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Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF concludes its 2010-2011 Signature Series with Kathleen Cahill's 2011 Pulitzer Prize-Nominated comedy, CHARM, playing at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center from March 23 - April 17, 2011.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF concludes its 2010-2011 Signature Series with Kathleen Cahill's 2011 Pulitzer Prize-Nominated comedy, CHARM, playing at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center from March 23 - April 17, 2011.
This year, Orlando Shakes welcomes former local resident and PlayFest veteran, playwright Mark Brown (Around the World in 80 Days, The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, and China - The Whole Enchilada) back to the Margeson Stage for an Inside the Actor's Studio style conversation with Orlando Shakes Artistic Director Jim Helsinger on Friday, April 8, 2011. Mr. Brown's new play, Don Quixote - The Reckoning will be presented as one of two workshops during PlayFest.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF announces its lineup of new play readings, workshops, and panel discussions for PlayFest!
Desingel presents The Minister's Black Veil March 30 - April 2. This show is directed by Romeo Castellucci and features the Societas Raffaello Sanzio company. Tickets range from 25 to 36 Euros.
Playhouse on Park is proud to present the Regional premiere of Stuart Vaughan's new adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.
Playhouse on Park is proud to present the Regional premiere of Stuart Vaughan's new adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.
CST will hold auditions for THE SCARLET LETTER on February 6th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Auditions will be held at the Carpenter Square Theatre office at 1015 N. Broadway, Suite 210, just south of 10th & Broadway on the West side of the street. Coffeeslingers is a business on the first floor, and CST is located on the 2nd floor.
CST will hold auditions for THE SCARLET LETTER on February 6th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Auditions will be held at the Carpenter Square Theatre office at 1015 N. Broadway, Suite 210, just south of 10th & Broadway on the West side of the street. Coffeeslingers is a business on the first floor, and CST is located on the 2nd floor.
National Players, America's longest running touring company, comes home from its 62nd annual tour with William Shakespeare's timeless comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter.
Phyllis Nagy's play, The Scarlet Letter, has the words 'adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne,' as opposed to simply saying 'an adaptation,' which is more typical. This is a subtle way of stating that the play is not intended to be a literal lifting of the story but more of a re-telling --with a purpose. Nagy's play is an examination of the deep, conflicting, often childish emotions of the adult characters, as partly witnessed and narrated by Hester Prynne's illegitimate daughter, Pearl, and shared with us. It is also a feminist work, in which the fates of a woman and a girl are seemingly controlled by the men, only to be thwarted because of Hester and Pearl's courageous willingness to follow their own paths. This gives the play a much more modern feel, in spite of the Puritan-style clothing the cast will wear. The language of the play is also more contemporary - and therefore less stilted than many plays set in an imagined past. We are approaching the play as a metaphor for our modern society: this is the past from which we came - where are we now?
National Players, America's longest running touring company, comes home from its 62nd annual tour with William Shakespeare's timeless comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter.
Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists are not a rock group. And CHARM isn't your typical history play; but Margaret is the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Directed by Patrick Flick, Kathleen Cahill's CHARM is a romantic comedy of manners that follows the life of Margaret Fuller, a remarkable woman who lived during the mid-1800s. Fuller, a contemporary of three great American thinkers - Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne - was a brilliant writer, philosopher, and social critic far ahead of her time. Full of luscious language and juicy anachronisms, CHARM is a modern, hilarious and stimulating piece that magically weaves in and out of history.
Phyllis Nagy's play, The Scarlet Letter, has the words 'adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne,' as opposed to simply saying 'an adaptation,' which is more typical. This is a subtle way of stating that the play is not intended to be a literal lifting of the story but more of a re-telling --with a purpose. Nagy's play is an examination of the deep, conflicting, often childish emotions of the adult characters, as partly witnessed and narrated by Hester Prynne's illegitimate daughter, Pearl, and shared with us. It is also a feminist work, in which the fates of a woman and a girl are seemingly controlled by the men, only to be thwarted because of Hester and Pearl's courageous willingness to follow their own paths. This gives the play a much more modern feel, in spite of the Puritan-style clothing the cast will wear. The language of the play is also more contemporary - and therefore less stilted than many plays set in an imagined past. We are approaching the play as a metaphor for our modern society: this is the past from which we came - where are we now?
National Players, America's longest running touring company, comes home from its 62nd annual tour with William Shakespeare's timeless comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter.
Phyllis Nagy's play, The Scarlet Letter, has the words 'adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne,' as opposed to simply saying 'an adaptation,' which is more typical. This is a subtle way of stating that the play is not intended to be a literal lifting of the story but more of a re-telling --with a purpose. Nagy's play is an examination of the deep, conflicting, often childish emotions of the adult characters, as partly witnessed and narrated by Hester Prynne's illegitimate daughter, Pearl, and shared with us. It is also a feminist work, in which the fates of a woman and a girl are seemingly controlled by the men, only to be thwarted because of Hester and Pearl's courageous willingness to follow their own paths. This gives the play a much more modern feel, in spite of the Puritan-style clothing the cast will wear. The language of the play is also more contemporary - and therefore less stilted than many plays set in an imagined past. We are approaching the play as a metaphor for our modern society: this is the past from which we came - where are we now?
MoMA- The Museum of Modern Art presents Lillian Gish November 26-December 13, 2010 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
Seattle's Intiman Theatre is closing out their main stage season with the adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic morality tale, "The Scarlet Letter". In "The Scarlet Letter" the letter in question is an "A" but with this production I can really only give it a C-.
MoMA- The Museum of Modern Art presents Lillian Gish November 26-December 13, 2010 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
The release of a new Jay Parini novel is always an event. His newest novel, The Passages of H.M., will be celebrated at Town Hall Theater on Tuesday, November 16, the first event in this year's Vermont Bookshop Authors Series.
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