Pamela Moller Kareman, artistic director at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, phones from an outlet mall in Secaucus, N.J., where the props are reportedly cheaper.

She’s been pulling together Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winner, “Dinner with Friends,” the final show of the season at the Schoolhouse, now on stage through June 7.

In addition to winning the 2000 Pulitzer, “Dinner with Friends” also received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a Drama Desk Award nomination.

It revolves around two couples and the impact that one couple’s decision to divorce has on their relationship.

“Dinner with Friends” adds another element to the season, which went from Todd Sussman’s visceral “HIM” — about the last Jewish man on earth — to the loopy, over-the-top Depression-era “Biography” and ends with a contemporary drama in which “the two couples mirror our Westchester crowd.”

“We want to give a potpourri,” Kareman says.

“What’s striking me as I’m directing it is that nobody mentions their extended family at all,” she adds. “In our culture, our friends are our family. That’s really touching. They’re not just talking about how hard this breakup is; you’re really seeing it. There’s no one else on stage.”

The challenge for Kareman was to bring Margulies’ different locales — scenes are in seven different locations — to the intimate Schoolhouse stage.

She came up with a mix of rock and shingle and slate that conjures the several places. She also kept the cast on stage throughout, in darkness until their scene begins, to show how close they really are.

Kareman sees similarities between Margulies and Jon Robin Baitz (“The Substance of Fire”).

“They both write tough yet funny biting plays about Americans and families,” she says.

She also sees hints of another Pulitzer winner, William Inge, and his “struggle for identity and family and values.”

“(Margulies) says he wrote this play because he woke up one day and a lot of people around him were 45 and getting divorced,” Kareman says. “But this is a play about connection. Maybe it’s because we’re so fragmented, but feeling connected to the earth, to other people is important.”

“These are characters in middle age and one couple is totally reinventing themselves,” Kareman says. “They say that 43 is the new 20, people are having babies at 43 and our culture encourages and allows that.”

Working on a tight Schoolhouse budget demands creativity, Kareman says. It also means “shopping for napkins in Secaucus because they’re 90 cents cheaper.”

‘Dinner with Friends’
Where: The Schoolhouse Theater, 3 Owens Road, Croton Falls.
When: Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 4 p.m. Through June 7.
Tickets: $28 on Thursdays and Fridays, $30 on Saturdays and Sundays.
Call: 914-277-8477.
Web: schoolhousetheater.org.

“Biography,“ Off-Broadway

From the news department, Kareman says she’s “99.9 percent sure that the same people who brought our ‘Crucible’ to New York are bringing ‘Biography’ Off-Broadway to West 43rd Street, to the Mint Theater.

“The Mint is not producing it, but they’re renting the Mint in November, our second move Off-Broadway.”

The cast would be the same, led Tracy Shayne in the madcap Depression-era comedy.

“Our subscribers loved that they ‘The Crucible’ here first, so maybe that’ll help, too,” she says.