Arena Players Move to Vanderbilt Estate for Fall-Winter Season

Season Opens October 14 with Yasmina Reza’s Award-Winning ‘God of Carnage’

The Arena Players Repertory Theater, after 39 years in Farmingdale, will move it operations to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum for the company’s 2011 fall-winter season. The building the Arena Players currently occupy will be sold to private developers, artistic director Frederic DeFeis said.

Productions at the Vanderbilt will be performed in the Education Center, home for many years to the Arena Players’ Children's Theatre. The Arena Players Summer Shakespeare Festival has been performed outdoors in the Vanderbilt Mansion courtyard. The season opens Friday, October 14. (All plays are subject to availability).

Repertory Theater Schedule

•  God of Carnage, the award-winning comedy by Yasmina Reza, October 14 – November 6

•  Betrayal by Howard Pinter, November 11 – December 4

•  Murder at the Howard Johnson’s by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, December 9 – December 31 (excluding December 24 & 25)

•  Any Wednesday by Muriel Resnik, January 6 – January 29

•  The Rabbi & the Toyota Dealer by Murray Schisgal, February 3 – February 26 

Plays will be presented Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets on Friday and Sunday will be $20, with discounts for seniors, students with ID, large groups, and teenagers of the High Five Organization. Tickets on Saturdays are $25 for all. Subscribers will receive large discounts and a choice of seating. For reservations and further information, call the Arena Players Box Office at 516-293-0674 or visit website, www.arenaplayers.org.

Children’s Theater Schedule
•  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, October 22 – November 20

•  Cinderella’s Christmas, December 3 – December 31, excluding December 24 and 25.

Tickets for adults are $10, children $8, and children under three are free.