Venable Herndon News

Dramatic Repertory Company (Keith Powell Beyland, Artistic Director) presents the Maine Premiere COCK (the cockfight play) by Mike Bartlett, directed by Keith Powell Beyland & Tess Van Horn, playing November 9 - 18, 2018. This premiere production will be presented at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave.

BEST FRIEND from playwright Christopher Sullivan (Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, USC John Welles Screenwriting MFA) is a timely dark comedy touching on gender dynamics, Gamergate, toxic masculinity, and America's culture war. The play dares to ask, 'In the age of wokeness, how far would you go to redeem your un-Woke friend?' BEST FRIEND premiers June 3rd at the Stephanie Feury Theatre as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, 5636 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Dramatic Repertory Company (Keith Powell Beyland, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce a Portland Premiere production of VENUS IN FUR by David Ives. The show will run for 9 performances only, March 2 - 12, 2017 at the Studio Theatre at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents prolific singer-songwriter and American folk star Arlo Guthrie on April 21 at 8pm in the Chan Shun Concert Hall.  The beloved icon & social commentator will delight audiences with fan favourites, and a performance of the complete 18-minute Alice's Restaurant Massacree, a song he only revisits every ten years due to its length. The evening will open with special guest, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Arlo's daughter who continues the Guthrie musical lineage with her signature pop-fused folk-rock sound.