POTSDAM -- National Players, America’s longest-running tour company, will be teaching workshops and performing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy at SUNY Potsdam’s Snell Music Theater Thursday, May 10 at 9:30 a.m. and noon.

In the Jazz Age of New York City, luxury is everything, and nobody is more luxurious than the Long Island gentleman with the mansion on the bay. He throws tremendous, barn-burning parties. He owns nothing but the newest and best, from his hydroplane to the very clothes he wears. Nobody knows where he came from, and everybody knows his name—but who is this Jay Gatsby? And what does he see in the dark across the water that would so entice him to sacrifice everything he has?

The Great Gatsby is directed by Amber Paige McGinnis , a DC-based artist whose directing credits include Girl in the Red Corner at The Welders and Equus at Constellation Theatre, both of which were nominated for Helen Hayes awards.