Center Repertory Company?s Artistic Director Michael Butler unveiled the company's 43rd subscription season. Running from September 3, 2009 to June 26, 2010, the season will be expanding Center Rep?s programming to include eight productions to be performed in all three theatres of the Lesher Center for the Arts. From the suspense of Agatha Christie to the music of Elvis Presley, Center Rep?s 09-10 season will delight audiences while also featuring the works of Caryl Churchill, No?l Coward, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Michael Frayn and five-time Emmy Award nominee Harold Gould. A variety of subscription packages, ranging from $128 to $522, can be purchased by calling 925-943-SHOW.
They?ve gone biblical, they?ve gone historical, and now the Reduced Shakespeare Company has gone Completely Hollywood (abridged). After all, Hollywood is America?s largest export, so Tinseltown?s glorious ridiculousness is the perfect subject for The Reduced Shakespeare Company?s signature reductive touch. Completely Hollywood (abridged) shakes up showbiz in an epic edit of movie masterpieces. All of Hollywood?s glorious moments ? both onscreen and off ? are captured as the bad boys of abridgement masterfully miniaturize almost 200 of Hollywood?s greatest movies in 100 minutes! (Actual greatness may vary.)
They've gone biblical, they've gone historical, and now the Reduced Shakespeare Company has gone Completely Hollywood (abridged). After all, Hollywood is America's largest export, so Tinseltown's glorious ridiculousness is the perfect subject for The Reduced Shakespeare Company's signature reductive touch. Completely Hollywood (abridged) shakes up showbiz in an epic edit of movie masterpieces. All of Hollywood?s glorious moments - both onscreen and off - are captured as the bad boys of abridgement masterfully miniaturize almost 200 of Hollywood's greatest movies in 100 minutes! (Actual greatness may vary.)
They?ve gone biblical, they?ve gone historical, and now the Reduced Shakespeare Company has gone Completely Hollywood (abridged). After all, Hollywood is America?s largest export, so Tinseltown?s glorious ridiculousness is the perfect subject for The Reduced Shakespeare Company?s signature reductive touch. Completely Hollywood (abridged) shakes up showbiz in an epic edit of movie masterpieces. All of Hollywood?s glorious moments ? both onscreen and off ? are captured as the bad boys of abridgement masterfully miniaturize almost 200 of Hollywood?s greatest movies in 100 minutes! (Actual greatness may vary.)
Along the way, RSC captured nominations for London's Olivier Award, two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C., and international appearances at the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and American Repertory Theatre. International tours included stops in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, Belgium, The Netherlands, Singapore, Bermuda and Barbados.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company unleash theatrical anarchy on the main stage at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, with previews beginning October 2, opening October 7 and 9 and running through December 2 for Chicago premieres of two comedies: Completely Hollywood (abridged), opening Sunday, October 7 at 3 pm, and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), opening Tuesday, October 9 at 8 pm.
