Cast of MMSC's production of ART.  | Top Ten Reasons for Attending a MMSC Readers Theatre Performance
And so we come to the end of another season and as we plan for next season, we want to leave you with some very good reasons to look forward to our return. So, herein follows our own Top Ten List of Reasons to attend a readers theatre performance: - #10 - Readers Theatre creates pictures better than TV.
- #9 - Readers Theatre will improve your sex life: activated imaginations make more playful, responsive and enticingly dangerous lovers (Surgeon General's Report).
- #8 - Readers Theatre saves energy: no high powered electric lights, no gas guzzling histrionics, no timber consuming sets, no nuclear powered special effects.
- #7 - Readers Theatre increases your intelligence: where else can you learn about great authors, past and present, without the bother of having to read their works.
- #6 - Readers Theatre performers won't consider you rude if you close your eyes at a performance -- we know it is all the better to hear us, my dear.
- #5 - Readers Theatre increases longevity: some of our audience members should have died years ago, but don't want to miss a single scintillating performance.
- #4 - Readers Theatre has no commercials: we don't even sell t-shirts or coffee cups.
- #3 - Readers Theatre performances are so out that they're in.
- #2 - You will never bump into George W. Bush at a Readers Theatre performance.
- #1 - We are the "best rep company in the Valley, with or without sets." Daily Freeman
Come and hear for yourself | Cast of MMSC's production of WIT.  |
Producing Director Bob Miller  | Cast of MMSC production of Scrabble & Tabouli  | |
June 11 & 12
8 PM
Unison Arts Center
Oscar Wilde
Wilde and Untamed
An Evening of the words of Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright and author.
Selected and edited by William Connors
Featuring William Connors, Zsuzsa Manna, Janet Nurre, Gerard Brooks and Thom Webb
Cover illustration for Salome  |
The evening's program will include selections from Salome, The Happy Prince, The Importance of Being Earnest, and DeProfundis.
Cover illustration - Happy Prince  |
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Co-sponsored by Mayo Consulting.
Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
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Suspense.
Deception.
Love.
Fear.
Stamps.
What do you get when you cross The Maltese Falcon with Law & Order?
That's Mauritius.
June 25 & 26
8 PM
Unison Arts Center
Mauritius This sharp, funny, and engaging work straight from its Broadway
premiere by Pulitzer Prize nominated Theresa Rebeck keeps us at the edge
of our seats hinged on each plot twist. Jackie and Mary are
half-sisters whose mother's death leaves them in possession of a rare
stamp collection, while battling over who owns the stamps three dealers
have designs of their own. Who is friend and who is foe?
"A gifted writer with an expansive mind, willing to explore old
terrain to find new paths."
- The New York Times
"Unsurprisingly for a writer with extensive experience in TV
police procedurals like NYPD Blue and Law & Order:
Criminal Intent, one of Rebeck's strengths is her skill at
stitching tension into every exchange. The five characters in Mauritius
pair up and face off in shifting configurations, the emotionally
fraught edges of their twisty encounters made all the more intriguing by
the fact that items as apparently innocuous as postage stamps fuel the
friction." - Variety 
"One wouldn't think that the subject of rare stamps would make for
gripping, entertaining theater, but Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius,
being given its Broadway premiere by the Manhattan Theatre Club, proves
otherwise... The sort of well-made, engrossing and unpretentious play
rarely encountered on Broadway these days, Mauritius is a
welcome introduction to the fall season." - The Hollywood Reporter
WARNING: The show contains strong language and unpredictable plot twists!
Directed by Christine Crawfis Featuring Janet Nurre, Elizabeth Barrows, Rich Hack, Thom Webb and Joseph Jervais-Gayton.
Unison Arts Center
Co-sponsored by Auerbach and Company
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We've taken a moment to revisit our old Top Ten List of Reasons to Attend a Readers' Theatre Performance. It just seemed appropriate. Hope to see you soon at one of these two final performances.
