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FREE SEMINAR: “SOMETHING ABOUT CHEKHOV & MEISNER. MEISNER. OKAY, MEISNER!”
Presented by Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston September 11, 2010 WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT CHEKHOV? AND WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH MEISNER? Find out at our free seminar: “SOMETHING ABOUT CHEKHOV & MEISNER. MEISNER. OKAY, MEISNER!” A General Introduction to Our Methods and Programs. Please visit us at www.MichaelChekhovActorsStudioBoston.com for full details. *This seminar is limited to 16 actors max. Please RSVP. **Our Fall Term begins September 13. Inquiries and applications are welcome NOW.
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Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston |
09/11/10 |
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The Guys
Presented by Wellesley Summer Theatre Company September 9-September 11, 2010 A staged reading: In the aftermath of September 11th, Nick and Joan, two people who under normal circumstances never would have met, jump the well-defined track of their own lives, in doing, so they learn about themselves, life and the healing power of human connection.
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Wellesley Summer Theatre Company |
09/09/10 -
09/11/10 |
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The Ogunquit Playhouse presents Monty Python's Spamalot
Presented by The Ogunquit Playhouse August 18-September 11, 2010 *Please be forewarned, SPAMALOT contains off-color-humor, flying cows and flatulant Frenchmen - did we mention the killer rabbit?
**Please note that the Killer Rabbit was quite dismayed that he was listed last as an afterthought in the previous disclaimer.
***After the Killer Rabbit's mention in the previous 2 disclaimers, The Knights Who Say...
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The Ogunquit Playhouse |
08/18/10 -
09/11/10 |
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Trad by Mark Doherty
Presented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage September 2-September 12, 2010 Boston's Sold Out Hit Play comes to the Gloucester Stage Company!! TRAD is the hilarious fable of hundred year old Thomas and his improbably ancient Dad. When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long-ago fling, the pair set off across the Irish countryside to find the child, with nothing more than a hobble and a limp to help them. Directed by Carmel O'Reilly. Starring original cast members, Nancy E. Carroll, Colin Hamell & Billy Meleady
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Gloucester Stage Company |
09/02/10 -
09/12/10 |
Gloucester Stage, Gloucester |
Come Hear the Music Play: The Music of Kander and Ebb
Presented by The Boston Conservatory at Seully Hall September 11-September 12, 2010 Junior Theater student Joe Longthorne leads a cast of 14 students in their journey through the music and words of Broadway?s favorite writing team: Kander and Ebb.? Accompanied by new orchestrations by Junior Neil Douglas Reilly, they sing new arrangements of Kander and Ebb favorites, and introduce the audience to some of their lesser known work. Please visit www.bostonconservatory.edu/calendar for the most up-to-date performance information.
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The Boston Conservatory |
09/11/10 -
09/12/10 |
Seully Hall, Boston |
2 Pianos 4 Hands
Presented by Peterborough Players Theatre at Peterborough Players September 1-September 12, 2010 A New Hampshire Premiere! The riotous tales of two Canadian boys, Ted and Richard, sharing the same goal: concert pianist stardom. They work fervently toward their dream amidst pushy parents, eccentric teachers, hours of repetitive practice, stage fright, the agony of competitions and the dream of greatness. Along the journey the actors/pianists portray a dazzling range of characters embellished with a show of piano wizardry featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Jerry Lee Lewis. This...
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Peterborough Players Theatre |
09/01/10 -
09/12/10 |
Peterborough Players, Peterborough |
Hard-Headed Heart
Presented by Charlestown Working Theater at Charlestown Working Theater September 11-September 12, 2010 Blair Thomas, Chicago’s most acclaimed puppet master, comes to the CWT with Hard Headed Heart, a wonderful trio of interconnected solo shows including: The Puppet Show of Don Cristobal – Based on the bawdy script by Federico Garcia Lorca, this play, performed with wooden hand puppets and a drum kit, is a humorous retelling of the traditional trickster Cristobal’s wooing and marriage to the delectable Dona Rosita. St. James Infirmary – Based on the traditional New...
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Charlestown Working Theater |
09/11/10 -
09/12/10 |
Charlestown Working Theater, Charlestown |
Bent Wit Cabaret: FREEDOM
Presented by Bent Wit Cabaret // Axe 2 Ice Productions at Oberon September 12, 2010 Hosted by the outrageous UnAmerika’s Sweetheart Karin Webb and the legendary 86-years-young Mary Dolan, and featuring a handpicked cast of Boston's best musicians and performers. Deemed “provocative and waaayyyy ‘outside the box’ cabaret/burlesque… achieving a growing ‘cult status’ amongst a Boston audience interested in something unique and challenging” by The Boston Survival Guide, Bent Wit Cabaret is a monthly “high-end, low-brow...
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Bent Wit Cabaret // Axe 2 Ice Productions |
09/12/10 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
(ahts) The Boston Arts Festival
Presented by Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events at Christopher Columbus Park September 10-September 12, 2010 (ahts): The Boston Arts Festival features the best of the Boston Arts Scene- both visual and performance. Based in the idyllic Christopher Columbus Park on Boston’s waterfront, the festival features over 70 juried artists and a performance program on 2 stages showcasing Boston’s best performing arts groups and performers. There will also be art demonstrations and family activities with staff from the MFA, the Mayor's Mural Crew, Diablo glass and 7 other arts groups. To learn more...
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Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events |
09/10/10 -
09/12/10 |
Christopher Columbus Park, Boston |
The Living Newspaper: Google Rising
Presented by DRD Theatricals at Oberon September 13, 2010 Two weeks. Three writers. Eight actors. A world of collaborators…And today’s most pressing topics make The Living Newspaper episodes the most original, timely, and fiercely relevant theatrical events of the season. The topic for this edition: How Google affects how we live and where we place the boundaries between privacy, commerce, and the desire for information. Over the course of a 14-day cycle now in progress, a team of writers and actors will be collaborating with...
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DRD Theatricals |
09/13/10 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
Steve Cohen: Magician
Presented by Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel September 17, 2010 For one night only, on Friday, September 17th, world-renowned magician Steve Cohen will bring his critically acclaimed Chamber Magic show from a private suite in New York’s legendary Waldorf-Astoria in New York to the elegant St. James Room in Boston’s own historic Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Limited to 75 guests, the 90-minute Chamber Magic performance will offer audiences a unique night on the town with a sophisticated twist: guests dress in cocktail attire and Cohen himself...
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Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel |
09/17/10 |
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The Magic of Storytime with Cinderella and Snow White..The Musical!
Presented by North Shore Musical Children's Theatre at North Shore Musical Children's Theatre September 19, 2010 Professional theatre at popular, affordable prices! Have you seen Kaleidoscope perform at the Wilbur Theatre? North Shore Music Theatre? Cape Cod Melody Tent? South Shore Music Circus? Since 2008, Kaleidoscope has been performing in Saugus with a monthly Sunday series of Fairy Tale Classic Musicals! Reserve today at 1-781-230-3976
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North Shore Musical Children's Theatre |
09/19/10 |
North Shore Musical Children's Theatre, Saugus |
Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story
Presented by Turtle Lane Playhouse at Turtle Lane Playhouse September 3-September 19, 2010 Buddy's back in town, with Richie Valens and The Big Bopper. Come see the most successful Rock 'n' Roll musical, Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story. September 3 through 19, 2010, at Newton's Award Winning Turtle Lane Playhouse. 283 Melrose Street, Newton, MA. 617-244-0169 or visit www.turtlelane.org
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Turtle Lane Playhouse |
09/03/10 -
09/19/10 |
Turtle Lane Playhouse, Newton |
Kids On Broadway
Presented by The Milford Performing Arts Center September 17-September 19, 2010 Vibrant performance of music and big dance numbers from popular musicals: Grease, Hairspray, Wicked, Fame, Footloose and more!
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The Milford Performing Arts Center |
09/17/10 -
09/19/10 |
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Hypothesis
Presented by Midway Cafe at Midway Cafe September 21, 2010 Hypothesis is Boston's newest monthly show, where artists are challenged to create new, bold, tumultuous work. Performers will receive a challenge from hosts Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor to create two interrelated pieces that are both intelligent and entertaining. Premiere features Kirby Bits (Bitches of Destiny), Ben Reynolds (Boston Circus Guild), Simón Rios, and Alicia Greene. Followed by dancing with DJs from Audio Chemists.
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Midway Cafe |
09/21/10 |
Midway Cafe, Boston |
Actors From The London Stage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Presented by Wellesley College September 23-September 25, 2010 Returning for the fifth year, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) is a theatrical tour de force beloved by the Wellesley community. This year, they will bring Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its lovers and lunatics to vivid life in the spare, elegant and inventive style of the company’s previous wildly successful productions of King Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet. Formed 35 years ago, AFTLS is one of the oldest established touring companies in the world....
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Wellesley College |
09/23/10 -
09/25/10 |
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ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare
Presented by The Independent Drama Society at The Factory Theatre September 16-September 25, 2010 Taking inspiration from punk of the late 80's and early 90's, IDS presents a bold new look at the Western world's most famous love story. A company of eight young actors delivers Shakespeare’s passionate text with a fire that will leave no one unmoved. Let us prove that there are no dead texts, only dead hearts.
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The Independent Drama Society |
09/16/10 -
09/25/10 |
The Factory Theatre, Boston |
The Real Inspector Hound
Presented by Publick Theatre Boston at BCA Plaza Theatre September 2-September 25, 2010 Tom Stoppard’s witty indictment of the English "whodunnit"; a satirical send up of insouciant newspaper critics that results in a hilarious cautionary tale for all who put their ego ahead of Art. Moon and Birdboot, two mediocre critics, have gone to the theatre to review yet another English murder mystery, set in the parlor of isolated Muldoon Manor. The fog rolls in and it soon becomes clear that the critics and the actors performing the play have deeper intrigues and...
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Publick Theatre Boston |
09/02/10 -
09/25/10 |
BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Presented by Wellesley Summer Theatre Company at Alumnae Hall September 23-September 25, 2010 Returning to Wellesley College for the fifth year, The Actors From The London Stage is a theatrical tour de force beloved by the Wellesley community. This year, the actors from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will bring Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with its lovers and lunatics to vivid life in the spare, elegant and inventive style for which the company is...
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Wellesley Summer Theatre Company |
09/23/10 -
09/25/10 |
Alumnae Hall, Wellesley |
SubUrbia
Presented by Blank Page Theatre September 23-September 25, 2010 Plot:
Over the course of 24 hours a group of twenty-somethings who have never gotten out (or stayed out) of suburbia congregate outside a convenience store awaiting the arrival of a now famous former classmate. As the evening progresses, relationships are dissected and the broken Suburban expanse reveals the brutal effects monotony has on those living as action-less statistics of the American Dream.
Director's Statement:
Blank...
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Blank Page Theatre |
09/23/10 -
09/25/10 |
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Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through MIT’s Male Math Maze
Presented by Central Square Theater at Central Square Theater September 8-September 26, 2010 Following sold-out runs in New York and San Francisco as well as a critically acclaimed run at Central Square Theater last year, Catalyst Collaborative@MIT welcomes back Gioia De Cari’s one-woman tour-de-force Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through MIT’s Male Math Maze (September 8 – 26, 2010). Nominated for Best Solo Performance of 2009 by the Independent Reviewers of New England and Outstanding Solo Show at the New York International Fringe Festival, Truth Values...
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Central Square Theater |
09/08/10 -
09/26/10 |
Central Square Theater, Cambridge |
This Verse Business
Presented by Peterborough Players Theatre September 15-September 26, 2010 A World Premiere by A. M. Dolan! Gordon Clapp--best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue and his Tony-nominated role as Dave Moss in the 2005 Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross--stars in this world premiere. Clapp portrays the great American poet, Robert Frost, who "barded" around the country for forty-five years with his poetry, dry wit, and "promises to keep." At times funny, often poignant, This Verse Business will give you...
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Peterborough Players Theatre |
09/15/10 -
09/26/10 |
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This Verse Business
Presented by Peterborough Players at Peterborough Players September 15-September 26, 2010 Gordon Clapp--best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue and his Tony-nominated role as Dave Moss in the 2005 Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross--stars in this world premiere. Clapp portrays the great American poet Robert Frost, who "barded" around the country for forty-five years with his poetry, dry wit, and "promises to keep." At times funny, often poignant, This Verse Business will give you things to ponder as the season comes to...
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Peterborough Players |
09/15/10 -
09/26/10 |
Peterborough Players, Peterborough |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company September 3-October 2, 2010 Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Directed by Stephen Terrell
Can you spell "centavo?" A quirky cast of characters hope to win the 25th Annual Spelling Bee in this "effortlessly endearing new musical." (The New York Times) School-age angst combines with current event improvisation as volunteer audience members join in for some fun competition. "From beginning to end...
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The Lyric Stage Company of Boston |
09/03/10 -
10/02/10 |
The Lyric Stage Company, Boston |
Boston Marriage
Presented by New Repertory Theatre at New Repertory Theatre in Residence at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Charles Mosesian Theater September 12-October 3, 2010 a comedy by David Mamet featuring Jennie Israel as Claire and Debra Wise as Anna
Charles Mosesian Theater
In this biting comedy by David Mamet, Anna and Claire, two “women of fashion” who have long resided together, scheme to obtain the objects of their desire. Anna maintains their upper-middle class Victorian lifestyle as the mistress of a wealthy man who provides her with a healthy income and a distinctive Emerald necklace for her companionship. When...
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New Repertory Theatre |
09/12/10 -
10/03/10 |
New Repertory Theatre in Residence at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Charles Mosesian Theater, Watertown |
Fraulein Maria
Presented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre September 23-October 3, 2010 The playfully brilliant Doug Elkins merges modern and popular dance forms to reinvent Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music as an edgy yet fun-loving sing-along cabaret romp.
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ArtsEmerson |
09/23/10 -
10/03/10 |
Paramount Theatre, Boston |
The Complete World of Sports (abridged)
Presented by Merrimack Repertory Theatre at Merrimack Repertory Theatre September 9-October 3, 2010 The Complete World of Sports (abridged) by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, featuring the Reduced Shakespeare Company. The “bad boys of abridgement” sprint through the world of sports at record-breaking speed in this brand-new championship comedy. From the earliest cavemen playing “Neanderthal in the Middle” to your own kid’s soccer practice, it’ll be a marathon of madness and mayhem as the entire history of world sports explodes in a tour de farce of...
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Merrimack Repertory Theatre |
09/09/10 -
10/03/10 |
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell |
Perfect Harmony
Presented by Stoneham Theatre at Stoneham Theatre September 9-October 3, 2010 Perfect Harmony is a comedy about the greatest a cappella group in high school singing history, seventeen-time national champions, The Acafellas. It is also about their classmates and female counterpart, perennial runners up, The Ladies in Red. Perfect Harmony exposes the cut-throat competition of glee clubs and the even more cut-throat competition of high school. Through song and story, these students grapple with the weighty issues of truth, love, what constitutes appropriate...
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Stoneham Theatre |
09/09/10 -
10/03/10 |
Stoneham Theatre, Stoneham |
CABARET by Kander and Ebb
Presented by American Repertory Theater August 31-October 9, 2010 Take your seat at the Kit Kat Klub, the perfectly marvelous cabaret where singer Sally Bowles meets writer Cliff Bradshaw. As the two pursue a life of pleasure in Weimar Berlin, the world outside the Klub begins to splinter. Presiding over it all is singer, songwriter, and former Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer as the Kit Kat Klub's magnetic Emcee, with Aly Trasher as Sally Bowles and Matt Wood as Cliff Bradshaw. The cast also includes Remo Airaldi as Herr Schultz, David Costa as Ernst Ludwig,...
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American Repertory Theater |
08/31/10 -
10/09/10 |
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Alice vs. Wonderland based on stories by Lewis Carroll, remixed by Brandon Shea
Presented by American Repertory Theater at Loeb Drama Center September 18-October 9, 2010 This fantastical update of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass seamlessly blends the lyrical whimsy of Alice with pop culture, high-octane physical theater, and the dynamic vision of acclaimed Hungarian director János Szász. The result is a fresh, funny, and emotional remix of Carroll's classic coming-of-age tale. Adapter Brendan Shea explains his work: “The Alice of my generation is older than Lewis Carroll’s— she’s a...
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American Repertory Theater |
09/18/10 -
10/09/10 |
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge |