SARANAC LAKE – Pendragon Theatre has announced it will hold auditions for its 2016 season in the month of March.

The theatre will hold auditions for its lead-off play, “Art,” written by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, on March 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. The play, directed by Burdette Parks, will be in rehearsal through May and in performance from Memorial Day weekend through June 19. “Art” is a three character play about the impact on the long-standing friendships of three men when one of them purchases a controversial piece of art, and it won the Tony Award for best play in 1998. Preview scripts will be available at the theater prior to the audition, and sides will be available at the audition.

Pendragon will hold open auditions for its 2016 summer season March 13. Auditions for the roles of Tom and Jim in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Open calls for the other plays in the season, Mark Brown’s comedic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “Around the World in 80 Days,” Peter Schaffer’s “Amadeus,” which was famously adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, and Ken Ludwig’s “Baskerville,” a comedic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” will be from 2 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Scripts and auditions sides will be available at the theater soon. Please contact Pendragon at 518-891-1854 to reserve an audition slot for these plays.

The theatre has also extended its early bird discounted ad brochure rate for 2015 pricing until Feb. 26. Lowest ad prices start at $100.

The Winter Readers’ Theatre Series will continue March 25 with the Restoration comedy “The Country Wife” by William Wycherley.

For more information, visit www.pendragontheatre.org or contact Tara at tara@pendragontheatre.org.