TWELFTH NIGHT Ends Run at Classic Stage Company, 3/5

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director and Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director, will present the fifth year of its popular YOUNG COMPANY, which creates classical works specially tailored for young audiences. This season's production will focus on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The show will run through March 5 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, loss and laughter. Directed by CSC Associate Artistic Director Tony Speciale, Twelfth Night will be presented in a 90 minute abridged version specifically geared toward student and family audiences. 

In tandem with the productions, 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 Twelfth Night. 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 David Ives' Venus In Fur, directed by Walter Bobbie and starring Wes Bentley and Nina Arianda, was recently extended due to critical demand thru March 7, 2010.

Tickets for performances of THE YOUNG COMPANY: TWELFTH NIGHT 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.