Third by Wendy Wasserstein presented by Readers Theater Monday at Russell Library

Readers Theater opens their season at Russell Library with the play, Third by Wendy Wasserstein. Theater goers are asked to come to the Court Street entrance of the Hubbard Room. Doors will open at 6:30pm. Light refreshments will be served until curtain time at 7:00pm.

Since the library closes on Mondays at 6:00pm, the only access to the Hubbard Room will be from the Court Street entrance.

Wendy Wasserstein

Third was Wasserstein's last play, and premiered off Broadway in 2005. The play takes place at a small, prestigious, New England liberal arts college during one academic year. A female college professor, Laurie Jameson, has her her life and fundamental assumptions challenged by an encounter with a student, Woodson Bull, III. The professor and student have strongly divergent personal and political characteristics.

The play grapples with the issues of stereotyping, identity politics and family issues.

Reader’s Theater is live drama enacted by local actors.

Directed by Anne Cassady and Richard Kamins

Funded by the Middletown Commission on the Arts and The Friends of the Russell Library.