Enjoy an Off-Broadway Experience Right on Long Island

OAKDALE, NY – This fall, The Loft Theatre at Dowling College will continue its string of popular productions in presenting Shakespeare’s classic comic romance, Much Ado About Nothing. This professional production will be directed by acclaimed New York City Director, Teresa K. Pond. Teresa’s background includes a strong cross-section of classical and new plays, musicals, and opera. Her most recent productions include Extraordinary! at Vital Theatre (NYC) and Half Life, hailed by New York Magazine as the top show of the 2005 New York Fringe Festival.

Featuring one of the great comic couples in theatre, Beatrice and Benedict, whose sharp-tongued repartee belies their deep feelings, a detective even more bumbling than Inspector Clouseau, and high drama at a wedding ceremony, Much Ado is as much soap opera as a high comedy. In keeping with the Loft’s setting on Long Island and Dowling’s Vanderbilt Mansion campus, Much Ado is set on a Gold Coast Long Island mansion in the Roaring Twenties. Flappers and ingenues meet tycoons and flyboys with music and hooch and all the thrills of the pre-crash era. With a professional design team, actors from New York City and Long Island, and an intimate black box theatre, the Loft presents an Off-Broadway quality production right in your own backyard.

The show runs from Nov. 23-Dec. 9, 2007.  Show dates are as follows:

Thursdays, Nov. 29 & Dec. 6 at 8 p.m.; Fridays, Nov. 23 & Dec. 7 at 8
p.m.; Saturdays Nov. 24, Dec. 1 & 8 at 8 p.m.; Sundays Nov. 25, Dec. 2 &
9 at 4 p.m.; and a special early bird performance on Friday, Nov. 30 at
6:00 p.m.  Ticket prices are as follows: $15 Donation ($12 for Dowling
faculty, staff, alumni; $10 for students, children and seniors).  For
reservations, call 244-5037 or visit www.dowling.edu/loft.

About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in several disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.

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MEDIA CONTACT: 
Kelly Kazemier
Director of Communications
631-244-3318
kazemiek@dowling.edu