GREENE – One of only six plays in history to win the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award, “The Diary of Anne Frank” runs Sept. 30 – Oct. 23 as the final play of Chenango River Theatre’s 2011 season. 

In this transcendently powerful play, Anne Frank emerges as a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, this play captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence - their fear, hope, laughter and grief. 

CRT’s Artistic Director Bill Lelbach, who’s directing and designing this production, says “It’s a great play – because of the cast size, often the only time people see it is at the local high school or community theatre.  For a professional theatre like ours, it’s usually too expensive to bring classic American plays to the stage.  But we’re committed to the concept that these are plays that audiences should be able to enjoy with a company that has the ability to cast the show from a national talent base.”