2008 Season Schedule
Programs and artists subject to change without notice.
Programs and artists subject to change without notice.

By Eric Bogosian
Directed by Mark Brokaw
July 1 – July 13, 2008
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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.

By Joe Gilford
Directed by Charlie Stratton
July 23 – August 3, 2008
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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.
In the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film
All
musicals will be presented as concert readings.

Script and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by Daniel Kramer
July 11 – July 13, 2008
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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.
Book, Music and Lyrics by David Rossmer & Dan Lipton
Directed by Jeremy Dobrish
July 18 – July 20, 2008
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.
In the Susan Stein Shiva Theater

By Alan Zweibel
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino
July 18 – July 20, 2008
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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.
By Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
July 25 – July 27, 2008
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.

By Stephen Belber
August 2 – August 3, 2008
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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
June 27 – June 29, 2008
by Bernard Weinraub
by Michael Weller
by Anton Dudley
by Eve Ensler
by Claire Chafee.
Free to the public. Reservations strongly recommended (845-437-5599)
August 1 – August 3, 2008
by Deborah Rennard
by Andrea Stolowitz
by Ronan Noone
by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
by John Patrick Shanley
Free to the public. Reservations strongly recommended (845-437-5599)
Free to the public. No reservations needed.
By Bertolt Brecht
Adapted and directed by Tomi Tsunoda
July 11 – July 14, 2008 at 6:30pm
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Anthony Luciano
July 18 – July 21, 2008 at 6:30pm
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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