Penguin sets 32nd season By Peter D. Kramer The Journal News • April 4, 2009   Stony Point's Penguin Rep Theatre has set its 32nd season, with two world premieres and a subscription plan that includes a price freeze. The season - which runs from May 15 through Oct. 25 - will open with the world premiere of "Our Lady of South Division Street," a new comedy by Nyack resident Tom Dudzick, author of the comedies "Over the Tavern" and "Greetings!" Penguin artistic director Joe Brancato directs. Next is "The Wonder Bread Years" - a one-man show written and directed by former "Seinfeld" writer Pat Hazell - billed as "a humorous salute to Baby Boomer culture." Penguin then presents Carter W. Lewis' comedy "Women Who Steal" - about a pair of middle-aged women on a joy ride that might conjure up "Thelma and Louise." It will be directed by SuzAnne Barabas. The 32nd season's final offering is the world premiere of award-winning writer and performer Daniel Beaty's new musical play, "Breath and Imagination," also directed by Brancato, about Roland Hayes, the first world-renowned African-American vocalist. Penguin's intimate 108-seat theater at 7 Crickettown Road in Stony Point - a hay barn before co-founders Brancato and Fran Newman-McCarthy got to work in 1977 - underwent a major facelift a couple years back, with improved seating, carpeting, painting and air conditioning. In addition to the mainstage season, Penguin also offers a Children's Theatre Festival, and the popular "Play with Your Food" series of new play readings. Penguin also will team up with the Cultural Arts Center at SUNY Rockland Community College in Suffern, which will be the venue for the New York premiere of Avi Hoffman's "Still Jewish After All These Years," a follow-up to the actor-singer-comedian's successful "Too Jewish" and "Too Jewish, Two." On Nov. 21, Penguin will be back at RCC with "De Novo," written and directed by Jeffrey Solomon - a play about immigration. "Life shouldn't be all work and no plays," Brancato said. "And with the combination of humorous, uplifting and memorable works we have planned this year, there's no better place in the Lower Hudson Valley to escape to, with prices that you can't beat." Penguin's executive director, Andrew M. Horn says this season's pricing policy takes the economic downturn into account. "As a not-for-profit organization, Penguin is committed to making theater as affordable as possible for all of our audience members to remain a part of the Penguin family," he says. "That's why we've imposed a price freeze this year and, if patrons order their tickets by April 15, we'll waive any handling fees on their orders." Reach Peter D. Kramer at pkramer@lohud.com or 914-694-5118. Read his "In the Wings" blog at theater.lohudblogs.com.