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February 5, 2010 Hilliard, Ohio – Love and family, and the entanglements of the two, are the themes intertwined throughout the Bread and Circus Theatre Company (BCTCO) production of Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel, which will be performed Fridays and Saturdays, February 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, February 14, at 2:30 p.m. at the Harmony Artistic Center, 3979 Parkway Lane, in Hilliard. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. For reservations, call 614-470-4895, or visit www.bctco.org.
The Cast
Kate is played by BRITT KLINE, a veteran of numerous local productions, and recently seen on the BCTCO stage in last season’s The Chalk Garden. Playing Maggie is KATHY HYLAND, well known to Little Theatre Off Broadway audiences and artistic director of BCTCO’s Buckeye Youth Theatre. The roles of Agnes and Rose are being played by BCTCO newcomer CARLA CARPENTER and JESSICA JONES, last seen at BCTCO in The Chalk Garden. CATHY RINELLA, who last appeared with BCTCO in Little Women, plays Michael’s mother, Christina.
The men woven into the lives of the Mundy sisters are Father Jack, played by BCTCO veteran PETE SWINGLE, last seen in Major Barbara; Michael’s father, Gerry Evans, played by SAM BLYTHE; and, of course, ALLEN TALISIN, last seen at BCTCO in Little Women, who plays Michael himself, the young man whose memories bring this rich Irish tale to life.
Dancing at Lughnasa is directed by JASON SPEICHER, a BCTCO regular, who was last seen on stage in the season opener, Right Ho, Jeeves. Jason also directed BCTCO’s popular Alice in Wonderland and Little Women.
January 11, 2010 Hilliard, Ohio – Buckeye Youth Theatre announces auditions for its third production of their inaugural season.
Maggie's Magic Teapot by Faye Parker is an Irish treat just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Maggie and her grandfather, Old Billy O'Morra, are about to lose their home to the heartless Shaemus O'Hoolihan. What he really wants is to force Maggie to be a servant girl to his daughter Kitty. But, fortunately for Maggie, there's a little leprechaun named Sean who can magically grow larger and smaller at will, and decides to help Old Billy and Maggie defeat Shaemus. Combines live actors, puppetry, song and dance in a “sure 'n 'begorrah” good time for all.
Auditionsare being held Sunday January 24th and Monday January 25th 2010, at 7 p.m. each night, at the troupe’s performance venue, Harmony Artistic Center, 3979 Parkway Lane, Hilliard, Ohio. A headshot and résumé are requested, but not mandatory; a monologue is not required. Auditions are open to the public, and will be cold readings from scripts, which will not be provided in advance. Irish accents are not mandatory at auditions but a willingness to try appreciated.
Roles available:
Men:
Old Billy - 50-60 or up
Shaemus O'Hoolihan -30- 40s
Sean ( A Leprechaun) - open
Kevin - 20s-40s
Women:
Batty old Beatrice - 60s and up
Auntie- played by same actor as Shaemus
Any person with puppetry experience welcome to audition
Girls:
Maggie - 11-18
Kitty O'Hoolihan - 14-18
The Play by Play
Show dates:Fridays and Saturdays, March 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays March 13, 14, 20, and 21 at 3 p.m.
This special workshop on Pierce to the Soulwill include a reading from the play, followed by a public discussion and question/answer session with the playwright, director and dramaturge.
Pierce to the Soulis a one-person play about the life of Columbus folk-artist Elijah Pierce, who was a prominent member of our community for more than half a century. Mr. Pierce, a barber by trade, achieved international fame for his wood carvings when he was in his eighties.Many of his works are part of the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Written by Columbus playwright Chiquita Mullins Lee, Pierce to the Soul features Dayton actor Alan Bomar Jones in the role of Mr. Pierce. Jones has previously been seen at CATCO in A Piano Lesson, The Exonerated, The Shorts Festival 2004 and A Soldier’s Play.
Pierce to the Soul will receive its world premiere at CATCO on April 7 -- 25, 2010.Artistic Director Geoffrey Nelson will direct, with OSU History Professor William Childs serving as dramaturge.
The 1:00 p.m. performance of I DON'T THINK SO: LIFE'S STAGES on Aug. 30th at the Sanctuary for the Arts is sold out. We are happy to report that we are adding a performance at 4:30. on the same date. Please read the attachment for how to get tickers and how to get to Sunbury and the beautiful space. Thanks, Katherine
I DON’T THINK SO: Life’s Stages Sunday, August 30 at 1:00pm In collaboration with Wild Women Writing (Susie Gerald, Carole Dale, Anne Brethauer, Patricia Ake, Laura Zakin, Ann C. Hall, and Katherine Burkman), Sanctuary for The Arts (SydneySchardt) invites you for a delightful afternoon to enjoy a play, refreshments, strolling the grounds.
The play consists of 15 monologues and each character, rebels all, at some point says, “I don’t think so.” The “Life’s Stages” include ages 10 to 72 in staged readings of monologues and will be performed by Haley Hawk, Emily Bach, Heather Caldwel, David Fawcett, Heather Carvel, and Katherine Burkman, who will also direct.
Tickets are $20 adults, $15 seniors (55+) and students. For a reservation please send your check to Sanctuary for The Arts, 8641 Porter Central Rd, Sunbury, Ohio, 43074. Map and directions are available on www.Sanctuary-for-The-Arts.com. Seating is limited. Please contact Katherine Burkman (Burkman.2@osu.edu) to assure availability and add your name to the reservation list before mailing a check.
Sanctuary for the Arts… a Center for Creativity… surrounded by the sounds of bird songs and waterfalls where adults have a chance to relax and hear the inner artist above the daily din. Re-awaken through a creativity class or a self-designed Walk. Gather with other artists – emerging, mid-career, professional – and make artistic wonders!
Bread & Circus Theatre Company is looking for performers for their Saturday Night Cabaret! The cabaret will feature coffee and desserts for our guests and the great atmosphere of the new Harmony Artistic Center (formerly the Tripleforce Artistic Center) just off Cemetery Road at 3979 Parkway Lane in Hilliard (behind Wendy's).
This month’s Cabaret Night will be held on Saturday, August 8th. The show will begin at 7:30 pm.
At this time we are inviting performers of all kinds to be included in the show. If you can sing, dance, tell a joke, or juggle - step up to the mic! If you have a monologue or small scene you've been working on and want to see how it would go over with a live audience - come on down. Other theatre, dance, music companies are welcome, as well as individuals of all ages.
All interested performers should contact Carolyn at ccstritzel@yahoo.com for more information or to book a time slot or two.
WILD WOMEN WRITING'S production of I DON'T THINK SO: LIFE'S STAGES.
The event will take place August 9th, 2:00 p.m, at the Sherrie Gallerie, 694 N. High Street. Admission free, but reservation required.
All but four seats have been reserved so far. If you wish to attend and do not have a reservation, please contact Katherine by email at Burkman.2@osu.edu. If all seats are taken by the time you contact me, we'll put you on a waiting list.
I DON'T THINK SO: Life's Stages is a play by Katherine Burkman that consists of 15 monologues. Each character, rebels all, at some point says, "I don't think so." They range in age from 10 to 72, hence the "Stages of Life" as a subtitle.
The event is produced by Sherrie Hawk of the Sherrie Gallerie with WILD WOMEN WRITING
Performing in this staged reading are: Haley Hawk, Emily Bach, Heather Caldwel, Susie Gerald, David Fawcett, Heather Carvel, and Katherine Burkman, who will also direct.
Enjoy the beautiful art at the gallerie - refreshments provided by Sherrie Hawk - and the premiere of this play.
We have had our first successful Cabaret night and we are ready for more. The Bread & Circus Cabaret night at the Harmony Artistic Center will take place the second Saturday night of the month. We are currently booking performers for our July 11th & August 8th performances.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SINGER TO DO THIS!You can do anything.
If you are available and interested in performing a song, skit, monologue or variety act please email Carolyn at ccstritzel@yahoo.com. We had wonderful performers for our first night and the audience wants more.
TRY OUT YOUR AUDITION MONOLOG! Tell a joke or two. Any SCHTICK is welcome!
If you have always wanted to perform but never had the opportunity - here's your chance. If you are a local actor or performer, please think of this as a showcase for you to introduce yourself to the arts community of Columbus. At our first Cabaret Night, we had directors from 4 different local theatre companies in attendance.
Ann Hall, Harold Pinter, and Katherine Burkman outside of a restaurant in London after celebrating Pinter's then 70th b-day.
Don't forget to come this Sunday evening, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. to the Drake Performance Center, on the OSU campus,1849 Cannon Dr. in the Roy Bowen Theatre to see a memorial event for British playwright Harold Pinter: scenes, poetry, etc. will receive a staged reading. Produced by Ann Hall, Alan Woods, and Katherine Burkman.
Free and open to the public, so bring your friends and relatives and anyone else. Parking across the street or in lots to the right and left also across the street from the Drake.
Actors participating are: Mark Auburn, Alan Woods, Norman Singer, Linda Katz, Nick Lingnovski, Ian Short, Acacia Duncan, Matt Slaybaugh, Ellen Nickles, Susie Gerald, Ann Hall and Joy Reilly.
Stephen Woosley, Lorelei Moore, and Derek McGrath. Photo by Sam Blythe.
Raconteur Theatre Company is pleased to invite you to the regional premier of Isaac, I Am by Mary Steelsmith.
We spend a lot of our time in cyber space but how do we know what is "real" and what is "safe?" How do we learn to trust anyone? Isaac, I Am (winner of the 2006 Helford Prize) explores these timely questions as Angela (Lorelei Moore) "meets" Ben (Derek McGrath), a funny guy who's single and Isaac (Stephen Woosley), a grieving father.
Design Staff Director: Mary Aileen St. Cyr Scenic Design: Michael S. Brewer Lighting Design: Andy Batt Sound Design: Andrew Hartley Costume Design: Jill C. Hartley Stage Management: Patricia T. Jones
Cast Angela: Lorelei Moore Ben: Derek McGrath Isaac: Stephen Woosley Josh: Zachary Elgin Lape Katie: Sela Williams Ensemble: Bryanne E. Bornstein, Angela Cutrell, Suzanne Laird, Caliph Scott, Ric Shoemaker, Anna Wang
Moments in a lifetime told through words, movement and music Piano accompaniment by Leslie Kleen
Columbus Dance Theatre February 1, 5, 6, 7, 8
592 E. Main St., Clumbus, OH 43215 ph: 614 849 0227
I first met David in the early 70s when he was a c0-founder of The Mime Troupe. He is a dedicated artist whose instrument is his body and mind. His performance is stretched to the extreme, physically and emotionally, as he takes great bodily risks while baring his most intimate feelings and thoughts. Support GOOD local arts and my good friend David. Go see this performance. _charlie
This Thursday Raconteur Theatre Company opens Mom and Pop by Jill's fellow teacher at Olentangy High School, Sarah Tobin. Jill directed this piece and we would love to have you all come out to see our hard work come together-- we built a hardware store in the theatre for this one! We still have green in our finger nails from sponge painting. It's at Columbus Dance Theatre, right at the edge of Olde Towne East, so come support an OTE business (Raconteur Theatre) at a Main Street venue!
Hope to see you all soon! Andrew & Jill 410 S. Ohio Ave.
Play Synopsis In 1958, Ed (Sam Blythe) accepted the responsibility of taking over the family hardware store despite his dreams, which would have otherwise lead him to Memphis. Now he has passed the burden of choice to his children—should the three take over the stores or sell them? Gail (Danielle Filas) is determined to sell them, but Luke (JT Walker) is aggressively advocating that the stores stay in the family. This leaves Eda (Molly St. Cyr-Reid) stuck in the middle. Meanwhile, Ed is nowhere to be found to help guide them in their choice. Despite their decision, they are all forced to face one fact: mom and pop stores are a dying breed, and they even find themselves choosing big business over the little guy for convenience.
Mom and Pop runs December 4-20 at Columbus Dance Theatre (592 E. Main St.). Shows are Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm and on Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10-15 at the door or can be purchased for $12 online at http://raconteurtheatre.com/tickets.html -- Keep up with Raconteur Theatre Company at www.raconteurtheatre.com!
Award winning actor, performer, social commentator, poet, raconteur, and all-around good guy Steve Ben Israel sent three vignettes below. Steve is often heard delivering wry, relevant commentary on NPR. In this photo, (taken by Fernando Leon) he accepted an Obie award.
I met Steve at an all-night diner in the lower east side of NY city, several years ago, introduced by my long-time friend Stan. We talked, dank coffee, schmoozed, listened to his fabulous tales and enjoyed it enough to consider the evning memorable.
Please enjoy three short poems below told with a bit of New York irony, followwed by two short Youtube videos showcases. -------------------------- brooklyn
flunked out of high school went back in the summer and passed all 3 subjects amazing, teachers must be nicer in july and august what now,18 years old now what some friends out in k.u. in kansas write me and say come out here and I write them back are you kidding with my grades" they say write them anyhow and I do and they write me back and say are you kidding with your grades but they give me a three month trial period of three credits in english
so I make my way to the land of thank you and come back and there in english I am asked to write a paper on henry david thoreau's walden pond now reading and writing it down was always tough for me and still is, but I do it and hand it in a week later the papers are marked and ready the teacher is holding up two papers in front of the class he says this first paper shows remarkable insight in to walden pond but I am not quite sure what language he wrote it in this other students paper is grammatically perfect but I don¹t know what he read,now the first paper was mine a lot of red on yellow legal and he hands it to me in front of the entire class and I take the heat hoping that the bell is going to ring so I can go out and talk to a tree who I know will tell me I am really ok the bell rings so I make my way to the door and the teacher says steven can I see you for a momment sure and I make my way to the front of the class and the teacher says steven ah are you a foreign student and I say no I am from brooklyn
steve ben israel
not my real uncle
she invited me over to dinner for lisa bauer at her uncles house in west berlin she said he wasn't her real uncle he a berlin police captain hid seven jews in seven different houses along with her mother and brother for four years he provided food medicine and security they were hiding they were hidden they were hidden they were hiding the last day of the war she emerged to the sunlight and then raped by a drunken russian liberator in the midst of her joy and then stabbed in her breast later she became a pianist and teacher and was a bright light in a city with a wall around it I went to her uncles house for dinner along with the others who called him uncle every month he cooked dinner when I met him he said" just call me uncle" now that's an uncle
steve ben israel
star wars 1999
I won't be waiting on line and I don't need any tickets because star wars is playing everywhere, especially on CNN the military home shopping channel and every half hour, James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, says,"this is CNN" and I won't be picking up any action figures to this" new phanto menace"
because I remember April 29,1975 our sons first birthday, and he's asleep and he doesn't know it when suddenly he's awakened by another baby crying 6,000 miles away coming out of the tv because I'm watching the NBC special "the evacuation of Saigon
the next picture was of the parents of the last American soldier to die in that Vietnam war and they were both holding back their tears as the father say's,"my son gave his life for his country" I held our son even closer and realized how precious that moment was
a few years later a friend of mine says,"have you seen the new star wars movie yet?" and I said "not me, pops, the last thing I want to do is see a movie with the word war in it'
but that changed very quickly, when all of a sudden our son said 'daddy, daddy, we have to go see star wars, everybody I know has seen star wars, we have to see star wars" so we went to see star wars. and I actually saw all three of those modern day swashbuckling intergalactic sagas of good guys verses bad guys and, actually the movies played for years on our son's floor I was always avoiding stepping on luke Skywalker, princes laya, Darth Vader,Han solo, Jaba the hut, chubacka the wookie,Yoda r2d2 and cp30. I once spent an hour and a half on my knees trying to find Yoda's cane and screamed out,"I found it, I found it, I found Yoda's cane"
but know our son is twenty five and I think this time, together we are going to skip this phantom menace and go to the peace vigil out the 42nd street library hoping that we are going to be joined by the liberals and the conservatives the democrats and republicans the left and the right because too many parents have cried in this century for the children they have lost
This is an invitation to a tribute to "Fred and Howard" , longtime residents and honorary mayors of German Village, and well known as the grand-fatherly curmudgeon characters who presided over the Hausfrau Haven, an emporium of unclassifiable assorted goodies and local needs. Their influence reached in the arts, theatre, music and their contributions, enormous enthusiasm and efforts toward promoting the city's arts and their own, unique neighborhood was far reaching.
Fred is the surviving partner and will be honoredat this public reception. All friends, admirers and curious are invited, at 6 pm, Tuesday September 9, at the Franklin Park Conservatory's Garden Pavillion.
The message below invites you to experience a production by a brand new theatre company in Columbus. In the spirit of full disclosure, the second play of this two-play presentation is directed by my son, Aaron Einhorn. I saw the play last Friday, also to a full-house, and found it to be short, witty, well-written and well acted. I enjoyed it and recommend you see it for a fine evening of live entertainment. Watch the trailer!- charlie
Hello Neighbors!
It's time! Please come out to see After the Afterglow - Raconteur Theatre's debut production! We opened Thursday night to a full house and a great audience, and we want to keep the momentum going... please come out to the show and support Columbus, Ohio's newest theatre company!
More info is below. Thank you to all of you who have already purchased tickets- see you at the show!
Andrew - 410 S. Ohio Ave. ___
After the Afterglow consists of two short plays that explore love when it seems to be past its prime. Roulette by Douglas Hill is about embracing the past when you can't escape it while Aster, Holger Gunn by Justin Toomey is about learning how to let go.
Tickets are $8. We are performing at Kafé Kerouac in the North Campus area of Columbus. It's an intimate setting where you can buy a cup of coffee and enjoy good theatre. Address: 2250 N. High St., 2 blocks North of Lane Ave. The show runs May 29 - June 14.
Roulette by Douglas Hill Directed by Tricia Jones Cast: Janine: Jill Ceneskie Matt: JT Walker
Aster, Holger Gunn by Justin Toomey Directed by Aaron Einhorn Cast: Holger: Andrew Cronacher Aster: Molly St Cyr Duck: Sam Blythe
Remaining Performance Dates: 8 p.m. - Friday, May 30 8 p.m. - Saturday, May 31 2 p.m. - Sunday, June 1 8 p.m. - Thursday, June 5 8 p.m. - Friday, June 6 8 p.m. - Saturday, June 7 2 p.m. - Sunday, June 8 8 p.m. - Thursday, June 12 8 p.m. - Friday, June 13 8 p.m. - Saturday, June 14
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