Saratoga Shakespeare In Love - Benefit Performance For Lovers of the Bard

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Lovers and theater lovers can celebrate Valentine’s Day and help Saratoga Shakespeare Company at a special benefit performance of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters, on Saturday, February 15, at 8 p.m. at Skidmore College’s Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater. A dessert reception will follow the play. A 1989 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Love Letters traces the lifetime and friendship of Melissa and Andrew as they grow up, separate, have adventures, enjoy love and suffer loss. The Saratoga Shakespeare Company production stars two professional actors, Brenny Rabine and Dave Demke, who bring to life the thoughts and feelings of two special people through their letters and postcards in exchanges more personal and intimate than today’s tweets, texts and pokes. Brenny Rabine played Melissa in Saratoga Shakespeare’s 2013 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has worked throughout the United States as well as regionally with Capital Repertory Theatre, Oldcastle Theatre and Adirondack Theatre Festival. Dave Demke, who plays Andrew, has acted and directed throughout the United States and internationally. He currently is a guest Artist-in-Residence with the Skidmore College Theater Department. Tickets for this benefit performance are $35 or $15 for students. All proceeds will help fund Saratoga Shakespeare’s free 2014 production of Macbeth, which runs in Saratoga’s Congress Park July 15-27. Tickets for this benefit performance are tax deductible. For additional information, e-mail Barbara Opitz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. For reservations, call the Skidmore College Theater Box Office at (518) 580-5439.