Staged reading June 11 at Oddfellows is fundraiser

Returning from New York to direct the upcoming one-performance-only staged reading of Joe DiPietro’s “The Last Romance,” Jenny Greeman offers tribute to two nonprofit, independent Middletown theater companies, Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater and Artfarm.

The event will raise funds for the two arts organizations and takes place Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at Oddfellows Playhouse, 128 Washington Street.

“As a student/performer from age 6 to 14 with Oddfellow’s Playhouse then under the direction of Dic Wheeler, I grew my love for performance and socially conscious theater,” Ms Greeman said, in a written statement.

An award-winning offBroadway director, Greeman now serves as both artistic associate with the New Perspectives Theatre Company and resident director of the Dark Lady Players. She has spent a dozen years working in off-off Broadway as an actor, producer, arts administrator, and teaching artist, and she is currently a senior program manager at the Leadership Program, NYC.

The play tells a story of how three aging seniors’ lives unexpectedly intersect at a dog-walking park where love of opera and grief for the past converge with humor and truth as family ties tangle with romantic yearning.

The play is being produced by Readers Theater of Middletown, and performed by Richard Kamins Naomi Kamins. and Anne Cassady.

Suggested donation: $20 minimum. Seating is limited. For reservations, call Oddfellows Playhouse at 860-347-6143.