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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.
Survival 0f the Boulevard Singer
Written and performed by
Debra James Tucker
September 18, 19, 8pm
Redeemer Lutheran Church
1555 S. James Rd.
A message from the author...
"I made this work because I want to engage the religious community—the black religious community in particular, in a dialogue about homophobia in the church.
At first, I thought of this work as the story of my best friend, my brother, a black gay man, deeply committed to the church and his journey and struggles in a world that did not fully see or accept him. As I got deeper into the process, I became aware that this is essentially my story, and indeed the story of all of us who search for place and meaning and community in the world.
The form of the piece is a collection of “moment points” similar to those used in tectonic theatre. In conjunction with original music, I deliberately use traditional black church songs and sermon cadences with an eye toward having them heard and understood in a non-traditional way.
It is a story of sorrow. It is also a story of hope, redemption and resurrection."
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
I am rerunning this previous item to include "non violent executions" , a new piece sent here just this past week. Steve was an original member of the legendary, seminal Living Theatre. Please search my blog for previous articles about Steve Ben Isreal. -charlie
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.
non-violent executions
in the revolution we will execute only the system with a new way of being alive
it won't be necessary to kill people anymore even the torturers the ones who did the dirty work of chasing angels will be allowed to live and build
for they are the dead to be raised and they the dead raised will be profoundest homage to those they have harmed
we will walk naked in the world as the sun gently touches our cocks and cunts humming a tune so beautiful that the dead poets will come in their graves and forever be at peace
steve ben israel
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 note came to me from my son's wife Christina. Aaron and Christina's daughter Cordy, who just turned 4 last month, is one of millions affected by autism, that mysterious and - s0 far incurable - developmental disorder. Cordy attends a special education program that has helped her tremendously. She is, of course, my beautiful, smart, sweet, kind and very polite grand-child, whom I adore. Research appears to be the best hope for combating this. (I think it's caused by millions of tons of pollutants we've dumped on this planet in the past 100 years!) Cordy's parents are participating in a Walk Now for Autism event on October 12. They are hoping to raise money to be used for research. Please help. Read below for details. -charlie
Charlie,
Aaron and I are participating in Walk Now for Autism on Oct. 12 for Cordy. As you may know, autism is the second most common developmental disorder in the United States affecting one in every 150 children born today. Despite some promising discoveries, the cause of autism is unknown and a cure does not exist. Research is crucial.
Cordy has already benefited from the research that has been done so far, but she has a long way to go still, and is depending on further advances in therapy and genetic research for her own success in life. We are committed to making sure she has the best chance at a "normal" childhood.
Walk Now for Autism is our chance to make a difference in the fight against autism by raising money for autism research and heightening public awareness. Please join me in my fight as I raise $ 250 to help fund essential research. I will be walking on Oct. 12 and would like you to support those affected by autism.
You can donate to Walk Now for Autism and join my team online through my webpage at http://www.walknowforautism.org/columbus/personal/cmc. Donations can also be mailed to Autism Speaks using the donation form located on my page or send me a check made out to Autism Speaks. My team name is Cordelia, Warrior Princess; please note this on your check and the donation form.
Please join me in my fight against autism. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of the more than 1 million Americans living with autism today, including Cordy.
MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM Many companies provide their employees with matching gifts. Please consult your employer on its matching gift guidelines and attach matching gift forms accordingly. Follow this link to visit the team page for Cordelia, Warrior Princess. Follow this link to visit Christina McMenemy's page.
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.
This came from Katherine Burkman who was active with the now defunct Women at Play
A group that grew out of WOMEN AT PLAY, who call themselves WILD WOMEN WRITING, which is what they are, will give a free reading of their work, April 10th at The Upper Arlington Library, 2800 Tremont Rd., in the library's basement theatre. You are cordially invited to attend.
Best, Patricia Ake, Katherine Burkman, Anne Brethauer, Carole Dale, Ann C. Hall, Susie Gerald, and Laura Zakin (the wild women)
Just a reminder (or because I mistrust e-mail, in some cases, a first notice) - I'm in another show up here in Columbus – an experiment in un-scripted drama. (Not un-plotted, just un-scripted.) Imagine, if you will, a cross between "No Exit" and "The Prisoner," featuring a hopeless romantic, a nihilist, an opportunist and a paranoid delusional.
From rehearsals it seems like it's going to be really good, and a lot of fun (in a vaguely disturbing way.)
Tickets are based on a sliding scale of what you can afford between $8 and $16 dollars. We open on Friday, October 25 th, and run through Sunday the 28th , then the following weekend, starting Thursday, November 1, and going until Sunday, November 4.
The show will take place at "The Space" in Columbus, Ohio. Directions can be obtained at http://www.foolishbison.com/ .
You can purchase tickets in advance, but seating is all general admission, so get there early!
Feel free to tell friends, family or anyone else who might be interested.
If you find yourself in NY City, in the next few weeks, go see this exciting 90 minute off-broadway show! My cousin Alon Neuman, who appears in numerous plays, movies and TV shows in Isreal, was involved with this explosive dance/theatre company. He turned me on to them and appears briefly in this video, but is not touring with them in this current show. -charlie
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