Old Time Radio Auditions

Audition Notice!

Beowulf Alley’s Newest Program

Old Time Radio Shows

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre will hold open auditions for adult male and female actors to perform with its new addition, Old-Time Radio Shows, presenting old-time radio stories as they were originally performed in their heyday before an audience.

 

A team of 10-12 actors will be selected to perform in various roles on a rotating basis.  Actors must have good speaking voices, be able to portray a variety of voices, characters and accents while reading from the scripts during performances and provide one or two period costumes.  Auditions will be held Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Scripts will be provided for the auditions.

 

Once a week performances will begin in late September, with a light rehearsal schedule.  For information, call Sheldon Metz at 722-9553 or Beowulf Alley Theatre at 520-622-4460.

 

Public parking is available on the street at meters Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm for 50 cents per half hour and FREE all other times including weekends.  The lot across the street from Beowulf Alley at Broadway and 6^th Avenue is FREE Monday through Friday after 3pm and all weekend.  The City Garage at Pennington and Scott, just two blocks from the theatre, is secure with the first hour free, additional hours at $2 to a maximum of $8.

 

National Premiere of Flicker, IndeFliks@the Alley

National Premiere of Flicker

IndeFliks@the Alley

Beowulf Alley Theatre

 

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre launches IndeFliks@the Alley with the National Premiere of Flicker, a film by Aaron Hendren, Friday and Saturday, September 4th and 5th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6^th Ave, between Broadway and Congress in Downtown Tucson, known for its high quality theatrical productions, has added screening equipment to its beautiful 95-seat air-conditioned theatre and is launching a series of Independent Film screenings.  The inaugural event is a national premiere of a new film by an accomplished independent filmmaker from Albuquerque, NM, Aaron Hendren (www.eggmurders.com).  Tickets are $12 at the door or online in advance at www.beowulfalley.org.  There will be a discussion with the Producer/Writer/Director, Aaron Hendren on Saturday, September 5^th following the screening.

 

"It is a great example of the well-directed and acted independent slasher movie."

 - Buried.com

 

“Keep your friends close and your enemy’s shovel” is the tagline from Flicker, a horror movie opening in 10 cities across the United States, including Beowulf Alley in Tucson, Arizona.

Over the weekend of September 4^th, Flicker will be screened in Tucson, Denver, Albuquerque, Paducah, Boise, Santa Fe, Portland, Brookline, Eugene and Hartford.

 

The trailer for Flicker has been one of the most popular of the summer on Apple.com.  Blending rock and roll, country and folk, the Flicker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is heard around the world thanks to many stores including Amazon and iTunes.

 

Egg Murders Productions, LLC produced Flicker and is often met with some questions and puzzlement about the movie.  People want to know what it is and where it came from.  As Flicker is unlike the most recent National Treasure movie, and that lot, we tell people: “It’s not a sequel, a remake or based on a comic book.  You deserve it.”

 

Flicker centers on Pretty, a young woman on a camping vacation with her friends.  She awakens in her tent to find that her friends have disappeared in the middle of the night.  Keeping a flicker of hope alive, she searches for her missing friends while fighting the elements and the strange inhabitants of a desolate mountain town.

 

Flicker was written and directed by Aaron Hendren (The Faithful and the Foul, Hamlet) and stars actors from Terminator Salvation, Swing Vote, Easy Money and The Lost Room.  The music comes from The Bad Memories and Jimmy Deveney (of Horse Opera fame.)  Starring Katy Houska as Pretty, the cast is supported by Babak Tafti, Kate Schroeder, Abigail H. Blueher and Lauren Poole.

 

For more information, see www.beowulfalley.org.  To view the trailer, see www.eggmurders.com.  

 

Public parking is available on the street at meters Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for 50 cents per half hour and FREE all other times including weekends.  The lot across the street from Beowulf Alley at Broadway and 6th Avenue is available FREE Monday through Friday after 3 p.m. and all weekend.  The City Garage at Pennington and Scott, just two blocks from the theatre, is secure with the first hour free, additional hours at $2 to a maximum of $8.

Beowulf Alley Theatre launches capital campaign for façade redo - Meet Me Downtown

Beowulf Alley Theatre launches capital campaign for façade redo - Meet Me Downtown

Durband’s Urban Update

by Donovan Durband on Aug.10, 2009, under Arts, City of Tucson, downtown

Beowulf Alley Theatre launches capital campaign for façade redo

Design of Beowulf Alley Theatre's new Facade.

A few weeks ago I noticed an appeal on Facebook from Beowulf Alley Theatre Company to contribute to its new capital campaign for façade renovation.

Always pleased to see Downtowners working to help themselves, I made a small donation to the cause through a program called “Cause”, and emailed Beth Dell, the Managing Director at Beowulf, to learn more.

It was clear that Dell wanted to be proactive, self-reliant, and to make Beowulf’s theatre, which occupies what was once the Johnny Gibson Gym Equipment Company, an attractive feature on 6th Avenue in Downtown. “A few weeks ago, I decided to go about this on my own because it’s really important to me to see us grow and cleaning up the front of the building for our 5th anniversary on 6th Avenue,” says Dell. “It would not only help us but will also make a difference in the Downtown appearance, too.”

Just today, a Facebook announcement from Ms. Dell confirms what she told me a few days ago, that Beowulf has been selected by the City of Tucson to receive a façade renovation matching grant. It seems that her and Beowulf’s initiative is being rewarded.

Last year, Beowulf was among eight semifinalists for funding from the Downtown Façade Improvement Program, but was not among the four selected for the first round of grants. Two projects are under construction through the program: The Screening Room marquee on Congress and the office building at the corner of Scott and Broadway. Also awarded grants: the Rialto Block project and the Wig O Rama building at Scott and Congress.

Dell was informed that one of the latter two projects has dropped out, leaving some funding available to Beowulf as a replacement project.

“I’d like to try to raise the full $10,000 to do the original façade plan,” she told me last week. “If I can do that, the Gibson’s (Johnny Gibson’s family, which still owns the building) seem willing to offer their original commitment of $15,000, and we have an in-kind commitment of $5,000. The City would match these dollars with $30,000, and our $60,000 renovation would make a huge difference in the outside appearance of the building as well as attract a whole lot more attention to help us grow and expand our service to the community.”

“I am not really good at making appeals but I am sure excited about this.”

Dell has raised just shy of $1,000 through the Facebook appeal and from a few others who didn’t want to contribute through the “Cause” page.

Dell seems giddy, grateful, and proud at the same time. “It’s almost as if we were meant to be here to have this phone call (with the news of the grant). We’ve spent the past season building many new programs and have more planned for the fall. Our commitment to the community is strong and many performing artists have benefited from our being here. We’ve doubled our season subscribers, had a huge increase in single ticket sales, added both youth and adult education classes, late night and lunchtime theatre programs and started a program for playwrights to have their plays read. This fall, our new season has many new local directors, actors and technicians added to our roster. All of this meets our mission of creating a community of theatre where our home-grown artists can come to create.”

Beowulf has a design for the refurbishment of its Art Deco-style façade, drawn up by local architect Bob Vint.

Beowulf’s 2009-2010 season features six productions, leading off with Seascape, by Edward Albee, September 26 to October 11. November brings Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire (November 7-22). Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love runs January 16-31, 2010, followed by Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, by Jane Martin, February 27-March 14; Last of the Boys, by Steven Dietz, April 10-25; and The Vertical Hour, by David Hare, May 29-June 13.

Significant donations to the façade renovation campaign will receive 2 season tickets.

For more information on Beowulf’s programs and upcoming season, visit www.BeowulfAlley.org or call 520.622.4460 (administrative office), or 520.882.0555 (box office).

To contribute to the facade renovation campaign, go to Beowulf Alley Theatre Company’s “Causes” page on Facebook.

Beowulf Alley today, from near Broadway and 6th Avenue.

Beowulf Alley Theatre Audition & Call for Designers and Technicians

Beowulf Alley Theatre Audition

 & Call for Designers and Technicians

 

 

(Tucson, AZ – August 11, 2009) Beowulf Alley Theatre Company seeks a male actor, ages 25-40, who is physically fit and can withstand a lot of floor movement, for a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Auditions will take place on Wednesday, August 13, 2009, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. An alternative time may be arranged. Actor will read sides from the play. Rehearsals will begin immediately. The final rehearsal schedule will be determined once the play is cast to reasonably accommodate the production team’s work/life schedules. All participants must be available for technical rehearsals the week prior to the first public performance. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Sundays, 1:30 p.m. beginning on Friday, September 25 and closing on October 11, 2009. Roles and Production positions are compensated.

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre is located at 11 South 6^th Ave, Downtown Tucson between Broadway and Congress. We are also looking for stage managers, costumes, props, sound, lighting, carpenters and other production positions throughout the season. For additional audition information or a different audition time, please contact Michael Fenlason at michaelfenlason@aol.com or leave a message at (520) 977-5218. For technical positions, please contact the theatre at theatre@beowulfalley.org or call (520)622-4460.

LNT@the Alley Presents Not Burned Out Just Unscrewed

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s LNT@the Alley Presents Not Burned Out Just Unscrewed

 

(Tucson, AZ - August 6, 2009) — Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed, Tucson’s premier purveyors of fine comedy, will perform at Beowulf Alley Theater as part of their late night theatre series, LNT@the Alley on August 21st and 22nd at 9 p.m.  This is a show with adult content, so leave the little ones home. Not Burnt Out will be a regular feature of the Late Night Beowulf scene.

 

Tickets are $8 cash at the door or may be purchased online at Beowulf Alley’s website, www.beowulfalley.org with a debit or credit card until 3 hours before performances. Bring your friends and head Downtown for some fun.

 

 

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Improv Comedy Entertainment in Tucson, Arizona - Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre is located at 11 S. 6^th Avenue, 85701, downtown between Broadway and Congress. Join us for this exciting evening of sketches and improvisations, then visit the Downtown clubs for some additional fun! For more information, check our website at www.beowulfalley.org.

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company - August Readers Theatre

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company Hosts August Readers Theatre

 

(Tucson, AZ - August 6, 2009) — Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6^th Avenue, 85701, downtown between Broadway and Congress, is holding a reading on Tuesday, August 11, at 7:15 p.m. of Dachau by Jan-Ruth Mills. Admission is on a pay-what-you-will basis. Readers Theatre is a stimulating event and a terrific opportunity for both playwrights and audiences. Playwrights have a chance to be heard and audiences have a chance to hear new and dynamic works being developed for the theater as well as contribute to their development by participating in discussions following the readings. Throughout each year, guided by its Artistic Development Committee, Beowulf Alley Theatre offers a selection of thought-provoking readings to Tucsonans and visitors to Tucson.

 

Playwrights may submit plays for our Readers Theatre program by following the instructions, online at www.beowulfalley.org, “Cast & Crew,” “Directors  & Playwrights,” “Playwrights.”  Inquiries regarding participation (actors, volunteers) in the Readers’ Theatre Program may be made by e-mailing theatre@beowulfalley.org.

 

A non-profit arts organization, Beowulf Alley was founded based on dialogues with local actors who wanted a permanent home for theatre artists from the Tucson community. Today, its intimate 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators, and technicians can develop and present their skills. Because Beowulf Alley engages a talent pool that calls Tucson “home” for its productions, the Theatre is committed to helping grow a new generation of Tucson talent with its education programs for young people. And true to its roots, the Theatre maintains ongoing dialogues with the community, including Dialogues with theatergoers after the first Sunday matinee performance of each of its season plays – an opportunity for theatergoers to discuss the plays with the director and the performing artists. Writers who cover the Tucson arts scene say the Theatre provides its audiences with “the best total package”—plays, performances, and productions that are high in artistic and technical quality.

 

Dachau by Jan-Ruth Mills

 

Bavaria, Germany. July, 1947. A barrack in the former Nazi Concentration Camp Dachau is now a courtroom for the US Military Tribunal prosecutions of SS from concentration camps in Austria. The defense council, a US Army Lieutenant and a German civilian attorney, agree that their clients are guilty but disagree on everything from trial procedure to the legitimacy of the court itself. Despite the overwhelming evidence against the accused, the German defense attorney’s decades of experience challenges the skills of the prosecutor, an inexperienced attorney from the States. Frustrated, the victims' ghosts disrupt the trial, demanding to bear witness against their murderers. The ghosts’ relationships to each other are complicated by the choices they made in their failed attempts to survive the camp. Caught between the living and the dead are an Austrian woman (who still lives in the town near the camp) and a Jewish woman (whose two sons were murdered under the Austrian woman’s window). Both women find themselves transported in their dreams and daydreams to watch the trial in the company of the ghosts. While the Military Tribunal prosecutes the SS, the dead and the grieving Jewish mother conduct a trial of the Austrian woman for her seeming complicity with the Nazi regime. While proceedings against the SS fail to bring the perfect justice the dead seek, the Austrian mother must accept that she and her children will live with the guilt and consequences of her countrymen’s actions.

Beowulf Alley Theatre Announces Revised 2009-2010 Main Stage Season

Beowulf Alley Theatre Announces Revised 2009-2010 Main Stage Season

 

(Tucson, AZ – July 24, 2009) Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6^th Avenue, Downtown Tucson between Broadway and Congress, today announced revisions for the 2009-2010 main stage season. The scheduled dates chosen for each of the five plays remains the same. The primary change is the need to replace the first play, The Vertical Hour with another selection due to the director’s illness. He and his cast will present The Vertical Hour at the end of the season as a sixth main stage production. Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, now directed by Steve Anderson, and Fool for Love have reversed order.

 

Performance days and times, and single prices remain the same:

Preview performances, the Friday before the opening Saturday are still $10;

General Admission tickets purchased by phone and at the door are $20;

Online only ticket prices are $18;

Our 5-play season subscription is $70 and subscriptions are still available;

Flex Passes, 4 admissions for $64, are also available.

For more information please go to www.beowulfalley.org or call the box office at 882-0555.

 

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis in our 95-seat, air-conditioned theatre.

 

THE REVISED SCHEDULE OF PLAYS AND ADJUSTED DATES ARE:

 

Seascape by Edward Albee, directed by Michael Fenlason

(Please note that this is a replacement for the originally scheduled play, The Vertical Hour, which will be presented in May/June, 2010 as a season extra, not part of the subscription packages.)

 

Preview Performance: Friday, September 25         

Dialogues with… Sunday, September 27 following the performance

Performances: September 26-October 11, 2009

 

A romantic comedy and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Seascape is the story of a mature couple on a deserted beach discussing life, love and marriage. Charlie sees rest in his future while Nancy seeks new adventures. Their solitude is broken by an encounter with a very unusual and strange couple, Leslie and Sarah, also contemplating major life changes. Once the couples recover from mutual surprise and fear, the two couples engage in conversation, sharing thoughts and ideas that lead to finding resolutions to their future life journeys. Contains mature themes.

 

Hats off , and up in the air! A major dramatic event.” –NY Times

 

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

 

 

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Sara Falconer

 

Preview Performance: Friday, November 6            

Dialogues with… Sunday, November 8 following the performance

Performances November 7-22, 2009

 

Awarded the 2006 Tony Award for Best New Play and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama… Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. - Dramatists Play Service – May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.

 

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation—an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." - —Variety

 

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

 

Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, directed by Mike Sultzbach

(Please note that the original dates for this play were switched with Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage)

 

Preview Performance: Friday, January 15              

Dialogues with… Sunday, January 17, 2010 following the performance

Performances: January 16-31, 2010

 

In a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert. May, a disheveled young woman and Eddie, struggle through recriminations and physical violence. Eventually May and Eddie tire of their struggle and embrace—but it is evident that the respite is temporary and that their love, the curse of the past which haunts them, will remain forever damned and hopeless. May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.

 

“Winner of the [1984] Obie Award [for Best New American Play], this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humorous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the Old West.” – Dramatists Play Service

 

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

 

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage by Jane Martin, directed by Steve Anderson

(Please note that the original dates for this play were switched with Fool for Love)

 

Preview Performance:  Friday, February 26

Dialogues with… Sunday, February 28, 2010 following the performance

Performances:  February 27-March 14, 2010

 

Big 8, is facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one eyed Ukranian biker named Black Dog ushers in outrageous violence and horror in this shoot ‘em up, knock ‘em up, cut ‘em up comic romp that roasts the cowboy mentality of western writers like Zane Grey. This bodacious and macabre cross over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness. May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.

 

“The funniest and the wildest…Adds still another dimension to this author’s body of work..The laughs are nonstop.” – Center Stage

 

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

 

 

Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz, directed by Susan Arnold

 

Preview Performance:  Friday, April 9                     

Dialogues with… Sunday, April 11, 2010 following the performance

Performances:  April 10-25, 2010

 

A 2006 Pulitzer Prize nominee. Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends—and a war that does not. – Dramatists Play Service  -  May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.

 

"Last of the Boys is about the way the past creates the present and the present repeats the past -- Philadelphia City Paper

 

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

 

Season Extra Presentation!

First Sunday Season Subscribers may purchase tickets for Sunday, May 30, 2010 for $10.
Full Season Subscribers may purchase tickets for any performance for $14.
Flex Pass holders may purchase tickets for any performance for $16.
These prices apply to the Early Bird Free Subscriptions as well.

 

The Vertical Hour by David Hare, directed by Philip G. Bennett

 

Preview Performance: Friday, May 28 $10              

Dialogues with… Sunday, May 30, 2010 following the performance

Performances: May 29-June 13, 2010

 

[A] story of a young American war reporter-turned-academic who travels abroad and finds herself caught in a most surprising romantic triangle, pulled between the affections of her lover and her lover's father. - nytheatre.com  -  May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.

 

"…this is … a rich, intellectually gripping play…” – guardian.com.uk

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service