Theater Trip To Europe

The Bay Street Theatre's High School Playwrights Festival, written about elsewhere in this section, ended with performances on Saturday. The theater has announced a further involvement with East End schools - the possible creation of a master's degree program in theater arts at Southampton College.

Now under discussion, the new program would aim to prepare committed student actors, designers, producers, directors, and technicians with the knowledge and experience for a career in contemporary theater. Just how the collaboration would work has not yet been ironed out, but presumably Bay Street would lend technical support and perhaps its facilities.

In other news, Bay Street is taking reservations for a tour to London and Florence in May that will include seeing five plays in London and staying six nights there, and spending five nights at the Bernini Palace Hotel, next to the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, at the time of the Maggio Musicale, the most prestigious Italian festival of the performing arts. Norman Kline can be called at the theater for more information about the tour, which will accommodate about 24 people.

Bay Street will celebrate the holidays with a cabaret performance by Mary Cleere Haran on Dec. 28 at 7 p.m. and with a gala New Year's Eve party with champagne, cabaret, a buffet dinner, and dancing. Early reservations have been recommended for this usually sold-out event.