<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Shadowland Theatre: Press Release</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="../textb.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="../textb.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body leftmargin="4" topmargin="4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" alink="#00ff00" link="#006633" marginheight="4" marginwidth="4" vlink="#009999"> <div align="center"><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/header.lbi" --> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="80" width="750"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="../images/head2002.gif" usemap="#Map" border="0" height="82" width="750"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="137,29,200,54" href="../index.html" alt="Home Page" title="Home Page"> <area shape="rect" coords="201,30,300,54" href="../perform/perform.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="371,31,372,34" href="#"> <area shape="rect" coords="303,31,437,54" href="../about/about.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="438,30,542,54" href="../box/box.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="544,30,644,53" href="press.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="137,56,490,80" href="../support/support.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="491,54,571,80" href="../contact/contact.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="570,54,639,80" href="../area/area.htm"> <area shape="rect" coords="642,54,749,82" href="../sitemap.htm"> </map> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" height="275" width="750"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="150"> <p><img src="../images/placehol.gif" height="4" width="100"></p> <p class="sidebarnobold"><span class="sidebar">Contact:</span> <br> Martin Rabkin/martinrabkinink<br> <span class="sidebar">Telephone:</span> <br> 914-420-5739<br> <span class="sidebar">Email: </span><a href="mailto:mrabkin@martinrabkinink.com" class="nav"><strong>mrabkin@martinrabkinink.com</strong></a></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="600"> <span class="pagetitle">Shadowland Theatre Announces 2006 Summer Season </span><br> <p class="bodystyleitalic">Follows Record-Breaking 2005 Season with 52% Rise in Box Office Sales <br> <br> Includes First-Ever Co-Production of "The Good German" by David Wiltse in Partnership with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey<br> </p> <p class="bodystyle"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ellenville, NY, May 8, 2006</span> - Will success repeat itself in downtown Ellenville this summer?&nbsp; If you are the Shadowland Theatre, the Hudson Valley/Catskill region's leading professional non-profit Actors' Equity company in downtown Ellenville, NY, the stage was set in 2005 with a 52%, 38% and 30% increase in the box office sales, season subscriptions and corporate and private donations, respectively.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <br> According to Brendan Burke, who begins his second season as producing artistic director, "Tickets to Shadowland last summer were one of the hottest, most in-demand items in the entire lower Catskill region. Our box office sales bucked the national trend. To my knowledge, no other theatre across the US experienced such a sensational rise in single-tick sales. This also proves how special the region is, due in no small part to our Shadowland audience and supporters."&nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <br> Shadowland will launch its 2006 season from May 26 to June 11 with John Walch's <a href="/perform/playa.htm">Circumference of a Squirrel</a>, a rarely produced one-man play and a wildly comic, absorbing tale starring Ames Adamson, revisiting the role that The New York Times called "an extraordinary performance."&nbsp; Directing is James Glossman, associate artistic director at Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, who directed last season's Arthur Miller's All My Sons, starring Golden-Globe winner Richard Benjamin and his wife, Paula Prentiss.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> Circumference will be followed June 16 to July 9 by Michael Healey's <a href="/perform/playb.htm">The Drawer Boy</a>, selected by TIME as one of the 10 best plays of the year in 2001. One of the most popular plays in the US today, it deals with the bonds of friendship and the undeniable power of storytelling to harm - and heal. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <a href="/perform/playc.htm">My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra</a> will bring the magic and music of Sinatra from July 14 to August 6.&nbsp; A tribute, not an improvisation, My Way was conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson and features 57 songs made famous by Sinatra, from "Fly Me to the Moon" and Summer Wind" to "That's Life". &nbsp;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <a href="/perform/playd.htm">Lend Me a Tenor</a> by Ken Ludwig, the Broadway sensation with 7 Tony nominations and a hit on London's West End, what Variety called "nonstop laughter!", brings a sidesplitting, door-slamming farce to Shadowland, complete with pratfalls, mistaken identities and belly laughs. &nbsp;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> Completing the season is a first for Shadowland, a producing partnership and co-production with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey for the New York Premiere of David Wiltse's <a href="/perform/playe.htm">The Good German</a>, a dramatic, darkly comic, always powerful journey set during WWII into the contradictions of loyalty and love - and the stubborn determination of the human heart to find a way through darkness to light. The play will continue throughout October at Playwrights' Theatre in Madison, NJ.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> Season subscriptions and single-performance tickets are available at the Shadowland box office at 157 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY, 845-647-5511. <br> </p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shadowland Theatre</span> is the leading professional nonprofit Actors' Equity company in the Lower Hudson Valley/Catskill Mountain region. Located 90 miles from New York City in Ellenville, NY Shadowland was named "Best Theatre 2004" in the "Best of the Valley" award program by Hudson Valley Magazine. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.shadowlandtheatre.org">www.shadowlandtheatre.org.</a> <p class="sidebarnobold">&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/footer.lbi" --> <table vlign="top" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="750"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><a href="../index.html" class="nav"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Lucida Sans, Georgia, Times New Roman" size="1"><b>home</b></font></a><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Lucida Sans, Times New Roman" size="1"> | <a href="../perform/perform.htm" class="nav">2006 season</a> | <a href="../box/box.htm" class="nav">box office info</a> | <a href="../support/support.htm" class="nav">how to support shadowland and season subscriptions </a> <br> <a href="../about/about.htm" class="nav">about Shadowland </a> | <a href="press.htm" class="nav">latest news</a> | <a href="../contact/contact.htm" class="nav">contact us</a> | <a href="../area/area.htm" class="nav">area info</a></font></b><b> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Lucida Sans, Times New Roman" size="1">| <a href="../sitemap.htm" class="nav">site map</a></font></b></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Lucida Sans, Georgia, Times New Roman" size="1">©Shadowland Theatre, 2006, All Rights Reserved<br> 157 Canal St, Ellenville, NY 12428 Box Office: 845-647-5511<br> </font> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --> <p>&nbsp; </p> </div> </body> </html>