Patchogue and Brooklyn, NY – September 26, 2005 – The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theatre located on the Patchogue campus of St. Joseph’s College, will begin its 2005-06 season with Romantic Comedy, a play written by Bernard Slade. The show will run from September 30 through October 16, 2005.

This is the witty story of a playwriting team— Jason Carmichael, an arrogant, self-centered and sharp-tongued author and Phoebe Craddock, a mousy Vermont school teacher who fall in love at first sight but are kept apart by bad timing. As they deal with the twists and turns life brings them, their writing partnership flourishes, but the imaginary characters they create for their plays begin to reflect their own complicated lives. A wonderfully delightful “romantic comedy,” Romantic Comedy is about love, friendship and theatrical trauma.

General admission tickets cost $14 each with a reduced rate of $12 for students and senior citizens. Group rates, season subscriptions and dinner and lunch packages also are available. Shows begin at 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, with Sunday matinees starting at 3:00 p.m. 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, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 21 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Adult and Professional Education. Graduate degrees are also offered including an Executive MBA, a Master of Science in Management, a Master of Science Degree with a Major in Nursing, a Master of Arts in Literacy/Cognition and a Master of Arts in Infant/Toddler Early Childhood Special Education.