Upcoming: She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, City Theatre, July 19 - August 12

City Theatre, Austin

presents

(image from Scot Friedman via Facebook)

by Oliver Goldsmith

directed by Bridget Farias

July 19 – August 12. Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m. Sunday 5:30 p.m.

The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. 78722 – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street.

For reservations, call 512-524-2870 or e-mail info@citytheatreaustin.org . General seating $15. Front/2nd Row Reserved $25. Thursday all seats $10. Group and student discounts. www.citytheatreaustin.org

Romantic tomfoolery and mistaken identities abound in Oliver Goldsmith’s great classic comedy. When shy-with-the ladies Charles Marlow sets off to the country to meet his blind date, a practical joke convinces him that the manor is a luxury inn. Treating one’s prospective in-laws as hired help is hardly advisable, but when it appears that Charles is quite a charmer, misdemeanors multiply, mayhem ensues and love blossoms. A bawdy romp of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

With Michelle Cheney, Danielle Sawtelle, Scot Friedman, Heath Thompson, Ben McLemore, Katie Green, Anna Schatte, Kevin Cox, Circe Sturm, Alli Huston, Bethany Harbaugh, Clare Boyd and Nguyen Stanton. .

Auditions: She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, City Theatre, May 16 and 19

City Theatre, Austin holds auditions for She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith on May 16, 8:45 - 10  p.m.  and May 19, 10 - 1 p.m. Ten minute slots by appointment. The theatre is located at 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D (click for map).

Call 512-524-2870 or contact info@citytheatreaustin.org to set up an appointment. Bring headshot, resume, and a one-minute prepared monologue.  Scenes may also be performed.  Show dates:  July 19 – August 12 with rehearsals starting at the end of May.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.  Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

Links to check out:  http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/68378/productions/she-stoops-to-conquer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer

Current Productions from the UK's National Theatre Will Be Retransmitted to Cinemark Cedar Park, starting February 9

Information received directly:

Thanks to a vigorous pursuit by new arrival Ben Clark, Austin theatre buffs will have the opportunity to see retransmissions of current productions from the last half of the 2011-2012 season of the UK's National Theatre, beginning on February 9 with Nicolas Wright's Travelling Light.

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is scheduled for March 1 and She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith will be shown on March 29. Cinemark Cedar Park has scheduled them on Thursdays at 7 p.m.

Travelling Light

Thursday February 9^th at 7 p.m.

Cinemark Cedar Park,1890 Ranch Shopping Center, 1335 E. Whitestone Blvd., Cedar Park, TX (click for map)

Fandango ticketing tel. (800) 326-3264 ext. 1032; cinema telephone 512-259-6741

Director, Playwright and cast members discuss the play:

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Travelling Light is a new play by Nicholas Wright.

For lovers of Hugo and The Artist: How had a twenty-two-year–old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe , around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Directed by Nicolas Hytner (click for bio)

Starring Anthony Sher (click for bio)

Further information at the National Theatre website

Click for additional information about the second and third productions

She Stoops to Conquer, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, October 15 - November 1

She Stoops to Conquer, approaching its last weekend in San Antonio, is elegant, witty, and stylish. Director Allan S. Ross recreates the conventions of the 18th century English theatre, including the use of a nearly bare stage, a painted partition at the rear, and the actors' respectful but self confident manner acknowledgement of the ladies and gentlemen of the public.

Goldsmith's work is a clever comedy of manners in which the men are all self-important bumblers of one sort or another and the women are there to set them right. There's rakishness; tom-foolery; and a decisive old harridan ruling her country manor, her husband, and her foolishly impulsive son. And, of course, courtship.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, Classic Theatre of San Antonio, October 15 - November 1

UPDATE: Review by Ashley Lindstrom in San Antonio Current, October 14: "Woman of Miens: She Stoops, She Scores"

UPDATE: Review by Deborah Martin in San Antonio Express-News, October 16

Received directly:

Bringing SEXY back to The Comedy of Manners
Join




in celebrating the second show of their second season, Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy

She Stoops to Conquer

Directed by Allan S. Ross
October 15 - November 1, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
Sterling Houston Theatre , Jump-Start Performance Company, in the Blue Star Arts Complex at 1400 S. Alamo, San Antonio

Boisterous and brimming with energy, Oliver Goldsmith's funniest and most famous play finds new life in The Classic Theatre's new production. The plot centers on Kate--a well bred, whip-smart lass who passes herself off as a barmaid to win the heart of a stuffy suitor. Full of mistaken identities and multiple deceptions, the play pokes fun at the various masks we wear in social situations and proves as relevant now as it did when it premiered in 1773. Along the way, Goldsmith's characters learn much about themselves and the nature of true love.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .