Artists Repertory Theatre announces its 2012/13 season's play selections: And So It Goes… by Aaron Posner, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Seven Guitars by August Wilson; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol by John Longenbaugh; The Lost Boy by Susan Mach; Red Herring by Michael Hollinger; The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar; Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher; and the Fowler-Levin Prize Award-winning New Play Commission by Andrea Stolowitz.
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth's haven for the fine and lively arts, has announced the launch of several new arts and education programs, facility expansion plans, and support and recognition by one of the nation's premiere foundations.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Board of Directors announced today the generous donation of $4.5 million from a group of donors comprised of The Goatie Foundation, Roberta and David Elliott, and Helen and Peter Bing.
The gift answers a challenge issued 10 years ago when Jo Lynn Allen of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the lead donor for the construction of OSF's New Theatre, passed on the opportunity to name the theatre, issuing the requirement for other donors to make a significant contribution to secure the naming rights. The combined gift from the above group of donors meets the Allens' threshold, and gives them the naming rights.
In Race, two lawyers (one black, one white) take on a case that gets under their skin and exposes a minefield of deep divisions, resentments and bigotry. Mamet's 'rapid-fire dialogue, gripping plot and blunt language, thoroughly stripped of polite social convention and rife with provocative humor, is a searing portrait of American discrimination.' Playwright David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Academy Award-nominated writer. Nationally respected Director Tamara Fisch will make her Artists Rep debut with this production.
Portland Center Stage welcomes veteran screen and stage actor Daniel Benzali to the Gerding Theater to star in the upcoming production of Red. Written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Hugo) and playwright John Logan, Red will be directed by PCS Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan. The production begins preview performances on Tuesday, February 21, opens on Friday, February 24 and runs Tuesday through Sunday through March 18, 2012. Tickets start at $34, with student and under-30 discounted tickets available for $20. Rush tickets are $20.
In Race, two lawyers (one black, one white) take on a case that gets under their skin and exposes a minefield of deep divisions, resentments and bigotry. Mamet's 'rapid-fire dialogue, gripping plot and blunt language, thoroughly stripped of polite social convention and rife with provocative humor, is a searing portrait of American discrimination.' Playwright David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Academy Award-nominated writer. Nationally respected Director Tamara Fisch will make her Artists Rep debut with this production.
Casting has been completed and rehearsals have begun for Portland Center Stage's world premiere production of Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline, adapted and directed by PCS Artistic Director Chris Coleman.
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth's haven for the fine and lively arts, has announced the launch of several new arts and education programs, facility expansion plans, and support and recognition by one of the nation's premiere foundations.
The last two shows of Artists Rep's 2011/12 season, Race by David Mamet and Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt, will switch start dates. This change will allow Associate Artistic Director Jon Kretzu to direct the Broadway-bound It Shoulda Been You by Brian Hargrove, music by Barbara Anselmi, at the Village Theatre near Seattle, where it has its final production before its Broadway premiere this Fall. The show was produced at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey last Fall and was directed by David Hyde Pierce.
Portland Center Stage welcomes veteran screen and stage actor Daniel Benzali to the Gerding Theater to star in the upcoming production of Red. Written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Hugo) and playwright John Logan, Red will be directed by PCS Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan. The production begins preview performances on Tuesday, February 21, opens on Friday, February 24 and runs Tuesday through Sunday through March 18, 2012. Tickets start at $34, with student and under-30 discounted tickets available for $20. Rush tickets are $20.
Three women in three different times wrestle with their identity, the conflict between science and religion, and what it means to be their fathers' daughters in a Fertile Ground staged reading of Dear Galileo by Claire Willett.
Casting has been completed and rehearsals have begun for Portland Center Stage's world premiere production of Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline, adapted and directed by PCS Artistic Director Chris Coleman.
Miracle Theatre Group, the Northwest's premier Latino arts and culture organization, has announced that the nonprofit organization was recently awarded three grants.
The third annual production of The Santaland Diaries is set to return to Portland Center Stage's Ellyn Bye Studio with a new Crumpet the Elf in tow, actor Jim Lichtscheidl.
Three women in three different times wrestle with their identity, the conflict between science and religion, and what it means to be their fathers' daughters in a Fertile Ground staged reading of Dear Galileo by Claire Willett.
Literature's favorite quirky inquisitor is infused with the spirit of a crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge in an unusual holiday show crafted by Seattle veteran playwright John Longenbaugh.
Vicki Lewis, best known to audiences for her role as Beth on the hit NBC comedy Newsradio, as well as her work in feature length animation (Finding Nemo, Alpha and Omega) and for her star turns as Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago and as Gloria Thorpe in the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees announces the release of an EP of four Christmas songs titled Santa's Little Helper, with all of the proceeds from sales of the EP going to support the Los Angeles organization Project Angel Food.
