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Auditions for The Divine Sister: By Charles Busch. Directed By Douglas O'Neil, Jr. Sunday January 29th from 4-7pm and Monday January 30th from 6-9pm at Theatre Downtown (2410 5th Avenue South). Theatre Downtown announces auditions for Charles Busch's irreverant and hysterical comedy paying cheerful homage to classic films involving those black and white clothed angels! Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script and all roles are open for men and women (18+) – this show does contain adult content. For more information please visit www.theatredowntown.org or e-mail the director at: douglas@extemporaneoustheatre.com. |
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Audition for The Cemetery Club: South City Theatre will hold auditions
for the comedy, "The Cemetery Club" by Ivan Menchell
on Saturday,
February 18, 1 - 3 p.m. South City Studio
(NOT the theatre!). Directed by Sue Ellen Gerrells. Directions: From I-65 take Exit 238 (Hwy 31). Head east on Hwy 31,
towards the old South City Theatre. At the intersection of Hwy 31 and Hwy 26,
turn left (passing Camp Branch Civic Center) and travel 2 miles. The
Studio will be on your right side in an old gas station building. The
audition will consist of cold readings from the script and improvisations.
Prepared monologues are not required. Performance dates are April 13 and 14,
April 20, 21, 22, 2012. Parts are available for 4 women, 1 man
-- all of retirement age (50s and up). Email specific questions
to southcityinfo@gmail.com Story:
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit
their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life,
Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and
Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters
the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and
Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt
stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. The Broadway production starred
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Audition for The Normal Heart: Theatre Downtown (2410 5th Avenue South). Saturday March 17, at 1PM. Theatre Downtown announces auditions for Larry Kramer’s searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man’s lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Having recently enjoyed a successful Broadway revival, the show follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS in his personal life, through family and friends. Casting: Ned Weeks (35+), Felix Turner (30+), Bruce Niles (30+), Ben Weeks (35+), Mickey Marcus (30+), Tommy Boatwright (25+) and two actors (25+) for multiple roles in the show. The role of Dr. Emma Brookner has been cast and will not be auditioned. All interested actors should bring a headshot/resume and be prepared for cold readings from the script. This show rehearses throughout May/June and runs June 14-16, 21-24 & 28-30, 2012. For more information, e-mail the director at theatredt@gmail.com or visit www.theatredowntown.org. |
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Upcoming Performances
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Becky Shaw: Birmingham Festival Theatre: January 12 – 28, 8p. Call 205-933-2383 or visit www.bftonline.org for tickets and performance times. Written by Gina Gionfriddo / Directed by Mel Christian. In Becky Shaw, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged people: wife's best friend, meet husband's sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue. Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy of bad manners, a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s, is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last. Penned by one of the writers for TV’s Law and Order, Becky Shaw is a Pulitzer Prize nominated new play, in keeping with our continuing effort to bring new theatre to Birmingham! Link to Reviews 0, 2011 with performances Thursday-Saturday nights at 7:30pm. Admission is $17 for adults ($15 online) and $10 for seniors and students. Opening night is Hobo Night (pay what you can afford with a $7 minimum). Chemelwitz - Bates Redwine |
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Take
a Ride on the Reading:
Terrific New Theatre continues its 26th season with a
never-before-seen piece, Take a Ride on
the Reading. Written and performed by Dolores Hydock,
Take a Ride on the Reading is a
true story about growing up, getting lost, and going home – not necessarily
in that order. A big-number high-school reunion sparks a search for people
and places that are long gone – or are they? Luden's cough drops, Saint Anthony, Santa Claus, a
linebacker named Crusty Morelli, and a 5-foot-tall
top hat all show up in this funny, from-the-heart swirl of stories about one
memorable weekend. Thursday,
January 19 and runs through Saturday, February 11, 2012. Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday night performances are at 8pm. Sunday matinees are January 22nd
and February 5th only and are at 2:30pm. Opening
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson; Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall. Presented by VST Productions. Directed by Jack Mann. Music Directed by Katie Holmes. Choreographed by Carl Dean. Featuring Kristi Tingle Higginbotham & Kyle Holman. This happy go lucky view of small town vice and statewide political side stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona's cozy bordello until that puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution. January
19-21 & 26-28 at 7:30PM; January 22 & 29 at 2:30 PM. $35 Center Section, $30 Left & Right Sections. Link to Reviews Tickets for
the Temple Beth-El fundraiser on Saturday, January 28 are available at
https://www.templebeth-el.net/payotherfees/index.php |
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Youth
Programs Showcase 2012: Red Mountain Theatre Company presents Youth
Programs Showcase 2012. Directed by Keith Cromwell.
Experience dazzling entertainment by Red Mountain Theatre Company's Youth
Programs, a select group of incredibly talented students (ages 6-18)
performing musical numbers from shows including Into the Woods, Anything
Goes, The Music Man, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, Next to Normal and Bye, Bye,
Birdie with fabulous choreography by Broadway veterans. Get your ticket to
the best show of young talent in town! VST Mainstage. February 4
& 5 at 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM. Tickets: $20.
205-251-1206. |
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From
Broadway with Love:
VST Productions presents From Broadway with Love. Let
the VST entertain your favorite Valentine in this
delicious revue of great love songs performed by some of
the best of Birmingham's musical stars - Kristi Tingle Higginbotham, Jan D.
Hunter, Lonnie Parsons and Lucas Pepke. Enjoy the show with wine and
chocolates ... a divine way to spend Valentine's Day and send your honey or sweetie
pie over the top! February 10 & 11 at 8 PM. Martha Moore
Sykes Studio. Tickets: Valentine's Special - Two tickets for $49,
includes two complimentary beverages and chocolates General
Admission - $25, includes complimentary beverage and
chocolates. 205-251-1206. |
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The Normal Heart: February 12. by Larry Kramer. This one-night-only Concert Performance, benefiting Birmingham AIDS Outreach and DPTS, is a searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's fight to awaken the world to the crisis. The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community, who must also confront the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease. Call 205-251-1206 or visit www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org to order tickets. Dane Peterson Theater Series.
205-515-2082 info@dptheatreseries.org www.dptheatreseries.org
The Mission of the Dane Peterson
Theatre Series is to develop, advance, strengthen, and promote
quality theatre with a focus on upcoming talent and audiences in the Greater
Birmingham Metropolitan Area. This season, our 12th Anniversary,
outstanding theatre students from local universities will join the Series on-
and off-stage, and will be mentored as they
transition from academia to the professional world. |
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The Odd
Couple (Female Version): A Neil Simon favorite directed by
Michael R. Bridges. Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison,
that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female
version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the
original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of
Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela
brothers but the hilarity remains the same. Performances February 17-19, 2012 and February 24–26;
evening shows at 7pm and matinees at 2:30pm. Call Trussville’s ACTA Theatre at 655-3902 to
reserve your tickets or for more information.
Tickets are $l2.00 for adults; $10.00 for senior adults (55 and older); and $8.00 for students (thru college.) 225 Parkway Drive, Trussville. www.ACTATheater.com
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PVHS Theatre Festival One-Acts: PVHS Theatre presents the two one-acts we’ll be using for competition—together in one night. Including David Ives' hilarious English Made Simple and Neil LaBute's haunting drama Coax, this night of short plays is sure to show off the talent and range of our amazing PVHS Theatre kids as they prepare for their work at the Walter Trumbauer Secondary Theatre Festival and the Alabama Thespians Conference. Performances will be at the Pinson Valley High School Fine Arts Center Auditorium, February 17-18, @ 7pm. Tickets are $7 for Adults, $5 for students. For reservations, call 205 379 5100 x 639. |
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On
the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning: by Eric Overmyer. Directed by Karla Koskinen.
Overmyer’s mirthful fantasy tracks the exploits of three
Victorian lady explorers spinning through time. For
these intrepid “sister sojourners” the future weaves a rich tapestry of
history, geography, feminism and fashion. Theirs is a serendipitous
adventure through darkest Africa, highest Himalaya and Terra Incognita!
Presented by the UAB Department of Theatre February 22-25
at 7:30pm, February 26 at 2pm. The Sirote Theatre in the Alys
Stephens Center. General Admission $12
& $15, Students $6, UAB Employees & Senior Citizens $10. |
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Cats:
Written by T.S. Eliot. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Choreographed by Julia Simpson. Aerial
Choreography by Alison Page. Costumes Coordinated by Janice Sanders. The Virginia Samford Theatre’s
award-winning arts literacy initiative, STARS (Students Take A Role at the Samford), presents the hit broadway
musical CATS. Designed for middle and high school student
audience, the STARS program features young performers under the advisory of
Alabama Teacher of the Year and Troy University theatre professor, Roy
Hudson. Cats tells the
story, in song and dance, of the annual gathering of Jellicle
cats at which time one special cat is selected to ascend to the Heaviside
layer. VST Mainstage. February
24 & 25 at 7:30 PM. February 25 & 26 at 2:30 PM. Tickets:
$20 Adults, Students $15. 205-251-1206. |
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Holy Ghosts: Birmingham Festival Theatre: March 1-17. Call 205-933-2383 or visit www.bftonline.org for tickets and performance times. Written by Romulus Linney / Directed by Bethe Ensey. Romulus Linney writes a moving and funny account of unsophisticated people in moral and emotional crisis in the Deep South. Nancy Shedman, in an effort to escape the drunken attentions of her husband Coleman, has moved in with a band of Pentecostal snake handlers and fallen in love with their leader, Rev. Obediah Buckhorn. Rich with atmosphere and the feel of southern rural life, the play blends humor and poignancy as it probes into the circumstances and stories of the various cult members. What happens when Coleman comes to claim his wife? The notes in the original script give credit to BFT for being one of the first theatres in the country to stage the play in 1976. |
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Theatre UAB Annual Festival of Ten
Minute Plays: produced by Lee Shackleford. Our edgy, tremendously popular
festival features eight super-short original plays. The 2012 theme, Get
Me Out of Here! presents stories of cages,
prisons, and traps of all kinds. Presented by the UAB
Department of Theatre March 12-16 at 7:30pm. The Odess Theatre in the Alys Stephens Center. All tickets $5. Adult language and themes. |
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Opening in April 2012 |
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Nunsense: PVHS Theatre presents a Mega-Musical of Heavenly Proportions! Originally running over 3,000 performances Off-Broadway and inspiring six sequels and various spin-off shows, Dan Goggin’s Nunsense is one of the most laugh-out-loud musicals to ever grace the stage. The Little Sisters (and Brothers) of Hoboken have to put on an emergency fundraiser while finding out that the Sisters (who should be full of humility) actually are hams, tapping, ballet-dancing, and singing their way to potential stardom! Performances will be at the Pinson Valley High School Fine Arts Center Auditorium, April 13-15, @ 7pm. Tickets are $7 for Adults, $5 for students. For reservations, call 205 379 5100 x 639. |
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I Remember Mama: by John van Druten,
adapted from Kathryn Forbes' Mama's Bank.
This classic comedy shows how Mama, with the help of her husband and
Uncle Chris, brings up the children in their modest San Francisco home during
the early years of the century. Mama, a sweet and capable manager, sees her
children through childhood, manages to educate them and to see one of her
daughters begin her career as a writer. Mama's sisters and uncle furnish a
rich background for a great deal of comedy and a little incidental tragedy,
while the doings of the children manage to keep everyone in pleasant
turmoil. Directed by Kerry Burrell,
performances are April 13-15, 20 – 22, evening
shows at 7pm and matinees at 2:30 pm. Call Trussville’s ACTA Theatre at 655-3902 to reserve your tickets or
for more information. Tickets
are $l2.00 for adults; $10.00 for senior adults (55 and older); and $8.00 for students (thru college.) 225 Parkway Drive, Trussville. www.ACTATheater.com |
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Macbeth: by William Shakespeare. Directed by Dennis McLernon. Fair is foul, and foul is fair in this tale
of murder, greed and untimely death. The
prophecy of three witches sends ambitious Macbeth on a ruthless quest for
power. Goaded by his restless, scheming wife, bloody treason spirals into
paranoia and guilt from which they cannot escape. Shakespeare's darkest
tragedy is also his most gripping, intense and psychologically
thrilling. Presented by the UAB Department of Theatre
April 18-21
at 7:30pm, April 22 at 2pm. The Sirote Theatre in the Alys
Stephens Center. General Admission $12 & $15, Students $6,
UAB Employees & Senior Citizens $10. |
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Hay Fever: Birmingham Festival Theatre: April 19 – May 5. Call 205-933-2383 or visit www.bftonline.org for tickets and performance times. Written by Noel Coward / Directed by Ellise Mayor. No Anniversary Season would be complete without a good old-fashioned comedy! And Hay Fever fits the bill. Set in an English country house in the 1920s, the play features the four eccentric members of the Bliss family. Unbeknownst to the other family members, each invites a guest to spend the weekend at the house. However, as the festivities commence, each guest pairs up with a different family member. When their paths cross at points throughout the house, the reactions are over-dramatic and over the top! This play was first performed at BFT in 1980.0, 2011 with performances Thursday-Saturday nights at 7:30pm. Admission is $17 for adults ($15 online) and $10 for seniors and students. Opening night is Hobo Night (pay what you can afford with a $7 minimum). Chemelwitz - Bates Redwine |
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Is He Dead?: by Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives - April 26 to May 6. Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux, but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich "widow," he must find a way to get out of his dress, return to life, and marry Marie! Featuring Kyle Holman and Brandon Triola. Call 205-251-1206 or visit www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org to order tickets. Dane Peterson Theater Series.
205-515-2082 info@dptheatreseries.org www.dptheatreseries.org
The Mission of the Dane Peterson
Theatre Series is to develop, advance, strengthen, and promote
quality theatre with a focus on upcoming talent and audiences in the Greater
Birmingham Metropolitan Area. This season, our 12th Anniversary,
outstanding theatre students from local universities will join the Series on-
and off-stage, and will be mentored as they
transition from academia to the professional world. |
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Opening in June 2012 |
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The Last Hotel for Women: Birmingham Festival
Theatre: June
14 – 30. Call 205-933-2383
or visit www.bftonline.org for tickets
and performance times. Written by Randy Marsh / Directed by Edward C. Miller.
The novel by Vicki Covington was adapted for the stage by her brother Randy
Marsh, a playwright and founding member of BFT. Set in Birmingham in 1961,
when Freedom Riders were passing through the Deep South, the production
centers around a hotel run by Dinah Fraley and her husband. They are visited frequently by the Birmingham Commissioner of
Public Safety, Sheriff Bull Connor, a known racist and bigot. Racial
tensions run high in this powerful drama that was originally staged in 1996,
and closes out our 40th
Anniversary Season.0, 2011 with performances
Thursday-Saturday nights at 7:30pm. Admission is $17 for adults ($15 online)
and $10 for seniors and students. Opening night is Hobo Night (pay what you
can afford with a $7 minimum).
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The Normal Heart: Theatre Downtown (2410 5th Avenue South). Larry Kramer’s searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man’s lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Having recently enjoyed a successful Broadway revival, the show follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS in his personal life, through family and friends. June 14-16, 21-24 & 28-30. For more information, e-mail the director at theatredt@gmail.com or visit www.theatredowntown.org. |
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