Programs
Each year, Theatre Three presents a Mainstage season of seven productions (four musicals, two plays, and A Christmas Carol.) The Second Stage presents an ongoing series of events including small plays, original one-acts, staged readings, and cabaret performances. The in-house Children's Theatre presents nine original topical musicals. The Touring Children's Theatre offers four original programs dealing with child-at-risk or educational issues. Theatre Three's Dramatic Academy offers three semesters each year (Fall, Winter/Spring, and Summer) with classes for ages six through adult.
Theatre Three's Mainstage seasons have offered a wide variety of productions including the Long Island premieres of Into the Woods, Children of a Lesser God, M. Butterfly, Prelude to a Kiss, Mr. Cinders, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, All in the Timing, Dream a Little Dream, and Pageant as well as the world premieres of The Irish Legacy, Before I Wake, and The Faculty Room.
Theatre Three's Second Stage has produced an outstanding roster of cutting-edge dramas (including Blood Knot, The Puppetmaster of Lodz, A Man with Connections, Samm-Art Williams Home, Agnes of God, My Sister in This House, Three Tall Women, and Death and the Maiden) and delightful comedies (Shirley Valentine, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and The Mystery of Irma Vep). The Second Stage has hosted such cabaret luminaries as Tovah Feldshuh, K. T. Sullivan, Marilyn Sokol, Julie Wilson, Billy Stritch, and Nancy LaMott. The Second Stage is also home to the weekly improv comedy show Friday Night Face Off.
The in-house Children's Theatre has presented programs on a wide array of subjects: the dangers of smoking (Puff-The-Not-So-Magic Dragon), honesty (The Boy Who Cried Werewolf), and race relations and the homeless (The Three Little Pigs, or Home Is Where You Hold Your Heart). An annual favorite includes Barnaby Saves Christmas to co-exist with the prominent Theatre Three's Mainstage tradition of A Christmas Carol. These programs double as entertainment and education.
The children's touring productions have included the nationally acclaimed anti-DWI play And These, Our Friends which has been performing for the past eleven years. From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust, the most recent addition to Theatre Three's touring productions, has been seen in schools and community centers on Long Island, as well as in Manhattan and in four other states, for a total of over 200 performances in the past three years. They recently put into effect their newest touring production, "The Bullying Project" that touches base on the prominent issue of bullying in schools. An original musical that has received incredible attention from the first preview.
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