Auditions in San Antonio for Death of a Salesman, Classic Theatre, November 10 - 12, 2013

Classic Theatre of San Antonio is happy to announce AUDITIONS for our next mainstage show, DEATH OF A SALESMAN By Arthur Miller November 10, 11, 12 @ 7:30pm (Nov 12 - TBA Callbacks). Production Dates: Friday, February 7 to Sunday, February 23, 2014 
All auditions are by appointment only. Call 210-589-8450 for an appointment. Each actor is requested to present a 1 Minute Monologue, comedy or drama and be prepared for Cold Readings.

The roles of Willie Loman, Linda Loman and Uncle Ben will be played by Allan S. Ross, Terri Pena Ross and David Rinear, respectively.

Roles available:

Biff Loman, mid thirties
Happy Loman, two years younger than Biff
Bernard, same age as Happy but must play scenes at age 17
The Woman/Miss Forsythe 30-40
Charley near Willies age, late 50s to 60s
Howard, mid thirties
Jenny, 20-30
Letta, 20-30
Stanley, a waiter 20+

-- Age ranges are flexible --

Reserve your spot now!! This will be the FIRST show in our new home: The Woodlawn Theatre!!

(*) 2013-2014 Season, Classic Theatre, San Antonio

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We are pleased to announce our 2013-2014 Season:

STAGES OF LIFE

And like real life, The Classic Theatre is going through a change of life. The management of the Blue Star Arts Complex has elected NOT to renew the Jump-Start Performance Co. lease. That means that The Classic Theatre may be in a new space for its 6th season. Regardless of where we perform, you will experience the professional quality that you have come to expect from The Classic Theatre of San Antonio.

We will keep you posted on our move forward!

Dear Classic Theatre Patron,

We are pleased to announce our 2013-2014 Season:

STAGES OF LIFE

And like real life, The Classic Theatre is going through a change of life. The management of the Blue Star Arts Complex has elected NOT to renew the Jump-Start Performance Co. lease. That means that The Classic Theatre may be in a new space for its 6th season. Regardless of where we perform, you will experience the professional quality that you have come to expect from The Classic Theatre of San Antonio.

We will keep you posted on our move forward!

Auditions in San Antonio for Proof by David Auburn, Classic Theatre, May 13, 2013

Auditions on May 13 for Proof by David Auburn, directed by Allan S. Ross. The 2001 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and one of the most acclaimed plays in recent years, Proof explores the depth and mystery of love as well as the mystery of science. Runs August 9-25, 2013.


We are asking for 3 Minute Contemporary monologues (memorized please) from any actors/actresses who have not auditioned for Classic Theatre of San Antonio in the past two years. Call Florence at 210-589-8450 to schedule an audition time. Anyone who has auditioned for us previously (in the past two years) needs to contact Florence (210) 589-8450 and let us know you are interested in being considered for a role. We will contact you if we want to see you at callbacks on May 14. May 13 is only for new actors/actresses and for people we haven't seen lately. Please bring a headshot and resume.




All roles are available:

Catherine: A young woman who inherited at least some of her father's mathematical genius, and, she fears, his "instability" as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.
Claire: Catherine's older sister, a no nonsense, take charge kind of gal. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run down family home of her youth. She escaped the edge of the UChicago campus to make a new life for herself in New York City.
Robert: A recently deceased mathematician who did brilliant, breakthrough work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine's imagination and in flashbacks.
Harold (Hal) Dobbs: One of Robert's last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor's illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.

Upcoming: Hedda Gabler, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, May 12 - 29

Mr. and Mrs. George Tesman return to Norway after six months of honeymoon in Europe. In their absence family friend Judge Brack has arranged the purchase of a city mansion at great expense and furnished it lavishly. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler opens on the morning after their arrival at the new residence and a new domestic life.

Allan S. Ross designed this set with meticulous detail. The audience has the time to study the heavy furniture, carpets, framed engravings, views into three additional rooms and a barely glimpsed horizon through the windows. As one listens to a querelous duet between piano and cello, the roseate illumination brings out the reds and purples. At stage right, rear, in his own pool of light, bearded and wearing his military decorations, the late General Gabler stares serenely out from his portrait.

This is a house, not a home. Everything is in its place, according to good taste, discreet expenditure and bourgeois standards. In the action that Ibsen unfolds for us, Hedda Gabler as the new mistress of the house is guarded in her reactions to everyone in these new circumstances. Having passed the age of coquettery, she married George Tesman for lack of anything better to do; now, having involuntarily made her nest with a passing comment about this particular manor, she finds herself obliged to live in it.

Asia Ciaravino is haunting in the title role. That quiet, watchful oval face is almost unblinking, She has the unconscious beauty of a woman who little cares whether others look at her or not.

In one sense, in Hedda Gabler Ibsen wrote a great thumping melodrama and resolved all the conflicts with a couple of pistol shots. One occurs far from the house and is described for us as the Greeks used to do at the conclusions of their tragedies. The second takes place in the final moments just behind a curtain in one of those alcoves as Hedda takes her own life. That's hardly giving anything away -- although the program states that Hedda Gabler was first presented in Dublin in 2008, that's referring to this adaptation by Brian Friel for the Gate Theatre. Hedda has been putting the pistol to her head since 1891, and many spectators echo the scandalized reaction of Judge Brack: "But people just don't do things like that!"

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Upcoming: The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, March 10 - 27

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The Lion in Winter

by James Goldman

March 10-27, 2011

Performances are Thursdays-Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM

All performances are at the Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start, 108 Blue Star in the Blue Star Arts Complex, 1400 S. Alamo. The theatre is handicap accessible…please call 210-589-8450 for special arrangements.

$20 for General Admission; $15 for Seniors (+65), SATCO, ATAC, MIL w/ID; $10 for Full time students with ID. For group rates please call 210-589-8450.

For tickets call 1-800-838-3006 (there is no charge for using our ticket service!!) or go to www.classictheatre.org and click on “Buy Tickets.”

What do you get when you mix a dysfunctional family, with crown envy and a hearty sex drive? A reality TV show, perhaps? No, actually, it’s The Lion in Winter by James Goldman. King Henry II of England has three sons by Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Geoffrey, and John. He wants the kingdom to stay united after his death, but all three sons want to rule and it is likely to be torn apart by revolution. Henry favors the youngest John, while Eleanor favors the eldest, Richard. Middle son Geoffrey hopes to play both ends against each other and come out on top. Henry would like to have another heir by his mistress Alais, but that would only add to the confusion. Uneasy is the head on which the crown lies, and uneasy the truce between a matchless king and queen. Often revived, this play was the basis of the Oscar-winning film which starred Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.

"A work of intelligence, astringent wit, and much theatrical skill."-The New York Times

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Upcoming: All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Classic Theatre of San Antonio, March 11 - 28

UPDATE: Review by Thomas Jenkins in the San Antonio Current, March 17

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The Classic Theatre of San Antonio presents one of the great plays of the twentieth Century that is as timely today as it was in 1947:

Arthur Miller's
All My Sons

March 11-28
Thursdays - Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start
1400 S. Alamo in the Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio
General Admission $20; Seniors (65), SATCO, Mil w/ID: $15
Full Time Students with ID: $10
For tickets: 1-800-838-3006 (no service charge)
or buy on-line from brownpapertickets.com

Arthur Miller's second Broadway play is an explosive family drama, set in the post-World-War-II United States. It took home the 1947 Tony Award for Best Production and Best Direction (Elia Kazan). Two years later, Miller's Death of a Salesman won 6 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. All My Sons was revived on Broadway 40 years after its original run and won the 1987 Tony Award for Best Revival. Last year on Broadway, the third revival of All My Sons featured John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes in her Broadway debut.

All My Sons is a classic American drama, especially worthy of revisiting in time of war.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Uncle Vanya, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, August 20 - 30

San Antonio's Classic Theatre has opened its second season with a beautifully designed, perceptive and subtly paced production of one of my favorite works, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

That's the shorthand version of the title. It was published as Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life. Although at the heart of it there sits an eternally frustrated love triangle -- Vanya and Dr. Astrov both yearning for the unhappily married Yelena -- the play contains much, much more.

These scenes from country life contain an uneasy, boozy friendship between Vanya (John Minton) and Dr. Astrov (Anthony Ciaravino). Vanya and his niece Sonya (Laura Darnell) have spent long years managing the estate so as to finance the studies and urban living expenses of Sonya's father Serebryakov. Serebryakov (Allan S. Ross) has now retired to the estate, gout-ridden, cranky and self-important, after a mediocre academic career. We see relatively little of him, but we see a lot of his current wife Yelena (Emily Spicer) , who is scarcely older than his daughter Sonya.

As in all of Chekhov's dramas, we listen to conversations about the dissatisfactions of rural life, discussions of frustrated ideals and idle speculations about the future. His characters are as vivid as life but anything but heroic -- they are, instead, tentative, indecisive and yearning, perhaps the first in theatrical history to portray those very modern qualities.

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Upcoming: Uncle Vanya, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, August 20 -

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, August 24

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presents
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekov
August 20 - 30
at the Jump-Start Theatre

One of Chekhov's four great comedies,Uncle Vanya deals with desperation, an illicit affair and attempted murder. Chekhov's richly textured characters come into conflict as they struggle with the harsh reality that they are becoming expendable.

DATES: August 20-30, 2009 Thursday-Saturday at 8:00pm Sunday at 3:00pm
All performances are at the Jump-Start Theatre in the Blue Star Arts Complex at 1400 S. Alamo,San Antonio
For Tickets, Call 1-800-838-3006 or purchase on-line
For information about Season Passes, Group Rates, Discounts please call 210-589-8450

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