Saturday, February 26, 2011

Audition for the World Premiere of Fronting the Order

Audition Notice

 

Playwright Warren Bodow and Beowulf Alley Theatre at 11 South 6th Avenue are seeking non-Equity actors for the World Premiere of Fronting the Order, directed by Sheldon Metz. Evening rehearsals begin March 14 and run Mondays through Thursdays. The performance dates are April 8-23.

 

Please refer all questions and submit your resume and photo to the director, Sheldon Metz, at thedrektor@gmail.com or call 310-367-5640. Include in the e-mail subject line: Fronting the Order.

 

The play takes place in 1958.

 

Needed: 2 males 20-24,

Pete: A tough guy in attitude only. He doesn't stand behind his appearance. He's a huge Elvis fan. Good comic timing.

 

David: Good looking college boy, Jewish, intelligent, at least 6' tall. Strong, versatile actor needed.

 

 

'Beauty Queen' humor emerges from provocative perspective

'Beauty Queen' humor emerges from provocative perspective

'Beauty Queen' humor emerges from provocative perspective

Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, February 25, 2011

Sheldon Metz likes his comedy dark.

So it stands to reason that he loves Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," which Metz is directing at Beowulf Alley Theatre.

It just doesn't get much darker than this. McDonagh's first play (1996) is powerful and brilliant enough to win him accolades, awards and fans in Ireland, London, and New York City.


"Beauty Queen" will make you laugh, and it may depress you. It may even do both. What Metz is most concerned about is that it provoke you.

"I want the audience to understand that we are all capable of different things, and can change our lives if we want to," he says.

Read the entire preview here: 'Beauty Queen' humor emerges from provocative perspective

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

AUDITION for HEAD THE MUSICAL

AUDITION NOTICE

HEAD THE MUSICAL

WHEN:          March 19 and 20th (Saturday and Sunday), 2-5pm. Callbacks that same Sunday, 6:30-9:30 pm, and possibly the following Monday, 6:30-9:30pm.

WHERE:        Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, 85701

WHAT TO PREPARE:       For your audition, please prepare a song to sing a capella. There will be a keyboard for you to get your starting pitch. Your audition may also include a cold read and/or some simple improv. Callbacks will include more reads and a song from the show, which we will provide you before the audition (so it is important that you RSVP to casting@headthemusical.com and to ask any questions in advance). 

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SYNOPSIS

 

Dr. Bill Cortner has been conducting illegal experiments with human transplants when his girlfriend Jan is decapitated in a car wreck. Death be damned, Bill keeps Jan's head alive on a table using a special serum and goes out in search of a new body. Meanwhile, Jan becomes a blood-thirsty witch and develops psychic powers that put her in contact with one of Bill's earlier experiments, a "hideous" creature locked in the laboratory closet! While Bill hunts for a woman with primo T and A to replace Jan's body, the two freaks in the lab plot their revenge on the overweening doctor!

Head the Musical! is an ‘R’-rated pop/rock adaptation of the classic 1960’s sexploitation/horror film, The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. Crass, crude, and thoroughly hilarious, Head is currently nominated for three LA Weekly Awards for its recent 5-month run at the Met Theatre in Hollywood, where it will be re-opening on a larger stage in October. Head the Musical draws favorable comparisons to The Rocky Horror ShowLittle Shop of Horrors, and Evil Dead: the Musical. This Tucson premiere is a joint production between Beowulf Alley Theatre and the creators of the musical, and it will feature brand-new material.

 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS

Bill Cortner:  A medical doctor. Faustian genius, seducer, misogynist, egomaniac, predator, old-school Marcello Mastroianni-style smooth operator. He is hunting for a new body to fix his broken trophy wife. -- Baritone.

Jan:  Bill’s young, naïve, sexually curious fiancée becomes a revenge-driven, blood-thirsty, telepathic harpy from hell when Bill keeps her severed head alive against her will! -- Pop Soprano / Belter.

Kurt:  Bill’s lab assistant. His mangled arm is the result of one of Bill’s failed experiments. – Tenor, or Baritone with strong falcetto.

Creature:  A Frankenstein creation assembled from the limbs of amputees. He is kept locked in the closet because he is supposedly hideous, but in fact he is quite good-looking and radiantly charismatic. -- Rock tenor.

Jeannie:  A college friend of Bill’s. Smart, sophisticated, liberal, independent, and self-assured, she practices “sex positive” feminism to the point of raging nymphomania! -- Pop mezzo soprano or alto.

 

Detectives: A couple of hardboiled detectives.

 

Doublings:

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Dr. Cortner Sr.:  Bill’s domineering, moralizing father.
Seductra:  A burlesque performer past her prime still competing with her younger rivals for the attention of men. Played in drag. -- Tenor
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Bambi:  A foul-mouthed stripper and Seductra’s younger rival.
Donna:  A friend of Jeannie’s. Also a nymphomaniac.
Doris:  A tragic, reclusive figure model who shuts out society because of a tiny scar on her cheek. She distrusts all men due to an abusive ex-boyfriend. – Pop mezzo soprano.

 

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Active Imagination Theatre presents "Shenanigans"

Shenanigans

Active Imagination Theatre at

Beowulf Alley Theatre

 

(Tucson, AZ) Active Imagination Theatre at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue will present it’s family-friendly, educational, interactive play, Shenanigans, at 12:00 noon on March 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2011.

 

When a local farmer steals the leprechaun’s bucket of gold, the leprechaun trades three wishes to get it back.

 

Ticket Prices are:

Online advance purchase at www.beowulfalley.org:

$5 children & $8 adults

At the door or by phone:

$5 children & $10 adults

3 and under in parents’ laps always free.

 

Call the box office at (520) 882-0555 for further information and to ask about our lively birthday parties or to schedule a visit to your child’s day care, pre-school or elementary school. Prices are very reasonable for this lively, educational event!

 

 

Concerts at the Alley presents A Concert by Scatter the Dust

A Concert by Scatter the Dust

Presented by

Beowulf Alley Theatre

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre at 11 South 6th Avenue will present a concert by Irish folk musicians, Scatter the Dust, on Sunday, March 6, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $12  up to day before and $15 at the door. To purchase online, please use our website at www.beowulfalley.org or call the theatre at (520) 822-0555.

 

Scatter the Dust is an exciting new trio in Tucson performing lively traditional Irish dance music.  The group features Sharon Goldwasser on fiddle, Eric Wilson on the uilleann bagpipes, and Frank Daley on guitar, bodhran, and cittern.  The name is inspired by a popular Irish jig titled "Scatter the Mud" but due to a shortage of mud around Tucson, we have no choice but to 'Scatter the Dust'!

 

Special guests featured in the program include singer Jamie O'Brien, drawing on an extensive background of Irish, English and Scottish folk songs, and a bit of fancy footwork from the Maguire Academy of Irish Dance.

 

 

Late Night Theatre presents Word Clouds

Late Night Theatre at Beowulf Alley Presents

Word Clouds

by Tomas Ulises-Soto and Michael Fenlason

Tales of Tragedy and Triumph in Tucson

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Late Night Theatre will present five performances only of a new play, Word Clouds, by Tomas Ulises-Soto, directed by Michael Fenlason. Performances are on March 4, 5 11, 12 at 10:30 p.m. and March 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 online at http://www.beowulfalley.org/html/tickets.html at least the day before each performance and $10 by phone (520) 882-0555, or at the door the night of performance. A portion of each ticket will be donated to the Community Food Bank.

 

Word Clouds is about the reactions, feelings and responses of a community, our leaders and our nation resulting from the tragic attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and other community members and the death of others in our community at the Tucson Oracle Road Safeway. Community theatres around the country tend to represent popular plays and offer the opportunity to watch, participate and learn from the theatrical process. Late Night Theatre does this as well, but we also believe it is important to tell our City’s many stories, to address our community’s challenges and to inspire our audiences to think, feel and discuss these issues of the day.

 

Following each performance, at the request of the audience members, we will hold a discussion  to help bring about understanding, healing and connection. These discussions will be moderated by two local counselors and performing artists, Carrie Hill and Pete Swan.

 

The characters in this new play are not politicized. They’re Tucsonans: a trauma nurse; a pastor; a teacher; and an aspiring singer. By presenting real people and their reactions to those tragic events with compassion, honesty, and community, we hope to inspire our audience and your fellow southern Arizonans to come together and to remember the events of that day and those times - in short, to remember and to find a way to heal, to hope, to grow and to learn.

Audition - Beowulf Alley Theatre' OUT TO LUNCH THEATRE

Beowulf Alley Theatre Announces

General Audition Call for Lunch Time, Brown-Bag Series

OUT TO LUNCH THEATRE

 

Auditions for Out to Lunch Theatre at Beowulf Alley Theatre will hold a general audition call for  lunchtime series and here’s the information:

 

WHO: Actors/Actresses all ages who are available for DAYTIME REHEARSALS and PERFORMANCES 

DATE/TIME: February 28, 6-8 p.m.

LOCATION: Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Tucson

BRING: Headshot/Resume

CONTACT: Susan Arnold: smarnold@dakotacom.net

 

Daytime rehearsals begin immediately. Performances are Fridays at Noon.

Old Time Radio Theatre presents Classic Radio Stories in March and April

Old Time Radio Theatre Ensemble Company

At Beowulf Alley Theatre

Presents A Selection of Classic Radio Stories in March and April

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Old Time Radio Theatre Ensemble Company will present classic stories from the Golden Age of Radio in March and April, at the theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue (Downtown between Broadway and Congress). Admission is $8 online a day in advance at www.beowulfalley.org or $10 at the door. Children 4-12 are always $5. The box office phone number is (520) 882-0555. Performances are usually on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7:00. Please check our online calendar at www.beowulfalley.org to confirm.

 

March 1, 2011

 

LIGHTS OUT: CAT WIFE and CHICKEN HEART plus

VIC & SADE: MELVIN LANDED A JOB

 

Lights Out, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predated Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights out was first broadcast on WENR in January, 1934, on Wednesday evenings, and continued until 1947. It was run on television from 1949-1952. Written by horror specialist, Arch Obeler, Cat Wife and Chicken Heart are two of the venerable series’ classics. Cat Wife is a tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top, horror show, meant to amuse as well as scare the audience. Boris Karloff flew all the way to Chicago just to perform this show because it was a take-off of the movies he had acted in over many years. In Chicken Heart, Oboler's unique choice of monster was inspired by a Chicago Tribune article announcing that scientists had succeeded in keeping a chicken heart alive for a considerable period of time after its having been removed from the chicken. Part of the episode's notoriety stems from a classic stand-up routine by comedian Bill Cosby, an account of his staying up late as a child to listen to scary radio shows against his parents' wishes and being terrified by the chicken heart. “It’s-later-than-you-think!”

 

Vic and Sade was an American radio program, created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957. During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing story line. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook, his wife Sade and their adopted son Rush. The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal. "Well, sir, it's late afternoon as we approach the small house half way up in the next block."

 

March 15, 2011

 

LIFE WITH LUIGI: SPRINGTIME AND THE DANCE LESSON and

THE SHADOW: THE SILENT AVENGER

 

Life with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series, which began September 21, 1948 on CBS, broadcasting its final episode on March 3, 1953. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the US citizenship classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, as well as trying to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American. Naish continued in the role on the short-lived CBS television version in 1952 and was later replaced by Vito Scotti when the series was briefly revived in the spring of 1953. With a working title of The Little Immigrant, Life with Luigi was created by Cy Howard, who earlier had created the hit radio comedy, My Friend Irma.

 

The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that followed the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante with psychic powers. One of the most famous pulp heroes of the 20th century,

The Shadow has been featured in comic books, comic strips, television and at least five movies. The radio drama is well-remembered for those episodes voiced by Orson Welles. On September 26, 1937, The Shadow radio drama officially premiered with the story "The Deathhouse Rescue", in which the character had "the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him." This was a contrivance for the radio; in the magazine stories, The Shadow did not have the ability to become literally invisible; he influenced the minds of his opponents by making them see him a few feet to the right or left of where he really stood. "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.... The Shadow knows!"

 

April 5, 2011

 

THE BICKERSONS: EASTER,

VIC AND SADE: SADE THINKS BASEBALL IS JUST A GAME and

THE LONE RANGER: A DOCTOR’S STORY

 

The Bickersons, starring Don Ameche and Frances Langford, began as a radio sketch comedy and later became its own series. John and Blanche Bickerson spent their entire time in a relentless verbal war. Their quick dialogue brought laughter to all. Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook, his wife Sade and their adopted son Rush. The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The Lone Ranger  is an American radio and television  icon. The title character is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West, originally played by George Seaton on radio, but more famously by Clayton Moore on TV, who gallops about righting injustices with the aid of his clever, laconic Native American companion Tonto, played by (amongst others) John Todd, Roland Parker, and on TV, by Jay Silverheels. Tonto usually referred to the Lone Ranger as his “quimo sabe,” meaning "trusty scout" or "trusted friend." Departing on his white stallion, who responded to the name of Silver.  These sayings, as well as the theme music from the William Tell Overture, are indelibly stamped in the memories of millions of Americans (and Britons) who came of age during the decades of the show's initial popularity or viewed the television series run nearly continuously for past fifty years.

 

April 19, 2011

 

THE WESTERN – EPISODE 1: LAWLESS BREWSTER and

ARIZONA RANGERS, MEN OF DANGER – EPISODE 1: MOSSMAN

 

Back in the grand old days of radio, our own John Vornholt wrote for radio( and TV). This episode of The Mutual Radio Theatre’s The Western (Episode 1: Lawless Brewster), starred John Dehner and was narrated by Lorne Greene. Old Pueblo Playwrights’ Avylinn Pwyll wrote Arizona Ranger: Men of Danger: Episode 1: Mossman, as a radio show, especially for OTRT,  and for the benefit of, and to honor, the Arizona Rangers. It was first presented at The Congress Hotel in conjunction with Dillinger Days, 2011. This is the beginning of a series of radio scripts based upon true stories of the early years of the brave men who enforced the law in the Arizona Territory.

 

Directed by Sheldon Metz, the OTRT Ensemble Company includes Jon Benda, Janet Bruce, Butch Bryant, Gerri Courtney-Austein, Laura Davenport, Samuel De Jesus, Evan Engle, Sydney Flynn, Vince Flynn, Audrey Ann Gambach, Barbara Glover, Bill La Pointe, Elizabeth Leadon, Butch Lynn, Steve McKee, Whitney Morton, Joan O'Dwyer, Shannon Brooke Rzuildo, Mike Saxon, Danielle Shirar, Ina Shivack, Terry Thune, Pat Timm, Jared Stokes, Brian Wees and John Vornholt .

 

Monday, February 14, 2011

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Beowulf Alley Theatre Presents

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

Followed by a Concert of Irish Folk Music by Scatter the Dust

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown Tucson presents The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh from February 25-March 13, 2011. Thursdays through Saturdays, performances are at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

 

Tickets are on sale now. Prices range from $15, Preview night only, to $23 at the door with online and certain nightly discounts. The March 3rd performance is a benefit performance for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. For more information, please refer to our website at http://www.beowulfalley.org/html/tickets.html. March 6th performance will be followed by an evening concert of Irish folk music by Scatter the Dust including Irish dancers. Tickets for the concert are available for $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is directed by Sheldon Metz. The ensemble includes Rhonda Hallquist, Cynthia Jeffery, Robert Anthony Peters and Jared Stokes.

 

Loaded with savage irony, surreal humor and a touch of melodrama, Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane looks at the malevolence of people leading hopeless lives.

Set in 1989 in the small village of Leenane (pronounced leh-nan) in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, the play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship set in motion a terrifying train of events.

…a proper, perfectly plotted drama that sets out, above all, to tell a story as convincingly and disarmingly as possible.  –New York Times

Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, became the first playwright since William Shakespeare to have four of his plays produced professionally in London in a single season. McDonagh wrote “Beauty Queen” in just eight days and earned a London Critics Circle Award and Evening Standard Award (both in 1996), a Drama Desk Award (1998), and six Tony Award nominations, four awarded (1998).

Sheldon Metz, Director, directed the MAC Award-nominated Proof and the World Premier of Gavin Kayner’s Noche de los Muertos at Beowulf Alley. He currently serves on Beowulf Alley’s Artistic Development Committee and is Program Chair for the Old Time Radio Theatre and Concerts at the Alley. Sheldon is an actor, set designer, director and served as Executive Director of A.C.C.T., too! - The Association of Commercial and Community Theatres - the West Coast Theatre Conference (Los Angeles) and The Theatre Conference (New York). He also served as a Producing Director for the Playwrights Kitchen Ensemble (PKE ), under the Artistic Direction of Dan Lauria.

Out to Lunch Theatre presents My Seven Minute

OUT TO LUNCH THEATRE

at Beowulf Alley Theatre

presents

My Seven Minute Valentine

4 SEVEN MINUTE PLAYS with a VALENTINE’S DAY theme

Featuring

 

Waiting for Norma

by David Sewell

 

The Length of Love

by Adam Baruni

 

The Cake, the Thief, Her Lover and His Wife

by Zoey Snettik

 

Stay Tuned

by Warren Bodow

 

Fridays, 12:15 PM

February 11, 18, and 25, 2011

 

BYOLunch or order one from us created by our partner,

Empire Pizza & Pub

 

When purchased at least the day before: Play only, $6, with Lunch $13

When purchased at the door: Play only, $8

Groups of 10 or more receive $1 OFF online Play price.

Order online at www.beowulfalley.org or

by phone at (520) 882-0555

 

First hour at the Pennington Street (at Scott Ave) Garage is free.

 

 

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Face Lift

Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Face Lift


BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE’S FACE LIFT

By Ashley JamesZocalo Magazine
Beowulf Alley Theatre's renovated facade is complete and set to make its grand debut to the Tucson community this Saturday, Feb. 12, during 2nd Saturdays Downtown.
The facade and new marquee were funded by a city grant program that provided approximately half of the total cost of the project which was about $60,000. The theatre matched the city grant through its own, separate fundraising efforts.
There will be a "formal" illumination of the marquee just after sunset, according to Beowulf Alley Theatre Managing Director Beth Dell.
According to Dell, the facade was designed by architect Bob Vint & Associates who modeled it after the art moderne style, with a streamlined and geometric inspired design.
photo: Ashley James


So far, the reaction to the new look has been a positive one.
Dell has noticed many more curious people walking through the theatre doors to check things out. "It is really funny to us that so many people didn't know we were here," said Dell, "We have found that it really does make a difference."
Beowulf Alley Theatre Actor Lucas Gonzales believes that business has improved since the makeover.
"Beowulf had a problem with ticket sales because people could not find the place," he said. The
Downtown Tucson Partnership manages the facade improvement program - a grant program that has already given a new look to various downtown buildings.
In celebration of Beowulf's new marquee, an evening of sketches from all of the theater's programs including Active Imagination, Old Time Radio Theatre and Late Night Theatre will be presented. The lighting ceremony starts at 6 p.m. with performances throughout the evening.
  • 6:45pm Active Imagination Theatre (for kids of all ages)
  • 7:15 pm Old Time Radio Theatre (family friendly)
  • 7:45pm Out to Lunch Theatre (family friendly)
  • 8:15pm The Beauty Queen of Leenane (recommended for 13 and up)
  • 8:45pm Late Night Theatre (recommended for ages 17 and up)

Monday, February 07, 2011

Readers Theatre presents "Accommodations", a Play by Gavin Kayner

Beowulf Alley Theatre Presents

Readers Theatre

Accommodations, a Play by Gavin Kayner

 

 

Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown Tucson, offers a reading of Gavin Kayner’s play, Accommodations, on Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Admission is “Pay what you will,” cash at the door the night of the reading. The presentation is at 7:15 p.m.

 

Accommodations is a tale told on many levels. On the surface, it’s the story of a mature woman, Jean, immersed in a faltering marriage whose lover of 40 years ago reenters her life forcing her to decide between staying with her husband or leaving with him. Jean’s two alter egos, Anne Bonny the 18th century pirate and Edith Wharton the renowned novelist, urge her to forgo either man. While attempting to resolve this dilemma, we discover other issues are actually driving the play forward. Questions regarding mothers and sons, reality and fantasy, truth and its consequences. As a result, will Jean stay or leave becomes part of the larger question:  if survival is a matter of making accommodations, what can we say about authenticity? What can we say of love? What can we say of faith?  And what can we say about the nature of our relationships?

 

Gavin Kayner is a local, award-winning playwright. His plays Noche de los Muertos and The Language of Flowers have appeared at Beowulf Alley.

 

 

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Modern Adaptation | Review | Tucson Weekly

Modern Adaptation | Review | Tucson Weekly


Modern Adaptation


... Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, now onstage at Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. Based on a great, tragic romance from Greek mythology, the story is at once familiar and utterly new. ... it may be one of the most inventive and magical productions in Tucson this season.

The poetic elements are the strongest part of the show, and offer up unforgettable images: Eurydice emerging from a rain-filled elevator; her father building a fragile shelter from string; Orpheus filling a letter with the music of an unheard symphony.

  • CREATISTA/SCOTT GRIESSEL
  • Left to right: Allison Rose, Joi Marie Johnson, Nicholas Gallardo and Kristina Sloan in Beowulf Alley Theatre Company's Eurydice.

Sloan imbues Eurydice with a fearless, spunky energy that reinforces the character's pragmatic nature. ...Sloan is a delight to watch...

As Orpheus, Gonzales seems youthful as well—his boyish enthusiasm is mixed with adolescent self-centeredness ...

Director Lydia Borowicz ... coaxes some wonderful performances from her ensemble. Dressed in Kristen Wheeler's subtly detailed costumes, Allison Rose, David Swisher and Joi Marie Johnson win plenty of laughs as a chorus of sardonic stones.

Jared Strickland's set (enhanced by Jessica Creager's atmospheric lighting and Alex Greengaard's otherworldly sound design) creates a wonderfully original image of the afterlife. The stage is crammed with tunnels, doorways and platforms, apparently built from scrap lumber and freight pallets.

...
this production is an earnest, engaging representation of a truly unusual play.

Read the entire review here: Modern Adaptation | Review | Tucson Weekly

Controversial vs. Quirky | Review | Tucson Weekly

Controversial vs. Quirky | Review | Tucson Weekly

Controversial vs. Quirky



Those who prefer not to dwell on the darker side of life might enjoy a visit to Late Night Theatre'sInterrogating the Nude. An early work by playwright Doug Wright (a 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner forI Am My Own Wife), it might easily be referred to as Law and Order: Surrealist Victims Unit.

Bouncing between film noir and screwball comedy, the play unveils a sordid love triangle among Duchamp, his (fictitious) twin sister (and lover) Rose, and fellow artist Man Ray. Wright is known for playing with the nature of gender in his plays, and this trifle is no exception.

... led by director Scott O'Brien, the enthusiastic cast delivers some good laughs.