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CALENDAR OF EVENTS - SPRING 2008

Tickets go on sale January 2, 2008. For information, call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516)463-6644 (M-F, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m.).

Hofstra Athletics and The Department of Drama and Dance
in cooperation with Marquette University
present a benefit performance of
McGUIRE
by Dick Enberg

Broadway, film, and TV actor Cotter Smithis slated to perform the title role in the one-man show written by Emmy-award winning sportscaster Dick Enberg. The play is infused with McGuire's particular wit and wisdom, as the beloved coach reminisces about his life from his growing up in Brooklyn through his days coaching at Marquette including the team's famous 1977 NCAA championship win over North Carolina. Dick Enberg to do talk backs after all performances.
Directed by Heidi Mueller Smith

Date/Times:
Saturday, February 9 at 1 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 10 at 2 p.m.
Location:
The Black Box Theatre
New Academic Building, South Campus
Tickets:
$30 general admission
$27 Senior Citizen (over 65), with non-Hofstra student ID
or with current HofstraCard.

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THE 59th HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare

In 1958 the Annual Hofstra University Shakespeare Festival moved to the John Cranford Adams Playhouse stage. Join us as we celebrate the beginning of the next 50 years of Shakespeare on Hofstra's own Globe Stage with this masterpiece on the morality and
nature of revenge.
Directed by Special Guest Director Gus Kaikkonen

Dates/Times:
Thursday, March 6, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 7 and 14, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 8 and 15, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 9 and 16, 2 p.m.
Location:
John Cranford Adams Playhouse
South Campus
Tickets:
$12
$10 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID
One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard

Hamlet Symposia
Date/Time:
Wednesday, 20 February
Wednesday, 27 February
Both at 11:30 a.m.
Location:
Emily and Jerry Spiegel Theater
South Campus
Admission:
Free

THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL MUSICALE
The Hofstra Collegium Musicum
William E. Hettrick, Director
and
THIS BUD OF LOVE; a one-hour Romeo and Juliet
An excellent introduction to Shakespeare, suitable for young audiences.
By William Shakespeare, Adapted by Maureen Connolly McFeely
Saturday, March 8 and 15, 2 p.m.
Tickets
$10
$8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID
One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard

Special performance of THIS BUD OF LOVE; a one-hour Romeo and Juliet
Thursday, March 12, 8 p.m.
Tickets $6 or one free ticket with current HofstraCard

THIS BUD OF LOVE Symposium
Date/Time:
Wednesday, 5 March at 11:30 a.m.
Location:
Emily and Jerry Spiegel Theater
South Campus
Admission:
Free

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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

By Thornton Wilder
The story of a modern American family as they face the onset of the Ice Age, the Great Flood, and a World War. Celebrating humanity's will to survive, this Pulitzer prize-winning play demonstrates that through resilience and inventiveness the human race will somehow manage to save itself from the brink of disaster…again!
Directed by Jean Dobie Giebel

Dates/Times:
Friday, April 11 and 18, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 12 and 19, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 13 and 20, 2 p.m.
Location:
The Black Box Theatre in The New Academic Building
South Campus
Tickets:
$10
$8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID
One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard

SKIN OF OUR TEETH Symposium
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 9, 11:30 a.m.
Location:
Emily and Jerry Spiegel Theater
South Campus
Admission:
Free

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SPRING DANCE CONCERT
Exciting premieres and reconstructions of classic pieces by Hofstra faculty choreographers and special guest artists.

Dates/Times:
Thursday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 25, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m.
Location:
John Cranford Adams Playhouse
South Campus
Tickets: $10
$8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID
One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard

Spring Dance Concert Symposium
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 16, 11:30 a.m.
Location:
Dempster Hall Dance Studio, Room 209
South Campus
Admission:
Free