Clare Rose Playhouse - Plays and Other Events

The Clare Rose Playhouse, an exceptionally beautiful facility, is a former cottage converted in 1985 through the generosity and guidance of the man for whom it is named. The Playhouse serves as a major teaching facility for the college's theater courses and is a training ground for young actors. Year–round, the stage is host for the production of children's theatre, storytelling, theatre for the deaf and an intimate forum for local playwrights and poets.

The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.

Clare Rose Playhouse
155 Roe Boulevard
Patchogue, NY 11772
631.654.0199

Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Calendar
When All the World Was Green	1/18-1/27
In Joe Chaikin and Sam Shephard's "When All the World Was Green," a young female reporter interviews a man about to be executed for murder. The questions she asks and the answers he gives or refuses to give suggest that there is something far deeper developing in each of them as a result of their encounter. Written in 1996 by Sam Shepard and his friend Joe Chaiken, the play was commissioned for the Atlanta Olympics and later produced in Moscow and New York. To it we have added some music by Tom Waitt so that its tone and humor can never be separated from some fundamental questions about survival and being human.
Violet	2/22-3/9
The main character, Violet, steps off the train in Tulsa, Oklahoma from rural North Carolina with a ghastly scar on her face, in pursuit of a televangelist who she believes can heal her facial abnormality. Along her journey, she finds herself involved in a love triangle with two soldiers who teach her about love and beauty through racial and social differences. The tale is one inspired by the saying, "beauty is only skin deep" and has won the 1997 Richard Rodgers Production Award for a new musical, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, among others.
The Gay Deceiver	4/25-5/10
The Gay Deceiver, a zany comedy written by John Patrick, playwright and Hollywood scriptwriter, intertwines family, politics and sexuality for a lively story about quirky relatives with varying beliefs. The main character, David, returns home with his cross-dressing partner to disclose his homosexual lifestyle to his conservative parents, but unexpectedly gets drawn into his father's mayoral campaign. All the while, his father is unaware that his supposed girlfriend is actually his boyfriend. Hilarity ensues and the story comes to a close with father and son accepting each other's differences.
Doubt	7/11-7/27
Doubt, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama written by John Patrick Shanley, is controversial story that is snatched straight from the headlines as the main character, a stern Sister Aloysius, attempts to condemn a priest who she believes is guilty of abusing a child because his relationship with the student is too friendly. Doubt creates a moral dilemma for the characters and the audience while deciding between the mystery of innocence and guilt under the Catholic umbrella.