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By TOM SCHULMAN Directed by JOHN DOYLE October 2016 At a rigorous all-boys preparatory school renowned for its ancient traditions, the unconventional Professor Keating inspires his students to defy conformity and to live passionately. Academy Award-winner TOM SCHULMAN adapts his own screenplay for this much-anticipated world premiere.
By PIERRE CORNEILLE Adapted by DAVID IVES Directed by MICHAEL KAHN January 2017 The charming Dorante cannot tell the truth and the manservant Clinton cannot tell a lie. CSC favorite DAVID IVES (The School for Lies, The Heir Apparent) takes on Pierre Corneille’s hilarious seventeenthcentury farce of mistaken identity and secrets.
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FIRST LOOK FESTIVAL THE AMERICANS In a revamping of our popular reading series, this year’s First Look Festival will present four different American authors. This season will focus on early and lesser-known works by CLIFFORD ODETS, ARTHUR MILLER, EUGENE O’NEILL, and TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, exploring early twentieth-century drama and the birth of classic American plays by our country’s most distinguished writers.
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Adventure and mayhem in a foreign land, mistaken identities, reunions of estranged twins…join us this spring for the Young Company production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, a riotously zany farce by the Bard, specially tailored for young audiences! Now in its second decade, the Young Company, a program of CSC Education, makes Shakespeare engaging and accessible for nearly 4,000 middle and high school students annually. To learn more about our in-school workshops and performances at our theater, visit classicstage.org/education.
CSC’s Young Company is presented in partnership with the Graduate Acting Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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Patti LuPone, Victoria Clark, Cynthia Erivo, Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn, Joaquina Kalukango and Alexandra Silber at THE LADIES WHO SING SONDHEIM Gala, 2016
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