Thursday, April 29, 2010

Live on the Radio | Review | Tucson Weekly

Live on the Radio | Review | Tucson Weekly

Live on the Radio

A new group brings new life to an old-school form of theater

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ghosts of Vietnam | Review | Tucson Weekly

Ghosts of Vietnam | Review | Tucson Weekly

Ghosts of Vietnam

Beowulf's 'Last of the Boys' is a haunting look at war's aftermath

The result, like the play's own symbolism, is rich, complicated, emotional and not easily put into words."

Read more ... Ghosts of Vietnam | Review | Tucson Weekly




"LAST OF THE BOYS" SHAKES THE CHAINS OF OUR PAST

TucsonStage.com

"LAST OF THE BOYS" SHAKES THE CHAINS OF OUR PAST
by Chuck Graham
"Let The Show Begin"

The power of theater is pressure-packed into Beowulf Alley’s production of “Last of the Boys” by Steven Dietz. A quintet of actors directed by Susan Arnold keeps up the intensity from start to finish, pushing us through angry confrontations and twisted nightmare memories to tell a ghost story that began with Vietnam.


Seldom this season has any local company presented such a solid effort to reach such a compelling conclusion. The finale comes screaming out of the darkness, full of battle noise and desperate sobbing, a truly poetic conclusion packing many kinds of impact.


The Vietnam War experience has affected everyone in some way, whether pacifist or warrior, boyfriend or husband, girlfriend or wife, parent or grandparent. Like that ghost from a train-wrecked life experience will haunt you forever, so is the ghost of Vietnam haunting all of us. A ghost more powerful than any exorcist.


Just as America’s own civil war still has a seductive fascination, so will the Vietnam War continue to define our nation’s evolution as a grand experiment in democratic government. At the end of World War II everyone believed the United States was the greatest country in the world. Now lots of people aren’t so sure.


Two of them are Ben (Gabe Nagy) and Jeeter (Clark Andreas Ray), bonded by their Vietnam wartime experience decades earlier. Each has taken a different pathway to escape the same ghost.


Ben’s life is the most tattered. He lives alone in a trashed-out trailer in a trailer park contaminated by toxic waste. In the yard is an empty flag pole with sandbags stacked around the base. His estranged father was a highly-ranked government official assisting Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense during Vietnam. Ben can’t forgive or forget. Though his father died recently, Ben didn’t attend the funeral.


Jeeter idolized Ben’s father. Jeeter not only attended the funeral, he packed a suitcase full of items from Ben’s father and brought the suitcase back to Ben – who promptly threw it in the trash.


Jeeter has grown up to be one of those renegade college professors who makes his living talking about Vietnam. At a California college, Jeeter teaches a course called “The Sixties.” He feeds the ghost, embellishes it, makes it bigger and stronger with each passing lecture.


Not that Jeeter is successful in life. He’s still looking for love in all the wrong places, hitting on Salyer (Royah Beheshti) at the funeral for Ben’s father. Compulsively, Jeeter insists to Ben that Salyer is marriage material.


Salyer is also piled high with eccentricities. Only a really desperate guy would want her for a wife. She seems rather helpless, actually.


But when Salyer’s mom Lorraine (Mary Davis) shows up to bring Salyer back home, convinced the younger woman could never function on her own, we start hoping Salyer can somehow escape.


There is a convoluted plot, and a memory ghost who looks like a young soldier (Lucas Gonzales). Logic is not a part of the program. Neither is the ghost. Just like our own memories of the war, we take what we need or what we can’t escape.


In the fantasy parts, a very effective sound design by Rachel Davis recreates the helicopters, rockets, artillery fire and chaos of war that rattle the theater. As dream sequences, these are particularly effective.


While everyone will come away from Beowulf Alley with a different interpretation of the play, no one will be unaffected. That title, “Last of the Boys,” also implies it is time to grow up. Out on the street, after the play is over, it won’t be that easy.


Performances continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 1:30 p.m. matinees Sundays, to April 25. All performances are at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $18 online, $20 at the door, with other discounts available. For details and reservations, 882-0555, or visit www.beowulfalley.org


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

LNT@the Alley presents La Llorona/Medea

Beowulf Alley’s Late Night Theatre

La Llorona/Medea adapted from Euripides

Jealousy, Rage and a Ghost Story

 

LNT@the Alley, Beowulf Alley’s Late Night Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown between Broadway and Congress, presents La Llorona/Medea adapted from Euripides by Tomas Ulises-Soto and Michael Fenlason. Performances are on Saturday May 8th at 9 p.m., as part of the kickoff of the new 2nd Saturdays Downtown event, and Friday and Saturday, May 14th and 15th 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 cash at the door. For additional information, please call (520) 977-5218.

 

La Llorona/Medea  is the classical Greek tragedy of one woman’s horrible crime, spurred on by jealousy and rage told through the mirror of the Latino folktale, La Llorona, the weeping woman. Part tragedy, part ghost story, La Llorona/Medea is a scary story to tell in the dark, Hell has a fury like a woman scorned, and it is Medea. This play has adult themes.

Staged reading of Warren G. Bodow's play, Fronting the Order

Beowulf Alley Theatre Presents Readers Theatre in May

Fronting the Order by Warren Bodow

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre will present a staged reading of Warren G. Bodow’s play, Fronting the Order on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 7:15 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission is by donation. Beowulf Alley Theatre is located at 11 South 6th Avenue (downtown between Broadway and Congress). For more information, please refer to the website, www.beowulfalley.org or call the theatre at (520) 882-0555.

 

It’s the summer of 1959 and the Eisenhower era is drawing to a close. The U.S. is feeling the sting of space dominance when the Russians launch Sputnik and Americans are determined to take back world leadership. The solution? Education, say many: better schools, bigger libraries, education in the home will ensure that we regain leadership in everything!  So on a rainy August Friday afternoon, a crew of four encyclopedia salesman set about the task to sell knowledge to the families of our future leaders.

 

As we witness the humorous and bombastic interplay of the four salesmen, we feel the underlying tensions festering in late-50s America. We witness how the men represent their wares to their prospects. Even as we laugh, our sense of right and wrong is buffeted as the play forces us to consider whether deception must always be negative, or in the service of a greater good, it is simply a handy tool.

 

Warren G. Bodow, formerly President of New York classical radio station, WQXR (recently sold by The New York Times to WNYC and Univision Radio), is a self-proclaimed “second act” playwright. Since 2005, he and his wife Ellen have been part-time Tucson residents. Last fall, his full-length play, Race Music, presented as a staged reading at Beowulf Alley’s Reader’s Theater in 2009 was produced by Diverse City Theater Company in New York City. Mr. Bodow’s three short plays about Valentine’s Day were the February 2009 offerings for Beowulf Alley’s Out to Lunch Theater. His full-length play, Harry the Hunk on His Way Out, was presented as a staged reading at Beowulf Alley prior to its New York Equity Showcase run at The Cherry Lane Theatre in October 2007. Mr. Bodow is a member of Tucson’s Old Pueblo Playwrights and has served on the Boards of the New York State Broadcasters Association and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

 

Reader’s Theatre at Beowulf Alley, RT@the Alley, is a project to give Tucson Metropolitan area playwrights an opportunity for the public to hear the words of a finished play that has been thoroughly vetted and thoughtfully crafted based upon a critique process and following guidelines on our website at http://www.beowulfalley.org/html/playwrights_submissions.html

 

The community is invited to become involved as volunteer readers to read characters and assist with this monthly event. The ability to read dramatically is necessary. We also invite members of the community to join the committee to read and comment of plays under selection consideration and to assist with front of house and concessions on the nights of the readings.

 

Participation is limited to those who have their own local housing and transportation and can be available at pre-arranged time. Questions and inquiries regarding participation in the Reader’s Theatre project may be made via e-mail at theatre@beowulfalley.org. Script submissions are ongoing and may be mailed (please do not e-mail) to:

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company

Reader’s Theatre Program

11 S. 6th Avenue

Tucson, Arizona 85701

 

LNT@the Alley presents Grendel's Mom

Beowulf Alley’s LNT presents

Grendel’s Mom

An evening of madcap wackiness from LNT’s zanies

LNT@the Alley, Beowulf Alley Theatre’s late night program, presents Grendel’s Mom, an evening of sketch comedy. Performances are on Friday and Saturday April 23rd, 24th, 30th  and May 1st  at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 cash at the door. The theatre is located at 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown between Broadway and Congress, For additional information, please call (520) 977-5218.

 

Grendel’s Mom presents an evening of wry and puckish sketch comedy from the creators (and destroyers) of the Christmas hit Ho Ho Ho : Another Grand Mall,  The evening will include music by Skads Muskie featuring Brandy Bellais and Tristyn Tucci. Sketches include The Al Pacino Factory, Purple Behinds at the Baboon Bar and Christopher Walken versus Godzilla. This performance has adult themes and language, though it’s occasionally quite childish.

 

Grendel’s Mom features Brandy Bellais, Josh Booty, Evan Engle, Brian Hanson, Meagan Jones, Josh Parra, Tristyn Tucci, Kyra Weinberger with original music by Skads Muskie.

Old Time Radio Theatre presents ...

Beowulf Alley’s Old Time Radio Theatre Company

May Performances Bring Comedy and Suspense

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Old Time Radio Theatre Company will presents classic productions from the golden days of radio, to be presented at the theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue (Downtown between Broadway and Congress) on May 4 and May 18, 2010. Performances are at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 each for the first two children ages 6-12, cash at the door, no reservations required and general seating. For additional information, please go to our website at www.beowulfalley.org or call the box office at (520) 882-0555.

 

May 4

 

Father Knows Best: The Housekeeper, was originally performed on June 22, 1950. This all-American family comedy success is geared toward all age groups, followed by one of radio’s classic heroic-hero adventures, Doc Savage:The Sinister Sleep, originally presented April 14, 1934.

  

Father Knows Best ran on NBC Radio from 1945 to 1954, when it switched to CBS television. It starred Robert Young and June Whitley (later, Jean Vander Pyl) and went on to television fame with Young and Jane Wyatt. The show is often regarded as an example of the conservative and paternalistic nature of American family life in the 1950s and it is also cited as an overly rosy portrayal of American family life.  The lead character changed on television from a sarcastic dominant head-of-house to a much more subdued and gentle hand.

 

Doc Savage, a fictional comic character, popular in the 1930s and 40s "... rights wrongs and punishes evildoers." The character appeared in comic books, film and radio and today’s graphic novels. Clark Savage Jr. was a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher, and musician. A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences. Doc is also a master of disguise and an excellent imitator of voices.

 

He lived by his creed and invited the youth of the day to do the same –

“Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong no man.”

 

May 18

 

The Bickersons: Tax Refund begins this evening’s performance. Starring Don Ameche and Frances Langford, The Bickersons began as a radio sketch comedy that ran as part of other shows until 1946, when it became its own series. After a turn on NBC, it moved to CBS and ran until 1951. John and Blanche Bickerson spent their entire time in a relentless verbal war. Their quick dialogue brought laughter to all.

 

John: “You can accuse me of being selfish or inconsiderate, or anything else, but drinking is not one of my failures.”

 

Blanche: “No, it's one of your few successes.”

 

Leiningen vs. the Ants was a short story published in December, 1938, in Esquire Magazine. It later became one of radio’s most famous thrillers. The story will keep people on the edge of their seats. The story centers on a scrappy, no-nonsense plantation owner called Leiningen, and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of army ants, described as "an elemental  act of God!" These are ants that can devour a horse to the bones in two minutes. It was adapted to radio on January 14, 1948 as an episode of Escape on CBS Radio. It subsequently became the famous film, The Naked Jungle, with Charlton Heston, who later recreated the role originally performed by William Conrad. "Ten miles long, two miles wide—ants, nothing but ants!”

 

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company’s Old Time Radio Theatre

June Performances Offer Classic Radio Shows

 

(Tucson, AZ) Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Old Time Radio Theatre Company will presents two classic productions from the golden days of radio, to be presented at the theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue (Downtown between Broadway and Congress). Performances are at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 each for the first two children ages 6-12, cash at the door, no reservations required and general seating. For additional information, please go to our website at www.beowulfalley.org or call the box office at (520) 882-0555.

 

Tuesday June 1

 

My Friend Irma has been brought back again, by popular request. One of radio’s funniest comedies, it starred Marie Wilson, Diana Lynn, John Lund  and a host of radio and TV greats. Most notably, it was the kick off for two of comedy’s greats, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. My Friend Irma, and it’s popularity and wacky ensemble of misfits, allowed it to go on to two movies, comic books and a huge TV success. There is a laugh every 4.5 seconds. My Friend Irma: Seeing Ghosts was first presented on July 24, 1939. Regarding her boss, Mr. Clyde, Irma said,

 

"When I first went to work with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now it's snow white. I guess I've been with him about six months."

 

One of radio’s most listened to detective shows, Boston Blackie starred Chester Morris, who originally played the role in many motion pictures. It was first broadcast on NBC June 23, 1944 as a summer replacement for Amos ‘n’ Andy, and continued until September 15 of that year. On April 11, 1945, it was renewed with Richard Kollmar in the role, playing over 200 shows until October 25, 1950.  While investigating mysteries, Blackie invariably encountered hare-brained Police Inspector Farraday and always solved the mystery to Farraday's amazement. Initially, friction surfaced in the relationship between Blackie and Farraday, but as the series continued, Farraday recognized Blackie's talents and requested assistance. Blackie dated Mary Wesley and for the first half of the series, his best pal, Shorty, was always on hand. The humorless Farraday was on the receiving end of Blackie's bad puns and word play. This episode was first presented December 20, 1945.

 

Tuesday, June 15

 

My Friend Irma continues to be the most popular request and this evening’s episode, The Boss Buys a Racehorse is one of their funniest. Irma’s boss, Mr. Clyde is buying a race horse. Irma comments,

 

“Well, Mr. Clyde wouldn’t buy any old animal.  He’s very particular.  Remember what I went through before he hired me?”

 

The second presentation for this evening is Dragnet: The Big No Tooth. Dragnet, most noted as one of early television’s first police dramas, created by and starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday, Badge number 714, was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers. In it’s short run, It was one of radio’s top-rated shows. While "Just the facts, ma'am" has come to be known as Dragnet's catchphrase, it was never actually uttered by Joe Friday; the closest he came were, "All we want are the facts, ma'am" and "All we know are the facts, ma'am"."Just the facts, ma'am" comes from the Stan Freberg’s parody in St. George and the Dragonet.

 

Directed by Sheldon Metz, the Old Time Radio Theatre Company includes Jacob Brown, Jon Benda, Warren Bodow, Janet Bruce, Joel Charles, Geri Courtney-Austein, Sydney Flynn, Vince Flynn, Audrey Ann Gambach, Barbara Glover, Bill La Point, Steve McKee, Mark McLemore, Joan O'Dwyer, Jessica Risco, Jeff Scotland, Ina Shivack, Jared Stokes, Pat Timm, John Vornholt, and Brian Wees plus occasional guest performers and the technical genius of Mike Saxon and Samuel De Jesus.  

 

 

Spring and Summer Youth Program

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Spring and Summer Youth Program

AKA Theatre

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue in Downtown Tucson announces it’s spring Youth Program for students 13-17 years old. Classes will be held from April 26th through May 12th, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The fee for this 12-hour class is $120 per student.

 

Shakespeare for the 21st Century (Ages 13-17)

April 26th-May 12th, Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

 

Are you ready for the bard? Most of the greatest actors of stage and screen—from Meryl Streep to Denzel Washington—have taken their craft to another level by studying the work of William Shakespeare. In fact, Shakespeare is a great way to check out all the skills in the actor’s toolbox. Whether you’re brand new to acting or a seasoned pro, preparing a Shakespearian role is a fun, challenging, and rewarding way to build your confidence in front of an audience. And even today, Shakespeare’s kings, queens, soldiers, lovers, and fools are among the most interesting characters in dramatic literature. Come learn what it’s all about!

 

Summer Enrichment Program for Ages 9-17!

Four two-week sessions, four hours per day.

June 7-18, June 21-July 2, July 12-22, July 26-August 6

 

Teaching Elements of Acting, Movement and Mime, Vocal and Character Development, Playwrighting, Sound Effects, Lighting and Production Planning. $290 per session (just $145 per week!)

 

According to Dave Sewell, Youth Program Director, the mission of ActingKids@the Alley is to "create a performance-based learning experience that will provide our participants with a fun, expressive outlet; develop valuable skills through collaboration and creative interaction; foster awareness and sensitivity; and instill an appreciation and love of the art of Theatre."

Sewell is a Theatre graduate of the University of California, Riverside, and has been actively involved in all phases of Theatre for over 35 years.  “What sets our program apart,” explains Sewell, “is that we provide the same training adult actors would be expected to receive, but in an age-appropriate setting.  We’re not looking to train ‘stars;’ we’re looking for kids who are interested in learning the value of the arts in developing creative thinking and teamwork, having fun, and meeting new friends.

Whether your child is new to theatre or an old stagehand, all are welcome at ActingKids@the Alley. Reserve your place today! For more information, please refer to our website, www.beowulfalley.org. email Dave at youthprograms@beowulfalley.org or call the theatre at (520) 622-4460

 

Monday, April 12, 2010

LAST OF THE BOYS' SHAKES THE CHAINS OF OUR PAST

Let The Show Begin

'LAST OF THE BOYS' SHAKES THE CHAINS OF OUR PAST
By Chuck Graham
TucsonStage.com

The power of theater is pressure-packed into Beowulf Alley’s production of “Last of the Boys” by Steven Dietz. A quintet of actors directed by Susan Arnold keeps up the intensity from start to finish, pushing us through angry confrontations and twisted nightmare memories to tell a ghost story that began with Vietnam.

Seldom this season has any local company presented such a solid effort to reach such a compelling conclusion. The finale comes screaming out of the darkness, full of battle noise and desperate sobbing, a truly poetic conclusion packing many kinds of impact.


Saturday, April 10, 2010

McNamara era is explored

McNamara era is explored

Vietnam figure propelled script of 'Last of Boys'

McNamara era is explored

Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, April 9, 2010

Playwright Steven Dietz was a tad too young to be sent off to the Vietnam War. Still, his fascination with Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was intense.

It was that interest in McNamara that propelled Dietz to write his play "Last of the Boys," which Beowulf Alley Theatre will preview tonight and open Saturday.

Read more ... McNamara era is explored



Wednesday, April 07, 2010

"Last of the Boys" and "A Piece of My Heart" - to Honor Military Service Families

Beowulf Alley Theatre Presents
Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz

To Honor All of Our Military Families

Last of the Boys, by Steven Dietz, directed by Susan Arnold, will be presented by Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6th Avenue, 85701, downtown between Broadway and Congress. Last of the Boys, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize nominee, is presented in recognition of and to honor our American military families for their shared sacrifice.

"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."

The Cast includes Royah Beheshti, Mary Davis, Lucas Gonzales, Gabe Nagy, and Clark Ray.

Susan Arnold works in theatre and film as an actor, director, writer and producer. Her directorial credits include Dinner with Friends, and Stones in His Pockets with Beowulf Alley, where she contributes to the Artistic Development Committee. Susan served as Artistic Director for the Attic Theatre in Detroit, MI and is the recipient of several theatre excellence awards for acting and directing. She has appeared on stage in a number of productions including most recently Big 8 in Beowulf Alley's Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage; Cleopatra in Immortal Longings and Claire in the production of The Maids at The Rogue Theatre. She is a member of Screen Actors' Guild and Actors' Equity Association and currently serves as Artistic Director for C.A.S.T. Clean and Sober Theatre in Tucson.

Steven Dietz is an American playwright whose work is largely performed regionally, i.e. outside of New York City. A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, he moved to Minneapolis and began his career as a director of new plays at The Playwrights' Center and other local theaters. During these years he also formed a small theatre company (Quicksilver Stage) and began to write plays of his own. Commissioned by ACT Theatre in 1988 to write God's Country, he lived and worked in Seattle, WA from 1991 to 2006. He now divides his time between Seattle and Austin, Texas where he teaches playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. Awards include a PEN U.S.A. Award in Drama (for Lonely Planet); the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction and Still Life With Iris); the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award (The Rememberer); the Yomiuri Shinbun Award for his adaptation of Shusaku Endo's Silence; and the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery for his adaptation of William Gillette's and Arthur Conan Doyle's 1899 play Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Dietz is also a two-time finalist for the prestigious Steinberg New Play Award.

Performance Dates, Times and Ticket Prices:

Preview: Friday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. - All tickets $10 this performance only
Opening Night with reception following performance: Saturday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.
Dialogues with... post show discussion following Sunday, April 11, 1:30 p.m.
Thursdays - Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. April 15, 16, 17 and April 22, 23, 24.
Sundays, 1:30 p.m., April 18 and April 25

Ticket Prices, April 10-25:

General, by phone or at the door - $20 (VISA, MasterCard, Discover)
Online only discount - $18 via PayPal or Google (any credit card they accept)
Advance Military Discount - $15 (must present military ID at will call night of performance)
Student/Military Rush - $12 (cash only, ID required, 15 minutes prior to curtain, based on seating availability)

Box Office Phone Number: (520) 882-0555

Run Time with intermission: 2 -1/4 hours

Parking: There is no charge for parking on the street or at meters on weekends and holidays! The first hour of parking at the Pennington Street (at Scott Avenue) garage is free and $2 per hour after that (up to $8 max.). The lot across from the theatre at 6th Avenue and Broadway is available after 5 p.m. weekdays and all day Saturdays and Sundays.

Special Downtown Event Note: Tucson Weekly's Club Crawl will take place in the evening on Saturday, April 17, but traffic patterns will be adjusted earlier in the day. Please see our website for suggested routes and plan to leave home a little early. The two main streets that will be closed off for the event are 5th Ave between Toole and Broadway (at 8am) and Congress Street between 4th Ave and 6th Ave (closed starting at noon). The City will re-route west bound traffic from Congress Street down Broadway which becomes two way traffic from 4th Ave to 6th Ave. The normal west bound traffic flow on Congress Street resumes at 6th Ave. Come see the play and then join in the festivities of the Tucson Weekly's Club Crawl!

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Our Extra Presentation, A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro

As a follow up to our April production of Last of the Boys honoring our American soldiers’ families for their shared sacrifice, Beowulf Alley Theatre will continue its recognition of our military families with a three-week run of A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro, adapted from the Keith Walker book of the same name. Whitney Morton will direct this poignant chronicle of the women of the Vietnam War.

 

This play will replace the originally scheduled Extra Presentation! selection, The Vertical Hour, with performances from May 28, 2010 through June 13, 2010. Season Subscribers and Flex Pass Holders will receive special pricing for A Piece of My Heart. Members of the military, past or current, will receive a ticket price of $15. Proof of service must be presented at the box office when tickets are picked up. For more information, please consult our website at www.beowulfalley.org or cal the box office at (520) 882-0555.

 

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Thanks to all of our wonderful donors who helped us reach our goal for a new facade! We did it! The goal is to light the marquee for the opening of the 2010-2011 season and we want you to be there.