Tonight’s staged reading has come and gone. This is my first experience doing one, and I have to say it’s nice to get to direct something without having to give your entire life to it. With basically four weeks, only two rehearsals with the musicians and actors together, and only one run-through in the space […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,
So on Friday, February 3 at 8:00 pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (assuming the world has not yet ended), my hardy band of players, singers, and musicians will do staged readings of two of Yeats’s dance plays: At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming of the Bones. Each play runs about 20 minutes and there will […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and Dreaming of the Bones
When: Friday, February 3, 8:00pm Where: Augustana Lutheran Church This February our staged reading will consist of two short plays by William Butler Yeats, At the Hawk’s Well (1916) and The Dreaming of the Bones (1919). Both plays were inspired by Yeats’s encounter with the Japanese No theater, an art form that synthesizes drama, music, and dance. Yeats drew […]
“The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang (March 3-12, 2017)
Directed by Corinna Christman Purchase Tickets Bette and Boo Blog CAST: Bette- Leslie Browne Boo- David Federking Margaret- Cordelia Callaway Paul- Adam Hammond Emily- Amelia Snoblin Joan-Maryse Meijer Karl- Chris Mackle Soot- Laura MacGregor Matt- Leslie Halverson Father Donnally- James Redfield Doctor- Ruth Kadanov “Christopher Durang is one of the masters of modern dark comedy, […]
The 20th Tellabration Festival
A Worldwide Storytelling Event The Players’ friend Judith Heineman (who recently appeared in the reading of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui as the Irish investigator O’Casey) has been producing this festival for 20 years, and this is her final year at the helm. You can make your reservations for Tellabration through Eventbrite. Only 100 seats for […]
Registration Open for Shakespeare Workshop
Our Annual Getting-Shakespeare-Off-the-Shelf Workshop The following Saturday, September 17, we bring you another tradition going into its 7thyear. This Shakespeare workshop, affectionately known as our annual “Shakespeare Boot Camp,” is a one-day workshop that provides an inviting, supportive, creative environment to explore and perform scenes from Shakespeare, get constructive feedback and have lots of fun […]