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The Wimberley Players are auditioning for Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Aaron Johnson, on December 12th and 14th from 7:00pm – 10:00pm, with callbacks on December 16th, also from 2:00pm – 6:00pm. Actors are encouraged but not required to prepare a dramatic monologue of up to two minutes in length from an American drama from the last sixty years. Sides from the script will also be available for cold readings. Callbacks will consist entirely of cold readings. To make an appointment for an audition and/or to check out a copy of the script, please contact executive producer Adam Witko (adam@adamwitko.commailto:adam@adamwitko.com).
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A View from the Bridge
by Arthur Miller
directd by Charles Falcon
April 5 - 15
1300 San Pedro Ave., San Antonio, Texas, 78212
Times: April 5-7 at 7:30 pm and April 12-14 at 7:30 pm and April 15 at 2:30 pm
Tickets: $2 with Alamo Colleges ID; $8 Other students and $10 General Admission; ATAC judges free
Written by quintessential American dramatist Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge is as timeless as the Greek tragedies on which it is modeled and as contemporary as today's headlines. Eddie Alfieri, a local lawyer, tells the story of Longshoreman Eddie Carbone who lives in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and her orphaned niece Catherine, whom they have brought up as their own daughter. Into the household come two of Beatrice's cousins from Italy who enter the country illegally to find work on the waterfront. Eddie's love for his niece turns to obsession when the younger of the Italian brothers, Rodolpho, and Catherine strike up a friendship that blooms into romance. Soon Eddie's conflicted feelings lead him to betray his family's trust and in a desperate attempt to split them up before they can marry, he betrays both cousins to the Immigration Authorities. This timeless American tragedy touches upon the themes of loyalty, justice, family, homosexuality and betrayal.
Directed by Charles Falcon, Set Design by Debra Coates, Costume Design Ronald Watson, Sound Design by Paula Rodriguez
For More Information: 210-486-0486 or Cfalcon[AT]alamo.edu
by Michael Meigs
One measure of the power of Arthur Miller's drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692 is the startling transformation of familiar actors. Tiny Sophia Franzella, now a junior at St. Edward's, has charmed audiences with her wildly comic and mischievous personae in The Imaginary Invalid, Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad. Here, as the malicious and vindictive accuser Abigail Williams, Franzella is smooth faced duplicity, a murderous woman-child driven by spite and lust. Hers is a finely understated performance, one that makes her all the more hair-raising because of her almost silent conviction and the restraint of her lust for her former employer John Proctor.
David Stahl, an Equity regular at Austin Playhouse, has acquitted himself of a wide range of characters in Austin theatre but those which remain most vivid in memory, for better or worse, are clowns -- the unnamed all-purpose player in The 39 Steps, the hypochondriac in Laughter on the 23rd Floor, the old actor Henry in The Fantasticks, and Sagot, the prancing rouge-cheeked art dealer in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Director Michelle Polgar recruited Stahl for the role of Deputy Governor Danforth, the chief inquisitor who entirely dominates the second half of The Crucible. Stahl is nothing less than terrifying, with his baleful stare, self certainty and the immense self regard of a small man in a position that surpasses his capacities.
Arthur Miller studied the historical records of the Salem witch trials, but he wrote this 1953 piece principally as an indictment of the obsessive Communist hunting led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (a body that three years later convicted Miller of contempt of Congress for his refusal to furnish names during a hearing). The witch hunt metaphor stuck like pitch to the investigators and did a great deal to turn public sentiment against them.
Auditions will be held on Monday and Thursday, February 27 and March 1, from 7 -10 p.m. at the State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701 (click for map).
This is a non-Equity and EMC call. Please prepare 2-4 minutes of text in relevant style. The show will run from July-August 2012 and rehearsals will commence in May 2012. Actors will be paid a stipend of $300+.
Please email palindrometheatreco@gmail.com by Sunday, February 26 with your preferred audition day and time slot to be placed in an audition group. Be prepared to be available for at least an hour and a half. Allow 24 hours for confirmation of your audition slot. Thank you.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
directed by Michelle Polgar
February 16 – 26
Thursdays – Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2 PM
Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St Edward’s University
3001 South Congress Avenue Campus map: http://www.stedwards.edu/map/maincampus
Tickets $18 Advance ($15 Students, Seniors, SEU Community), $20 at the door
Available through the MMNT Box Office (512) 448-8484; Box Office Hours are M-F 1- 5 PM
Special student discount night Friday, February 17, 2012: All student tickets $7 with ID.
Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward’s University professional theatre training program, continues its 39th anniversary season with The Crucible by Arthur Miller, running February 16 – 26, 2012. Morality and reason take a back seat to hysteria and public violence in the charged landscape of 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. Growing accusations of witchcraft place every man, woman and child in peril. When neighbor is pitted against neighbor, even reading a book may be cause for condemnation. Against this backdrop, John Proctor must wrestle his own demons, knowing that his life and the life of the woman he loves hang in the balance. The Crucible has burned into the American psyche and continues to ignite our senses today. Featuring Equity guests David Long, David Stahl, Michael Stuart and Robin Grace Thompson. Scenic Design by Christopher McCollum, Lighting Design by Kathryn Eader, Costume Design by Susan Branch-Towne, Sound Design by Buzz Moran.
About Mary Moody Northen Theatre Mary Moody Northen Theatre operates on a professional model and stands at the core of the St. Edward’s University Theatre Training Program. Through the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, students work alongside professional actors, directors and designers, explore all facets of theatrical production and earn points towards membership in Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. MMNT operates under an AEA U/RTA contract and is a member of Theatre Communications Group. For more information, contact the theatre program at 512-448-8487 or visit us online at www.stedwards.edu/theatre.
About St. Edward's University Founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross, St. Edward's University is named among the top five "Up-and-Coming Universities" in the Western Region by its academic peers in a 2011 U.S. News & World Report survey. For eight consecutive years St. Edward's has been recognized as one of
"America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report. St. Edwards' has also been named one of "America's Best Colleges" by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability. St. Edward's is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university of more than 5,400 students located in Austin, Texas. For more information on St. Edward's University, visit www.stedwards.edu.
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Death of A Salesman
by Arthur Miller
February 10 - 25, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
11838 Wurzbach Rd at Lockhill Selma, Upstairs in The Elms Shopping Center Overlooking Pam's Patio. (click for map)
San Antonio, TX 78230
ph: 210-360-0004 therosetheatreco@yahoo.com
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
by Arthur Miller
February 2 - 26
(2/2, 2/4, 2/9, 2/11, 2/12, 2/16, 2/18, 2/23, 2/25, 2/26)
Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military HWy, San Antonio (click for map)
Tickets $20 - purchase at the website
e-mail: thevext@vexler.org telephone: (210) 302-6835
A local lawyer tells the story of Eddie Carbone, a head-strong longshoreman who has developed an unwitting sexual attraction towards his niece, Catherine. The Carbones play secret hosts to their illegal alien relatives, but Eddie gets jealous when Catherine begins dating one. In a desperate attempt to split them up before they can marry, he betrays both cousins to the Immigration authorities, breaking an unwritten code within his own community. This timeless tragedy touches on themes of blood loyalty, justice, betrayal, sexuality, and societal ethics.
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RESURRECTION BLUES
by Arthur Miller
directed by Vincent Hardy
November 11, 12, 19 and 20 at 8 p.m.
November 13 and 21 at 2:30 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts Center, 1801 Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78203 (click for map)
General Admission is $10. For seniors, students, staff and faculty admission is $5. High school students with ID are admitted free.
For reservations please call (210) 486-2205
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What if Jesus were to return? Would this event be exploited and manipulated by our corporate culture of greed and profit for monetary gain? This is the central question of Arthur Miller’s penultimate dark comedy, Resurrection Blues.
Miller’s play provides a meditation on advertising, media manipulation, spin, the outright lies told to the public and suggests how this dynamic affects American society. “Resurrection Blues,” cites the fiction created around the Gulf of Tonkin incident which precipitated the escalation of the Vietnam War but of course evokes our recent adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq proving again that history repeats itself. In the world of this play, illusion is the order of the day and reality is sacrificed on the altar of greed. What happens to humans when they live in a world of false images? Miller asks us to give some thought to the kind of society we ultimately want to have.
The St. Philips College Theatre Program is proud to present this play rarely seen in South Central Texas. It will run November 11th, 12th, 19th and 20th at 8pm and November 13th and 21st at 2:30 pm. The venue is the Watson Fine Arts Center, 1801Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78203. The play is recommended for mature audiences. There is mature language and situations. For any other questions about the production please call Vincent Hardy, Director, (210) 486-2838
The black box on the fourth floor has a claustrophobic feel. The central space is stark and looks more like a basement than an attic -- a couple of benches, neutral gray walls, a narrow high window, a couple of empty beer bottles left on the sill. As you gather and settle into the ranks of seats around that central space, the theatre serenades you with recordings of French music -- Jacques Brel, an anachronism, singing his lament about the 1914 assassination of pacifist Jean Jaurès, then a better calibrated sucession of ballads by Edith Piaf.
The house lights are up when a couple of men in overcoats and fedoras bring in a man from your right and summarily deposit him on a bench. He sits, bewildered. A few moments pass, and the plainclothesmen bring another arrested man in from your left. Eventually the house lights go down, the collect continues, and the spectators face an unwilling, withdrawn and involuntary group of about a dozen males.
This is Vichy, some 400 kilometers south of Paris. It's the administrative capital of the "free" zone administered during early years of World War II by a government headed by Marshal Pétain. Expressionless French police do not respond to the uneasy questions of the detainees. We gradually learn that they've been picked up off the streets by cruising patrols. None appears to have broken the law, except perhaps for the sullen gypsy presumed to be a thief by vocation.
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Arthur Miller’s
Incident at Vichy
April 2, 8- 9, 15-16 at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
Sundays April 3, 10, and 17 at 2:30 p.m.
Black Box Theatre, 4th floor of the First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity Street (click for map)
Tickets are FREE. Call 512-476-2625 to reserve seats.
Starting April 2, Trinity Street Players will present Incident at Vichy, Arthur Miller’s compelling morality play about the Holocaust. Directed by Cathy Jones, the large all-male cast explores the rounding up of Jews in occupied France during World War II.
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Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy
Arthur Miller's play The Crucible deals with dark and frightening times. Though the setting is 1692 Salem, Massachusetts during the wide-ranging hunt for witches, this 1953 piece is equally an evocation of America's sudden dark fear of enemies in its midst. Just years earlier, in World War II the Soviet Union had been considered a valiant ally; with the division of Europe, the threat of the atom bomb and the populist hectoring of politicians such as Senator Joseph McCarthy, many American intellectuals, civil servants and diplomats found themselves targeted for "communist sympathies."
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Arthur Miller’s classic tale of the American theatre. When teenage girls are discovered conjuring spirits, the 17th century town of Salem explodes with accusations of witchcraft. The trials that follow expose a community paralyzed by fear, terror, power and religious extremism.
Riveting dialogue, passionate characters and powerful themes make this both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our society.
Starring Iden Payne winners Rachel McGinnis and Angela Loftus. With Gabriel Smith, Craig Kanne, Laura Ray and Brian Villalobos as John Proctor. Directed by Stacey Glazer.
October 22 – November 14. Thursday – Saturday 8:00 p.m. and Sunday 5:30 p.m.
The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street.
For reservations, call 512-524-2870 or e-mail info@citytheatreaustin.org.
$15 - $20. Front Row Reserved $25. Thursday all seats $10. Group and student discounts. www.citytheatreaustin.org
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The Renaissance Theatre Company and City Theatre present
Arthur Miller’s classic tale of the American theatre
Directed by Stacey Glazer
with Brian Villalobos, Craig Kanne, Laura Ray, Gabriel Smith and B. Iden Payne winners Rachel McGinnis and Angela Loftus.
October 22 – November 14, Thursdays – Saturdays 8:00 p.m. and Sunday 5:30 p.m.
at The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd, Suite D, east corner of Airport Blvd and 38 ½ Street.
For reservations, call 512-524-2870 or contact info@citytheatreaustin.org.
Tickets $15 - $20. Front Row Reserved $25. Thursdays all seats $10. Group and student discounts. www.citytheatreaustin.org
The Renaissance Theatre Company, in cooperation with City Theatre, begins its 2010 – 2011 theatre season with Arthur Miller's American classic The Crucible. Based on the witch trials in Salem, the stage drama begins performances
Hell and heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God’s icy wind will blow.
Known for centering a play around an ordinary man's moral crisis within American society, Miller with his sense of social consciousness gave us some of the greatest dramas of the twentieth century, including All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (1955). His extensive list of works spans the last six decades and includes plays, screenplays, novels and essays. Some of his other notable plays include Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), Broken Glass (1994) and Resurrection Blues (2002).
“You never tire of watching a masterpiece and The Crucible proves the point as Arthur Miller’s name may be most singularly associated with great American Theatre,” says production director Stacey Glazer. “Innocent people being accused of crimes they didn’t commit; a dynamic story of fear, courage, religious conviction and personal integrity. It’s hot stuff!” Stacey has also directed The City Theatre productions of The Laramie Project, How the Other Half Loves and the Austin Critic’s Table Award nominee Rabbit Hole.
B. Iden Payne award-winners Rachel McGinnis (as Elizabeth Proctor) and Angela Loftus (as Abigail Williams) lead the cast and introduce Brian Villalobos (as John Proctor). The Crucible features Craig Kanne, Gabriel Smith, Laura Ray, John McNeil, Michelle Alexander with Bridget Farias, Lorella Loftus, Callie Boatman, Carrie Stephens, Nathaniel Reid, Daniel Norton, Clay Avery, Brett Shaw, Dewayne Mangan, Liz Roark, Kati Pike and Mikayla McIntyre.
The City Theatre Company is a non-profit organization and is sponsored in part by the Greater Austin Creative Alliance, the Austin Cultural Arts Division and the AMD Foundation.
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