Elisabeth Waterston to Star in Inside Shakespeare! on Oct 1

By: Sep. 15, 2009
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The Insights & Revelations Performance Series, now in residence at The Emelin Theatre of Mamaroneck for the 2009/2010 season is pleased to announce updated casting and play information for the first presentation of the fall season.

Elisabeth Waterston (star of CSC's The Tempest, opposite Mandy Patinkin and The Public Theater's Much Ado About Nothing opposite real-life father Sam Waterston.

Ms. Waterston and other notable Shakespearean performers will participate in an open rehearsal of Measure for Measure under the direction of Michael Sexton, The Shakespeare Society's Artistic Director. Shakespeare Scholar Ruth Carpenter will provide commentary. The Insights & Revelations Performance Series signature creative discussion and reception with the artists follows the open rehearsal.

PERFORMANCE AND TICKET INFORMATION:

Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. - $25.

Inside Shakespeare with The Shakespeare Society

Tickets are $25 per presentation. Get 25% off if you order all three! For more season information and ticket purchases visit www.emelin.org or call (914) 698-3045.

ABOUT THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY:

The Shakespeare Society is a not-for-profit cultural organization, presenting entertaining and challenging programs that combine stage performances by outstanding actors with illuminating commentary by noted Shakespearean writers, scholars, and directors. Past participants have included Harold Bloom, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Greenblatt, Liev Schreiber, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Kathleen Chalfant, Michael Cumpsty, Jefferson Mays, Marcia Gay Harden, Patrick Stewart, Sir Peter Hall, Derek Jacobi, Philip Bosco, Marjorie Garber, Ralph Fiennes, Ron Rosenbaum, Richard Easton, John Guare, and Claire Bloom. www.shakespearesociety.org

Michael Sexton, Executive & Artistic Director, he has directed world and New York premieres of plays by Marsha Norman, Rinne Groff, Ain Gordon, Rogelio Martinez, Victor Lodato, Phil Porter, Chloe Moss, Marin Gazzaniga, Caryl Churchill, RoseMary Moore, and Robert Clyman and workshops of plays by Tony Kushner. He has worked at New York Theater Workshop, the Public Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Soho Rep, PS122, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, Playmakers Rep, Rising Phoenix Rep, Cherry Lane Alternative, the Samuel Beckett Theater, and the Harold Clurman Theater, among others. He is a regular guest artist at NYU's Graduate Acting Program (Zelda Fichandler, Chair), the JuilliardSchool (Michael Kahn, Chair), and most recently, Columbia University. He co-edited (with Tim Page) Four Plays by Dawn Powell for Steerforth Press.

 



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