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Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.29.2006
Improv show is going public, and you're invited to join laughs.
LaughingStock Comedy Company is rarely seen around these parts. At least not in public.
But this year, for the second year in a row, it's bringing its show to Beowulf Alley Theatre Company.
And the troupe of six very funny people turns it into delicious comedy. Right then and there. Is talent wonderful or what?
Friday, December 29, 2006
Mac Awards time | www.azstarnet.com ®
Mac Awards time www.azstarnet.com ®
By Kathleen Allen / Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.29.2006
Best Actress
Lesley Abrams in Beowulf Alley's "Frozen"
Best Comedy
Beowulf Alley's production of Anton Chekhov's "Four Farces"
Best Drama Nominiations
Beowulf Alley's "Frozen"
Beowulf Alley's "Fiction"
Best Actress Nomination
Alida Gunn's turn as Abby in Beowulf Alley's "Fiction"
By Kathleen Allen / Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.29.2006
Best Actress
Lesley Abrams in Beowulf Alley's "Frozen"
Best Comedy
Beowulf Alley's production of Anton Chekhov's "Four Farces"
Best Drama Nominiations
Beowulf Alley's "Frozen"
Beowulf Alley's "Fiction"
Best Actress Nomination
Alida Gunn's turn as Abby in Beowulf Alley's "Fiction"
Friday, December 22, 2006
Laugh out loud | www.azstarnet.com (r)
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Published: 12.21.2006
Laugh out loud
"I can't even watch the news. When I do, I take out my Bible and look at the Book of Revelation and check things off."
— Drew Carey, during his Improv All-Stars' Green Screen Tour stop at Casino del Sol's AVA, Sept. 24, 2005.
•If you're a fan of improv, check out the local Laughing Stock Comedy Company in six shows: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, next Thursday and Dec. 29-30 and 1:30 p.m. Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 at Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, 11 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $17 through Beowulf, http://www.beowulfalley.org/, or 882-0555.
•Tickets went on sale Monday for George Lopez's shows Feb. 23 and 24 at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, which will be taped live for his first HBO standup special, "America's Mexican." Tickets — $32-$72 — are available through Ticketmaster, 321-1000.
• Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed — Bookmans, 6230 E. Speedway. Local improv comedy troupe. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 29. Free. 440-4436.
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company hires a new Administrative Director
December 18, 2006 Contact: Beth Dell
badell@beowulfalley.org
(520) 622-4460
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Tucson, AZ)—Beowulf Alley Theatre Company announced today that Beth Dell has been hired as the new administrative director. Dell is the second full-time employee to be hired to the organization, which will celebrate its second year in Tucson’s downtown.
Dell will be responsible for administering all non-production matters for the theatre, including daily operations, accounting, facility rental, marketing, advertising, publicity, fundraising and development.
“We are excited to have Dell join our growing theater company,” said Board President Roger Rikkola. “The Company has recognized that to sustain its current success and growth it needed a fulltime Administrative Director to complement the programs developed by its Artistic Director. Beth fills that need by bring to the Company a strong background in theater administrative management.”
Prior to moving to Tucson 10 years ago, Dell’s professional experience includes finance, accounting, development and fundraising for both non-profit and for-profit companies. She also worked with several theatre companies in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas. Dell graduated from the University of Arizona, Magna Cum Laude, with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Production. She has stage managed for Arizona Repertory Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Arizona Onstage Productions, Arizona Opera, Borderland Theater, Utah Shakespearian Festival and Disney MGM Studios.
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is a non-profit arts organization committed to producing daring and distinctive productions for the Tucson community. Beowulf Alley celebrates the intelligence of the actor, the vision of the director, the words of the playwright and the power of the theater.
badell@beowulfalley.org
(520) 622-4460
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Tucson, AZ)—Beowulf Alley Theatre Company announced today that Beth Dell has been hired as the new administrative director. Dell is the second full-time employee to be hired to the organization, which will celebrate its second year in Tucson’s downtown.
Dell will be responsible for administering all non-production matters for the theatre, including daily operations, accounting, facility rental, marketing, advertising, publicity, fundraising and development.
“We are excited to have Dell join our growing theater company,” said Board President Roger Rikkola. “The Company has recognized that to sustain its current success and growth it needed a fulltime Administrative Director to complement the programs developed by its Artistic Director. Beth fills that need by bring to the Company a strong background in theater administrative management.”
Prior to moving to Tucson 10 years ago, Dell’s professional experience includes finance, accounting, development and fundraising for both non-profit and for-profit companies. She also worked with several theatre companies in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas. Dell graduated from the University of Arizona, Magna Cum Laude, with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Production. She has stage managed for Arizona Repertory Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Arizona Onstage Productions, Arizona Opera, Borderland Theater, Utah Shakespearian Festival and Disney MGM Studios.
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is a non-profit arts organization committed to producing daring and distinctive productions for the Tucson community. Beowulf Alley celebrates the intelligence of the actor, the vision of the director, the words of the playwright and the power of the theater.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Capote's 'Memories' lush, loving | www.azstarnet.com ®
Capote's 'Memories' lush, loving www.azstarnet.com ®
By Kathleen Allen
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.08.2006
"Now here's the way the holidays should be launched"
"Glenda Young, exuding the kind of at-home warmth you find in just-out-of-the-oven home-baked cinnamon rolls"
"Providing music, ambience, and some well-timed dog barking is the talented Martie van der Voort"
"This is a delicious little piece, full of much of what the holidays should be full of — generosity, warmth, kindness. "
"Here's hoping it's fruitcake weather in the Old Pueblo every year. "
By Kathleen Allen
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.08.2006
"Now here's the way the holidays should be launched"
"Glenda Young, exuding the kind of at-home warmth you find in just-out-of-the-oven home-baked cinnamon rolls"
"Providing music, ambience, and some well-timed dog barking is the talented Martie van der Voort"
"This is a delicious little piece, full of much of what the holidays should be full of — generosity, warmth, kindness. "
"Here's hoping it's fruitcake weather in the Old Pueblo every year. "
Thursday, December 07, 2006
'Holiday Memories' a child's house of innocent dreams | www.tucsoncitizen.com ®
'Holiday Memories' a child's house of innocent dreams www.tucsoncitizen.com ®
By CHUCK GRAHAM
Tucson Citizen
If you like your Christmas plays short and sweet, "Holiday Memories" is the one-act to see.
By CHUCK GRAHAM
Tucson Citizen
If you like your Christmas plays short and sweet, "Holiday Memories" is the one-act to see.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tucson Weekly : Arts : Bittersweet Nostalgia
Tucson Weekly : Arts : Bittersweet Nostalgia
By JAMES REEL
The play is derived from Truman Capote's prose reminiscence of one particular Christmas during the time when, as a 10-year-old, he'd been sent to live with distant relatives in tiny Monroeville, Ala. Most of the relatives were not especially child-friendly, but for the most part, they could be ignored, because one among them, an aunt called Sook, turned out to be the best friend a lonely boy could have.
A Christmas Memory is a model of its genre, the lyrical prose making its effect not through arcane vocabulary or provocative imagery but through the artful arrangement of fairly simple words. At Beowulf Alley, that narrative is delivered by Jeff Scotland as the adult Truman.
Glenda Young is equally fine as Miss Sook. Young neatly conveys the easily bruised joy and innocence and essential strength of the character.
The young Buddy is often played by an adult, but here, the role is taken by an authentic sixth-grader, the enthusiastic and likable Will Bostwick.
By JAMES REEL
The play is derived from Truman Capote's prose reminiscence of one particular Christmas during the time when, as a 10-year-old, he'd been sent to live with distant relatives in tiny Monroeville, Ala. Most of the relatives were not especially child-friendly, but for the most part, they could be ignored, because one among them, an aunt called Sook, turned out to be the best friend a lonely boy could have.
A Christmas Memory is a model of its genre, the lyrical prose making its effect not through arcane vocabulary or provocative imagery but through the artful arrangement of fairly simple words. At Beowulf Alley, that narrative is delivered by Jeff Scotland as the adult Truman.
Glenda Young is equally fine as Miss Sook. Young neatly conveys the easily bruised joy and innocence and essential strength of the character.
The young Buddy is often played by an adult, but here, the role is taken by an authentic sixth-grader, the enthusiastic and likable Will Bostwick.
Friday, December 01, 2006
This week's hot 5 events | www.azstarnet.com ®
This week's hot 5 events www.azstarnet.com ®
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, a young and artistically sturdy ensemble, brings the emotionally fraught storytelling of Truman Capote to its Downtown stage with "Holiday Memories," a show that has promising written all over it.
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, a young and artistically sturdy ensemble, brings the emotionally fraught storytelling of Truman Capote to its Downtown stage with "Holiday Memories," a show that has promising written all over it.
Capote's 'Memories' a fresh entry among holiday plays | www.azstarnet.com ®
Capote's 'Memories' a fresh entry among holiday plays www.azstarnet.com ®: ... something brand-new to Tucson's Christmastime stage: Truman Capote's "Holiday Memories," an adaptation for the stage of two classic Capote short stories.
Tucson audiences will see an adult Capote, played by Jeff Scotland, sharing the stage with his younger self, played by 11-year-old Will Bostwick. The older Capote remembers and interacts with his younger self as they share a spartan but delightful Depression-era Christmas with Capote's beloved maiden aunt Sook, played by the much-loved-by-Tucson-audiences Glenda Young.
Tucson audiences will see an adult Capote, played by Jeff Scotland, sharing the stage with his younger self, played by 11-year-old Will Bostwick. The older Capote remembers and interacts with his younger self as they share a spartan but delightful Depression-era Christmas with Capote's beloved maiden aunt Sook, played by the much-loved-by-Tucson-audiences Glenda Young.
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