Pamela Fields News

Theatre Artists Studio is premiering Kirt Shineman's crisp and riveting new play, THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, directed by Janis Webb and featuring a commanding performance by Pamela Fields as Dame Christie. The show runs through November 21st.

More than 60 years ago, Brown vs The Board of Education repealed segregation laws. Meanwhile, the challenges to access quality education continues on as LINES IN THE DUST, written by Obie award winner Nikkole Salter and presented by Black Theatre Troupe, February 9-25

Marney Austin, Marcia Weinberg, and Pamela Fields shine in Ivan Menchell's intelligent and poignant comedy, THE CEMETERY CLUB, now at Theatre Artists Studio in Scottsdale, AZ.

The Cemetery Club tells the heartwarming story of three widows in Forest Hills, Queens. They are the surviving half of three sets of long-time best friends. Once a month the three women meet to pay their respects to their husbands, who are all buried in the same cemetery. But when the ritual is invaded by a living, breathing man, these three lively friends face the realities of their own futures as well as a test of true friendship.

We're excited for the New Works Festival! The plays were written by Metro students, predominately from my beginning and advanced theatre classes. Once completed, the plays were read by a group of 9 readers. The readers consisted of one of my advanced theatre students and a group of artists from Brelby (including Brian and Shelby). The plays were selected, began rehearsing in January, and will premiere at Metropolitan Arts Institute at the end of the month.

Perry Ellis International (Nasdaq:PERY) announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Jeffrey Home, a division of PKaufmann, Inc., ('PKaufmann') to design and distribute bed and bath products such as decorative pillows, window treatments, bedding, furniture throws and outdoor accessories under the Laundry by Shelli Segal and Laundry by Design brands throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and Europe. The collection is scheduled to launch Spring 2017 in major department and retail stores, catalogs specializing in home products, home goods specialty stores and websites.

A local actor is making his debut on the stage of Theatre Artists Studio later this month. There is nothing too unusual in that, except that this particular actor is the furry, four-legged variety. His name is Ollie.

Are you ever too old to find love? Life is suddenly a thrill ride when golden-ager Ralph Bellini takes a detour from his everyday routine and stumbles headlong into romance.

Fountain Hills Theater has announced the opening of the comedy, God of Carnage. 'Sticks and stones can break my bones'... but when Benjamin hits Henry at a nearby park, it starts two sets of parents on a comically explosive downhill slide from political correctness to character assassination. From the playwright who brought you 'Art,' comes God of Carnage, the darkly hilarious 2009 Tony Award Winner for Best Play. Two high-strung couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh and Michael and Veronica Novak, decide to meet one evening for a civilized discussion about a playground altercation between their two young sons. The New Yorker called this laugh-out-loud hilarity 'ninety minutes of sustained mayhem.' A no holds barred look at relationships between spouses and friends and what happens when the littlest things end up pushing us completely over the edge.

Hilarity ensues when two sets of loving, but overbearing, Italian-American grandparents become determined to keep their grandson from moving to Seattle. Theatre Artists Studio captures all of the love, pain and laughter of "Tengo Familia - The Family" in Joe DiPietro's Over the River and Through the Woods.