On Stage
Intimations for Saxophone
Hofstra University’s Department of Drama and Dance opens its fall season with Sophie Treadwell’s groundbreaking play, written in 1934 by one of America’s first major female playwrights (and produced only once in 2005). The play traces the aspirations of an upper-class, sheltered young woman who seeks self-realization by exploring the life denied her by her convent upbringing, marriage to a man of her class whom she does not love and the soulless society in which she lives.
Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 7-9, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 10, 2 p.m. $10, $8 seniors and students. Hofstra University’s Black Box Theater, New Academic Building, South Campus, Hempstead. (516) 463-6644 or www.hofstra.edu/HofstraEntertainment.
New York Philharmonic
A Year With Frog And Toad
Arnold Lobel’s popular series of children’s books comes alive on stage in the children’s musical, presented by Nassau Community College’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Each book contains five simple, often humorous short stories chronicling the exploits of a frog and his toad friend that are retold in this musical adaptation.
Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 9-10, 2 p.m. $7, $5 children under 12. Nassau Community College’s Mainstage Theatre, Garden City. (516) 572-7676.