Rhinebeck Performing Arts, Inc: Howie the Rookie

What: Howie the Rookie

Who: Rhinebeck Performing Arts, Inc

When: September 22-25

Where: The CENTER for Performing Arts

Details: Rhinebeck Performing Arts, Inc. presents Definitely Human Theatre’s Howie the Rookie. Written by Mark O’Rowe and directed by Patrick Dougherty & Joey Taylor.

Howie the Rookie is a white-knuckle ride through nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable, where the most brutal events take on a mythic significance. The play recounts the stories of two Dublin youths who share a surname and intertwined destinies. ‘Howie’ Lee is roped by some friends into giving a beating to ‘Rookie’ Lee for miscellaneous insults received or perceived, but a strange sense of discomfort haunts him throughout the night, culminating in a devastating karmic blow. ‘Rookie’ then picks up the story and dives deeper yet into mystical fatalism. As his debt to a gangster seems to draw him to an inevitable demise, some unexpected turns bring ‘Howie’ back into his orbit at a wild party, setting up a violent climax and a haunting coda.
Tickets: $20 ($18 for groups of 20 or more)

HOWIE THE ROOKIE contains graphic descriptions of sex and violence, mature and obscene language and descriptions of death.

Friday’s performance of HOWIE THE ROOKIE will feature a LIVE American Sign Language interpreter. If you would like access to reserved seating in view of the interpreter, contact boxoffice@centerforperformingarts.org or call the box office at (845) 876-3080.