SARTA Announces Fall Workshops/Classes & Special Events

SARTA announces workshops and classes and special events.

Workshops and Classes:

Introducing Minimoon Productions- Tony Award Winning actress Faith Prince and director/acting coach Natasha Burr are thrilled to announce the formation of their new company, Minimoon Productions, based in Sacramento. They have many exciting projects on the horizon. The first of which, is a Master Class series beginning October 17th Mondays or Wednesdays for college/adult students from 7-10pm. Classes are offered for 12-18 year olds on Saturdays from 10-1. This series consists of six consecutive classes concluding with a showcase on the final class for friends and family to attend. These courses seek to compliment and enhance all existing theatre programs.

Classes include professional audition skills in musical theater, acting for the stage and basic acting skills for the camera. Faith Prince has worked in Broadway, television, film, animation, symphony, and cabaret for 30 years. Her business partner, Natasha Burr, has extensive background in the industry including directing, teaching, and as a talent agent for 15 years. They have formed a partnership and company that will help students navigate their skills to reach their individual goals. Their intention is to provide "An insider's perspective into the longevity of the art of performing." Faith and Natasha are looking forward to utilizing their talent and years of working in the professional entertainment industry to support this community. For more information about their upcoming Master Class and other class offerings please contact them at minimoonproductions@gmail.com or call 916-382-4989 and please check out their website www.minimoonproductions.com

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER...NAKAMOTO PRODUCTIONS Voice Casting Services AND V.O.I.C.E.S ("Voice Over Immersion Club & Exchange of Sacramento") Join Together for: "Voice-Over Open Mic Night" on THURSDAY, Oct. 20th, 7-9pm at the Weston House Recording, 955 Venture Ct. Sacramento, 95825. For more Information email Raynakamoto@att.net.

Here's your opportunity to meet your fellow Sacramento VO talent from beginners to veterans. Exchange phone numbers and find practice partners! Learn about VO jobs and upcoming VO Workshops! .... all in a supportive, creative environment! ADMISSION is ONLY $5.00.

Step Up to the Mic in the studio voice booth of a High-Definition Pro Tools Commercial Studio!

Read scripts for Commercials, Movie Trailers, TV Promos, Retail, Image, Automotive, Dialogs, Hard-sell, Documentaries, Audio Books, or bring your own! You will be professionally directed!

SACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, KIDS with Music by Robert Reale, Book and Lyrics by William Reale, Based on the Books by Arnold Lobel.

The Musical Theatre Workshop is open to students ages 6-12. No experience necessary! Registration Is NOW OPEN and Filling Up Fast!

Auditions are November 8th/9th and rehearsals are Tuesday-Friday, 4:00-7:00pm November 10th-January 13th (excluding Thanksgiving week and the last two weeks of December). Performances are January 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd at 7pm and January 21st, 22nd at 2pm.

Rehearsals to be held at the Lutheran Church of the Master, 1900 Potrero, in South Land Park.
For more information and to register, check out STC's website at www.sactheatre.org or contact Michele Hillen-Noufer, Education Director, at (916) 446-7501 x113 or hillenm@sactheatre.org.

NEW WORKS FORUM AT THISTLE DEW: "Workshopping" a play is not an easy process.
By one definition it is a factory. By another it is a discussion group. At the Thistle Dew it is a combination of both. According to Apple's dictionary it is "a performance of (a dramatic work), using intensive group discussion and improvisation in order to explore aspects of the production before formal staging".

The workshop members and the owners of The Thistle Dew, Tom and Ellie, are dedicated to supporting original works by local playwrights. After we have fully workshopped their plays we offer local playwrights the opportunity to have their plays performed on the Thistle Dew stage. 

Calling all Playwrights and wanna-bees! Do you have a play you'd like critiqued? On Monday nights at 7pm, jump into the critique fray or listen quietly....until your passions rise and you feel compelled to join the mêlée. 

All newcomers are welcome! The theatre is located at 1901 P Street.

Local Playwrights Produced At The Thistle Dew Theatre: (Full-Length Plays) Timothy Cahill, Julie Greene, Paul Hauck, Thomas M. Kelly, Leo McElroy, Charles McIntosh, Laura Sheperd, Donya Wicken.

(Monologues) Gladys Acosta, Timothy Cahill, Charley Cross, Theresa Elliot, Mark Fejta, Bernie Goldberg, Julie Greene, Eugene Griffith, Cindi Bennett, Frank Ingram, GloRia Jones, Thomas M. Kelly, Charles Kelso, Roger Linder, Laura Sheperd, Susan Webster, Donya Wicken and Jeff Webster.

OCTOBER 16-PLAYWRIGHTS COLLABORATIVE MEETING AT THE CALIFORNIA STAGE THEATRE: At the Sunday, October 16, Playwrights Collaborative Meeting (7:00 PM) we will reread and discuss Ron Tochterman's updated "A Fool For a Lawyer." We will also read Kathy DeVries 10-minute play, "Duplex."

This workshop is at the California Stage Theatre, 2509 "R" Street (on "R" Street between 25th and 26th Streets), Sacramento.

The Playwrights Collaborative thanks the California Stage Theater Company for the use of its theater.

For further information or if you have a play you would like workshopped, contact Gary Agid, chairman, at gary@agid.com (916-383-9267).

Workshops are monthly (or occasionally twice monthly) on Sundays on dates to be announced. There are no dues, fees or other charges for participating. Staged readings may be scheduled occasionally by playwrights.

"The Playwrights Collaborative is an organization of writers, actors, directors and others interested in the theater, working together to promote the development and production of new plays in Sacramento and elsewhere. Through a cooperative process of peer review, Playwrights Collaborative assists in making plays ready for production and helps in finding suitable venues where shows mightbe performed."

At each workshop, original plays by local writers are read and discussed as are ways to promote deserving works for production. Several theaters have expressed an interest in producing one new original play per year and Playwrights Collaborative has encouraged similar interest by other theatres in the area. There will also be occasional speakers with expertise in various aspects of theater.

Playwrights participating in the Sunday workshops will be scheduling occasional "staged readings" of plays that have been developed sufficiently to be ready for production. A staged reading is a play production with the actors holding scripts.

Playwrights Collaborative invites interested writers and actors to attend and take part in the workshop readings which can lead to invitational staged readings of new works. The group actively promotes new plays to prospective producers. Following each reading, comments and suggestions for improvement will be solicited from all who are present.

Special Events:

Costume Sale at IT! in Placerville on Oct 15, 22, & 27- Looking for that special costume for an upcoming party? Imagination Theater is clearing out their costume closet just in time for Halloween. Many unique, cool, nostalgic, eclectic, colorful, crazy, fun, classy, and one of a kind items will be available. Prices will be very reasonable and you won't want to miss out. Each of the three Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, new items will be placed on the racks. The last opportunity will be on Thursday, October 27 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.-just in time for the weekend! The sale will be held at the theater. 

Imagination Theater on the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 530-642-0404, ITplacerville@yahoo.com.

The Aliens Have Landed! Alien Invasion Terrorizes Residents of Jackson. Main Street Theatre Works presents "The War of the Worlds" Live on Stage at Thomi's for 2 performances only - Oct 21 and 22!

Main Street Theatre Works (MSTW) wants to get you in the mood for Halloween with a live stage production of the radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

This limited-engagement production will be Friday and Saturday, October 21st and 22nd at Thomi's Banquet Room in Jackson, CA. Doors open at 7:15pm for dessert, show starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $25 each and include one of Thomi's fabulous desserts, your choice of coffee or tea, and the show. No host bar also available.

MSTW is coming off a successful summer season at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, where well over 1300 patrons enjoyed two great plays ~ A Flea in Her Ear and Leaving Iowa. For our October event, we're setting things in a more intimate environment, perfect to relive the 1938 radio drama that brought panic to the greater New York area.

The War of the Worlds was a Halloween episode of the American radio drama anthology series, performed by The Mercury Theatre Players, directed and narrated by little known actor and future filmmaker, Orson Welles. The episode was an adaptation of the novel, The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells. The 60-minute broadcast, which was uninterrupted by commercial breaks, presented what were assumed to be real news bulletins, suggesting that we were in the midst of an alien invasion by Martians.

This recreation of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre "On The Air" broadcast will feature many of your favorite MSTW actors, including Allen Pontes as Orson Welles, as well as Scott Adams, Steven Read, Floyd Harden, Gregory Smith and Julie Anchor. It's a fun flashback to the days when people "watched" their radios, and sound effects didn't come from a computer. Come watch how the magic is really made.

Tickets for the event are $25 per person, and can be purchased exclusively through the MSTW website at www.mstw.org. Seating is very limited for this 2-day only event, and it's sure to sell out, so get your tickets early. And if you're looking to dine before the show, make reservations at Thomi's Café and Bakery ~

For more information, please call 209-257-0800.

"Olivia and Friends " Bring Delightful Song Stylings to Sutter Street Theatre.

Sutter Street Theatre and Allen Schmeltz Productions are proud and happy to present Olivia Kaufmann in Concert. Sixteen year old Olivia was born and raised in El Dorado Hills, California. She started performing in musical theatre at the age of nine and since then has acquired a wide range of experience performing with community theatres throughout the Sacramento region including Sacramento Theatre Company 2, Chautauqua Playhouse in Carmichael, Magic Circle in Roseville, Sutter Street Theatre, Rocklin Community Theatre and El Dorado Musical Theatre.
Olivia has performed with the Sacramento Theatre's Young Professional's Conservatory in Washington, D.C. and as a featured singer in their Broadway Cabaret in 2008 as well as appearances as a national anthem singer for the Sacramento Rivercats and other venues in the Sacramento area. In November 2008 she was named as Sacramento Magazine's "Best Little Girl with a Big Voice" and earned an Elly Award for her performance in Smile, The Musical with the Rocklin Youth Theatre Company in September 2008. Recent roles have been in El Dorado Musical Theatre's production of Hairspray as Lil Inez, Sutter Street Theatre's production of 13, the Musical as Kendra, and Rocklin Community Theatre's production of Footloose as Rusty. In Olivia's words, "If I had to choose one thing I could not live without, that would be, singing!"

Accomplished singers Caroline Mixon, Andrew Wilson and Madi and Alex Crossland will be joining Olivia in selected numbers. Leigh Leonard is featured on Piano.

Olivia and Friends
Producer: Allen Schmeltz Productions
Director: Allen Schmeltz
Vocal Director & Pianist :Leigh Leonard
When: Saturday, October 22 at 4:00pm & Sunday, October 23 at 2:00pm
Where: Sutter Street Theatre, 717 Sutter Street, Folsom 95630
Tickets $15
Reservations: Call (916) 353-1001

Woodland Opera House Theatre for Families presents "The Canterville Ghost" A Haunting Good Comedy.

Jennifer Goldman, D.D.S., and Amy Tran, D.D.S., present "The Canterville Ghost" at the Woodland Opera House. The play is part of the Theatre for Families series. The show runs Friday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29, and Sunday, October 30 at 2 p.m. Reserved tickets are available online at www.woodlandoperahouse.org, at the box office at 340 2nd Street, or by calling 530-666-9617. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors, $8 for children 17 and under, and $10 for adults in the balcony and $5 for children in the balcony. Discounted group tickets for 10 or more are available, call the box office for details.

"The Canterville Ghost" is Oscar Wilde's classic tale told with whimsical humor and charm. For three centuries, the Canterville ghost has been perfectly happy rattling chains, clanking armor, producing a reappearing blood stain, and generally haunting the old English manor house, the Canterville Chase. The Otis family, Yankee upstarts, purchases the house, insisting on paying extra for the ghost. With their quirky ways and modern ideas, the Otis family ends up torturing the ghost. Frightening these nonplussed American tenants proves to be not only infuriating but almost impossible for the temperamental British ghost.

The cast includes; David Buse as the Canterville ghost, Emma Black as Virginia Otis, Spencer Alexander as Hiram Otis, Katherine Barksey as Lucretia Otis, Sam Burke as Chip Otis, James Hayakawa as Charlie Otis, Jacob Hopkins as the Duke of Cheshire, Terence O'Flaherty as Lord Canterville and Melanie Woo as Mrs. Umney.

This show is directed by Crissi Cairns Kessler. Costumes are designed by Mary Kessler with the set and lighting design by John Bowles.