<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">SCHENECTADY, NY - The Schenectady Civic Players will present </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>Reading Allowed!, </I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">a staged reading of </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives,</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> as a benefit for the Yates Magnet School on Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 8PM.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">"Schenectady Civic is pleased to be actively supporting the arts and literacy at Yates," said the Playhouse President, Patricia Hoffman. "Yates has been doing a great job of developing our future audience members and we want to help the program along." This year, fundraisers at the theater have helped Yates pay for more arts experiences, including the very popular and successful </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>Dance Crazy</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> program.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> was a successful stage show that eventually became an award winning HBO special. It is comprised of a series of comic scenes dealing with topics like love, women's rights, relationships, and even... dolphin-free tuna!</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">A staged reading, </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>The</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><I>Kathy and Mo Show</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> will take place June 8th and 9th at 8:00 p.m. The admission price is $8 for general seating. The theater is located at 12 So. Church St., in Schenectady's historic Stockade District – one block off of State Street. For further information and tickets, pleases call 518-382-2081.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>