CSC's Young Company Presents AS YOU LIKE IT 3/17-4/1

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director and Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director, will present the sixth year of its popular YOUNG COMPANY, which creates classical works specially tailored for young audiences. This season's production will focus on Shakespeare's As You Like It, and will run from March 17 through April 1 at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). Columbia M.F.A. students and alumni actors will be featured in Shakespeare's masterpiece of love, laughter and exile. Classic Stage Company's The Young Company is a recipient of the prestigious Shakespeare for a New Generation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Directed by James Rutherford, As You Like It will be presented in a 90 minute abridged version specifically geared toward student and family audiences. Tickets are $25, and $15 for Students/Seniors.

In tandem with the production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Classic Stage Company continues their exciting educational outreach program, focused on the development of young actors and young audiences in New York City. Student actors of THE YOUNG COMPANY will be functioning as teaching artists in a series of workshops on Shakespeare in NYC public schools throughout the five boroughs, culminating in the students' attendance at special student matinees of As You Like It. The overall goal of the program is for young artists to inspire young audiences. CSC'S YOUNG COMPANY reaches thousands of New York City public schoolchildren each year.

Classic Stage Company is the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre committed to re-imagining the classical repertory for a contemporary American audience. CSC presents plays from the past that speak directly to the issues of today. As we return to works of the past, we endeavor to keep a clear eye on the future, particularly in terms of the next generation of artists and audiences. Classic Stage's artists are the best-established and emerging theater practitioners working in this country. Highly respected and widely regarded as a major force in New York and American theater, Classic Stage has been cited repeatedly by all the major Off-Broadway theater awards: Obies, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and 1999 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. CSC's new production of Double Falsehood, a recently re-discovered play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, runs March 12 through April 3.

THE YOUNG COMPANY: AS YOU LIKE IT
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, March 17th at 10am
Friday, March 18th at 10am
Sunday, March 20th at 8pm
Monday, March 21st at 8pm
Tuesday, March 22nd at 1:30pm
Sunday, March 27th at 8pm
Monday, March 28th at 10:30am
Monday, March 28th at 8pm
Tuesday, March 29th at 10:00am
Thursday, March 31st at 10am
Thursday, March 31st at 1:30pm
Friday, April 1st at 10am

Tickets for performances of THE YOUNG COMPANY: AS YOU LIKE IT are on sale now. For tickets please go to www.classicstage.org, call 212-352-3101, or toll free at 866-811-4111, or visit the theatre in person at 136 East 13th Street, between 3rd & 4th Avenue. Box office hours: Monday-Friday 12pm-6pm.