday, May 18 at 4:00pm; Friday, May 23 at 8:00pm; Saturday, May 24 at 3:00pm & 8:00pm; and Sunday, May 25 at 4:00pm. Meet the Playwright after the Sunday, May 25th.

Ticket prices are $22 and are general admission. Group ticket sales (10 or more) are also available for $17 per ticket. Purchase tickets online at middletownarts.org or call the MAC Box Office at 732.706.4100. The Middletown Arts Center is located at 36 Church Street in Middletown, NJ (next to the Middletown train station). Free parking is available onsite with additional free parking available in station metered lot on weekday evenings after 6:00pm and on weekends.

Playwright Gail Wynn Huland El resides in New Jersey. She writes one-act and full-length plays, as well as poetry and essays. She is the Founder and President of the Channie Theater Company, Inc. She is a Founding Member of the Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop in Harlem and held the position of Director of the Uptown Playwright’s for 14 years. Ms. Huland El is also the President of the Theatrical Ministry at her church.




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Ms. Huland El has written numerous plays which have been read and/or produced by Rejoti Productions, Voices from the Edge Festival of the New Perspectives Theater in New York, Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, New York, National Black Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, Sista Style Productions, in Nashville, TN, Two Ladies Productions Dinner Theatre Readings, Teaneck, NJ, Spellbound Repertory Theatre, Medley of Words and Short-Play Festivals of Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop and numerous other venues. Some of her plays include Blessed Assurance, Kiss Of Guilt, That Seat Is Mine, A Helpin’ Hand, Green Honey Love, Sweet Puddin’ Pie, Like Family, Do No Evil,Gran’etta’s House, Need For Love, What’s Happening In That Church, Where Are We? and What Happened In Apartment 504? She has also directed some of her own plays and those written by other playwrights for productions. 

Known to residents of Central New Jersey as “Monmouth County’s African American Theater Company”, Dunbar Repertory Company is committed to its mission of perpetuating an appreciation of cultural diversity and celebrating African American culture through LIVE literary readings, main stage theatrical productions, education programs and services.

The Middletown Arts Center (MAC) is an award-winning, state-of-the-art facility in Middletown, New Jersey that offers performances, exhibits, classes, demonstrations and camps centering on the arts. Its convenient location across from the Middletown train station on Church Street enables easy access and its expanded MAC Annex Education Building is minutes away next to the Middletown Reformed Church. The MAC is operated by a non-profit 501c3, the Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council dedicated to bringing quality arts programming and events to Middletown and surrounding communities. Visit middletownarts.org for more information and to join our mailing list for updates on classes, camps and activities at the Middletown Arts Center.

The mission of the Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council is to celebrate and promote the arts while enriching the community through arts programming, education, entertainment and cultural connection for individuals of all ages and abilities.




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