Summer is the season for traveling, right?

So, did you know MMSC is hitting The Road this summer? We are heading south. Won't you join us? We are trying something entirely new and we'd love to have you come along for the ride!

We will be performing in July (17 - 19) on the BIG stage of County Players at the Falls Theatre in Wappingers Falls for an exciting weekend of Readers Theatre. That's right - an entire weekend of MMSC with a different show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Imagine that - three different days - three different shows. On a real stage. With real theatrical lighting and sound. And a set! (Don't worry - we still won't have costumes.) Brand new stools for us. AND comfortable reserved seating for you!

Our MMSC performances are just one weekend in a big three weekend Summer Series at County Players. You may also want to catch Hollywood , Big Band Style, featuring the Big Band Sound on July 10 - 12 AND A Grand Night for Singing, featuring the music of Richard Rodgers and the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II on July 24 - 26. Plan to see it all. Make a day/night of it!

Wappingers Falls is a charming village in Dutchess County. Great neighborhood restaurants within an easy walk of the Falls Theatre. Here's directions.

Read on for the line-up of our MMSC Readers Theatre Weekend. Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
Bob

Robert Miller, Producing Director
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
845-380-0155

A hotshot F-16 pilot reports back to duty after an unexpected pregnancy, and finds herself reassigned to flying drones from a windowless trailer near Las Vegas.  

 

As she hunts insurgents by day and returns to her family each night, boundaries increasingly blur between the desert in which she lives and the virtual one she patrols a world away. Grounded is a gripping new play that explodes our assumptions about war, family, and personal responsibility.

 

Directed by Christine Crawfis  

Featuring Janet Nurre as The Pilot

 

Praise for Grounded 

"Gripping..."
The New York Times

Winner of the 2010 Susan Blackburn Prize

George is a brilliant linguist, consumed with preserving and documenting dying languages. But at home, he cannot find the words that will preserve his disintegrating marriage. His archival assistant is mute with adoration for him; and his newest subjects, an elderly couple who are the last speakers of an obscure language, refuse to utter a word to one another.    

 

Cho's magical prize-winning comedy, loaded with life's contradictions - love and loss, happiness and pain, endings and beginnings - asks whether love is a universal language or, like Esperanto, just a well-intentioned dream.

Directed by Christine Crawfis
Featuring Rick Meyer, MaryBeth Boylan, Janet Nurre, Doug Woolley, Julie Eads Woolley, AnnaMarie Paolercio, and Jeff Battersby


The Language Archive

Perfect for MMSC & "Art for the Ears" 

While languages dwindle or communication fails, Cho's terse language thrives. She says "I like empty space. I like silence. I like room on the page. I feel that what I love best is making an audience have to imagine things for themselves. I'm trying to leave room for someone to come meet me part of the way." 

 

Come and celebrate the Summer 2015 with Mohonk Mountain Stage Company as we unveil our adorable Summer Shorts. 

 

Director Robert Miller and MMSC company members Christine Crawfis, Bruce Pileggi, Rick Meyer, Janet Nurre, MaryBeth Boylan, Michael Frohnhoefer and Kristin Battersby are sure to impress you with the huge hilarity of these short comic plays which will include "Sure Thing" by David Ives, "Hail Caesar" by Michael Mitnick, "The Scary Question" by Wayne Rawley and "My Husband" by Paul Rudnick. 

Michael Frohnhoefer in My Husband

 

We might throw in an old favorite or two...like "I'm Herbert" by Robert Anderson.  

 

AND get this - we'll even let you - the audience - tell us in what order you'd like to hear them! 

 

No matter how short or tall you are, get ready to spend a sizzlin' summer afternoon with MMSC and lots of laughs.

 

Some old favorites and some new delights await you in MMSC's Summer Shorts. This afternoon of short plays is sure to put you in a sunny frame of mind.

 

 

 

NEWS FLASH - We are getting a facelift and redesigning our web site, including a new domain name. So stay tuned.

NEWS FLASH II - We have already set our Fall 2015 dates in New Paltz. So stay double-tuned.

And don't forget to check in often on our MMSC blog for the most up-to-date news about MMSC.

Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
Robert G. Miller, Producing Director
New Paltz, New York 12561
845-380-0155