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New School for Drama Announces Fall 2010 Programming

The New School for Drama has announced its 2010 fall season, which will begin with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (October 7-9), directed by Arin Arbus.

The season will also include Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine (October 28-30), to be offed as part of the schools First Look Workshop Performance series. The play, about a man who’s confronting the fact he is being replaced by a machine at work, will be performed in a final rehearsal atmosphere with minimal sets, lights, costumes, and props.

The New School for Drama’s third offering this fall will be the New Visions Directing Festival (December 8-11), which will feature repertory stagings of Don Juan Comes Back From the War by Odon von Horath, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Tim Butterfield; Medea by Euripides, translated by Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer, directed by Kathryn McHugh; and The Country by Martin Crimp, directed by Paul Takacs.