We're Still Wild About Harry
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011 thru March 31
Time: 3:00 PM · Other dates and times
Venue: BlackBox Theatre, Casa Grande, AZ
Website: http://www.blackboxaz.com
"We're Still Wild About Harry" is a musical tribute to composer Harry Warren. Produced and Directed By Robert Thornley
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From: Phillip Urlevich [mailto:urlevich@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Actors needed
My name is Phillip Urlevich, and I am an aspiring filmmaker with a new film, entitled "Suburban Rebels", and I am looking for actors.
The film has four speaking parts, two are leads, one a supporting role, and the last a cameo. The story of the film is about two young guys who will meet their fates in one hour. The four roles, all male, are as follows:
Jesse: Late teens, A smart individual who believes he knows the way of the world and knows where he is going.
Billy: Late teens. A laid back dude, he doesn't appear to be bright, but he actually has his own plans.
Ray: Late teens, he spent a short time in jail. He isn't to smart and needs someone to tell him what to do.
Him: Adult. An otherworldy figure, and the last person you want to make mad.
Now the tricky part. I have everything but the money. I thought I had some investors on board, but it doesn't look like they are. What I intend to do is to make a no budget "guerilla" style film, that actors can put on their resume.
I plan to hold auditions at Access Tucson (the public TV building in Tucson) on March 19 and March 26 from 3pm to 7pm
Phillip Urlevich
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From: Phil Bennett [mailto:philipgbennett@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:01 PM
Subject: Announcement
The TheatreLab and Conservatory is NOW REGISTERING for its Early Spring Term: March 6 through April 30, 2011
Professional Actor training in Stanislavsky's Ultimate Technique: Physical Actions
The following Disciplines are included in every class:
Psychophysical Conditioning Exercises
Voice and Speech
Improvisation
Active text Analysis
Monologue and Scene Study
Public Showcase Performances
Sundays: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Mondays: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
(Classes meet twice weekly and average $25.00 per class)
Call TODAY for further Information , and schedule your FREE AUDIT!
520-829-7543
Philip G. Bennett, Artistic Director
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From: ZUZI! Dance Company, School & Theater [mailto:zuzisphere@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:26 PM
Subject: Saofs Dance Theatre Presents: "Fusions"
Greetings!
There's always something happening at ZUZI! This month Safos Dance Theatre presents, Fusions. Come and support your Tucson dance community!
When: Saturday March 26, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Cost: Suggested Donation $14 at the door
Students with Student I.D./Seniors $12
(Cash and Check only please)
Featuring:
Choreography by Renée Blakeley, Sofía Martínez, Yvonne Montoya, and guest choreographer Laura Reichhardt. Also performances by musicians Avatara - ethnopsychdelic fusion. There will also be local Latina/o art vendors in the lobby before and after the show!
About Safos Dance Theatre
Safos Dance Theatre is an emerging modern dance company committed to creating contemporary artistic forms that reflect important issues affecting the multi-ethnic communities of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:rumspringaandcoke@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:47 PM
Subject: Etcetera proudly announces 2011-12 Season!
Contact: Christopher Johnson
Artistic Director of Etcetera,
the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop
(520) 425-4163 | RumspringaAndCoke@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Under the Artistic Direction of Christopher Johnson, Etcetera, the critically acclaimed late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop, is proud to announce its ninth season of challenging, contemporary and controversial plays. The first and longest-running after-hours ensemble in Tucson, Etcetera promises a 2011-12 season of profound, relevant drama; genre-shattering, thought-provoking comedy -- and everything in between...
The Book of Liz
by the Talent Family, Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris
June 30-July 16, 2011
Directed by Christopher Johnson
Opening night: Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Sister Elizabeth Donderstock is Squeamish (a loose relation to Pennsylvanian Dutch), has been her whole life. She makes cheese balls (traditional and smoky) that sustain the existence of her entire religious community, Clusterhaven. However, she feels unappreciated among her Squeamish brethren and decides to try her luck in the outside world. Along the way, she meets a Cockney-speaking Ukrainian immigrant couple who find her a job waiting tables at Plymouth Crock, a family restaurant run almost entirely by gay recovering alcoholics. The alcoholics love her. The customers love her. Her Danderfrock fits right in. Things are going great for Liz, until she's offered a promotion to manager. Unfortunately, Liz has a sweating problem, and to get the job, she'll have to fix it. Meanwhile, back at Clusterhaven, Liz's compatriots just can't seem to duplicate her cheese ball recipe, and it's going to cost them their quaint, cloistered lifestyle. They are panic-stricken and desperate, and sure she sabotaged the recipe. Does Liz go through with the operation? Can the Squeamish be saved? Will the cheese balls ever taste good again? The answers to these and so many other questions can be found in the new comedy from the Talent Family, David and Amy Sedaris.
“...a delightfully off-key, off-color hymn to clichés we all live by, whether we know it or not."
-The New York Times
“…may well be the world's first Amish picaresque…hilarious…”
-The Village Voice
“…acidic laughs…linguistic delight…”
-Variety
David Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy's elf clad in green tights, reading his SANTALAND DIARIES on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Sedaris' sardonic humor and incisive social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators and a bestselling author in the United States and abroad. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire. Everywhere he goes David Sedaris delights his audience with his irreverent style and great humor. In addition to his commentaries on NPR, David Sedaris is the author of the best sellers BARREL FEVER, NAKED and HOLIDAYS ON ICE. David and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and written several plays which have been produced at La Mama and at Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays include STUMP THE HOST, STITCHES, ONE WOMAN SHOE, which received an Obie award, INCIDENT AT COBBLER'S KNOB and THE BOOK OF LIZ.
Amy Sedaris is an actor, writer and comedienne, and the sister of author David Sedaris. Together they are “The Talent Family.”
Jailbait
by Deirdre O’Connor
August 4-20, 2011
Directed by Steve Wood
Opening night: Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Through the course of one dizzying night at a club, JAILBAIT follows the parallel stories of two fifteen-year-old girls, desperate to grow up, and two thirty-something men who are looking to be twenty-one again. High-school sophomores Claire and Emmy make a game of posing as college students in order to meet older men. Brash bachelor Mark thinks a night out with attractive girls will be just what his friend Robert needs to recover from his recent breakup. When this unlikely foursome collides, they discover some surprising and dangerous compatibilities. But when Emmy encounters the sexual expectations of the slick Mark, and Claire finds herself surprisingly drawn to the heartbroken Robert, both girls must decide how far they are willing to go while playing at adulthood. Smart, funny, and disturbing, JAILBAIT asks the question: When do you really become an adult?
“…a terrific little play that finds something funny, shocking and sad about two fifteen-year-old girls who grow up fast when they con their way into a Boston club…O'Connor is amazingly good at rendering the tonal pitch and vocal rhythms of overheard dialogue…”
-Variety
“…a complicated and darkly comic cautionary tale about the illusion of intimacy at any age…keenly honed dialogue, punctuated by little lies and poignant pauses.”
-Time Out New York
Deirdre O’Connor’s plays have been produced or developed with The Cherry Lane Theatre, Naked Angels, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Lark, The Playwrights Foundation, among others. Her full-length plays include JAILBAIT, ASSISTED LIVING and THE DEATH OF MAY MCALLISTER. Deirdre was a 2008 Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellow mentored by Michael Weller. Deirdre was a 2008-2009 Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and Columbia University's MFA Playwriting program, where she was the recipient of the John Golden Playwriting Award.
Persephone or Slow Time
by Noah Haidle
September 1-17, 2011
Directed by Christopher Johnson
Opening night: Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Meet Demeter, an exquisite statue of the Greek goddess, as she's being created during the Italian Renaissance. Those who admire her see only stone and fortitude, but her thoughts and desires are all too real; she pines for her lost daughter's return and for the love of her sculptor, Giuseppe. Giuseppe, however, is too busy lusting after the city's most popular artist's model to notice Demeter's pain. Fast forward five hundred years: Demeter stands in a present-day American city park. She has become a symbol of hope amidst illicit activity and a target for more than just pigeon droppings. Witness to human foibles both hilarious and horrifying, Demeter is desperate for someone—anyone—to hear her thoughts. And when her life seems bleakest, redemption comes in the unlikeliest of forms.
“[An] imaginative, funny and deeply serious allegorical play about eternal yearning…the work begins with a playful idea that turns into something else entirely as Haidle explores the role of art as a refuge -- and witness -- in a chaotic, cruel and mortal world.”
-Variety
“[Haidle is] formidably talented, with a sort of freewheeling intuitive daring…he has a firm command of the theatrical idiom to back up his ambition for originality.”
-The New Yorker
Noah Haidle’s plays have been or will be produced at South Coast Repertory, The Long Wharf Theater, The Goodman Theater, The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Huntington Theater and The Roundabout Theatre Company. Haidle is currently working on a new play commission from The Goodman Theater and a screenplay for Scott Rudin Productions. He is a graduate of Princeton University and The Juilliard School, where he was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwright-in-residence. He is the recipient of three Lincoln Center Le Compte Du Nouy Awards, the 2005 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights and an NEA/TCG theater residency grant.
boom
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
October 27-November 12, 2011
Opening night: Thursday, October 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
"Sex to Change the Course of the World"—A grad student's online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of "no strings attached" sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one's life, and life as we know it on Earth.
“Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways. [boom] winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end.”
-The New York Times
“Sex! Planet-ruining cataclysms! Loads of booze! We're ready for whatever strange places boom wants to take us.”
-Variety
“A dark-themed, light-toned toned allegory of survival and change: a piquant theatrical effort to give evolution a taste of creationism's narrative magic.”
-Time Out New York
“A grandly whacked-out apocalypse fantasy…one of those charmed evenings.”
-Washington Post
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include BOOM, HUNTER GATHERERS, COLORADO, T.I.C. (TRENCHCOAT IN COMMON), and MULTIPLEX. His work has been seen Off Broadway and across the country at Ars Nova, SPF, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Public Theatre, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, the Bailiwick Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre, Dad’s Garage, and in the Bay Area at Encore Theatre, Killing My Lobster, The Magic Theatre and The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. HUNTER GATHERERS received the 2007 American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award for best new play to premiere outside of New York and the 2007 Will Glickman Prize for best new play in the Bay Area. He is under commission from South Coast Rep and is a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco. Peter holds a degree in Theater and Biology from Brown and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
Wit
by Margaret Edson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1999
January 12-28, 2012
Directed by Christopher Johnson
Opening night: Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
“...a brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.”
-The New York Times
“A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.”
-New York Magazine
Margaret Edson lives in Atlanta, Georgia where she is an elementary school teacher. Between earning degrees in history and literature, she worked in the cancer and AIDS unit of a research hospital. WIT is her first play.
The Good Body
by Eve Ensler
Author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
February 23-March 10, 2012
Directed by Christopher Johnson
Opening night: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
With THE GOOD BODY, Eve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, turns her unique eye to the rest of the female form. Whether undergoing botox injections or living beneath burqas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in. THE GOOD BODY merges cross-cultural explorations with Eve's own personal journey coming to terms with her "less-than-flat, post-forties stomach."
“Passionate, funny, frank, revealing, even shocking, and genuinely committed to improving life on this planet.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Ms. Ensler wants to soften the ever-fraught relationship between American women and their bodies, to expose the destructive formulas that lead them to assuage their insecurities by punishing their flesh…rich in pointed, amusing details…forthrightly funny…bristling with wisecracks [and] exotically harvested snippets of wisdom.”
-The New York Times
Eve Ensler's Obie Award Winning play, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, translated into over 35 languages and running in theaters all over the world, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment), initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Her play NECESSARY TARGETS, set in a Bosnian refugee camp, opened Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theater in February 2002, after a hit run at Hartford Stage. Other plays include CONVICTION, LEMONADE, THE DEPOT, FLOATING RHODA AND THE GLUE MAN and EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and NECESSARY TARGETS have both been published by Villard/Random House, as will Ms. Ensler's upcoming two new plays and books, THE GOOD BODY and I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE. In May 2003, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from her alma mater, Middlebury College.
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
by Will Eno
Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005
April 5-21, 2012
Directed by Leslie J. Miller
Opening night: Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
A one-man tour-de-force about a bee sting, a dead dog and the girl that ran away. Thom Pain is just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life—in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.
“Astonishing in its impact…It's one of those treasured nights in the theatre—treasured nights anywhere, for that matter—that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation…To sum up the more or less indescribable: THOM PAIN is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth…a small masterpiece.”
-The New York Times
“Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure.”
-Time Out New York
“It's hard to imagine more dazzling writing on any stage…Eno is light, rhythmic and meticulous.”
-London Daily Telegraph
Will Eno’s internationally heralded play THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) recently completed a year-long run at the DR2 in New York, produced by Bob Boyett and Daryl Roth; following a sold out run at the August 2004 International Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First Award and the Herald Angel Award), and a subsequent transfer to the Soho Theatre in London. The play is now being produced across the United States, as well as Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Israel, Mexico and many other countries. THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Will’s play THE FLU SEASON received the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for the best debut production in New York by an American playwright. Will’s plays have been produced by the Gate Theatre, the SOHO Theatre and BBC Radio, in London; the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company and Naked Angels, in New York. His plays are published by Oberon Books and Dramatists Play Service, and, as well, have appeared in “Harper’s,” “The Antioch Review,” “The Quarterly” and “Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors.” Will is presently at work on an adaptation of Ibsen’s PEER GYNT. He is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, and was awarded the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame, as well as the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Will Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Touch
by Toni Press-Coffman
May 3-19, 2012
Directed by Glen Coffman
Opening night: Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM
All other shows play Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Kyle Kalke, an astronomer since childhood, a high school "science nerd," falls in love with flamboyant, outspoken, openhearted Zoe, who—astonishingly—loves him back. When she is kidnapped and murdered, Kyle barricades himself by devoting himself more feverishly to the cosmos and losing himself in loveless sex. TOUCH is about a man in despair questioning whether there is any point to rediscovering passion, risking connection, groping toward the touch that will rekindle joy.
“…a gripping, heart-wrenching, tender drama whose scenes shift seamlessly, character to character, past to present.”
-The New York Times
“So often these days, theater aspires to nothing more than sheer escapism. But now and then, a deeply touching play comes along. TOUCH is one of those.”
-Miami Herald
“Toni Press-Coffman's play celebrates the beauty of survival with eloquence and grace.”
-Portland Oregonian
Toni Press-Coffman is the author of 20 plays, including THAT SLUT!, TWO DAYS OF GRACE AT MIDDLEHAM, STAND, TRUCKER RHAPSODY and DEAN THE SUBLIME. She is a past recipient of an NEA/TCG Playwright Residency and has had her work developed at the Sundance Institute and Minneapolis’ Playlabs. Her work has been seen at theaters across the country including the Phoenix Theatre, Exit Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Born and raised in the Bronx, Press-Coffman now lives, writes, acts, teaches and serves as Borderlands Theater’s Literary Manager. She serves on the Literary and Executive Committees of the National New Play Network.
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From: davidru@cox.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: Tucson Barbershop eXperience - Gospel Show
On Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, the Tucson Barbershop eXperience Chorus will present its annual show entitled: "Gospel: A 'Good News' Journey in American Music." The chorus and several quartets will present a selection of gospel songs sure to get your feet tappin' and your hands clappin'. Also, we are pleased to welcome the Gospel Music Workshop of America - Tucson Chapter to our show on the second half. The show will be held at Flowing Wells High School at 3 pm each day. Tickets, priced at $15 General Admission, $20 Preferred Seating will be available at the door. Parent(s) with paid admission may bring a child up to the age of 11 for free; youth from 11 to 18 $5.
Call me if you have questions: 780-4273.
David Updegraff
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From: Caitlin Gilbert [mailto:caitgee@email.arizona.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:29 PM
Subject: CORRECT VERSION of Open Casting Call
OPEN CASTING CALL!
Due to an overwhelming amount of interest, The University Filmmaker's Organization (UFO) is holding an additional open casting call for their upcoming short film The Gig!
When: Friday, March 4, 4-7 pm
Where: Louise Foucar Marshall Building, Room 211 (Conference Room)
845 N PARK AVE. Tuscon, AZ
Non-Union
Non-Paying
The movie is about a pop-punk type band hurrying to gather all of their members together to play at their biggest gig yet.
We are looking for:
(LEAD) Derek:-- 18-24 singer pop rockish – Positive and confident. Tries to smile through everything. Likeable and relatable to audience.
***Needs to be able to sing***
Mike: – 18-24 (guitar-do not need to know how to play) Is lazy and usually pretty negative. Smooth talker--kind of an ass, but people like him. His attitude rubs Derek the wrong way. Used to date Jenna. This creates tension between the two characters.
Jenna: – 18-24 (drummer-do not need to know how to play) Not negative, just lazy. Doesn't like to go out of her way to do something. There is tension between her and Mike
Andy: – 18-24 (bass-do not need to know how to play) Is the quite type. Goes with the flow.
Mickey: – 25-30 domineering presence--looks good and knows it. Like a used cars salesman. Main goal is to make money. Straight to the point. Can be really nice when it is advantageous to him.
Mike’s Mom: 35-45 cougar
Kids: – younger elementary school kids
Speaking Kid - elementary school age; has a line and throws a cake
To audition, please provide a resume and head shot, and for those who are planning on auditioning for the singing role, please have 16 bars of a song prepared to sing from the pop punk genre. Some suggestions would be the choruses of:
"Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
"Billionaire" by Travie McCoy
"Check Yes Juliet" by We The Kings
If you have any questions, please e-mail caitgee@email.arizona.edu or mwhite67@email.arizona.edu
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From: Carder, Carol [mailto:ccarder@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: Press release: Pima Community College Center for the Arts: PCC Theatre presents "Antigone" April 6-17
PimaCommunityCollege
Center for the Arts
contact:
Carol Carder, marketing/pr director
2202 W. Anklam, Tucson, AZ 85709
520-206-3062
ccarder@pima.edu
Dr. Frank Pickard, director
520-206-6720
fpickard@pima.edu
March 1, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pima Community College Theatre Arts presents the powerful Greek tragedy “Antigone”
what: PCC Theatre Arts presents Sophocle’s – Antigone
where: PCC Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre, West Campus, 2202 West Anklam Road, Tucson, AZ 85709
when: April 6-17, 2011, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Preview performance on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m.
ASL interpreters available April 14 at 7:30 p.m.
tickets: Open to the public. General seating $15 with discounts available for preview night, groups, students, seniors and PCC affiliates. Discounts are not available online.
photo call: March 22 at 6 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre
box office: Call 520-206-6986 or purchase online without extra fees www.pima.edu/cfa . Box office hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. and one hour prior to performance.
Tucson, Arizona-- Pima Community College Theatre Arts presents Antigone by Sophocles with translation by Robert Fagles, under the direction of Dr. Frank Pickard. This compelling drama written over 2600 years ago grapples with some of the same themes that plague people today, such as state control versus natural law, civil disobedience and abuse of power. Like modern times, the ancient Greeks wondered how much of life is predestined and how much can be controlled.
Antigone is the continuation of the tale of Oedipus and his children, daughters Antigone and Ismene, and sons Eteocles and Polynices. After Oedipus’ death, his sons arrange to share the kingdom, each taking an alternating one-year reign. However, Eteocles refuses to cede his throne after his year as king so Polynices brings in an army to do battle. The brothers end up killing each other. Oedipus’s brother-in-law, Creon, becomes king of Thebes and decides that Polynices was a traitor, and should not be given the usual burial rites, but instead left to rot in the field. Antigone is enraged at this injustice, and decides to disobey Creon’s edict and follow what she believes is right and bury her brother, even at the risk of her own death.
Fagles’ translation provides well-developed characters with strong, interesting dialogue, accentuating the conflicts presented in the story. Director Pickard describes the production, played out with primal sounds and black and white projections on a stark and abstract set, as a total sensory experience. “I am taking a traditional approach to a classic Greek tragedy and incorporating contemporary elements of mixed media.”
The play runs April 6-17 in the Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre. The Pima Community College Center for the Arts is located on West Campus at 2202 West Anklam Road, Tucson (just west of downtown). For ticket information contact the box office at 206-6986 or centerforthearts@pima.edu.
A photo call for the media is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22 at 6 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre. Director Frank Pickard is available for interviews by calling 520-206-6720 or e-mailing fpickard@pima.edu.
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From: Dean Steeves [mailto:propaganda@laughing.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:50 AM
Subject: News from Winding Road Theater Ensemble
For Immediate Release
February 18, 2011
contact: Dean Steeves
propaganda@laughing.com
520-749-3800
Talley’s Folly and Fifth of July
In March and April 2011, Winding Road Theater Ensemble members Glen Coffman and Terry Erbe will direct Lanford Wilson plays, Fifth of July and Talley’s Folly, in repertory at the Cabaret Space at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott, Tucson. Set in Wilson’s hometown of Lebanon, Missouri, both plays focus on the Talley family.
One of three plays in what came to be known as Wilson’s “Talley Series,” Fifth of July is a multi-generational comedy set in the late ‘70s, as members of the Talley family struggle with the possibility of having to give up their family home. Among the characters is the recently widowed Aunt Sally. When the actress playing Sally in the original production asked Wilson for help in understanding her character, he wrote Talley’s Folly to show how Sally and her husband, Matt, became a couple more than 30 years earlier.
Amy Erbe will play the young Sally of Talley’s Folly, falling in love in the 1940s; Toni Press-Coffman will play the widowed Sally, three decades later, in Fifth of July. The repertory cast also includes Eric Anson, Jodi Ajanovic, Christopher Johnson, Susan Kovitz, Cliff Madison, Paul Matlock, Lucille Petty, and Brian Wees.
Fifth of July previews Thursday, March 24 and opens Friday, March 25, with evening performances Saturday, March 26, April 9 and16 at 7:30. Sunday matinees are March 27, April 10 and 17 at 3 PM.
Talley’s Folly previews Thursday, March 31 and opens on Friday, April 1, with evening performances April 2, 8, and 14 at 7:30. Matinees are Sunday April 3, and Saturday April 9 and 16 at 3 PM. There will be no performances on Friday, April 15.
Ticket are $15-$18 at Winding Road’s website: www.windingroadtheater.org <http://www.windingroadtheater.org/> or by calling the box office at 520-401-3626. Patrons who buy tickets to both plays at the same time (through the box office only) will receive a discount.
About Winding Road Theater Ensemble
Winding Road Theater Ensemble was founded two years ago by Tucson theater artists Lesley Abrams, Glen Coffman, Amy Erbe, Terry Erbe, and Toni Press-Coffman. Our mission is to tell dynamic, theatrical stories that illuminate the human condition and that celebrate the theater’s power to entertain us, to move us, and to bring us joy. We are particularly committed to producing new plays: of our four previous productions, two were original plays. Two more new plays, both inspired by the events that took place on September 11, 2001, will premiere next fall.
About Lanford Wilson:
Born on April 13, 1937, in Lebanon, Missouri, Lanford Wilson began writing at the University of Chicago in 1959 after enrolling in a playwriting class. After graduation, he moved to New York, where his first play, So Long at the Fair, was produced Off-Off Broadway at the Café Cino in 1963. Other early plays include Home Free (1964), Balm in Giliad (1965), and Rimers of Eldritch (1965). In 1969, Wilson co-founded Circle Repertory Company, which premiered many of Wilson’s plays including Serenading Louie (1970), Lemon Sky (1970), Hot L Baltimore (1973), The Mound Builders (1975), and Angels Fall (1982), Burn This (1986), the Redwood Curtain (1992), Book of Days (2000), and Rain Dance (2002). Wilson also wrote the teleplays Taxi! and The Migrants (both Emmy nominees) and the libretto for Lee Hoibe's opera of Summer and Smoke.
For Talley's Folly, Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. That play, along with Fifth of July, Burn This, and Hot L Baltimore, enjoyed extensive Broadway runs. Other awards include the Vernon Rice Award for Rimers of Eldritch, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Outer Circle Award, and an Obie for Hot L Baltimore, and an Obie for The Mound Builders.
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From: One17 Productions [mailto:one17productions@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:12 PM
Subject: Open Casting Call: Marty the Bear
One-17 Productions is holding an open casting call for the lead female role (the Mom) in their upcoming short film "Marty the Bear". Audition materials will be provided on site. Actors will be doing cold-readings of selected scenes from the script. All interested parties should send a head shot and resume to one17productions@gmail.com .
When: Sunday, March 6th from 5pm to 7pm
Where: UA McKale Center
About the film: Marty just can’t seem to catch a break. Stuck working as a children’s mascot, Marty finds that entertaining kids is way more than he bargained for. But when Marty turns to booze to help get him through work, he finds that mommy’s little angels are hardly what they seem. Can Marty finish the job and still score a paycheck? Or will he leave every shred of dignity back with those snot-nosed brats?
Character Bios:
Mom – Gender: Female, Age: late 20s, early-mid 30s
Relatively attractive, though slightly trashy, she looks as good as she can for becoming a mother at a young age. She is down on her luck but takes whatever she can get, sometimes turning to cocaine as an escape. She is currently going through a divorce.
ALSO currently seeking an actress to be a part of their upcoming short film 'Marty the Bear'. Auditions will not be held for this role. All interested parties should send a head shot and resume to one17productions@gmail.com.
Squirrel Girl - Gender: Female, Age: early 20s
Marty encounters her when he stumbles over to her house, mistaking it to be his next job. She is attractive and wears a squirrel costume for her party.
From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:rumspringaandcoke@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:28 PM
Subject: Added performances of Neil Simon's THE DINNER PARTY at LTW!
Due to an overwhelming demand for seating, Live Theatre Workshop is happy to announce it will be adding a performance to the schedule for the current mainstage production of Neil Simon's THE DINNER PARTY on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 PM! Call 327-4242 to make your reservations now!
Live Theatre Workshop Proudly Presents
THE DINNER PARTY
By Neil Simon
Directed by Sabian Trout
Featuring Eric Anson, Shanna Brock, Maxine Gillespie,
Susan Kovitz, Cliff Madison and Rick Shipman
February 17 - March 20, 2011
Preview Performances: February 17 and 18 at 7:30 PM
Opening Night Performance: Saturday, February 19 at 7:30 PM
Performances: Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 PM with Sunday Matinees at 3:00 PM
Preview Tickets: $12 | Regular Tickets: $18 with discounts available
Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission
To make your reservation call (520) 327-4242
For more information go to www.livetheatreworkshop.org
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP - 5317 E. Speedway | Tucson, AZ 85712
Located on the North side of Speedway between Rosemont and Craycroft
Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Neil Simon's THE DINNER PARTY concerns three formerly married couples who meet for a très sophistiqué evening at a Paris restaurant: Claude and Mariette, whose shared passion for literature outweighed their passion for each other; Andre and Gabrielle, whose sexual rapport wasn't enough to keep Andre faithful; and Albert and Yvonne, whose obsessive devotion to one another eventually resulted in them getting divorced - twice. Though seemingly invited by the gentlemen's attorney, the first guests to arrive quickly discover that their host is nowhere on the premises - a phone call to the lawyer reveals that he has no idea who gathered them together, nor why they've gathered together. In this humorous yet profound examination of marriage, the group speculates wildly about their conspicuously absent host, the apparent secrecy regarding the invitation, and the party’s true purpose.
“A blizzard of one liners.... The audience can bank on some good laughs.”
-The New York Daily News
“Frequently hilarious...An invitation you'll be glad you accepted.”
-The New York Post
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