2008 Season Schedule

Programs and artists subject to change without notice.

Mainstage

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1+1

By Eric Bogosian
Directed by Mark Brokaw

July 1 – July 13, 2008


Eric Bogosian, photo by Susan Johann

This World Premiere from the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning author of Talk Radio, SubUrbia, and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll trawls the dark undercurrent of human desire.

How far can you go to get what you want? Are you responsible for other people's actions? When do you stop being good? It's as easy as 1+1.

Recommended for mature audiences only – contains strong language & adult situations.

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Finks

By Joe Gilford
Directed by Charlie Stratton

July 23 – August 3, 2008


Joe Gilford

In the summer of 1952, a stand-up comic on the verge of a big TV breakthrough and an actress/activist meet and fall in love. But the House Committee on Un-American Activities is about to present the terrible choice that tests not only their love, but the friendships, loyalties, and convictions of a generation.

This intimate chronicle is based on true events from the lives of the author’s parents, Jack and Madeline Gilford.

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Martel Musicals

In the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film
All musicals will be presented as concert readings.

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

Nero

Script and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by Daniel Kramer
Musical direction by Deborah Abramson

July 11 – July 13, 2008


Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, Sater photo by Monique Carboni

The newest project from the Tony Award-winning writer and composer of the groundbreaking musical and Broadway phenomenon Spring Awakening, a black-comic tale of the bad-boy Emperor who fiddles as all faith in his country burns.

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Book, Music and Lyrics by David Rossmer & Dan Lipton
Directed by Jeremy Dobrish
Musical direction by Fred Lassen

July 18 – July 20, 2008


David Rossmer and Dan Lipton

A modern musical fairytale about a brother and sister torn apart by their dark past, and reunited by undying love. A haunting tapestry of hope and loss woven together by an emotionally rich book and a gorgeous popular score.

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Inside Look

In the Susan Stein Shiva Theater

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The History of Me

By Alan Zweibel
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino

July 18 – July 20, 2008


Alan Zweibel

Television comedy writer, playwright and Thurber Prize-winning novelist Alan Zweibel traces his career, from apprenticeship as a seller of $7 jokes to Catskills comedians, through his years as a member of the original Saturday Night Live team, including his wildly popular collaboration with his friend Gilda Radner, and the ensuing adventures of his professional and personal life in this hilarious and moving one-man show.

Dael Orlandersmith

Horsedreams

By Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by Gordon Edelstein

July 25 – July 27, 2008


Dael Orlandersmith

Susan Smith Blackburn Award-winner Dael Orlandersmith focuses her penetrating, evocative and lyrical imagination on a story of addiction that crosses class, race and gender lines to find a ten-year-old child who must invent an adult within in order to confront the devastation that surrounds him.

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Fault Lines

By Stephen Belber
Directed by David Schwimmer

August 2 – August 3, 2008


Stephen Belber

Whole Foods. Enlarged prostates. The proactive delineation of loyalty and conviction. A play that approaches what it means to approach 40.

NOTE: Fault Lines will be performed in the Martel

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Readings Festivals

Readings Festival 1


June 27 – June 29, 2008

Above the Fold

by Bernard Weinraub
directed by Will Frears
June 29 at 2 pm

Beast

by Michael Weller
directed by Jo Bonney
June 28 at 8 pm

Moving On

by Anton Dudley
directed by Mark Rucker
June 27 at 8 pm

O.P.C.

by Eve Ensler
directed by Michael Wilson
June 29 at 5 pm

Whisper from the Book of Etiquette

by Claire Chafee
directed by Maria Mileaf
June 28 at 2 pm

Free to the public. Reservations strongly recommended (845-437-5599)

Readings Festival 2


August 1 – August 3, 2008

Enough

by Deborah Rennard
directed by Max Mayer
August 2 at 2:00 pm
Susan Stein Shiva Theater

Knowing Cairo

by Andrea Stolowitz
directed by Rebecca Taichman
August 3 at 2:00 pm
Susan Stein Shiva Theater

Little Black Dress

by Ronan Noone
directed by Ari Edelson
August 2 at 5:00 pm
Susan Stein Shiva Theater

Mean Time

by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
directed by Daniel Aukin
August 1 at 8:00 pm
Susan Stein Shiva Theater

Veronica

written and directed by John Patrick Shanley
August 3 at 5:00 pm
Martel Theater, in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film

Free to the public. Reservations strongly recommended (845-437-5599)

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At the Outdoor Amphitheater

Free to the public. No reservations needed.

The Good Woman of Setzuan

By Bertolt Brecht
Adapted and directed by Tomi Tsunoda

July 11 – July 14, 2008 at 6:30pm

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Anthony Luciano

July 18 – July 21, 2008 at 6:30pm

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At the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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Thursdays in July at 6pm

During Late Night
Late Night at the Lehman Loeb Art Center

A site-specific performance installation directed and soundpainted by Mark Lindberg (inspired by the current exhibit Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection).
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