Third ( Premiere )

	Running Dates:	January 7 – February 6, 2011
	Theatre:	The Kavinoky Theatre
	Contact / Ticket Info:	320 Porter Ave 716.829.7668

WNY Premiere by Wendy Wasserstein

Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s THIRD broadmindedly examines the subjects of stereotyping, politics, and generational issues.  Woodson Bull III, or “Third”, a jingoistic jock at a liberal arts college, is accused of plagiarizing a sophisticated essay on King Lear.  When confronted by the Committee of Academic Standards, the professor and student alike debate the accusation and grapple with their contrasting outlooks on relationships, age and our increasingly polarized political environment.  “THIRD exhales a gentle breath of autumn, a rueful awareness of death and of seasons past, that makes it impossible to dismiss it…It’s the certainty of uncertainty in life that makes THIRD so affecting.” – NY Times