The Horace Mann School Department of Theatre & Dance

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Faculty:

Woody Howard, Chair Denise DiRenzo Alison Kolinski Emma Laurence

Joel Sherry Joseph Timkó

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Horace Mann Theatre Company Announces the first performance for 2009

William Inge’s Drama

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Bronx, NY, January 8, 2009---Continuing our season this February will be a 50th Anniversary production of William Inge’s family drama The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Directed by Department Chair, Woody Howard, Inge’s play from the late 1950’s is about how changing times and adolescent angst create tensions among members of a small-town family in the 1920’s. The play resonates remarkably with our current economic & societal crisis. Performances will take place in the Alfred Gross Theatre at The Horace Mann School, 231 West 246th Street, Riverdale, NY, Thursday, February 5th at 4:00pm, Friday and Saturday, February 6th and 7th at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10.00 ($5.00 Students and Seniors) and are available by calling 718.432.4150 or in person just prior to performance. Our season continues in April with The Horace Mann Theatre Company student performers singing and ‘hoofing’ it in 42nd Street. This June will find the return of our popular annual alumni performance. About the Horace Mann Theatre Company The collaboration of students and faculty in design, construction, direction, choreography and performance is a miracle to behold and most pleasing to experience. The artistic ensemble is enriched and enlivened by every new production. You, the audience, are part of that collaboration. Come to the theatre so that we can share our work with you and, hopefully, entertain, intrigue and transport you.