American Stage Announces After Hours, Cabaret, and HOTP schedule

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and "After Hours" series in the Raymond James Theatre continue with eight productions in February, 321, JOHNNY SCHICCHI, MARK HANSON'S ACOUSTIC CABARET AND WORKSHOP, THE ABC'S OF BICYCLING, WARRIOR, A NIGHT OF 10 MINUTE PLAYS and THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES.

1st Sunday Improv Night
321
starring Gavin Hawk and Ricky Wayne
"After Hours" Series
Sunday, May 1 at 8 p.m.

All tickets: "Pay-What-You-Can" at the door (suggested $5-$15) and $15 in advance, drinks at the bar.

From the creators of THE DUMB SHOW comes American Stage's new long-form comedy improvisation show, 321. Starting with the audience suggestions of three character relationships, two performers will create a piece that takes place in one location. Gavin Hawk and Ricky Wayne weave all of these elements into a hilarious, amazing and poignant one-act play that is sure to delight the audience.

JOHNNY SCHICCHI

starring St. Petersburg Opera Company
"After Hours" Series
April 30 thru May 8

All tickets: $25 on Tuesday and Wednesday, $31.50 for Saturday and Sunday matinees and $39.50 on Friday and Saturday night.

A wealthy old man dies and his relatives gather for the reading of the will, only to discover he has left everything to the church. Aghast, the family members scheme to restore some of the lost wealth to their own pockets. But what can be done? Enter the one man clever and cunning enough to help the greedy relatives regain their inheritance...the ever-resourceful Johnny Schicchi! Puccini's sparkling opera is the ideal counterpoint for the hilarious events as everyone jockeys for a share of the estate. Sung in English.

MARK HANSON'S ACCOUSTIC CABARET AND WORKSHOP
Starring Grammy Award winning guitarist Mark Hanson
Susan R. Hough Cabaret
Workshop: Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. (Cost: $20)
Cabaret: Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m. ("Pay-What-You-Can" at the door and $15 in advance).

Grammy Award winner Mark Hanson is a world-renowned acoustic guitarist, as well as performer, composer, recording artist, author and publisher. He contributed two pieces to 2005s Grammy winning Henry Mancini Pink Guitar CD, and in October, 2009, played for the President Barack Obama in San Francisco. Called by Prairie Home Companion's Pat Donohue, "...perhaps the greatest teacher of fingerstyle guitar," Mark has authored over 30 books and DVDs on playing guitar.

3rd Sunday Comedy and Improv Night
THE ABC'S OF BICYCLING
presented by Ricky Wayne starring The Third Third Thought
"After Hours" Series
May 15 at 8 p.m.

All tickets: "Pay What You Can" at the door (suggested $5-$15), $15 in advance, drinks at the bar

An original improv-comedy piece themed around cycling to honor ABC Bicycles for sponsoring the "After Hours" series! The Third Thought is committed to celebrating the randomness of true-to-life situations through hysterically funny scenes.

WARRIOR
Music by Marcus Hummon, book by Todd Olson
Hot Off the Press play reading series
May 15 at 5 p.m.

All tickets: "Pay What You Can" at the door

Warrior is a musical drama that explores the life and times of Jim Thorpe, the great Native American Olympic champion and football immortal. Born in the Indian territories before the massacre at Wounded Knee, Thorpe's life spans the tragedy of America's inability to come to grips with the inclusion of its native population, and follows this heroes rise to fame. Grammy Award winner Marcus Hummon will be performing all music.

A NIGHT OF 10 MINUTE PLAYS
By the adult spring playwrighting class
Hot Off the Press play reading series
May 24 at 7:30 p.m.

All tickets: "Pay What You Can" at the door

Eleven new 10-minute plays on a variety of subjects including an Irish land grab, a Philly mob tale, a class on spiritual energies, love with Huntington's Disease, starring a hard rocker, an octogenarian dater, a talking scale, a Saudi chauffeur...and other surprises!

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
"After Hours" Series
May 27 at 8 p.m.

All tickets: "Pay What You Can" at the door (suggested $5-$15), $15 in advance, drinks at the bar

Obie Award-winner Eve Ensler's whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it."

Please call the American Stage Box Office at (727) 823-PLAY (7529)
or go to www.americanstage.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

American Stage Theatre Company is located at the Raymond James Theatre, 163 3rd Street North in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

American Stage Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1977. The company's mission is to create the most satisfying live theatre in the Tampa Bay area, accessible to all members of the community. Their vision is to preserve the greatest human stories from our past, while creating the most defining stories and storytelling of our time. The Hough Family Foundation is the Season Sponsor, Raymond James is the Mainstage Sponsor, Bank of America is the Education Partner, WEDU is the Media Sponsor and WUSF 89.7 is the Radio Sponsor of American Stage. "After Hours" series sponsor is ABC Bicycles.

 

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