CSC's Young Company to Present MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 3/5-16

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director, will present the seventh year of its popular YOUNG COMPANY, which creates classical works specially tailored for young audiences. This season's production will focus on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and will run from March 5 through March 16 at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). Columbia M.F.A. students and alumni actors will be featured in Shakespeare's merry battle of hearts and wits. Directed by Jimmy Maize, Much Ado About Nothing 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 Much Ado About Nothing, 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 Much Ado About Nothing. 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 finest 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 production of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht and Directed by Brian Kulick, runs through March 18.

Tickets for performances of THE YOUNG COMPANY: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 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.