PATCHOGUE, NY – DECEMBER 20, 2007– The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theatre located on the Long Island campus of St. Joseph’s College, will continue its 2007-08 season with the Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin collaborative one-act drama, When the World Was Green (A Chef’s Fable). The show will run January 18-7, 2008.

In When the World Was Green, the two characters of the play—an old man who was once a superb chef and a young reporter who interviews him on death row for the poisoning of a man who may or may not be the reporter’s father, who she has never met—grow deeply from the lingering idea that their lives may be surprisingly intertwined. This version of the production incorporates the humorous and lively music of Tom Waitt.

Individual tickets for When the World Was Green are priced at $14; $12 for students and seniors. Show times are 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 3:00 p.m. on Sundays. For reservations or further information, please call the box office at (631) 654-0199.

The Clare Rose Playhouse, which serves as a major teaching facility for the College’s theatre courses, is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Avenue) in Patchogue, on the northeast corner of the campus of St. Joseph’s College. 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. The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Suffolk, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 22 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.