The third and final show in The Filigree Theatre’s fifth anniversary season is Above the Fold, written by Julia Zaffarano and directed by Elizabeth V. Newman.

Set in 1935, Above the Fold follows ambitious young reporter, Dorothy Walton, as she chronicles the real story behind the grand jury investigation of rising star Evelyn Hoey’s murder by her lover, and Standard Oil heir, Henry Huddleston Rogers III.

Squarely at the center of this story are several young women who embody this season’s theme, “The Woman in The Story.” They include Dorothy, a young journalist, learning the real cost of personal ambition and career advancement; Minnie, the hotel bartender, to whom life has given an adult burden and too much responsibility at a young age; and Evelyn Hoey herself, the rising musical theatre and film star whose shocking and mysterious death has propelled us into the narrative of the play.

The real Evelyn is lost to the imaginings of journalists who are hungry to sell papers. We only hear her voice as a faint echo, crying out to be heard and for her true story to be told.