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artistic & managing directors
Happy New Year! Welcome to New Repertory Theatre, the professional theatre company in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, and 2013-2014 Our 30th Season: Dreams, Dares, and Discoveries! We’re thrilled to have you here for our New England premiere of Deborah Margolin’s IMAGINING MADOFF. IMAGING MADOFF dares to discover the opposition between pragmatic greed and the moral compass that is capable of identifying the bankruptcy of principles at its root. As we climb out of the vestiges of the Great Recession, the play dares to ask us what we've learned by having lived through the era that caused it and the process that helped us find remedy. At New Rep, we continue to explore powerfully human stories that resonate and respond to the issues and ideas of our time. We invite you to join the New Rep family of subscribers—either with our A La Carte Subscription or our new FlexPass! Both packages offer great value and exclusive subscriber benefits. See the flyer inside this program for details. New subscribers will also receive a complimentary ticket to our upcoming Next Rep World Premiere of PATTERN OF LIFE by Walt McGough, this June! As New Rep approaches our milestone anniversary, our 30th Anniversary Comprehensive Campaign is in full swing. Our three-year fundraising effort both celebrates three decades of New Rep’s history and will ensure New Rep’s financial health into the future. The color center spread of this program invites you to learn about the variety of ways to give. We hope you will consider our new “30 for 30” sustaining gift program—give just $30/month to honor our 30th Anniversary, to ensure New Rep continues staging important stories like IMAGINING MADOFF for a generation to come. We look forward to seeing you at our next play, the New England premiere of Matthew Lopez’ look at post-Civil War freedom seen through a Southern Jewish soldier and his former slaves, THE WHIPPING MAN, January 25 through February 16. Thank you, Harriet Sheets Managing Director
Jim Petosa Artistic Director
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