Centenary Stage Company’s professional theatre 2019-20 series kicks off with Arnold Ridley’s classic comedic thriller, “The Ghost Train,” running Oct. 4-20 in the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

First produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times, “The Ghost Train” was a long-running success in London and on Broadway. In Maine, near the Canadian border, there’s a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village, leaving death in its wake. Despite a psychic station master’s weird stories of a ghost train, six stranded passengers decide to say the night. They soon regret the decision as ghostly and not so ghostly apparitions materialize and the ghost train comes barreling down the line.

The production is directed by Centenary Stage Company’s own award-winning Artistic Director Carl Wallnau.

Tickets for “The Ghost Train” range from $27.50-$32 for adults and vary by performance date.

Performances are Thursdays, Oct. 10 and 17 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.; Fridays, Oct. 11 and 18 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Oct. 5, 12 and 19 at 8 p.m.; Sundays, Oct. 6, 13 and 20 at 2 p.m. and Wednesdays, Oct. 9 and 16 at 2 p.m. 

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900. The box office hours are Monday to Friday, 1-5 p.m. and two hours prior to all performances. It is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Ave., Hackettstown.

Centenary Stage Company’s “The Ghost Train” by Arnold Ridley is sponsored in part by The House of the Good Shepherd, Heath Village Retirement Community and The Hackettstown Rotary Club.