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Welcome to the Labor Day Edition... The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership: the American worker. If all the cars in the world were laid end to end Labor Day is a glorious holiday because * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I told Jessica my aerobics instructor I was heading for Altoona, PA for the weekend to see a show that TRU had helped produce. She bubbled, "You lead such an exciting life!" It took me a moment to realize she was serious. Since when was Altoona exciting? Like so many of us, I muddle through from day to day, collecting what I think are consolation prizes in the lottery of life: a small production here, an acknowledgment in a contest there, a grant from a funder who tells me I should be angry instead of grateful because the amount is so small. I barely manage to finish a new play every two years or so because I am so consumed with running TRU. I plod along setting the lyrics to a musical that is now three years in the making. I am behind in a CD I was producing to commemorate a collaborator who passed away three years ago. Nothing seems exciting about my life. It feels like running in place. In slow motion! Well okay, I was kind of excited that John Anastasi's lovely play Pied a Terre had found a production at Penn State campus, Altoona. And not a college production at that. A full Equity staging with an absolutely gorgeous set, terrific cast, directed skillfully by Bradlee Bing in a handsome 400 seat theater. Rave review in the local papers. And TRU was credited as the lead producer, although a bulk of the work was being done by old-time producer friend Jeff Britton (The Me Nobody Knows) of Broadway Bound Productions. I don't know why I ever thought I wouldn't be taking that 6 hour car ride to Altoona, but I didn't actually commit to it until the day before we left. I knew damn well I wasn't going to drive up and back in a single day, not six hours each way. No way. So the production offered to put us up at the local Quality Inn. They would have paid for a car for us too, but TRU Board member Vickie Phillips stepped in and offered to drive. Well, maybe it was kind of exciting. Especially the drive home Sunday night in a torrential rainstorm with zero visibility. Which added a good hour to the drive time, and several grey hairs to my head. Whoopee! Heck, seems like everybody's got greener grass, and we don't even have a lawn. It's so hard to recognize our own achievements sometimes, or realize we have a story to tell. Take Vickie, the crazy redhead friend who drove us. I have been working as her director/writer for her cabaret shows for more than ten years now. Until three years ago, I managed to assiduously avoid her favorite writer, Jacques Brel, but she finally convinced me to help her put together a show using Brel's songs. In desperation, I had to ask her: why do you like Brel so damned much? Well, the process of drawing out of her the personal connections to those songs led me to uncover stories about Vickie's childhood and growth into a cabaret performer, bits and pieces of information being laboriously tugged out of her since she is a very private person. "Who cares about my shitty childhood?" she'd snap. But I probed some more, and learned about how she met a young woman from Romania who was being operated on in a hospital in Springfield Massachusetts; and how that meeting led to an invitation to Romania, and a trip to Europe that took her to Vienna, Amsterdam and the birthplace of Brel, Brussels. Why didn't I know any of this? Why didn't Vickie ever talk about it? Because it was her story, and as such, didn't seem that special to her. But what a wealth of rich material for this writer, a goldmine that would have remained undiscovered if I hadn't started digging! And people do care about her "shitty childhood" because people recognize themselves in truths that are told, even if the details are different from their own experiences. What does it take for us to realize that we matter? We can't all win Tony Awards or Olympic medals. Maybe 5% of the folks in this business are "stars," the visible ones that everyone knows. And admires. And pays. The rest of us just pursue our art and our dream, often wondering why the other guy gets all the breaks. We go along and do our job day by day, trolling for opportunities in this murky swamp of a business, and never realize that we are accumulating a lifetime of achievement. If we ever take a moment to stop and look back, we may actually realize how far we've journeyed. And if we have persevered in the face of adversity, if we have fulfilled some piece of an ambition, if we have learned and grown and forgiven ourselves for our mistakes, we have reason to be proud. My brother screwed up most of his life, and only managed to get off of alcohol and drugs in his 50's; but the fact that he finally did it wins him a Pulitzer Prize for life. My grandfather unwittingly set a pattern for me of relentless over-achievement. I remember coming home from first grade with my first report card, and proudly pointing to all "A's". "What's the matter, you couldn't do any better?" he asked. He was joking, but at age five I didn't get it. Luckily, many years later I recognized the root of my driven personality and learned to take satisfaction in even small accomplishments. I pat myself on the back a lot, rather than waiting for others to do it. And I do my best to breathe through the frustration when I am overlooked for Kleban, Larsen and Ebb Awards. I haven't made it to the 5%, and perhaps I never will. Funders and benefactors often ask me what famous people TRU has helped, what well-known theater companies developed through us. It used to make me stammer and pause, until I realized: what difference does it make when we are dedicated to helping the other 95% that keep this business thriving so the fortunate 5% have someplace to work? So maybe my life is exciting. All our lives are exciting when you understand that life itself is exciting, a moment by moment miracle with every breath we take. The trick is remembering where we've been and what we've done rather than contemplating how far off our dream may be. Heck, I've been to Altoona! Highlights of the week. I said it before and I'll say it again: A highlight of MY week would be if you sent me suggestions of panels that you would find useful and important! September is set: "Meet the Funders", featuring foundations that fund non-for-profits as well as individual artists. October is "Fiscal Sponsorship versus Not-for-Profit Status". Also planned: "Fringes and Festivals: How to Get in Them, What to Get Out of Them ", "Producing Outside the Box: Site-Specific and Alternative Venues". November will be our annual Musicals meeting. What would you like us to talk about? What are the hot topics in the musical theater world? Ever hear of Hedy Weiss? Wonder why Hairspray didn't hold up in Vegas? Curious about commercial producers working with not-for-profit theaters? Who would you like to hear on a panel? Talk to me. Talk to me. Our friends at Amas are on a staffing frenzy, so check out all the paid jobs and internships at this terrifically well-respected company ... another great company also needs interns: Urban Stages... I still need a musical director (male) to go on that Musical Journey with Vickie and me... (see Goods/Help Wanted) ... We're Reaching Out for an artistic director in DC, an artistic director in San Diego, a range of gigs in Philly, production manager at GEVA in Rochester and more!... Casting Urinetown in nearby Edison, and a 30-ish African American actress here in NY (see Casting About)... Is your play or screenplay on the Mark? Metropolitan Playhouse seeking Twain inspirations.... And there's a contest from the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, too. (see The Writers' Block)... A slew of tech jobs here and in NJ, plus a designer in Nashville. (see Technically Speaking) Video services from Kristina. And wow! We finally found someone who does postering and flier distribution here in Manhattan. (Hope they're good - see Services/Goods Offered) ... Join a collective or be a clown (see Workshops/Classes)... Free rehearsal and audition space ... in Nashville! (see Space Patrol) And of course I'm hoping you'll take that Musical Journey with me and Vickie this Sunday 9/10 (click here). You'll be out in plenty of time to go honor Sidney Myer at Roasts, Toasts and Tributes at the Lucille Lortel Theater. (see Theater/Events) And here are some other immediate needs: THE FAST LANE Monday 9/4: Happy Labor Day! (If you are reading this, I actually finished the Update and am taking Labor Day off myself!) Tuesday 9/5: Brian Gari and Jana Robbins sing about what Brian wrote about: he's signing his new book We Bombed in New London, at Drama Book Store; Norweigian plays continue, and The Man Himself opens at 59E59 (see Theater/Events) Wednesday 9/6: Groove Mama Ink offers one-act We Do Short Shorts (see Theater/Events) Thursday 9/7: 8-Minute Madness Festival finals start (your chance to vote for editor Bob or TRU guy Mark); Groove Mama Ink offers Shticky Summer Night of comedy; Karen plays Jane on the way to Bath; Amy Clarke in a 90 minute free set at Caffe Vivaldi (see Theater/Events) ... Simon Studio demo Acting Workshop tonight and Saturday (see Workshops/Classes) We sure wish more of you would take advantage of the TRU Deals! Now look what you've done: you're not using the Deals, so people aren't offering us that many. - Disappeared has suddenly appeared - NY premiere of a world-acclaimed play, $8 off for TRU! - Shout! if you want to save money on a fun new musical! Click for the TRU Deals now! So what else is new? Go to the Grid, or click a category of interest: TRU Opportunities... TRU Link-Up.... Goods/Help Wanted .... Technically Speaking.... Goods/Services Offered... Space Patrol.... Living Situations.... Theater/Events ... Beyond the Boroughs ... Click here to return to top of page * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Nice things happen to TRU friends. TRU Voices update: in the 2002 TRU Voices New Musicals Series, finalist Matthew Sheridan's Ambition Bird starred the fabulous Victoria Clark, no less. Nice start for this semi-solo musical about the poet Anne Sexton, which has gone on to fulfill several of Matthew's ambitions: it was part of the National Alliance (NAMT) New Musicals Festival 2003, a winner in the 2005 Global Search for New Musicals and showcased in the 2005 Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, Wales. And now a staged concert reading of the whole show is planned for early 2007 at Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio.... 2003 TRU Voices winner About Face by David Arthur and Jeff Lodin is about to face an international audience: it's one of the six musicals selected for The Global Search For New Musicals in Cardiff, Wales, and will be presented there 11/3-5 as part of the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre. (The show, a contemporary Much Ado about Nothing, has also been invited to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007). Composer Jeff Lodin also has a second show in the Wales Festival: Top of the Heap, with book and lyrics by William Squire... Lots of news from last year's TRU Voices producers (and winners of the TRU "Producer's Award" by the way), Van Hill Entertainment. That would be soft-spoken Van Dean and spunky Hillary Cutter. They have no less than 3 shows in NYMF this year: 2 readings -- one of them is Saint Heaven, the show from the TRU Series; and 1 showcase -- Paul Scott Goodman's Alive in the World. Additionally, Saint Heaven has won the 2006 NMTN (National Music Theatre Network) Directors' Choice Award. Pretty impressive cast lined up for Alive in the World: 2-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, Marcy Harriell, Aaron Lohr and Greg Naughton. The director is Kurt Deutsch.... Two-timer Rich Orloff has some news. (Oh, that means he was a two-time TRU Voices finalist: Pool Party in 2004 and Companion Pieces in 2005.) The news is that the seven fun comedies in Foreign Affairs, set in seven different countries, are now published and licensed by Playscripts, Inc! Foreign Affairs was originally co-produced by the Foolish Theatre Company and our friends at the WorkShop Theater Company. To read excerpts or order it, visit Rich's page at www.playscripts.com.... Peter Morris, a finalist in our Play Reading Series for Breakfast in the Evil Empire, has an equally wacky musical coming up. You may remember it from the Fringe a year or two ago: Escape from Pterodactyl Island. A concert reading is being produced by TRU member Marie Reynolds in association with our friends Donna Trinkoff and Amas. It's scheduled for October 26/27. Bob Ost stuff: I'm please to announce that my one-act A Glass of Water made it into finals for the 8-Minute Madness Festival (along with TRU member Mark Butler and others). Come see us duke it out (um, come vote for your favorite) 9/7-15 - click here for details. Did I mention that my show A Musical Journey with the Songs of Brel, Weill and Aznavour is back at The Makor on September 10th? Even cooler, we're booked for the end of October at the Queens Theatre in the Park. You know it by now: the one-woman show I wrote and directed for Vickie Phillips, about her journey through the European songbook, and eventually through Europe. There's a very nice podcast interview with Vickie and me, with interviewer Kelly Lincoln, at http://www.ourmedia.org/node/256358 Hope you'll listen to part or all of it; even better, come to the show. It's $20, but if you email me personally, I have started a TRU reservation list, and we will give you $10 off. I don't believe you can get the discount ordering on-line at The Makor website. Now here's the question for anyone who wants to give me some feedback. I would like to change the name of the show going forward, and the title I am working with is Vickie Shlept Here (A Musical Journey). Discuss. Congratulations to TRU Program Director Jill Mendelsohn on the birth of her baby boy. His name is Benjamin Isaiah Lam (Jonathan Lam's the daddy) and he came into the world at 8 lbs, 3 ounces.... And welcome to two new members of the TRU Board of Directors: writer/producer June Rachelson-Ospa, who produced two shows in our TRU Voices Musicals Series (Valadon in 2003 and The Adding Machine last year); and Stephanie Riso, newly moved here from Pittsburgh where she was the founder of Cabaret Pittsburgh. Click here to return to top of page * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you don't read the Update every week, you might want to go to the TRU On-Line Newsletter to check for previous weeks' postings that may still be useful for you. Click the "NEWSLETTER" link in the navigation bar above. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
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Dear TRU - There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, I run into people from TRU on my theater jobs, and all speak highly of TRU.... You do good work that is much-valued by the New York theater community.... I did not know much about the theater community [when I first came to TRU]. I know many more people now -- much more about the community -- have gotten the theater "bug" (albeit later in life!) and have come to admire the work you do. ~John Simmons I am a new subscriber and I think you guys are great! You provide a lot of opportunity for us (I'm an actress) and you do make me smile with your newsletter. Have an outstanding day! ~ Monique Williams The notices were great this week... Well worth the extra few day's wait! You guys are fabulous and we love you, even if SOME of us forget to tell you often enough. ~ Kevin Kolack On the other hand: I suggest that you have an accessible online list of names and email addresses of people in the theater willing to be consulted by TRU members who are beginners as producers and need advice, I don't see what use your organization is to us otherwise, as your casting notices duplicate those of other publications and your seminars are periodic and too expensive. ~Barbara L. Click here to return to top of page |
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The next meeting of Theater Resources Unlimited will be Doors open at 6:30pm for networking and refreshments; panel starts promptly at 7:00pm. FREE for TRU and The Field members; $10 for non-members. UPCOMING PANELS: Wednesday evening October 26, 7:30 pm: The Sage Theatre, 711 Seventh Avenue (47th/48th) WHAT PANEL TOPICS WOULD YOU LIKE US TO CONSIDER FOR THE FALL? |
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY AT THE CRINGE FESTIVAL.
The first Bad Films Festival (10/16-22) seeks short films long on bad language, bad puns, politically incorrect cringe-worthiness. International Cringe Festival at Downeast Arts Center says: “The bottom line is that they keep us laughing or immensely entertained!” like the same organization's Bad Plays s Festivals. Films must be under 10 minutes. Final deadline to submit: 9/30. Submission fee: $15 before 9/15 or $25 by 9/30. Send DVDs only with cover letter, resume, and check payable to NY Artists Unltd., Inc. to Melba LaRose, NY Artists Unlimited, 212 W. 14 St., #2A, NYC 10011. None returned.
AMERICAN MASTERPIECES: MUSICAL THEATER GRANT FROM NEA
The National Endowment for the Arts is requesting applications for funding for musical theater. Grants will be awarded in two areas: 1) Home-based or touring performances of masterworks. 2) Touring, by a limited number of organizations, of masterworks to three to five colleges and university presenters, with special consideration given to engagements in communities that traditionally do not have access to professional musical theater. The Arts Endowment plans to support a variety of projects that reflect the breadth of the genre and its artistic, historical, and cultural significance. Deadline is 8/28. For more details, visit http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/AMMusicalTheater.html
LET YOUR TRU VOICE BE HEARD!
Submissions open for the TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series. Producers are encouraged to submit new works; writers without producers, if you make it to finals, we will try to find you a producer. To nurture the relationships between producers and new musical works, we underwrite the costs of a developmental reading. Seeking mainstream commercial works, as well as non-traditional. As always, we encourage multi-cultural submissions. Submission deadline is 8/30/06, readings will take place in early December followed by industry panel. Check our home page for updates: www.truonline.org
Fractured Atlas provides services, resources, and support to liberate a nation of artists. From low-cost healthcare and event liability insurance, to production and fundraising workshops, to development grants and fiscal sponsorship, we supply critical tools for independent artists and arts organizations so they can focus on their creative responsibilities. By nurturing today's vital but underrepresented voices, we hope to play a role in fostering a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow. Call 212.277.8020, email support@fracturedatlas.org, and learn more about them at www.fracturedatlas.org
Our friends at Back Stage want you to submit articles to their new "Talk Back" column. Why are you giving them the silent treatment? Don't you have something provocative or informative or unusual to say about this business we're in? They really, really want to hear from people in the industry who have some issue or idea that they feel strongly about. The column is about 650 words, and they will pay an honorarium if your article is selected for publication. When you're ready to Talk Back, email your column to Managing Editor David Sheward at: DSheward@backstage.com
Accepting applications for aspiring producers who want to join our mentoring program this year. We have an interest in developing Producers of Color, but all are welcome. Send us a brief letter expressing your interest in being mentored, and telling us a little about your goals and/or experience as a producer. Mentorships are in three-month cycles, and the next opportunities will be July-September and October-December. Deadline for next cycle of mentorships: 8/25. Questions may be sent here to TRUnltd@aol.com
Do you have an idea for an interesting article or interview? Would you like to write for the TRU print newsletter, the TRU Voice? We would like to have a pool of writers available to call upon for articles on an ongoing basis. Our particular thrust, as always, is the needs and interests of producers and theater companies, as opposed to individual artists. However, if you have an idea for a 500-1000 word article that you'd like to write for us, email Bob at TRUnltd@aol.com and we can discuss it.
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See the TRU Online Newsletter "TRU Opportunities" for details of the following (Click here for details.)
Creative Development Grants are made to Fractured Atlas members who need funding for specific expenses relating to artistic exploration or training but not connected to any particular project.
The point of Six Points fellowships is arts support. ($20,000-$25.000) The Six Points Fellowship for 12 individual NY area artists who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme or element. Deadline to apply: 8/31.
A “Mutual Understanding” about $2500 travel grants to you or your not-for-profit theater. Application deadline: 10/27.
New Initiative will serve individual NYC artists of color and provide them with grants towards the development of new work in all disciplines.
Bronx Council on the Arts invites all eligible arts and community organizations to apply to the NYSCA/BCA Community Arts Grants program for the 2006-2007 funding year. Application Deadline: Friday, 9/15/06 at 5:00pm.
NYFA Current provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines culled from NYFA's database of opportunities for artists, NYFA Source.
Publicity photography for off & off-off B'way theater and dance, only $85/per assignment.... Website seeks to review little-known CDs... The New York Foundation for the Arts has launched the new NYFA Current, NYFA's free, national e-publication... The New York Sheet Music Society offers discounted membership to TRU members... Shakespeare Mailing is our mailing house of choice ...
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Find dozens of theater-relevant links at the TRU website. Plus ongoing services and offers. There's even a sign-in form to join us! The home page address: www.TRUonline.org Navigate around from there. And check out some great photos of past events and meetings.
NEW! Escape to a tongue-in-cheek, action-packed new musical! Escape from Pterodactyl Island, the tale of a stalwart young explorer shipwrecked on a deserted island that really isn’t. There's a girl in a fur bikini, a chorus line of dancing cave dwellers, killer pterodactoids, genetic mutants, and a mad scientist who create memorable musical production numbers that you will find as extraordinary as any other show with killer pterodactoids. Look out - here they come - head for www.pterodactylisland.com
NEW! The Xoregos Performing Company specializes in arcane classical/new plays and dances. It has premiered plays by Oscar Wilde (2004), Jean Cocteau and Rene Magritte (2005) and Ade Ademola (2006). Currently preparing a program of Art Nouveau works including a forgotten play written by Sarah Bernhardt for 2007, and a dance tribute to Loie Fuller. Visit Xoregos.com
NEW! Journey to At the Table, with Bob and Vickie. Kelly Lincoln's podcast website features an interview with TRU Prez Bob Ost and singer Vickie Phillips, about the creation of their show "A Musical Journey." No singing, just talk. Hear what they have to say at www.ourmedia.org/node/256358
Original Music and Sound for Your Play or Musical! Mason Rather guarantees exceptional compositions and support for your next project. Flexible rates accommodate the biggest and smallest budgets. To learn more visit www.masonrather.com
United Stages is your audience-building connection, providing affordable professional play programs that offer audiences easily accessible information on live performance and make it fun to enjoy the enormous variety of shows that are happening in New York City and beyond. Stay tuned as they broaden their range of audience development, marketing, and public relations services that will help you increase ticket sales: www.unitedstages.com
Go ahead - laugh your Orloff! The plays of two-time TRU Voices finalist Rich Orloff (and other funny business) await you at www.richorloff.com (It even includes a glimpse inside the playwright's head!)
Hollywood Futures showcases video interviews with various Hollywood celebrities, studio executives, and other high profile guests that give free advice on how to create a successful career in the cutthroat industry. Get the lowdown at http://www.hollywoodfutures.org
Scriptologist Blogs, the screenwriting magazine's blog network for aspiring filmmakers. The network gives talented filmmakers and screenwriters a suite of collaborative Web-authoring tools that can help them break into the film industry. Read more at http://www.scriptologist.com/About_Us/Press/Press3/press3.html
Just what did Cheryl King and John Jerome discuss in Arturo's Window? She has shaped a somewhat fictionalized version of John's notorious story into a play co-written with Rod Menzies, and John Mercurio has contributed 9 original songs. Satisfy your curiosity and take a peek into www.arturoswindow.com
The New Phoenix Theatre NYC is a new nonprofit dedicated to finding ways to make live theater a relevant in the new millennium. Also building outreach programs to bring theater to those who can't access it, New Phoenix aims to attract talented theater artists in its growth and development. Join the community at www.newphoenixnyc.orgwww.newphoenixnyc.org
Looking for that perfect monologue, scene, or original play? Award-winning Los Angeles playwright Kelly Younger has just launched a new website featuring plays available for scene study, auditions, competitions, festivals, and productions. Visit www.KellyYounger.net and register for his mailing list.
Be connected to all dance, music and theatre festivals throughout the world: new festival highlights, photographs, information, online interviews, blogs on culture, and a forum to exchange ideas, create conversations and/or promote one's work to users all around the world. Explore performing arts festivals, search for festivals and artists, and most importantly, add to the site to promote festival work at http://www.kadmusarts.com
Personal training for New Yorkers, TRU-ly discounted... workouts in homes, apartments, offices, and in gyms that allow trainers to visit. Achieve your weight loss, fitness, and nutritional goals by visiting www.kmjfitness.com. 10% Personal Training discount for TRU members.
Find out more about the guy who writes and edits this newsletter ... my bio, play listing, discography of CD's and how to get 'em, and some nice photos at www.bobost.com
WHERE ARE ALL THE MISSING LINKS? Well, we've moved all of the links to a permanent LINKS SITE at www.truonline.org/links.htm:
Private collection of sheet music, books and costumes... click with the multi-media Art House Productions ... tune into The Riant TV (TRTV) blog... Take a journey to Dobdinob a new family musical... Something at the South Street Seaport isn't fishy... Artsmanager.org is a free valuable online resource for current and future arts managers... Tired of chanting for success? How about Channing for success?... Say shalom to Shlomoh Sherman, actor and comic. And poet, no less... The UK Theatre Network provides news, reviews, interviews, tickets and opportunities for people working in the world of theatre... Take the time to learn more about those Timeless Divas!... Shadowland is the only non-profit, professional theatre company in Ulster County... Tune into The Tony and Shlomoh Show, a crazy cable tv show... Need an outside eye on your new musical? Elizabeth Lucas!... the complete online guide to musical theater auditions & performances... Handy guide for online shoppers at the Flat Screen TV Shop... Website for international artists: database of international theater festivals... Dances created for video are featured on Mimi Garrard's web site... Low cost rentals of display and camera technology available nationwide... A new website has just Bloomed ... Wing it on the web: view ATW interviews with theater greats... Will nothing stop this woman? Elisa DeCarlo has her own website... producer/actress Passion has filmed her passion for black women directors... The Film Budgeting Group... X-treme Art for the X-treme border-crosser... Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)... Never get lost going to an audition or meeting... Scene Interactive provides a suite of multimedia tools to streamline the casting process... The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) is an award winning non-profit theatre and community center... Audio and Video services, with special rates for TRU readers... Walk the streets of the Great White Way... Susan L. Schulman/Publicity has a new website ... Songs from the Cafe Escargot ... Meet passionate singer Paulette Attie... Gilgamesh Theatre Company ... United Stages' goal is to raise the public profile of Off-Off Broadway and small venue performance ... Over the river, across the bridge (GW) to Leonia, NJ you go... Center Stage Community Playhouse, the oldest community theater in the Bronx... InTouch Theatre Productions ...Check out Rich Orloff's trio of one-act comedies, Incredible Sex... The Russian American Cultural Center (RACC)... In an extraordinary city, why would you want an ordinary tour guide... Cheryl King's "not a nice girl" ... Director, actress and certified teacher Julie Jensen... Expand your horizons: get the latest on Broad Horizons... Morning Glory Productions... Satirical, topical singer/songwriter Rachel Stone... Dramatic opportunity: plays by Robin Rice Lichtig... cabaret diva Vickie Phillips ... the fresh, fun and fabulous Decibelles ... The Field's new website GoTour... This Streetlight is shining ... award winning Simon Studio is celebrating their 25th anniversary... Spoon Theater celebrates the collaborative spirit... The Field's new website GoTour... Raw Impressions, Inc. is committed to inspiring artists to be prolific with excellence ... Golden Fleece Ltd., The Composers' Chamber Theatre... go to our permanent LINKS SITE
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~Adam Smith
Without labor nothing prospers.
~Sophocles
NEW! AMAS WANTS TO AMASS NEW STAFF.
Multi-Cultural Theatre Has Multi-Faceted Job Openings. Immediate needs for Administrative Associate, Graphic Designer, Administrative Assistant (School), Internships. Very established non-profit musical theater company stressing multi-culturalism and training inner-city youth. Varied pay and locations. Entry/Near-Entry Level Arts Administration Associate (Full or Part-Time) For person seriously considering a career in non-profit theatre management. Skills: phone, extensive computer software knowledge (Word, ExCel, etc., etc.), web management, writing. Detail-oriented. 2. Graphic Designer (Part-Time)- Skilled with Quark Xpress and PhotoShop. 1-2 years' experience and portfolio of cool work samples (could be combined with job #1 for full-time) 3. Administrative Assistant (Part-Time) to Director of Musical Theatre Academy for pre-professional training program for inner-city teens. Help with mailings, recruitment events, registrar for the Academy, includes Saturday hours during classes. 12-20 hours weekly, various sites, $10/hr. 4. Internships : for enthusiastic, detail-oriented people to work in administration, grants, development, mailings, general office, all aspects of running of theatre events (backstage, house, auditions, etc.), teaching programs. Internships hours negotiable (7-40 hours per week.)… Locations vary for some jobs (Greenwich Village, theaters, plus Town Hall for Saturday classes). For all Inquiries Contact: Mr. Jan Hacha, Managing Director, Amas Musical Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street (Suite 2B), New York, NY 10012. Phone: 212.563.2565. Fax: 212.239.8332. E-mail: JHacha@aol.com Send cover letter and resume. Website: www.amasmusical.org
NEW! SEND IN THE CLOWNS…
And the fans, gloves, parasols, etc. Brooklyn theater doing Sondheim's A Little Night Music and needs costumes and props for circa 1900 Sweden. Also: croquet mallet, gorgeous red or blue gown, perhaps sequined women's opera capes, blue military jacket, etc. Contact Bruce by e-mail at bruce.macclain@gmail.com
NEW! INTERNALLY YOURS: INTERNS IN ARTS & ADMINISTRATION
New listing for New Dramatists for the organization dedicated to the playwright's process. Administration, casting, development, literary and stage management. Full-time and part-time (24 hours a week) . Weekly stipend available. Information, downloadable applications at www.newdramatists.org or call 212.757.6960.
NEW! INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL NEEDS VOLUNTEERS.
Network, learn about film marketing and help out. Send an e-mail to volunteer@ifp.org or call 212.465.8200, ext. 211 to volunteer at the 8th Annual IFP Market & Filmmaker Conference 9/17-21. *Attend events, screenings, and panels. Earn An IFP Membership with completion of 60 hours volunteer time. Must be over age of 18.
NEW! SCROLL HERE: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FOR JEWISH TORAH STORIES.
All a$pect$ of connecting and directing fundraising for NYC Jewish program Storahtelling -- promoting Jewish cultural literacy through theatrical performances and education programs for all ages. Workshops, rituals, worship. Must have proven experience in a non-profit, knowledge/ comfort with Jewish community. Begins in October. www.storahtelling.org tells the whole storah. Send send a “substantive” cover letter detailing your storah, plus a resume to office@Storahtelling.org Salary 40K+-50K+
NEW! WANNA START A FIGHT?
Fight Director needed for September one-act play. Rehearsals are 9/5-11. Run follows. Pay to be negotiated (but let's not fight about it). Submit resume to Lillian at performing@gaiastudio.org
NEW! INTERN NEEDED TO HELP INTERNAL WORKINGS OF A THEATER.
Fall into Urban Stages this fall as an intern. Off-Broadway Theater dedicated to discovering and developing plays by authors of diverse cultural backgrounds. Office work and artistic duties. Monthly Metro-Card provided (no stipend). Learn about literary management, dramaturgy, arts management, and outreach. Play analysis, writing, computer skills, and past office experience a huge plus! Please send a cover letter and resume listing qualifications and education to the Program Director, Lori Ann Laster, at lorilaster@urbanstages.org Location: 17 E. 47 St. Phone 212.421.1380.
THEATER/PROPERTY MANAGER LANDMARK GREENWICH VILLAGE THEATER!
The Players Theatre on MacDougal St. is looking for a full time theatre and property manager to work with the new owner on all facets of management. This will include coordinating management and rental of theatre, studios and several other area properties. Other properties include residential and commerical units in Manhattan and Queens. Knowledge of New York City DHRC policies a plus but not required. Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus. Please fax resume to Michael Sgouros at 516.371.1897 or reply via e-mail to ethos@earthlink.net Read more about the theater at www.theplayerstheatre.com
The one woman show Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical is seeking a publicist with the right sense and sensibility, so she wants you to see a rehearsal of her show.
Magazine seeks articles on acting. New website needs material, for pay, full time and freelance. $20-25 per story idea; $50-100 per full-length story.
Female Bonding seeks director to bond with, for $1000 (and a MetroCard, too)! Show at The Impact Theater (Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
STILL LOOKING! MUSICAL DIRECTOR NEEDED WHO SINGS WELL!
Looking for a backup musical director (male) for A Musical Journey with the Songs of Brel, Weill and Aznavour. It's the one-woman show with Vickie Phillips, written and directed by TRU's Bob Ost. Familiarity with Brel, Weill and Aznavour helpful, of course, plus a strong singing voice and ability to do harmonies. You will have two solos in addition to duets with Vickie. High baritone or tenor preferred, and a willingness to spend the time to learn this demanding, nearly two hour show. Performances scheduled for September at The Makor and late October at Queens Theater in the Park. There is pay for both rehearsals and shows, of course. If you want to come play and sing for us, send an email and resume to Bob Ost at bobostcd@aol.com
We don't mean Laura and Barbara: Community Engagement Coordinator needed for Urban Bush Women, the 22-year-old community-active contemporary dance company.
Tired of Waiting Tables or bartending? Recruiter is screening for talented individuals (M or F) who posess the following skills: serious public speaking, self-motivated, elegant, stylish, familiar with the fashion, modeling, and acting industry to work as serious salesmen
The Women's Project has many projects going. Assist with new play development (reading, tracking, contacting writers), recruit/ supervise volunteers, much more with new and mainstage plays at The Women's Project.
Director of Education & Humanities needs assistant at BAM. Must have wide knowledge of contemporary artists, critics, and scholars.
Innovative film production company Public Eye with a web distribution focus, and director Tony Torn, are seeking a web-savvy person to start immediately to work with them and their partners,
Assist planning/producing evening of readings by Belarusians. Needed: Assistant stage manager, funding researcher, production assistant, publicity/marketing help, organized people with real time available.
Currently casting for a new daily talk/relationship show, The Greg Behrendt Show (he's the best-selling author of He's Just Not That Into You, and creative consultant on Sex and the City).
Looking for someone interested in helping finish and refine a new screenplay and help line produce the piece. Not to raise money - the ideal person would be interested in managing a film production from start to finish.
Jagger Kaye is looking for an Improv Troupe to perform midnight show beginning Fridays in September and likely beyond. Show length 45-55 minutes.
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Festival needs actors, comedians, musicians. Male/female actors with short scenes, hip-hop performers, spoken word artists, solo or group comedy acts, bands. Festival is 8/29 thru 9/2.
Assistant needed for Co-Director/Agent at Literary Division of Abrams Artists Agency. A NYC Theatrical Agency specializing in representation writers, directors, etc.
Fall Interns being hired for Richard Foreman's productions. 10 weeks beginning mid-September. .
Eddie is producing and co-hosting a show (with Ron Claiborne) on ABC News Now that is as yet untitled. It's a public affairs show for black people. Needs some talkers.
TV show does a space makeover if space-sharing is despairing. Seeking co-habitating people...
TheaterMania.com, Inc., the nation’s leading online source for theater information and tickets, seeks a self-starter to join our Marketing Team as an Account Associate...
Artistic director of Hudson River Repertory seeks Producing Director to oversee the business management end.
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The New Orleans Public Library is no longer accepting hardcover and paperback books to restock the shelves after Katrina. But you might be able to help in other ways. Go to http://nutrias.org/foundation/donationsfaq.htm
ArT cOop, a newly formed and innovative fundraising cooperative for the arts, is looking for volunteers, mentors, and members.
For new book, different perspectives sought on what it's like to be different.
Donate your extra theater equipment to new Youth Theater: lights, dimmer board, hangable lights, sound board, flats, costumes, black-out curtains, piano, risers.
TRU needs office, storage space, and staff.
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REACHING OUT
A mind always employed is always happy.
This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson
NEW! “WILL”-ING ASSISTANT NEEDED FOR DC SHAKESPEARE.
Fellowship for director to work directly with director, interact with actors. The Shakespeare Theatre Co. in Washington, DC seeks an early-career director to serve as Assistant Director or 2nd Assistant Director on: Richard III, TitusAndronicus, Hamlet. Work with 3 different directors. 6 days a week, coordinating and running understudy and touch-up rehearsals. Starts 9/27 Stipend and housing. Send cover letter, resume, and list of 3 professional references to: Directorial Fellow Search, Shakespeare Theatre Company, 516 8th St, SE, Washington DC, 20003-2834. E-mail: stcjobs@shakespearetheatre.org Or Fax: 202.547.0226.
NEW! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JOB OPEN AND OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS.
La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, CA. needs visionary leader. Leadership role in guiding multiple stage company with a history of developing significant new work, and shows that move on. Seeking someone with proven track record and inventive, original talent and vision. Collaborate with University of CA at San Diego on some projects. Have commitment to participating in major gift solicitation. Strong preference given to stage directors. For full profile and application procedures, go to: www.mcaonline.com (Management Consultants for the Arts) mail to them at : 132 East Putnam Avenue, Cos Cob, CT 06807.
NEW! ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WALNUT STREET PHILLY!
Need Assistant Director for Of Mice and Men at Walnut Street Theatre. Mark Clements, Director. Full time commitment from Dec. 26 - Jan. 24. Excellent opportunity to work with an internationally established director and top notch actors. Ideal for recent college graduate with directing experience. Some pay. Please send a formal cover letter and resume to Mark Clements at kg@wstonline.org no later than 9/10.
NEW! ACCOMPANIST IN PHILLY!
Looking for a fun, brash, talented accompanist (experienced in Broadway-style music) to play for, and have creative input into, Philly Cabaret Theatre's new revue, playing October 6 & 7. Rehearsals begin this week. Flexible schedule, paid gig. Email doug@dougandersonproductions.com
NEW! MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR OBIE-WINNING COMPANY!
Pig Iron Theatre Company, an OBIE-winning, founder-driven Philly ensemble, seeks a Managing Director to guide the company's second decade. The MD is directly responsible for daily operations and financial management. Oversight responsibilities include development, marketing and HR. Strong communication and organizational skills essential; Experience with Quickbooks, Word, Excel, and Access a must; Accounting, database and non-profit management backgrounds preferred. Ideal position for someone who loves cutting edge performance and wants to support many aspects of the creation process. Salary is $30,000 plus benefits. Fax letter and resume to the Artistic Directors: 215.873.0884 or email to admin@pigiron.org
NEW! PRODUCTION MANAGER IN PHILLY!
Pig Iron Theatre Company seeks an organized, resourceful individual to work as the company's Production Manager. Duties and responsibilities include: hiring technical staff; scheduling and creating production calendars; assisting in creation of production budgets and maintaining budgets; maintaining technical information for repertory shows; communicating with presenters and venues about production needs; logistics for national and international tours; overseeing strike and load-in; organizing storage and inventory, overseeing all designers and technicians to ensure deadlines are met. Low-mid $20's plus benefits. Must have a car. Fax letter and resume to Artistic Directors: 215.873.0884 or email to admin@pigiron.org.
NEW! HARD-WORKING, DETAIL-ORIENTED FILM INTERNS IN DC!
A busy independent production company located on Capitol Hill is looking for a few hard-working, detail-oriented interns. They are currently in production on six hours for National Geographic and would love some extra help! The internship is unpaid but they can offer credit. Job duties include: research, transcriptions, tape logging, running errands and basic production assistant work. Minimum commitment of 10 hours/week for fall semester. Interested applicants should email their resumes, cover letters and two or three professional references to: hilary@bigfishdc.com
NEW! HGTV INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE IN DC!
New HGTV special is looking for talented, energetic, creative, and hard-working fall interns. No experience necessary. This internship is not about making coffee and running errands, it is hands-on training. Interns have the opportunity to work on pre-production, post-production and even local shoots. This is a great learning experience and a fun way to earn college credits. The NAHB Production Group, located in Washington, DC, has produced more than 125 hours of cable network programming, crewing hundreds of remote locations and traveling thousands of miles to get the story told. Interested applicants must be willing to work a total of 18 hours a week for the fall semester. If interested, please contact Jesse Achtenberg at jachtenberg@nahb.com
NEW! PRODUCTION MANAGER AT GEVA!
Production Manager at Geva, senior staff position - LORT B and D stages, eleven productions, 6 million dollar annual budget. Send letter and resume to: John Quinlivan, Managing Director at jquinlivan@gevatheatre.org This position could start immediately or we could look at an interim production manager until the right candidate is available.
NEW! BE A BRAT ARTISTIC PRODUCING DIRECTOR!
Brat Productions wants to know: Are you super smart? Sexy? Courageous? If you have two out of three of these qualities you may be just what they're looking for. Brat Productions, a ten year old cutting edge theatre company in the heart of old city Philadelphia. We invite applications for an Artistic Producing Director to oversee and implement all organizational operations, the artistic season and serve as Chief Financial Officer for a $100,000 budget theatre. Five years' minimum experience in executing artistic programs and managing staff desired. Excellent PR and office technology skills helpful. Salary: Mid twenties. Apply to www.bratproductions
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Philadelphia Theatre Company is seeking someone to spearhead their group sales efforts. A 10% commission will be offered on all sales.
Philadelphia Theatre Company seeks literary intern to read scripts by some of America's hottest and most talented contemporary playwrights!
Needed: A film lover/film enthusiast with great organizational skills to be the Director of the Annapolis Film Society.
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival is seeking a full time Marketing Director who is an enthusiastic and creative leader who can help build the capacity of this dynamic theatre.
The Wilma Theater seeks two experienced, goal-oriented individual: one for marketing, one for development.
Put the “you” in University: performance studies scholar needed at Berkeley. Deadline: 10/9.
Administrative Assistant and House Manager (both part-time) needed. DePaul University's Merle Reskin Theatre.
Networks Tours seeks Maryland-based Contract Manager if you can manage dealing with outside booking agencies and Networks managers for the best contract.
When musicals go on the road, Network Tours needs someone on the ball. In Maryland. Job requires relocating to Columbia, Maryland.
California Musical Theatre (Music Circus/Broadway Series) is seeking an energetic and personable individual as the Director of Development to lead its fundraising programs.
Fine worker for job in fine arts…and performing arts… as the Dean out in California. Plan and direct instructional division, all arts.
Junction Dance Theatre in Philly seeks motivated self-starter with experience in the performing arts and/or non-profit administration for part-time company manager position. Deadline: 9/15.
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CASTING ABOUT!
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure
that your most important decision in the day simply consists of
choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
~Douglas Pagels
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NEW! AUDITION FOR MUSICAL IN JERSEY, IF YOU'RE IN TOWN!
Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ is casting non-union for Urinetown: The Musical. Sue Dunie, Director; Christopher Howatt, Musical Director. Performance dates November 16-19. Evening and weekend rehearsals at the college. All roles open. Particularly seeking Mr. Cladwell, Officer Lockstock, Ms. Pennywise, Little Sally, Hope and Bobby. Seeking an ethnically diverse cast of actors from New Jersey. Prepare vocal music appropriate to the style of the show. Be prepared to dance if asked. Auditions by appointment only on Saturday 9/9 at Ripley Grier studios located at 939 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. Callbacks September 14 at the College. For an appointment send pix and resumes with cover letter to URINETOWN AUDITIONS 676A Ninth Avenue Box 164 NYC 10036 or by email to UGCaudition@aol.com (THIS IS A CORRECTED EMAIL ADDRESS; IT WAS PREVIOUSLY POSTED WRONG) This is a New Jersey production with rehearsals and performances in NJ. Non-union. No pay.
NEW! AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTRESS, 30s!
Seeking a smart and talented African-American actress who can pass for early-mid thirties for a one act play that goes up at the end of September- rehearsals to begin ASAP. Character is a former mother of two. She is proud, contemptuous, and in pain. The one act is about two women who meet to discuss the sale of a piano, then discover they have met once before, at the scene of a terrible tragedy. Dates are 9/25-10/1, approx 18 hrs of rehearsal between 9/11-22 (evenings) with tech on the 25th. Auditions will be early this week- please contact director at justaliza@optonline.net with resume as soon as possible if interested and available. [9-1]
NEW! BLESSED EVENT: AUDITIONS FOR SEASON!
Blessed Unrest is holding general auditions and interviews for 2006-2007 season. Seeking creative and adventurous actors of all ages and ethnicities for physical and experimental work. Classical training is a plus. Also seeking creative, adventurous and hands-on designers, dramaturgs and stage managers. Auditions/interviews will be held by appointment only on 9/9-10, 9/16-17. To schedule an appointment, please email resumes only to auditions@blessedunrest.org
TWO WOMEN FOR EQUITY SHOWCASE, UNION OR NON!
Need two women in their 40's for an Equity Showcase of Fermin Cabal's powerful drama Disappeared, about life under Pinochet in Chile. Starting early September and running four weeks. The plan is to segue into a full Equity production if reviews are good. Richmond Shepard directs. Union and non-union may send pics and resumes to: Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St., New York NY 10010. Equity Showcase wage scale.
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Cheryl King seeks talent for Stage Left Showcase - Hot fun in the summertime.
Seeking actresses for an all-female theatre troupe – burlesque style! Looking to start a theatre group, with a burlesque feel to it
Casting Females teens, Latina & Af. American, non-union, no pay for Count Down. This play takes place at a residential treatment facility for girls who are wards of the state. Reh. Begins: 9/30; Runs: 11/2-11/29 at the Bank St. Theatre.
NY Artists Unlimited needs children's performers. Especially interested in puppeteers, but all acts considered.
The Basement Salon is looking for a few new actor members.
Looking for non-union Classically Trained Actors for The Latino Shakespeare Company.
Seeking socially-minded actors: Visible Theatre is expanding and diversifying its professional weekly development LAB.
Community Cabaret always seeking musical acts (singers, songwriters, bands, etc.) to showcase at this fundraising event held five times a year in midtown.
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NEW! AUDITION FOR DANCE COMPANY SEASON!
Randy James Dance Works will be holding auditions for immediate paid company positions, 20-week contract for Fall NYC Season and National Touring. Additional paid extra dancers needed for a special project. Female Dancers, Friday 9/8, at 12 noon; Male Dancers, Saturday 9/9, at 12 noon. Peridance, 132 4th Avenue , NYC (Subway: 4/5/6/L/N/R/Q/W to 14th St.) Visit www.RJDW.org For more info email rjdw4452@yahoo.com
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A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
~Scott Johnson
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Seeking females ages 18-28 for Internet Comedy Show which is RAPIDLY growing in popularity!
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.
But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
~Marie Stopes
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Stearns Promotional Modeling is currently seeking models for various promotional jobs. Great summer job and good pay.
International Model & Talent Management is currently seeking models for various promotional jobs. Great summer job and good pay.
New clothing and shoe company is searching for attractive musicians/singers or actresses. A new company looking for "real people"
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THE
WRITER'S BLOCK
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France
A mind always employed is always happy.
This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson
NEW! WHO SAID NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET?
Mark Twain-athon Celebration seeks proposals for works inspired by Twain. Metropolitan Playhouse is accepting proposals for long and short new theatrical adaptations and original works inspired by the writings and/or life of Samuel Clemens for inclusion in a “Twain-athon” 1/15-28. Submissions will be considered for co-production. Individual artists and companies may apply. Guidelines online at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/twainguide.htm Call Alex Roe with questions: 212.995.8410 or e-mail him at twainathon@metropolitanplayhouse.org Mailing address: Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4 St., New York, NY 10009.
NEW! $10,000 (ARMENIAN) SCREENWRITING & PLAYWRITING AWARD!
The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance (ADAA) announces the inauguration of its annual contest for a play or screenplay based on Armenian themes. The Frances Paul Lyons/ Almas Paul Annual Screenwriting & Playwriting Award, deadline: 5/15/07, and the winning writer will be honored with a $10,000 award in the Fall of 2007. The contest will be administered by the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance (ADAA), which will establish a panel of noted theatre and film professionals to select the winning script. The contest rules have just been posted online at www.armeniandrama.org/contest.php . Scripts must have an Armenian theme, but writers are not required to be of Armenian descent. The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance's mission is to make the Armenian voice heard on the world stage through the dramatic arts of theatre and film. The organization accomplishes this mission by supporting playwrights and screenwriters and provides production opportunities, commissions, scholarships, research tools, networking resources and writing awards. For more information about Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance and how to contribute to it's important mission please visit our website at www.armeniandrama.org or call us at 617.871.6764.
SEEKING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBMISSIONS!
MultiStages is holding its fourth New Works Playwriting Contest. MultiStages produces non-traditional multidisciplinary work in collaboration with other art forms (i.e., dance, music composition (including opera), visual arts, puppetry, poetry, multimedia, etc.). The submitted scripts must be multidisciplinary and respect non-traditional casting choices. All productions are subject to further development by MultiStages in collaboration with the playwright. Guidelines, details, and past winners can be found at http://www.eljallartsannex.com/multistages.htm. Submission deadline: 12/30, 2006. For more information, contact Artistic Director Lorca Peress at multistages@nyc.rr.com Mention TRU!
GIVE MY REGARDS TO “NOT FOR BROADWAY”...
Festival sets its sights on visionary new musicals with an eye for the unusual. Is your fantastically original, controversial, and visionary musical wandering the streets of New York, crying out for a venue to call home? Is the next First Lady Suite, Assassins, or Hedwig and the Angry Inch lost and languishing? Be homeless no more. “Warning: Not For Broadway”, the annual Dixon Place musical theater festival (11/10-12) offers shelter to new and developing works telling uncommon stories through lyric song in a way that is fresh and daring. The 3-day festival is at Roulette in SoHo. Submit by 9/8; Program announced 8/22. Short pieces and works in the early stages of development are welcomed. Requirements: Artists must live in NYC metro area. Shows must have original, dramatic music, running time must be under one hour. Send cover letter with contact info, production history, synopsis, cast size, band size, total running time, and technical needs, and audio of the show's music (CD, mp3's, or tape). Send to: Dixon Place (attention: “Warning: Not For Broadway” Festival), 258 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York,, NY 10012. Telephone: 212.219.0736, Fax: 212.219.0761. E-mail: michelle@dixonplace.org Mention TRU!
SEEKING NEW MUSICALS AND REVUES!
Because We Care Minnesota Performing Arts Alliance Responding to AIDS is seeking Musicals and Revues and Cabaret acts for future production, stage readings or show songbook. BWC mission is to raise awareness and funds to be used for direct care for persons living with HIV/AIDS. And to mobilize the unique abilities within the performing arts community. BWC is a all volunteer non profit organization founded in 1995. Please send one script with synopsis with demo or cd of music. Shows will be used for future AIDS fund raisers for BWC and will also place them in our resource reference library for the use of other groups to use for AIDS events. Musicals and Revues can be of any type and size. Please send to: BWC, Steven Katz, 63 Lawson Avenue West, St. Paul MN 55117. Questions, email mnguympls@webtv.net Remember to mention TRU!
PLAYS FOR BRYN MAWR COMPANY!
Beacon Theatre Company in Bryn Mawr, PA is seeking submissions of new plays for its 2007 Season. All genres welcome. Please send submissions with cover letter and synopsis to: Tim Martin, Producing Director, Beacon Theatre, PO Box 857, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. Or submit electronically to: beacontheatreco@gmail.com Mention the TRU Update.
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS OF COLOR!
New Edge Resident Director for CEC's 2006-2007 season seeks young playwrights of color to work on a new play to be performed for March 2007. The piece will be created through a rehearsal collaboration between writer, actor and director and will center on the particular tensions between Philadelphia's African-American and Italian American communities. Please email amackey1@hotmail.com for more information.
HOT NEWS: ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR hotINK 2007!
Here's an inkling about hotINK, an international play reading series now seeking submissions. The series runs 1/20-22 and 27-28, 2007, and brings together professional playwrights, directors and actors with the talented students and alumni of the TSOA Drama Department Undergraduate Acting Studios. Deadline: Postmarked by 9/15/06. Seeking previously unproduced plays - full-lengths are preferred but one-acts will be considered. Unable to consider musicals at this point. Include in your submission: contact information, a writing resume and bio and a cast of characters. Send submissions to: Chantal Bilodeau, Literary Manager / hotINK 2007, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. Materials will not be returned. Selected playwrights will be contacted by mid-November. Due to limited resources, hotINK cannot cover the cost of travel or housing for selected playwrights. For more information, contact Catherine Coray, Curator at 212.992.9349 or at cc19@nyu.edu
IT'S HERE, IT'S QUEER, SUBMIT!
Hey, it's a May Gay Play Festival. TRU Advisory Board members Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman, producers of “GayFest NYC” now accepting submissions for the Festival of New Plays and Musicals (5/9-6/2) with 3 Main Stage productions with Equity casts (6-10 performances), reading series, guest speakers, talk-backs, etc. Open to new and experienced writers. Requirements: Plays should have LGBT characters or issues in plot, must be original, complete, unpublished, full-length. Maximum of 3 settings and 9 actors. Not seeking salacious material. Only one script per writer. Shows with previous or planned Equity showcases or produced in NYC theater with more than 99 seats are ineligible. Have full contact info on title page and any accompanying material. Include bio, play's history, character breakdown, synopsis. SASE for return. Mail 2 copies of script in standard form, (if musical, one CD of music) to: GayFestNYC, c/o Bruce Robert Harris, One River Place, Suite 917, NY, NY 10036. Submission deadline: 9/30.
LET YOUR TRU VOICE RING OUT IN SONG!
Submissions open for the TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series.. Our pals at NYMF will be offering at least one musical in our series a slot in their 2007 festival, an ongoing policy that started with our 2005 Saint Heaven, which was invited into this year's NYMF. Producers are encouraged to submit new works; writers without producers, if you make it to finals, we will try to find you a producer. To nurture the relationships between producers and new musical works, we underwrite the costs of a developmental reading. Seeking mainstream commercial works, as well as non-traditional. As always, we encourage multi-cultural submissions. Submission deadline will be 8/30/06, readings will take place in early December followed by industry panel. Check our home page for updates: www.truonline.org
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The Lark Theatre announces that submissions for Playwrights' Week '07 will be accepted starting 6/1. Deadline is 10/31, 2006.
International Cringe Festival's Bad Plays: Are you bad enough to be accepted? $50 (if applying in August).
Call for manuscripts on the man and his scripts: August due in January. August Wilson (A Retrospective)
4th annual Playwrights Center / Guthrie theater challenge says: “Ask yourself: Whom would I choose to pair with outside of the theater to make the perfect collaboration?” Propose a new play in collaboration with that person, and you could win a $2,500 commission ... Deadline: 10/2 (postmark)
Proposals on Honoring Spiderwoman Theater / Celebrating Native American Theater. Conference/ performances at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 2/19-21 event (Deadline for proposals: 10/15)
Looking to collaborate with a Composer/Lyricist on a modern day musical set in an urban environment, which takes place in the present time and day.
This issue of Performance Research aims to commence a dialogue on the performance of Blackness/ Diaspora. What does it mean to 'perform' blackness? Proposals due 9/15/06.
What makes text performance text? Karawane: Or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist: A Journal of Performance Texts seeks submissions 1-10 pages.
Emails to a Young Playwright: Award-winning Los Angeles playwright Kelly Younger has just launched a new website featuring a blog on the Art, Craft, and Business of playwriting.
$1000 prize and reading in Massachusetts. American Repertory Theatre and Discovering Justice announce Discovering Justice through A.R.T. Playwriting Contest 2006.
To be young, talented and on the west coast. Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations Invite Applications for California Emerging Playwright Awards. Deadline 8/24.
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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country.
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with
conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power,
of glories achieved by one nation over another.
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
~ Samuel Gompers
ADDED 9/6! PSM FOR URINETOWN AT GALLERY PLAYERS!
The
Gallery Players, Brooklyn's premier off-off Broadway Equity showcase theater
seeks a Production Stage Manager and an Assistant Stage Manager for its
upcoming production of Urinetown: The Musical, Music & Lyrics by Mark
Hollmann, Book & Lyrics by Greg Kotis (approval pending). Prod., Katie
Adams. Dir., Tom Wojtunik. The show runs October 14th through November 5th.
Rehearsals will take place evenings and weekends, Sept 16th-Oct 13th.
Seeking a reliable, well-organized individual with a professional attitude
and stage management experience. Must be able to work with a creative team,
assist director, keep prompt book, run rehearsals and performances, run
light board, supervise actors and ASM and work under AEA showcase code.
Great chance to make contacts and work in a professional level theatre with
a 40 year history. Assistant Stage Manager will be well organized and
efficient, prior theater experience desirable but not required. For
consideration for both positions please e-mail resume and cover letter with
2 references that we can call to prgalleryplayers@yahoo.com
Small stipend pay. For more information about the theatre:
www.galleryplayers.com Equity/non-Equity. No phone calls please. Job Start: 9/16/2006 Job End Date 11/5/2006 Non Union/Equity
Showcase, approval pending. Salary N/A Company The Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Contact Katie Adams
katiemayadams@yahoo.com
ADDED 9/6! STAGE MANAGER AND SET DESIGNER NEEDED!
Show at Wings Theater seeks a good
stage manager (stipend for the run) and a set designer who will have a
budget of $500. Show runs from 11/17-12/16. Please email if you are interested and I can give you
more information:
Rcambeiro@aol. com
NEW! DO YOU HAVE TECHNIQUE TO BE A TECH DIRECTOR (BRIEFLY)?
NYMF Festival (New York Musicals Festival-9/11-10/1) needs venue Technical Directors. Liason between the Production Manager (and other NYMF staff) and Festival participants. Each venue has no fewer than 5 shows/companies. Supervise load-in/out for each show, provide oversight of show changeovers and the use of technical equipment by each company in the venue. Technical theatre experience a must. Hours are long. Some light lifting required. Pay is $1200 with 2 days off during the Festival. Additional pay is available for load-in/out. Apply to patrick@splintergroupproductions.com More information at www.nymf.org
NEW! STAGE MANAGER, SHOW PLUS SCHOOL TOUR!
Dangerous Curves Productions is looking for stage managers for a run and a school tour of the upcomong Changing Violet by Deborah Ortiz. Paid position and the show opens 9/21 but rehearsals are already under way. The show is running in Manhattan 9/21-12/13, every Thursday-Friday at 7:00pm and Saturday at 8:00pm. Also touring the NYC school system and needs a person to stage manage the tour also; or the same person can do both. Email Deborahlouise11@aol.com
NEW! IN THEATER, IT'S COOL TO BREAK THE 4TH WALL, BUT…
Maybe not if you're the master carpenter and the job description says “exquisitely fine skills”. Fourth Wall, a play by A. R. Gurney needs such a person who can also be the Technical Director. 9/17-9/24. Specifically looking for someone skilled with lots of moldings and Victorian details. Price out and execute design. What Exit? Theater Maplewood, NJ. Fees negotiable. Call Allison 908.400.1266 or e-mail her: allison@stagepres.all or try David: 847.707.4252 (dwinitsky@comcast.dwi )
NEW! MAPLEWOOD NEEDS A SCENIC ARTIST ON THE SCENE.
Have you seen one who can paint one large backdrop to be lit through windows? What Exit? Theater Maplewood, NJ. 9/17-24 Fees negotiable. Call Allison 908.400.1266 or e-mail her: allison@stagepres.all or try David: 847.707.4252 (dwinitsky@comcast.dwi ) For A. R. Gurney's play Fourth Wall.
NEW! ALL SET TO DESIGN THE SET FOR NASHVILLE'S NEW NELLIE?
That's the first musical for Singers' Theater and it's about Nellie Bly (America's first female investigative journalist) Previously mounted in NYC in '97 and '99. For more info on the show and this new company, a division of The Dramaturgy Project, e-mail jazmn47@aol.com Designer need not be in Nashville.
THE TOTAL THEATRE LAB LIKE TOTALLY NEEDS YOU!
Production Assistant, Designer and all kinds of total help. This new company is involved with new, non-traditional plays about US multi-cultural interaction and lessons learned. PA would work 8-12 hours a week: videotape improv/research sessions and attend company meetings, make phone calls, file, etc. A designer for sets, props, slides and video is needed, but one person would be great who can do both jobs! Must be interested in our mission statement detailed on website, www.totaltheatrelab.com. Other needs: Designer for logo (based on existing idea), website person, production consultant to help with getting money, Board members, staff and more. Contact: Caroline Thomas, phone: 212.799.4224 or e-mail: cttheatre@nyc.rr.com
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Seeking experienced stage manager for the play Female Bonding, a 10 character play, at The Impact Theater in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn
Flashpoint Theatre Company in Philadelphia is seeking a Light Board Operator/Master Electrician for its first two shows of the 2006-07 season: The House Of Yes (10/25 - 11/11, with possible 1-week extension) and The Santaland Diaries (12/6 - 22).
Pennsylvania Youth Theatre located in Bethlehem, PA, seeks designers for the 2006-2007 season: Babes in Toyland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Seussical.
Voorhees Theatre Company in South Jersey seeks Technical Director/Designer/Lighting Director for fall production of Oliver!
The Domino Players of Albright College in Reading, PA, seek a scenic designer or scenic/costume designer for their November production of TOP GIRLS.
Can you see your way to Visible Theatre's lighting board? Interviewing NOW. Load-In is 9/25, 4 shows a week, 5-week run. Abingdon Theatre. Pay and a lot of press.
A Union job (that is, it's in Union, New Jersey) with TRU friends who are really “Kean” on hearing from you. Designers and technicians wanted to teach one or two tech classes a semester or just once in a while as adjunct staff. Required: a Masters Degree.
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
~Leonardo da Vinci
ADDED 9/6! FABRIC/ARTS SUPPLIES DONATION!
12 boxes of fabric remnants. Most sizes are approximately 3-4 feet long, by about 2-3 feet wide. All kinds from velour/velvet, polyester, cotton...etc...etc..All patterns, colors. Will ONLY donate this to a charity that supports Gay Rights, the homeless, children, handicapped, AIDS, the indigent, elderly..etc... You MUST take ALL of the boxes. I will deliver within reason of ZIP 10512.
The art supplies consist of MANY spools of thread, paint brushes, glitter, paint, etc... etc... Again... you must take ALL of them.
Please contact mikedasalvageman@yahoo.com
NEW! KEYBOARD AND OTHER KEY ITEMS FOR SALE.
A New Yorker is moving so make your move and get a buy before they go bye-bye. Roland RD-600 with 88 weighted keys, 64 sounds, MIDI channels, oscillator. One glitch: a broken E2 key. Included: foldable, X-style stand, pedal; cables; and high-quality keyboard chair. $900 or best offer. Also selling the big (1800's black-and-crimson Chinese wedding cabinet), the small (jewelry, baby gear), and everything in between (chairs, Blu-Dot CD holders, coffee table). Contact Juliet callalily1@gmail.com or call her at 212.531.1148
NEW! MORPH YOUR MEMORIES FROM VHS AND STILL PHOTOS TO DVD.
TRU friend Kristina will also put in music, titles, transitions. Turn treasured photos, chapter. Your VHS, VHS-C or mini-DV to fully customized DVD. View sample clips at www.latourdeforceproductions.com Call 212.462.9125.
NEW! A “REEL” DEAL FOR ACTORS: REELS TRANSFERRED TO DVD.
Reel created from your performance footage. All edited onto high quality DVD, complete with titles, chapters, and music for professional approach designed to get the gig! View sample clips at www.latourdeforceproductions.com Call TRU friend Kristina at 212.462.9125 for rates.
CASIO ELECTRIC PIANO, AND BOCA PRINTER!
Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble, an Equity SPT4 not-for-profit company in Westchester County, is selling surplus items to raise funds for its 2006-07 mainstage season. Casio AP24 electric piano, never opened, still in original box. Recent internet price $600 plus shipping, we'll sell for $550 or best offer, you pick up from our theatre. Boca Printer Mini Plus, only used to print about 1200 tickets, in excellent working condition--selling because we switched ticket agents and they provide their own Boca. Currently configured for SmartTix. Recent internet price $1764, selling for $950, you pick up or we'll ship/deliver (additional charge). Contact blueberryschedule@yahoo.com for fastest response or call 914.923.3530 and leave a message.
POSTERING/FLIER SERVICE!
Philly-based company now expanded into NYC for distribution of your posters and fliers! A-List Promotions has expanded into New York City for your street marketing needs, now scheduling distribution for The Fall Season. Sell more tickets using A-List Promotion's Guerilla-style street marketing methods, including hand-to-hand, flyer and brochure retail drop-offs, postings, and more. Materials to distribute can include: Postcards, Flyers, Brochures, Invitations, Posters, Coupons, Small product items. Contact A-List Promotions, LLC at arts@alistpromotions.com or 215.482.EDGE. And mention TRU! Read more at www.alistpromotions.com
Original Music and Sound for Your Play or Musical! NYC-based composer who loves to create music and sound for area plays and musicals.
YOUR RESOURCE FOR PROFESSIONAL "PLAYBILL" PROGRAMS!
United Stages partners with producers to build long-term relationships with audiences, by providing professional, affordable show programs, which include the built-in marketing of our calendar, linked visibility to our audience-friendly website, featured articles, critical reviews and more. Our eye-catching layout honors each show’s creators, producers, cast, crew, angels, granters and donors. United Stages is an audience-building connection that provides audiences with easily accessible information on live performance and make it fun to enjoy the enormous variety of exciting new shows that are happening in New York City and beyond. Stay tuned to United Stages as they broaden their range of audience development, marketing, and public relations services that will help you increase ticket sales. Visit their website often at www.unitedstages.com. For more information or a sample program, contact Jonathan Reuning at jon@unitedstages.com or 718.360.2958.
SHAPE UP WITH A TRU DISCOUNT!
Kim Jones offers personal training for New Yorkers, with a 10% Personal Training discount for TRU members. She conducts workouts in homes, apartments, offices, and in gyms that allow trainers to visit. Achieve your weight loss, fitness, and nutritional goals by visiting www.kmjfitness.com or call Kim M. Jones st 917.751.4172, email kmjfitness@hotmail.com or kim@kmjfitness.com
DISCOUNTED FITNESS AND YOGA FOR TRU!
Recommended by your editor: Fit For You NYC, a Manhattan based fitness company is offering a discounted rate on fitness and yoga classes if you are a TRU reader. [Editor's note: The fitness instructor Jessica is the gal I take aerobics from, and she's high-energy, highly motivating and sensitive to individual limitations!] Classes are held on Sundays from 12-2 PM. From 12-12:55 PM Extreme Fat Burner and from 1-1:55 PM ISHTA Yoga. Classes are held at Kingsley Studios: 244 W. 54th Steet between Broadway and 8th Ave. 4th floor. Special rate $9/class both for $16
(normally $12/class both for $20) For more information, go to www.fitforyounyc.com or call 212.769.7754.
GOT A SET TO BREAK DOWN? NEED A SET TO PUT UP?
The Set Recycling Hot-line lets you give away your set pieces to a show that needs them, or get the pieces you need. It works like this: a show is closing, and needs to get rid of its set. Rather than throw it out, they can give it to you. Or you need some specific set pieces, and you want to find out if anyone out there has them. Of course, none of this works unless you plan well in advance and list your offers/needs at least a month ahead of time. It's a matter of timing. And all the carting is up to you - there's no handy trucking service connected with this. For more info, or to start using the service, call Julia Rubin at 212.673.6343. Please mention TRU!
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Sheila has over 10 years’ experience in various administrative duties, and marketing, excellent interpersonal skills, as well as a conversational knowledge of French.
For Photographers and other Design services, click here:
Fashion and editorial photographer Aaron Kneile is now accepting headshot clients.
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Not getting results at auditions? Need help shaping a new monologue, or brushing up an old one?
Award-winning dialect coach Amy Stoller says: Tired of struggling alone with a tape? Now you can work with an experienced professional ...
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Need to convert your VHS tapes to DVD? Want to preserve your memories forever? Let TRU friend Kristina tell your story, and turn your home videos AND pictures into gorgeous DVDs!
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If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day.
If you teach me to fish, then you have fed me
until the river is contaminated or the shoreline seized for development.
But if you teach me how to organize, then whatever the challenge
I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution.
~Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist
-Ricardo Levins Morales
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
~Levell Edwards
NEW! THE TIMIN' IS RIGHT FOR SIMON PREVIEW.
Check out Simon Studio Acting Demo Workshop Try a preview for $15. Thurs 9/7 at 5 pm or Sat 9/9 at 1 pm Five to ten week residencies. Actors work together with playwrights/screenwriters and directors on new plays, musicals and film projects; may combine on-camera work, voice-overs, commercials, movement, public performances. Some partial scholarships available. Audition/interviews in person or by phone and video tape. Call 212.841.0204. These two sessions at Where Eagles Dare, 347 W. 36 St., Suite 1204. Full details at www.SimonStudio.com
NEW! WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNING PLAYWRIGHTS BEGINNING SOON.
Eight-month evening program, meeting weekly. Fee: $150 The Beginning Playwrights Unit of The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, celebrating its 30th anniversary. Starts Tues, 10/10. All are welcome, especially Latinos and other minorities, whether you have worked in another medium or have never written a word, but have a powerful desire to write a play. Directed by Allen Davis III: contact him by e-mail at allen@prtt.org, or fax 212.307.6769, or phone 212.354.1293 for follow up after 10/1.
CHALLENGING AND AFFORDABLE SCENE STUDY CLASS
Frustrated by typecasting? Need a place to experiment and try something new? The class is intimate and demanding with only 10 students and taught by a Meisner trained Director and Actor who will challenge you with material you have been keeping on the shelf or hand picked material you would never dream of trying. Class starts 9/5, Tues & Thur, 1pm-4pm, at Bridge Workshop Studios in Midtown. Participation requires a minimum 2 consecutive week attendance. $100/Two Weeks/$160/Monthly. Info & Register: 347.885.4580. Email: overthebridgetheater@hotmail.com. [8-2]
LIKE A DEGREE IN CLOWNOLOGY, SEPT. CLOWN CLASSES.
Study with the expert clowns who've come to town. They've come to The Brick Theatre in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn. The NY Clown Theatre Festival presents a series of workshops. Sat/Sun, 9/2-3 from 10 am to 2 pm: “Radically Funny” ($200) Ronlin Foreman is Director of Pedagogical Research and Master Clown Teacher at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Thurs-Sun, 9/7-10 from 10 am to 4 pm: Philippe Gaulier: Jeu and Clown 4-day Workshop ($500) with world-renowned Paris-based teacher/writer and director with a distinctive approach to the world of performance. Tues, 9/12 from 6 pm-10 pm: Jef Johnson from “Slava's Snowshow”: Unlocking the Life of the Clown ($100) with Cirque du Soleil (Artistic Director/clown performer), Broadway, and internationally. Sat/Sun, 9/16-17 from 10 am to 2 pm: Sue Morrison's Clown Intensive Workshop. ($200), with Artistic Director of the Theatre Resource Centre, has been teaching, directing and collaborating on Bouffon, and Native American Clowning across the globe for 25 years. Mon, 9/18 from 6 pm to 10 pm Chris Bayes: The Greatest Trick in the World: A Celebration of the Stupid! ($100). The Flop: the clowns capacity for tragedy. Tues 9/19 from 6 pm to 10 pm: The Greatest Trick in the World (must take 9/18 class as pre-requiste )$2-for both): with director/performer, also taught at Juilliard School, the Actor's Center, Yale, etc. Sat/Sun 9/22-23 from 10 am-3 pm. David Shiner's Physical Comedy Workshop. ($200) with star of Cirque du Soleil, German/Swiss National Circuses, and Broadway show Full Moon. Saturdays 9/9 & 9/23 from 5-6 pm Clown, Improv & Clown Skills for ages 5-12 ($ 25) These two Saturdays teach different skills. There is more info on all of these at www.Bricktheater.com
STUDY MEISNER IN MIDTOWN (SAVINGS FOR TRU)
Be truth and fullness in your work... come study at The Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre; now in our new home -- a 40 seat theatre in heart of times square. Ongoing classes rooted in the Meisner Technique...experience "the reality of doing" and finding the truth in your work. TRU members get a discount for the first month of classes! Call Matt for discount details: 212.592.4138 or visit www.matthewcorozinestudio.com to set up an interview today.
INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL ON THE SWEETLAND BELT TECHNIQUE!
TRU welcomes belt voice teacher Tony Richards to NYC, and he responds with a special TRU exclusive offer: book four lessons, he'll give you a fifth for FREE. Tony is offering a special $90/lesson introductory rate to new students and will be teaching at the Camelot Building located at 45th and 8th in midtown. The Sweetland Belt Technique was developed in the mid-60's by Lee Sweetland of California. He worked with student Kay Cole, the original Maggie in A Chorus Line, to perfect the technique which can be used in singing pop, rock, Broadway, country, opera, etc. Lee's son Stephen Sweetland also teaches in NYC and has the most compelling number of students performing on Broadway today. Tony Richards is working with the endorsement of Stephen Sweetland and will be teaching not only students from the Sweetland studio, but is also accepting new students. For more information on Tony visit http://mysite.verizon.net/tonyrichards. References provided upon request. You may also call 212.265.2474 for immediate information or to set-up a lesson.
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Get a New Perspective on Shakespeare at Shakespeare Boot Camp. New Perspectives Theatre is offering a special FREE program for 8 directors and educators
Acting coach, 20% discount for TRU: Jill Dalton is a professional actor/writer with over 20 years experience.
15% off for TRU: Nicu's Spoon presents Auditioning in New York-How to get the Work! This four part seminar deals with auditioning for both Stage and Film in New York
15% Discount for TRU on fall classes with Nicu's Spoon. Proposal Writing: the nuts and bolts. Two 2 hour workshops (10/21 and 10/22, 4-6pm) on grant writing, taught by a professional.
Affordable classes for all levels of experience.
Private coaching sessions, special 10% discount for all TRU members. Great way to keep sharp over the busy summer months! Study with Roger Hendricks Simon.
10% off for TRU! Caroline Thomas, teacher, playwright and artistic director of Total Theatre Lab is offering monologue selection and/or preparation for auditions.
New agent-taught series of classes, with $20 off for TRU readers! With Lewis R. Chambers (who founded The Bethel Agency nearly 38 years ago and who has represented actors in all major media)
Find your way with Jagger Kaye career coaching for actors. $30. For beginners and returnees.
Ongoing workshops and opportunities for individual artists. If you don't already know about The Field, get to know them now at www.thefield.org
Actors, writers and everyone ... click here for more Workshops.
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- SPACE PATROL -
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
That is where they should be.
Now put the foundation under them.
~Henry David Thoreau
UPDATED! REHEARSAL SPACE RENTAL!
Barrow Group offering not-for-profit rates for all TRU members on 5 rehearsal spaces of different sizes. Studios ranging in size from 12'x14' to 22.5' X 48'. Clean well-lit, and quiet spaces for you to work. TRU members will receive the Not-for-Profit discounts which are posted at www.barrowgroup.org. Located at 312 West 36th St., (8th/9th). Five different spaces -those interested can check out the dimensions of each by clicking the "Studio Rental" link at www.barrowgroup.org
NEW! CAST YOUR SMASH HIT SHOW IN NASHVILLE FOR NO CASH
Free audition space! You have to Tennessee it to believe it. In an effort to attract more NY and LA-based producers of musicals to Nashville, TN for its auditions, Nashville Stages is offering over 18,000 square feet of theatre and studio space free of charge to national producers. Many Equity/non-Equity performers reside in Nashville. Space is one mile from the Nashville International Airport, 10,000 hotel rooms within a half mile offering discounts. Nashville Stages also has a weekly E-Magazine with 10,000 subscribers interested in theater. Contact Kaine Riggan at 615.889.4000; e-mail at kaine@nashvillestages.com. Address: Nashville Stages, 108 Donelson Pike, Nashville, TN 37214.
THE PLAYERS THEATER IS BACK AND READY FOR YOUR NEXT SHOW!
The historic Players Theatre has rehearsal studios (and a fabulous 248-seat theatre) available for rental at a special "Re-opening" rate! The fate of this great theater has been uncertain for the last year, but a new owner has come in and is dedicated to keeping it an important part of the New York theater community. It is being spruced up and cleaned up right now, and during its re-opening timeframe, they are offering some amazing deals. There are five rehearsal rooms - all light and airy. There is special day rate right now: 10am-4pm the rooms are $10/hr, $15/hr and $20/hr. And the theater space is available at a steep discount for the first renter when it reopens. Note that we were running the old URL for the theater for quite a while; it now has a new website. You can visit the site to get specs at: www.theplayerstheatre.com
ROARING GOOD THEATER AVAILABLE!
Last minute availability: The Lion Theatre, an 88 seat house at Theatre Row Studios on 42nd Street, has 5 weeks available from September 4 to October 1, 2006 and 6 weeks from December 18, 2006 to January 28, 2007. The Lion Theatre features a playing area (22' wide X 16.10" deep) brand new fixed theatre seats, 18' grid and is housed in the beautifully renovated Theatre Row Theatres. Theatre Row offers a central location in midtown Manhattan, in house box office, pre-show and intermission lounge and the foot traffic from 4 other fully booked theatres in the building. Please visit www.theatrerow.org for more information, or call Erika at 212.714.2442 to schedule a tour of the facility. Rates negotiable for both open slots.
THINK SMALL, SAVE BIG!
Showcase yourself in an intimate 40 seat theatre in the Times Square area, with TRU savings for first-time renters. With light/sound included . Competitive prices. Contact Matthew Corozine at Matthew Corozine Studio for TRU discount details: 917.912.6372 or visit www.matthewcorozinestudio.com for photos and more info.
GET MOVIN' TO THE ACTORS MOVEMENT STUDIO SPACE.
20% discount for TRU! Rehearse, perform, have classes, parties, photo shoots, hold auditions, do comedy, wear garments at Garment District Theater & Comedy Café. Center area studio 60-seat black box theater. Weekly 6 day rental $1,500.00, 3 day weekend Rental $1,200. Hourly rehearsal/class rate: $25-$35. Four-Hour Performance Block: $350-$450. Lighting, piano, 11 windows, reception area, sound system. Stage: 19 feet X 16 Feet (Wooden Platform) Audience Area 25 feet X 18 feet (Actors Equity Approved Venue). Call 212.736.3309 or e-mail ams@actorsmovementstudio.com, Website: www.actorsmovementstudio.com
WELL-PRICED NEW THEATER SPACE ON EAST SIDE!
The former Vineyard Theater on East 26th Street is now reopened as The Richmond Shepard Theatre. Be among the first, and take advantage of a great deal: they're looking for tenants for immediate occupancy. 74 seats, $2450 a week includes lights, electricity and insurance. Negotiable rates for TRU readers, and special summer rates! 309 E. 26th St. at 2nd Ave. Contact Richmond at richmondshepard@yahoo.com
AN URBAN STAGE FOR YOUR NEXT PRODUCTION!
Urban Stages is available for rent: 74-seat theatre, rehearsal room, building shop. Weekly and daily rates available. State of the art technical package, URBAN STAGES, 259 W. 30th Street at 8th Avenue. Highly visible jewel-box located directly at street level. 74-seat, nicely raked house. High grid (15’) Rental includes lighting and sound packages. Lovely lobby with Box Office and two public restrooms, very spacious dressing rooms (fits 20) backstage with restrooms, large backstage area. Convenient to all subways on West Side. Parking and great restaurants within a block. Call 212.421.1380, Sonia Kozlova, Managing Director
(more information at www.urbanstages.org) TRU Early Bird special for 2007:
$3,500.00 weekly special for January 15 - February 11th, 2007 (that's $200.00 off from $3,700.00 - new weekly rent in 2007). Includes 7/24 access, and extensive technical package.
OFFICE SPACE IN HEART OF THEATER DISTRICT!
Looking for a small office to rent in a lovely, friendly, well located suite? A single office has opened up (as of 8/1) in asuite at 1776 Broadway, a well run, full service, 24/7 building at 57th & Broadway. The office in question is a 9' x 9' interior office with glass french doors that provide light. The suite itself is nicely laid out, with 6 separate offices and a small area that can be used for conferences of up to 8 people. The monthly rent is $800 and includes fax, copier, electricity, and cleaning. The only other expense is phone, which is the individual responsibility of the tenant. Please e-mail jmanocherian@aol.com or call me at 212 246-6204.
YOUR EAGLE EYE JUST SPOTTED SOME AFFORDABLE SPACES!
Try your wings at Where Eagles Dare elegant, intimate, inexpensive Midtown theatre and rehearsal studios. Two studios 22 X 30, One studio 13 X 25, One black-box theatre: 40-50 seats. One studio also doubles as a 40-seat theatre, with lighting. On the new theatre row: W. 36th St. Convenient, Clean, low-Cost, Comfortable -- the 4 Cs of theatre spaces. Contact John Chatterton at 646/207-2926 or studios@oobr.com and mention TRU for special rates. For more information, see www.johncpresents.com
THREE GREAT SPACES ON WEST 36TH STREET!
Abingdon Theatre Company has three spaces available to meet your rental needs. Each provides an intimate space, fully equipped and competitively priced without any extra charges. The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex’s unique design accommodates full theatre productions in a newly renovated space located in the heart of the Fashion District, 312 W. 36th Street, just west of 8th Avenue. The complex houses two theatre spaces. The Dorothy Strelsin is a 56-seat theatre with a 3/4 thrust (audience on three sides) configuration. The June Havoc is a 98–seat theatre with traditional proscenium design. Both venues offer complete, state–of–the–art lighting and sound equipment packages, which are part of all-inclusive rental agreement. Only four blocks from Port Authority, two blocks from Penn Station and accessible by every Broadway, 7th and 8th Avenue subway and bus lines. Those traveling in from New Jersey will find the theatre within a few blocks of the Lincoln Tunnel. There is ample parking 50 feet from the theatre’s front door. "Let us facilitate your every production need so you can concentrate on your art. After renting theatres for nine seasons, we know the value of a space you can count on with the flexibility to meet your unique production requirements." Along with full production capability, these theatres are inviting spaces for rehearsals, readings and classes. Call 212.868.2055 to make an appointment to see the spaces for yourself.
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Take your pick at TSI/Playtime: 16x32 rehearsal room or 40-seat theater or 99-seat theater. New spaces at 123 E. 24 St.
Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 has 3 weeks available for rent this fall (Tuesday 9/26 - Sunday 10/15).
Stage Left Studio, not your typical black box, but a lovely little gem of a theatre/workshop space. Forget basic black – this stylish space has wine red walls, midnight blue drapes and carpets, and a 12 feet of windows...
Sage advice on renting Sage Theater near Times Square. Rehearsal, performance, meeting and party space.
Beautiful, fully equipped, 60 seat theatre for rent in heart of the Theatre District. Air Conditioned, 24 hour access.
Theatre 80 St. Marks marks the spot for a great summer rental. This home of The Pearl Theatre Company is available for short term and extended (weekly - monthly) rentals for Summer, 2006.
The Matthew Corozine Studio has moved to a new home on 43rd Street.
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TRU special! Huge new midtown rehearsal space available, beautiful and big enough for your whole chorus line.
Emerge with Emerging Artists Theatre. 2 new rehearsal studios for rent.
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Looking to share office space in the Zipper Theater. It is fully loaded with computers, 4 phone lines, internet, fax, printing, etc.
Find your place in SoHo, and have neighbors in the same field and mindset. Multiple office spaces, various sizes.
Brand new theater complex is looking for tenants, will custom build theater space, studios or offices to your specs and needs. Or ask about sharing.
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NEW! ABLE, STABLE MAN SEEKS SUBLET.
References furnished for an apartment that's furnished. Perfect credit, stable job (9 years), good income, relocated from San Francisco, by his NYC-based firm, he'll make a firm offer for a place available around 10/1 til end of year or longer. Contact Gary, gmr33@yahoo.com or by phone 415.310.3205.
NEW! WEST 45 ST SUBLET AVAILABLE YESTERDAY THRU 10/15 OR SO.
Like some shows in the neighboring theater district, this is for a short run. One-bedroom apartment on W.45 St. between 8th and 9th Aves, spitting district from the heart of Broadway. (Note: $1500 fine for spitting, same as the rent) . Could extend beyond mid-October. Rent based on $1500 per month, may be negotiable. Call Alex at 212.307.1668 or 917.817.0192 (cell).
Dependable, non-smoking, responsible redhead needs occasional place to sleep and shower, probably a few days each month, possibly more often. Vickie comes in frequently from Massachusetts for rehearsals and gigs. Is willing to negotiate a fair price for a few days a week in a small space she can call her own when needed. Contact Vickie at vmpc18@aol.com
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Need a place to reside or hide in Italy? Charming 55 square meters apt. with terrace, overlooking the Tiber.
Leaving for LA at the end of the summer/early September? Anyone interested in rooming with Stephanie?
NY Artists Unlimited have been officially invited to return to Downeast Arts Center after a 9 or 10-month gut renovation (starting in October), but they'll need a temporary home.
Actor looking for an apartment share beginning September or October in Weehawken, West New York, Union City, Jersey City, Hoboken or any safe neighborhood
His college will pay you. For August thru December. Seeking sublet for male college student from Ohio University
The Lark Play Development Center is looking for housing for two guest artists associated with their Annual Playwrights Week Festival.
She's a stage manager and a production manager but can't manage to find an apartment. (Well, after all it's New York.) Apartment needed ASAP for 3: the theater professional, her partner, and a boxer.
Seeks long-term (6 months or more) sublet or roommate situation. He is 32, single, actor/writer, non-smoking, straight.
One-month share available, mid-August to 9/14. Cynthia is extending her European trip. Roommate Nils is from Copenhagen Denmark.
Beautiful one bed room apartment, furnished or unfurnished, available 8/23 for a minimum of one year.
Associate professor of theater arts is searching for a temporary housing situation in NYC while studying viewpoints and suzuki at the SITI company in early October through early November 2006.
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I read some stuff on Playbill.com about Play It Cool and we decided to see it mainly because it got (mostly) good reviews in LA and we had an afternoon to kill before our flight home (we were taking the redeye.) The show itself is so-so, but all the performances are top-notch and the jazz score is terrific. ~Doug D.
I don't often do this, but I had such a good time at LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE that I want to pass on the good news. It's a small movie that was a fave at Sundance, and you'll see why: while upholding the centrality and importance of family, it manages to skewer and in some cases outright burlesque "the American way of life." In short, it's a comedy with brains, insight, real family values," and many laughs. It's neither smarmy nor stupid, just a slightly ragged but very effective comedy with a terrific cast. ~David Copelin
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REVIEWS OF THE MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL (LOL, The Wastes of Time, Motion and Location, Pie-Obsessed Drunken Fatties, Sex and Sealing Wax, the Sibling, MentalPause and The Quiet Model):
Perhaps the strongest piece in this year’s Midtown Festival is the dark and sexy LOL by Tony Sportiello. The show has the perhaps unfair advantage of previous productions with the same director and one key cast member, and therefore it might stand out in any festival for its polished performances and precise direction. Yet director Jerry Less has kept things simple, with actors on chairs and stools and not much else. Not much else besides brilliant comic turns by Greg Skura as the protagonist/narrator Danny, a romance-starved writer of romance novels, and Nicole Taylor as Karen, a female alter-ego he creates in order to roam Bisexual-Fem chat rooms to learn more about how to please women. Skura is sweetly low-key and convincingly befuddled, awkward, unassuming, overwhelmed, innocent and desperate in a kaleidoscope of emotional hairpin turns that drive the juicy, sexy, surprising yet inevitable plot. Taylor, the one who’s done the role before, is simply astonishing as a figment of Danny’s mind come to life, a sexual kewpie doll with the soul of Chuckie and the libido of Catherine the Great; she manages to breathe complex and credible life into this fantasy creation, and finds both the churlish brat and the ravishingly compassionate woman in what could have otherwise been a plot device. Kari Swenson Riely is vulnerable and heartbreaking as Jenny, the fragile object of unreal Karen’s genuine affection. The entire cast is pitch perfect, and Less has choreographed their physical and emotional moves with sensitivity and humor. LOL? Well, it’s not consistently laugh-out-loud funny, especially considering how dark it ultimately becomes; but it is consistently engaging. The story has more psychological heft than the author allows – it could be a truly harrowing examination of a psychotic rift in the mind of a man trying to get in touch with his feminine side, but an easy-out ending keeps the play moored in the Twilight Zone rather than allowing it to soar among the stars. Catch the last performance tonight (Saturday) at 10:30pm at the WorkShop Mainstage, 312 W. 36th Street.
Almost as satisfying for far different reasons is the tender, compassionate The Wastes of Time by Duncan Pflaster who is truly too gentle a soul for this world of ours. Still, Pflaster has bravely etched three memorable characters and set them dancing emotionally against the backdrop of the gay disco scene and AIDS. Yes, this is an AIDS play, but one that handles the subject with disarming naturalness and perspective. Out and in his 20’s, Jess is weary of the shallowness of his peers and ripe for a relationship with the older and only sometimes wiser David, conservatively buttoned-down and harboring provocative though disturbing thoughts on the purpose of AIDS in our society. Jess Cassidy White is spirited and sweet as the young Jess, and commands attention in every moment he is on stage. But the richest, quirkiest and most complex acting is from Susan Barnes Walker as every gay boy’s dream mom, understanding and accepting to a fault; yet when her Flower Child breeding eventually crack and gives way to rage and outrage, she is frightening and compelling. The deep dark secret that gradually comes out, that binds these three characters in unexpected ways, is actually a bit too pat and predictable. But I have no better ideas to offer Pflaster, so if a convenient plot device is what he needs to raise the stakes and generate drama, so be it. I cared about these people, deeply. And even more important, I recognized them. Catch the last performance tonight (Saturday) at 10pm at the WorkShop Jewel Box, 312 W. 36th Street.
It’s been two years since TRU presented Motion and Location by Lorna Littleway in our own series, and here it is in a next-step production at MITF. So okay – I’m prejudiced. I feel this is an extremely well-written, warm and funny piece about matters multi-cultural; specifically, the tug of war between sports and academics on black teenage Clarissa, as embodied by her gay baseball all-star Aunt Bo on one side and her middle class-aspiring mom on the other. I think I detected some rewrites here and there, including an overly long opening monolog by Aunt Bo about baseball delivered far too early for us to care, one of the few errors in a near-perfectly pitched game. And Geany Masai is a larger-than-life and charismatic actress, but she never seemed to settle comfortably into the role of Mother; her struggles with line readings slowed the pace and made the play seem somewhat more labored and solemn than it felt in the lightening quick, thoroughly engaging TRU reading. But Suzanne Froix is strong and convincing as Aunt Bo, and Angela Arnold is an absolute treasure as Clarissa, strong-willed and moody and touching as a teen coming to terms with her life choices, including ones about her sexuality. It continues to be guided by the able hand of TRU friend Sue Lawless, one of the finest directors of comedy on the planet. Catch the last performances today (Saturday) at 11am (good morning – get dressed and get down there), and tomorrow (Sunday) at 7:45 at the WorkShop Mainstage, 312 W. 36th Street.
Pie-Obsessed Drunken Fatties has a great title, two thoroughly engaging writer/performers and actual servings of pie. It just needs a little more play. This seemingly random combo of monologs dances on the edge of being a coherent evening, and with a bit more development could successfully travel the fringe circuit. The pairing of performers is an interesting one, though, with sub-textual significance that could be further explored. Marjorie Suvalle is a perky young thing with curly blonde hair and an edge of nuttiness that needs to be loosened just a bit more; it doesn’t quite come naturally to her yet, but she shows promise as a comic actress. Julie Perkins is an older counter-part, also blonde but with her nuttiness raging in two of the most savagely comic portrayals I have ever seen of women beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown. Floating in there somewhere is the sense that Suvalle is a young everywoman going through the disillusions of disastrous dating that will turn her into the darkly and delightfully crazed Perkins. Interestingly, Suvalle is more successful at creating the mannerisms of the men she is dating than in finding a convincing persona for herself. They interact midway in a wildly choreographed prom dance that may just suggest that they both need to leave men behind and reach out to each other. It is directed with a firm hand by Michael Ormond. This is a work-in-progress, and I genuinely hope these two talented ladies will continue to explore their themes, and perhaps even find other interesting ways to interact.
I caught the return engagement of Romy Nordlinger’s Sex and Sealing Wax, and was impressed with the work she has done on the piece since last year’s festival. This is a loose exploration of seven loose female characters, and how their self-images have been shaped by our mass media culture. Nordlinger’s characterizations and monologs are sharper now, including a much clearer and better thought out Latina waitress refusing to justify her life choices to her self-righteously conservative sister; and the videotaped “Existential Makeover” segments that provide a thru-line for the evening (with Romy as a demented cosmetic surgeon) are better produced and projected on a much nicer backdrop, albeit one that resembles a TV screen on steroids. References to Alice Through the Looking Glass pop up here and there, but the themes are still as elusive as that shadowy rabbit who keeps scurrying through. Still, Nordlinger is a gifted monologist with a flair for character detail and a nice command of her vocal and physical technique. Did I mention she strips at the end? Catch her last performance tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:45pm at Where Eagles Dare, 347 W. 36th Street.
The Siblings is an interesting exercise in stylized presentation, skillfully directed by Edward Elefterion, employing sparse set pieces, a Kabuki-like prop woman in black who punctuates moments with sound effects, and simple but effective lighting that gives it a look and feel that is different from anything else in the festival. It is a dark, dark take on the Hansel and Gretel story, with Biblical undertones and themes of faith and the existence of God. It all unfolds with deceptive simplicity that branches out into complex philosophical complications upon complications. It held my interest, but I longed for something richer and more poetic – or more sardonic – in the play’s language. It all looked great but sounded rather flat, which may have been the point. But it does tease the brain and leave a haunting memory. Catch the last performance tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am at The Workshop Mainstage, 312 W. 36th Street.
MentalPause is worth catching if you admire good dancing. Writer/performer Margaret Liston moves exquisitely and is consistently compelling in the dance portions of her show. There is much that is honest and real in the script, but its fresh perceptions about that happy time called menopause were few and far between for me, although I am perhaps not the target audience. The show needs a stronger structure; it hasn’t yet found a dramatic arc for its presentation of the raging mood swings of a woman confronting change of life. And it features a very sloppy parody of Porter’s “Let’s Do It” that used jarringly bad rhymes and slipshod scansion, and lowers the overall standards of a promising piece. One more show tomorrow (Sunday) at 3pm at the WorkShop Mainstage, 312 W. 36th Street.
The Quiet Model is one of the best looking plays in the festival. Director Chelsea Miller creates consistently strong stage pictures, and uses props, gauzy blue fabric, moody lighting and period-like costumes to give the show a veneer of professionalism. I fear she has neglected the actors, however, and failed to guide them to a clear understanding of the text. I caught many misreadings of lines throughout, dramatic inflections that seemed counter to the emotion of the moment, histrionics often drowning out the basic meaning of the text. I believe Miller is true to playwright L.A. Mitchell’s intentions, but I would prefer a bit more substance to support the style. Last show is tomorrow (Sunday) at 7pm at the MainStage Jewel Box, 312 W. 36th Street.
Lou Rodgers piece "Wake of the Essex" at Midtown International Theatre Festival is fabulous. Beautifully written and performed. ~Julie Halpern
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NEW DEAL, 9/4! DISAPPEARED HAS SUDDENLY APPEARED, WITH A DISCOUNT!
$10 for TRU! Disppeared by Fermin Cabal, the New York premiere of the play that was acclaimed in London, Dublin and Sydney. Translated by Rick Hite and directed by Richmond Shepard, Disappeared gives witness to Pinochet’s regime in Chile
in vivid accounts by the people involved: a victim, an informer, a doctor, a cemetery caretaker, and a lawyer for Pinochet. 9/7-10/1: Thurs-Fri-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm. With Dawn McGee, Flora Diaz, Lena Armstrong, Leslie Meisel, Anne Connolly, David Gregory. Regularly $18, but if you write "TRU" on a piece of paper and hand it to the box office discreetly, your price will be $10! Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th Street at 2nd Avenue. Reservations: 212/684-2690. SPECIAL FREE DRESS REHEARSAL FOR TRU FRIENDS, WEDNESDAY 9/6 AT 8PM!
OFF-BROADWAY DEAL! A DISCOUNT THAT'LL MAKE YOU SHOUT!
Our friend Victoria Lang has brought SHOUT! The Mod Musical to New York, and she's offering a special discount of only $39.50 (regularly $55.00). TRU Board member Pat Addiss is also part of the team for “The hottest new musical in New York!”—Good Morning America; “Delightfully entertaining!”—John Simon, Bloomberg News Visit BROADWAYOFFERS.COM For a groovy good time, enter the code SH4PLUS, or call Special Promotions at 212.947.8844 and mention the code SH4PLUS.* Now running: Tuesday 7 PM, Wednesday-Saturday 8 PM, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 3 PM. (Performance Time: 90 Minutes, No Intermission) The Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, NYC. For directions, parking, restaurants, and more information visit the website at www.ShoutTheModMusical.com
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! TAKE THAT MUSICAL JOURNEY ALREADY... AND SAVE $10!
The Makor asked us to come back, so ... A Musical Journey, featuring Vickie Phillips, is back for ONE special Sunday afternoon performance at The Makor, and TRU saves $10! It's that one-woman show written and directed by TRU Prez Bob Ost, featuring music by Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill and Charles Aznavour. This bittersweet tour de force chronicles Vickie Phillips' travels through European cities scarred by war and the Holocaust - an intimate, powerful tapestry of music and reminiscence. Featuring musical accompaniment by Gerry Dieffenbach and William Schimmel. Sunday 9/10 only, 3:00pm. $20, $10 for TRU - folks have been having trouble ordering from website, so just email Bob and he'll put you on the reservation list: bobostcd@aol.com For more info and to TRY to purchase tickets, go to www.makor.org/theater and click the Musical Journey link and use code TRU2 for a $10 discount. The Makor is in the Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street.
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NORWAY CAN BE YOUR WAY IF YOU GO TO 59E59.
Norwegian playwrights in a double bill. Henrik Ibsen/Jon Fosse: Norway Meets New York. Presented by Oslo Elsewhere. Fosse's Death Variations / Ibsen's Rosmersholm thru 9/9, Alternating Shows Tue-Fri (8:15 pm), Sats (4:15 & 8:15), Suns (3:15 & 4:15) . Combo performance Fri 9/8 at 7:15 pm. Tix: $20 or $30 for combo on 9/8. (59E59 Members' price: $14/$21) These shows ask: is fate inescapable, or do we create our own destinies? Tix: Ticket Central-phone 212.279.4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com or in person at box office 59E59 located at (duh!) 59 E. 59 St.
DEATH IS GOING ON NOW.
The Death in the Juniper Grove presented by RAT in association with Love Creek Productions, Written and Directed by Le Wilhelm. Thru 9/3 : Tues-Fri (7:30 pm), Sat/Sun (2:30 pm & 7:30 pm) Tix: $18 ($12.50 for 59E59 members) Best friends revisit the place that changed their lives when death came into it. Tix: Ticket Central-phone 212.279.4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com or in person at box office. 59E59, at (yes, that's right) 59 E. 59 St.
NEW! WE BOMBED IN NEW LONDON
The Inside Story of the Broadway Musical Late Nite Comic, book signing with Brian Gari and Jana Robbins singing! Tuesday 9/5 at 6:00 pm. Author Brian Gari will be performing with Broadway star Jana Robbins and signing copies of his new book which tells the true story of one man's tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score's resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment, laughter and hope. With over 800 songs to date, Brian is currently at work on his next musical, which is about his legendary grandfather, Eddie Cantor. This is his first book. Come meet him at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, NY. For info, call 212.944.0595 or email info@dramabookshop.com
NEW! COME RIGHT TO THE EXTREME RIGHT WITH THE MAN HIMSELF.
It's an everyman's drift to Evengelical extremism. Presented by Maya Productions, written by Alan Drury, Directed and performed by Ami Dayan. 9/5-10/1 (Tues - Fris at 8:30 pm, Sats at 2:30 & 8:30 pm, Suns at 3:30 & 7:30 pm Tix: $25 (Theater members $17.50) Tix by phone: Ticket Central, 212.279.4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com or in person at the theatre box office. At 59E59 Theaters, located at, um, 59 E. 59th St.
NEW! GROOVE WITH GROOVE MAMA INK!
Support this new company at their "Coming out in Style" eclectic formal fundraising Gala! This will be an evening of free sushi, fine duds, insanely cheap drinks, prizes, shopping & dancing! Saturday 9/9 from 7-11PM. You MUST purchase tickets in advance - email Amy Witting at amywitting@gmail.com At Bamboo 52, 344 W 52nd btwn 8th & 9th Ave
NEW! TWO EVENINGS UNDERGROUND!
Amy Witting's Groove Mama Ink offers two evenings of entertainment this week. Wednesday 9/6 at 8pm: We Do Short Shorts, 4 short plays about messy relationships and crazy families by Kathy DiGrado, ilona Moon & Anthony Anglero, and Amy E. Witting. $15.00. Thursday 9/7: Schticky Summer Night, a raucous, irreverent night of comic relief! Comics: Eric Michaels, Bradford Scobie, Jeff Grow. Elaine Williams, Sandra Choi, Carolann Valentine, Alex House, Katina Corrao, and Laura Mannino. $15.00. Both at The Gene Frankel Underground. Email Amy at amywitting@gmail.com for details.
8-MINUTE MADNESS FESTIVAL - FINALS!
The 12 top picks of the festival have made it to Finals, including one by editor Bob Ost. TRU member Mark Butler is also in finals, and the various plays are directed by former TRU member Shawn Rozsa and current member John Cooper whose Turtle Shell Productions produced the festival. Patrick Mills, too. Tickets are $18 at www.SmartTix.com - there are still Best Of Awards, so come vote for Bob's play. Or support any of the plays, since they all feature TRU members in one way or another. Finals run 9/7-15: evenings at 8pm. At Turtle Shell's new black box theater in Times Square Arts Building, 300 W. 43rd Street, #403.
CATCH JANE AUSTEN BEFORE SHE HEADS FOR BATH!
The one woman show Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical is preparing to go to England, and TRU members are invited to FREE performances prior. Karen Eterovich invites you to an open rehearsal of the solo performance, in preparation for performance at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath England. 9/7-10: Thursday thru Sunday at 12:30 (one hour running time) in a midtown Manhattan location. If this appeals to your sense and sensibility, email Karen at lovearmd@verizon.net or call 201.790.3374. You will receive a confirm email with rehearsal location and directions.
NEW! AMY, VIVALDI, YAMAHA AND NO COVER!
Catch Amy Clarke in a 90 minute set, no cover. Thursday, 9/7, 7:30 to 9pm (with a brief break in between sets). Hear her on the great Yamaha grand at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village. A great variety of original songs, lots of new ones, and definitely some interesting covers...FREE! A great intimate room and independent music! Caffe Vivaldi, 32 Jones at Bleecker (A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th; 1/9 to Christopher St.)
ADDED 9/6! TWO-MUR HUMOR, SOLO WORKS OF HOPE!
Two-mur Humor: He's malignant; She's benign. Loosely based on the true stories of TRU member Valerie David's bout with cancer 7 years ago (Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma) and Jim Tooey's brain tumor 5 years ago. Trace their crazy and often hilarious experiences, as well as their personal struggles, during their illness. The two characters named Paul (played by Jim Tooey) and Lisa (played by Valerie David) describe their amazing journey, including tackling such subjects as wacky hospital roommates, their family and friends' interactions/reactions and their road to recovery.
Valerie and Jim say, "Our goal is to inspire and give hope to patients, as well as their families and friends." Spnsored by Groove Mama Ink. Sunday 9/10. Gene Frankel Underground Theatre,
24 Bond Street in Manhattan between Lafayette & the Bowery
HONORING SIDNEY MYER!
Carolyn Montgomery and Reveille Productions are proud to announce the final show of a six-part series, Roasts, Toasts and Tributes. Sidney Myer, the beloved star of stage and cabaret, and Booking Manager at Don't Tell Mama for over 17 years, will be toasted in the final show of series by an all-star cast including Helen Baldassare, James Beaman, Charles Busch, Tommy Femmia, James Gavin, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Jenifer Kruskamp, Sue Matsuki, Marin Mazzie, Mark Nadler, Miles Phillips, Ron Poole, Billy Porter, Julie Reyburn, Jay Rogers, KT Sullivan and a fabulous line-up of guest speakers (cast subject to change). Sunday 9/10 at 7:00 PM at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher St. (between Hudson and Bedford). The series awarded one person (or couple) per month with the Sidney Myer Award for Excellence in Cabaret (aka The Sidney). Previous honorees Jamie deRoy, Barbara and Scott Siegel, Michael Nelsen, Julie Wilson and Jim Caruso will be present to receive their awards. Award winning performer Carolyn Montgomery hosts the series, accompanied by co-hosts Jay Rogers and Julie Reyburn. Tickets are $25.00. For reservations call Ticket Central 212.279.4200 or pick up your tickets (no service charge) at the Ticket Central Office, 414 W. 42nd Street. Open 12pm-8pm.
NEW! KEEP IN MIND: MIND GAMES EXTRA BY MENTALIST MARC SALEM
He knows what you're thinking. What do you think of that? Salem has forged a career as today's foremost mentalist and expert in non-verbal communication. He can even reset your watch without touching it. $25. Sundays., 9/10 and 9/17 at 7 pm. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
NEW! THE QUARRELHAS A MORAL.
It's a staged reading/ discussion Mon, 9/11 at 7 pm. Two old friends and Holocaust survivors run into each other in 1948 and resume an unresolved argument. A war of the spirit on a battleground of ideas. $20. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
NEW! THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS!
New film gives an inside look at today's Broadway musical. Tues 9/12 at 7:30 pm. A behind-the-scenes look at four 2004 Broadway musicals - Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo and Caroline, or Change. $15 includes Q&A with director Dori Bernstein. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
NEW! MANAHAN IN MANHATTAN. TAKE YOUR SISTER TO SISTERS.
Irish play by Declan Hassett. Presented by The Colorado Festival of World Theatre in association with The City Theatre, Dublin. 9/12-10/15. Directed by Michael Scott, Starring Anna Manahan. Tues - Fri at 8:15 pm, Sats at 2:15 & 8:15, Suns at 3:15. There's early humor and pathos. Tix: $40 (Theater members: $28) Tix by phone: Ticket Central, 212.279.4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com or in person at the theatre box office. At 59E59 Theaters, located at, um, 59 E. 59th St.
NEW! THESE NEW PLAYS ARE DRAMATIC AND SO IS THE PRICE (FREE!!)
Hark! It's the Lark Theatre's new plays festival 9/13-19. (Full details at www.larktheatre.org) Presented in partnership with the Indo-American Arts Council on South Asian & Middle Eastern Diasporas. The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock (Fri, 9/15 at 8 pm) By Catherine Trieschmann.…… dance of the holy ghost (Fri, 9/15 at 4 pm) By Marcus Gardley…… Hand, Foot, Arm and Face (Thurs., 9/14 at 4 pm) By Mat Smart…. Layla and Majnun (Sun, 9/17 at 4 pm) By Nastaran Ahmadi…..Love Person (Mon, 9/18 at 7 pm) By Aditi Brennan Kapil…Neighbourhood Upside Down (Sat, 9/16 at 8 pm) By Nina Mitrovic…….Vaidehi (Thurs, 9/14 at 8 pm) By Gautam Raja…….Wild Man of the Woods (Sat, 9/16 at 4 pm) By Elisabeth Karlin. The Lark Play Development Center is at 939 8th Ave, Suite 301. Make reservations online or by phone to assure a seat, but walk-ins Ok if there's room, too. Phone: 212.246.2676 ext. 37.
A BRAND “SPANKING” NEW PLAY COULD BE A “HIT”.
It's about, um, sado-masochism. Point of You Productions takes pains to present Hurt So Good by Johnny Blaze Leavitt, a romantic dramedy (a new two-act play follows a man and his film crew who journey into the city's kinky subculture and the man rediscovers who he is and what he's capable of becoming for the woman he loves. Play aims to enlighten and entertain in an effort to dispel negative stereotypes surrounding the S&M/B&D subculture. Love, laughs and leather.) 8/31-9/16 (Weds-Sats at 8 pm). Reservations: 212.352.3101 or online: www.pointofyou.org At The Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W. 52 St., 3rd Floor
NEW! GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION
For the Middle East's playwrights, a roundtable on their play development: see what develops. Lark Play Development Center presents “Middle Eastern Voices” informal discussion-what are the issues? How can they be nurtured? Sun. 9/17 at 7 pm. Part of the company's festival, this follows the 4 pm performanceLayla And Majnun. Reservations and more info: www.larktheatre.org
NEW! STARRY, STARRY NIGHT! ALL-STAR THEATRE CONCERT.
Veterans and bright new stars shining. Sun 9/17 at 7 pm. Musical theater impresario Jamie McGonnigal is back to present songs by the best and brightest of today's musical theater composers. $20. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
GET IN STEP WITH MARIANA BECKERMAN DANCE COMPANY.
“Taro”: evil spirits get things moving. Just 4 performances, 9/21-24: Thurs-Sun at 8 pm. Tix (cash only): $15 (students & seniors, $10) or TDF. Reservations: 212.334.7479. More info: mbdance@aol.com At Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St.
NEW! ONE WOMAN SHOW THAT KEEPS CHANGING!
TRU friend Deborah Ortiz wrote and is the whole cast of Changing Violet, a special one-woman show. 9/21 thru December: Thurs/Fris at 7 pm, Sats at 8 pm. Tix ($18) at the door and online at www.theatermania.com or call 212.352.3101. Violet, a young girl from the Bronx, struggles with painful realities of physical, sexual and mental abuse, and her own abuse of alcohol and drugs as a means of coping. As Violet's life changes, so do her attitudes, her loves, her experiences and her clothing. Post-performance discussion/ Q & A. More info at www.changingviolet.com on this world premiere of a Dangerous Curves production The Bridge Theatre at Shetler Studios, 244 W. 54 St. , 12th Floor.
NEW! DON'T MISS OUT OF IGNORANCE OUT OF IGNORANCE.
Here's the scoop about the reading. It's Monday 9/25 at 7 pm. Jewish theater group BIMA-NY stages a reading of the play about the relationship between an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor and a young man on the fringes of a neo-Nazi group, based on a true story. $10. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
NEW! LITTLE BY LITTLEIN CONCERT IN BIG FESTIVAL.
It's the musical triangle of love. NY Musical Theatre Festival one-nighter presentation of the Brad Ross musical (first presented in a run at The York Theatre) about a tricky love triangle among friends. Mon 9/25 at 8 pm. Boy + Girl + Girl = Trouble. $15. Info/tix: 212.601.1000 or online at www.makor.org At The Makor Theatre, 35 W. 67 St.
GET TO KNOW THE “UNKNOWN COUNTRY”:
Free Readings of Canadian plays. Two Words For Snow. Tues., 9/26 at 7 pm. Reservations after Labor Day only: call 212.695.4173. Workshop Theater Mainstage, 312 W. 36 St., 4th Floor, Website: http://www.workshoptheater.org
NEW! BE AMUSED WITH LA MUSE!
La Muse Venale Variety Show & Fundraiser - support this young theater company. Pay what you can! Quite a lineup of entertainment! Variety Acts Reginald Ferguson MC & stand-up comedy, Mary Reilly & Judy Demott singing duet, Maureen, singer Dolan Byrnes, actress Nora Armani with an excerpt from her upcoming one-woman show and poetry by M. Stefan Strozier. Plus opera singers Yeoryia Megremis, Katia Zalas, Elena McEntre, Pamela Lloyd, Celeste Mann, Kylie Colan, Chrysta Hylton, Claudia Friedlander, Madeline Able-Kerns, Kathleen Cuvelier and Efren Puig. Friday 10/13, 8:00-11:00 PM. 48th Street Studios, 353 West 48th Street, 2nd Floor; between 8th and 9th Aves.
NEW! THIS CAST PLAYS SOCIETY'S CASTAWAYS.
The Crackwalker 10/26-11/12. A drama looking at Canada's underworld of drugs, sex, mental illness and murder. Weds/Thurs/Fris/Sats at 8 pm, Suns at 7 pm. Tix ($12-$18) online at www.newworldtheatre.org where more info is available, too for New World Theatre. Performed at Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor.
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BEYOND THE BOROUGHS
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
MAY THE BEST MAN WIN: KING-SIZED COMEDY.
New and in New Jersey, Robert King's new comic tale of a confusing wedding day dilemma, The Best Man opens the season at NJ Rep. 9/14-10/15. It's followed somewhat speedily by The Speed Queen, running from 10/26-11/12, written by and starring Anne Stockton as a woman on death row who tries to set the record straight, and is directed by Austin Pendleton. Also: “Script In Hand New Play Readings” son selected Sunday and Monday nights. For performance times, details and the rest of the season, see the website www.njrep.org. Phone: 732.229.3166. The New Jersey Repertory Theatre, 179 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ.
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PORTLAND 9/7-17.
Contemporary Art Festival in Oregon. More than 250 artists in all the arts from all over in this 4th annual event. Moments of movement and imagery under bridges, over rivers, on stages, etc. Highlights include performances from musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Bebe Miller, French theatre group Vivarium Studio, and all-female Japanese performance group Yubiwa Hotel and new visual art. The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art has full details at website: www.PICA.org
REVISED DATE! FREE READING OF TRU PLAYWRIGHT!
If you're in Baltimore in September, be sure to catch a reading of The Natural Way by TRU members D.A. Williams. It's a taut ninety minute drama about a medical malpractice event in an urban hospital emergency department, and its effect upon four characters: the patient, attending and resident physicians, and nurse. Saturday 9/30 at 4pm. Fells Point Corner Theatre, 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. For info, or directions to theater, contact D.A. Williams at portsgroup@aol.com Reservations not needed.
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KID'S STUFF ON SATURDAYS!
Always a lot at The Melting Pot: Thursdays at 11 am, Saturdays at 3 pm. You never know what's going to happen at Downeast Arts Center. $5 per child. Songs with guitar, creative drama, arts & crafts… and cookies, too! Plus storytelling, plays, sing-alongs, puppetry, and more. Pay-as-you-can!! The award-winning NY Artists Unlimited is a 22 year old nonprofit that provides professional theatre and art to under-served audiences. This space has been granted to them by the City of New York: the Downeast Arts Center, 203 Avenue A (12th & 13th Streets). Visit www.NYartists.org or www.DowneastArtsCenter.org. Phone: 212.242.6036 (office), 212.228.2886 (arts center); email NYartunltd@aol.com Located at 203 Avenue A (betw. 12th/13th Street), Manhattan.
NEW TIMES! SINGING EXPERIENCE ON CABLE TV - SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS!
The Singing Experience will now be on Saturdays and Sundays, every other week, repeated twice on the same day. Tune into our friend Linda Amiel Burns and The Singing Experience Cable TV Show on MNN - Time Warner: Channel 56 – RCN: Channel 111. On Manhattan Neighborhood Network - MNN. The show is now on every other weekend . . . Saturday evenings at 9:00PM, Sundays at 5:00PM on Time Warner Cable: Channel 56, RCN Channel 111.
JEWISH FAMILY FUN IS BACK, SUNDAYS!
Sundays with Goldie, a series of interactive, theatrical family programing for children 4 to 8. Actress Valerie David tells stories of Jewish heritage and their ancestors, and children can participate in the storytelling. With special weekly arts & crafts projects, and a light brunch will be served. $5 per child. Sundays at 10:45 am, the Living Room, 154 Ludlow Street. Reservations/questions, contact Annie at 212.233.6037 x114.
LATINO
BURLESQUE EVERY TUESDAY!
Barriolesque - Open Mic, Monologues, Poetry, Music, Mime, Clowning every Tuesday,
8:00 pm $3. Hosted by Rhina Valentin, it is a Carnivale of Words, Dance, Comedy,
Monologues and Music. A Burlesque night of Art extravanganza where anything
goes. Open to comedians, thespians, musicians, singers, clowns, Lip-syncers,
Gender Illusionist and dancers, Mymes, people into eating fire, eating nails,
eating glass, invisible? Carlitos at Art for Change, 1701 Lexington Ave. between 106
& 107 St., El Barrio, NYC. Visit www.artforchange.org or call 212.348.7044
GET A HIT OF RITT EVERY TUESDAY!
Tune into the amazing bass player Ritt Henn in his TV gig A Man, a Bass & a Box of Stuff. The show airs every Tuesday at 11pm, in Manhattan on ch. 56 (Time/Warner) and ch. 108 or thereabouts (RCN), and simulcast on the web at www.mnn.org. (Just click on the "ch. 56" icon & it just might work.) In the weeks ahead: K.J. Denhert in Connecticut, Swamp Cabbage's CD release concert, an interview with MAC Award-winning technical director Thomas Honeck (recorded at the MAC Awards), more steps in Ritt's "march to the NYC cabaret debut," and...well, much, much more. Tune in if you can.
CATCH OUR FAVORITE FRIENDS ON CABLE - TUESDAYS!
No, not Phoebe and Joey — Jamie deRoy & friends is on every other Tuesday! Here's a great chance to see some of NY cabaret's best entertainers: tune into Time Warner Channel 67 (or RCN Channel 110) every other Tuesday at 8PM.
COME ON DOWN…DOWNEAST. WAM-OW ON WEDNESDAYS!
Like an open mic? Got a joke? Entertain or be entertained. Every Wednesday from 7-11 pm, it's: WAM-OW! - Words & Music on Wednesdays. Bill Kozy, Gladys Perez & guest hosts welcome singer-songwriters, musicians, singers, poets, comedians, and more. Non-professionals welcome. Pianist available after 9 pm. Performers may be invited for future bookings. $5 admission. Downeast Arts Center, 203 Avenue A. Further info on this and other events: www.NYartists.org
OPEN MIC POETRY EVERY WEDNESDAY!
Word is Bond Poetry Series with Features and Open mic, every Wednesday at 7pm. Hosted by: HecOne from the Welfare Poets, a collective of activists, educators, and artists bringing sharp-edged performances of music that incorporates Hip Hop, Bomba y Plena, Latin Jazz and other rhythms, the Welfare Poets bring information and inspiration to those facing oppression and those fighting for liberation. Art for Change, 1701 Lexington Avenue (between 106 & 107) NYC. Call 212.348.7044 or visit www.artforchange.org
FREE PARTY, EVERY WEDNESDAY!
The party's moved to Alibi on Wednesdays ... Hip Da Mix with Host MC La Reine. Host MC La Reine gives props to resident DJ Wicked Wayne churning his brew of hip-hop, classics, old skool, and r&b with a little house flava at this underground hideaway. Every Wednesday from 10pm-4am. This bumpin' party gets you thru the rest of the week with pep in yo step! No Cover/2 drink min. Alibi at 116 MacDougal (A,C,E,F,V to W. 4th bet. Bleecker & W. 3rd).
SIMON STUDIO ON THURSDAYS, ON CABLE!
Catch the new Time Warner Cable half hour TV show SIMON STUDIO PRESENTS. It will start being aired Thursdays at 6 and 8 pm on Public Access Channel 23. Produced by Roger and Daniel Hendricks Simon, this monthly series focuses on the process of making performing and visual art and features local, national and international talent associated with THE SIMON STUDIO. This first episode features actors and writers currently studying and performing at THE SIMON STUDIO NORTH in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
OFFBEAT RADIO SHOW EVERY THURSDAY!
Since 10/6/02, DAVE'S GONE BY has been treating listeners to one of the most off-beat and engaging shows in local radio. With award-winning playwright Dave Lefkowitz, founder and editor of TotalTheater.com, co-publisher of Performing Arts Insider magazine, and off-Broadway editor of New York Theater News. Airs Thursdays, 7-8pm (ET) on Long Island, NY's WGBB-AM 1240 and www.davesgoneby.com (live worldwide audio stream). Website: http://hometown.aol.com/davesgoneby
UPDATED! HOUSTON IN SAN FRANCISCO... NEW VENUE THESE DAYS!
Catch piano bar legend Houston Allred ... if you can! performing,
with his one-and-only-true-love, Norman Andersen (on guitar)
at DECO LOUNGE, 510 Larkin Street, between Turk & Eddy,
here in San Francisco, Saturdays 9pm-1am & Sundays 5-9pm,
(a cocktail show). As the late, great Charles Pierce would have
said, "Come by & we'll tell cocktails."
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I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY OFFERS
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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
~ Henny Youngman
Broadway and off-Broadway ticket offers are available at great discounts to TRU members through MGM Consulting — go to www.truonline.org or click JOIN TRU above to find out more about becoming a TRU member!.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
AGAIN, A HISTORY BOYS DISCOUNT. Thru 8/30, save up to 45% on Broadway's Tony Award-winner on Tuesday or Wednesday. HotNYCDeals offers the price of $52.50 for Wednesday matinees or $62.50 for Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Subject to availability. Go online to www.broadwayoffers.com and enter the code HBHDL42. or call 212.947.8844 and use the same code. Or print this and present it at the box office. Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44 St. And the rest is History.
FANTASTICK SAVINGS ARE A SNAP AT THE SNAPPLE CENTER.
The Fantasticks is now back in the Big Apple at The Big Snapple. Off-Broadway's 17,162 performance record setter of a musical is now ON Broadway! So just “Try To Remember” the simple code below and save “Much More” …Tix: $45 (Regular price: $75) Performance Schedule: Evenings: (Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:30; Sundays at 7:30). Matinees: (Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2:30 and Sundays at 3:30. Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow but not too slow, this offer will be over before you know it (thru 9/10, to be more precise) Limit 6 tix per person. Subject to prior sale. Can't be combined with other offers. Use code HOTNYC when contacting Ticketmaster by phone at 212.307.4100 or online at www.Ticketmaster.com. The theater is at 210 W. 50 St. More info on the show at www.Fantasticksonstage.com. This is an offer from HotDeals NYC.
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Broadway Deals:
AVENUE Q - As low as $21.25
CHICAGO - As low as $49.25
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - As low as $26.25
THE HISTORY BOYS - As low as $52.50
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE - As low as $49.25
THE LION KING - As low as $20.00
MAMMA MIA! - As low as $76.25
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - As low as $45.00
RENT - As low as $20.00
SWEENEY TODD - As low as $56.25
ALTAR BOYZ HAS A DISCOUNT. HALLELUJAH!
Come see the longest–running new NYC musical in years! Full of sharp parody, spectacular dance moves, and irreverent gags. And a discount! Winner of the '05 Outer Critics Circle award for Best off-Broadway Musical. A heavenly discount: Just $39.99 (normally $69.99) for all shows but Saturday evening (those are just $49.99). See the singing heart-throbs who appeal to the Masses and get calls from Jesus on their cell phones. Hot NYC Deals brings you this discount. No performance on Wednesdays, but come any other night at 8 pm or after church on Sundays at 3 pm or 7 pm. Discount code is ABDLS82. Call 212.947.8844 or go to www.broadwayoffers.com. Offer available 5/1- 6/11/06. New World Stages, 340 W. 50 St.
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Off Broadway Deals:
ALTAR BOYZ - As low as $39.99
AWESOME 80s PROM - As low as $39.99
BUSH IS BAD - As low as $15.00
DRUMSTRUCK - As low as $41.00
THE FANTASTICKS - As low as $45.00
A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN - As low as $37.50
SECOND STAGE THEATRE - Special Offer: 2 Plays for $90.00
SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW - As low as $45.90
SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS - As low as $15.00
TWO DESTINIES - As low as $15.00
These great deals are available to TRU thru Hot NYC Deals.com!
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EQUITY
DISCOUNT FOR ZOLA'S!
Convenient location. Great food. And a Discount ta boot!
Celebrate the grand opening of Zola, 132 West 45 Street (between 6th and 7th),
located in the Best Western Hotel. Equity Members: Show your equity card and
get a 10% discount!
DALLY AT DILLON'S AT A DISCOUNT!
Our friends at Dillon's have offered TRU a 20% discount on lunch or dinner.
Not valid pre-theater on Friday or Saturday, but they'd love to see you any
other time! Mention TRU and receive a 20% discount off food (not including tax
or gratuity). 245 W. 54th Street. Call for reservations: 212.307.9797.
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