Cobb Great Hall, doors open at 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: FREE and open to the public, General Seating...
Congrats to Chris and the whole Bethea Family - sorry I'm late on this. (I'll chastise my nonexistant "staff"... ;-}J
CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC THEATRE Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.
Cobb Great Hall, doors open at 1:30 p.m. Tickets: FREE and open to the public, General Seating... Congrats to Chris and the whole Bethea Family - sorry I'm late on this. (I'll chastise my nonexistant "staff"... ;-}J It’s a split bill with our East Lansing Theatre and Dance Company featuring 12 dancers ages 5-18 presenting five different “Tales of Beatrix Potter”, with original choreography set to the music of John Larchberry and costumes by Mary K. Hodges-Nees. The Acting company, featuring stories of the Greek Myths in the fast-paced hilarious “Greek Myths Olympiaganza”, by Don Zolidis Also on the bill is “The Two Color Coat”, an African folktale about how shortsighted we can be, especially when it comes to friends.
A lot of fun for all ages! Tickets are $10 at the door; showtimes are 7pm on Friday, May 16 and 2pm on May 17 at the MSU Auditorium Building Arena Theatre (blackbox theatre space in the basement) 542 Auditorium Rd, East Lansing, 48824. Parking can be accessed across the street. For more information, please call 517-203-8324. Hey Jane,
Thought our theatre friends might enjoy watching TV6 tonight (Friday, May 16) at 5pm and then again Monday morning at 5am and 6am :-) "For all my theatre friends, especially those from Williamston Theatre, I had the pleasure to feature the courageous and creative Tony Caselli in my #TMSG story that airs tonight at 5pm on WLNS-TV (and then again Monday on #6ThisMorning)! From a near-death experience to a determined recovery to a triumphant stage return, he shows us all why we should join "Team Tony"! Thanks so much, Evan Running now at Williamston Theatre: Old Love By Norm Foster Directed by Lynn Lammers May 15 - June 15, 2014 A co-production with Tipping Point Theatre Featuring Ruth Crawford and Thomas D. Mahard Heard during the talk back with our audience on Thursday: "Best show ever!" "Excellent." "Loved how the actors brought us into the show." "There was so much laughter, but also moments that brought me close to tears." "Wonderful actors!" This weekend's performances: Friday at 8pm Saturday at 3pm and 8pm Sunday at 2pm www.williamstontheatre.com Or call (517) 655-7469 for tickets. Totally Tony A special exhibit in the Williamston Theatre Gallery When Artistic Director Tony Caselli was stricken with a serious illness early this year, many folks in the Williamston Theatre family jumped in to help out in lots of different ways. Our wonderful artists, who frequently exhibit their work in our lobby gallery, have joined together to create the Totally Tony exhibit during our run of Old Love. All the artwork you’ll see in the exhibit has been donated for sale, and 100% of the proceeds will go to the Caselli family to help as Tony continues on his road to recovery. Items are priced to move, and the exhibit features the work of Gretchen Foster, Rebecca Case, Anita Saviko, Betty McGinnis, Melinda Pope, Jeannie West, Jessica Kovan, Juanita Baldwin, Terry Junger, Gretchen Foster and many more! So stop in and pick up a piece of beautiful art for a good cause! The Charlotte Public School, asked us to spread this job posting far and wide; so I’m sending along to folks who might know someone interested and qualified for the position. Please share with anyone you think might be interested in applying. See the attachment. Rachel Bump Human Resources Specialist Charlotte Public Schools 378 State St. Charlotte, MI 48813 P-517-541-5103 F-517-541-5105 bumpr@charlottenet.org It’s a split bill with our East Lansing Theatre and Dance Company featuring 12 dancers ages 5-18 presenting five different “Tales of Beatrix Potter”, with original choreography set to the music of John Larchberry and costumes by Mary K. Hodges-Nees. Take a timeless walk back one hundred years ago to the charmed and enchanted animal world of Beatrix Potter, and join in the antics of Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck, Peter Rabbit and others. The Acting company, featuring stories of the Greek Myths in the fast-paced hilarious “Greek Myths Olympiaganza”, by Don Zolidis (author of last year’s Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon), will present such tales as Jason and the Argonauts, Eurydice and Orpheus, The Illiad (in five condensed minutes), Chronos, Rhea and of course, their Therapist. Also on the bill is “The Two Color Coat”, an African folktale about how shortsighted we can be, especially when it comes to friends.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter features Katie Knox as “Squirrel Nutkin” and “The Fox”, Kaleel Van Voorhees as “Jemima Puddleduck” and “Squirrelina”, Theo Van Egeren as “Mother Rabbit”, Mohini Mukherjee as “Chatty Squirrel” and “Tom Thumb Mouse”, Mikaela McWethy as “Hunca Munca Mouse” and “Nutty Squirrel”, Emily McWethy as “Timmie Willie Mouse” and “Chestnut Squirrel”, Parker Van Voorhees as “The Owl” and “Mr. McGregor”, Fiona Magyar as “Tillie Mae” Mouse, Lisa Kong as “Peter Rabbit”, Caroline Ley as “Benjamin Bunny”, Clara Craig as “Flopsy”, Maureen Rojewski as “Mopsy”, Alyssa Forsyth as “Cottontail” and Brandon Townsend as “The Narrator”. The Two Color Coat features Linda Webster as “The Narrator”, Laura Stanton as “The Trickster”, Erin Ruster as “Friend 1” and Lauren Kreuer as “Friend 2”. The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza features Callie Reichel as “Narrator 1” and “Apollo”, Linda Webster as “Narrator 2”, Parker Van Voorhees as “Cronos”, “Hercules”, and Actor 2 ((Hera/Aphrodite/Athena/Helen/Menalaus/Achilles/Greek/Odysseus), Danielle Holloway as “Rhea”, and “Pollux”, Jessica Caicedo-Olaya as “Uranus”, “Police Officer”, “Zombies”, “Hades”, “Korinne Salisbury as “Man” and “Jason”, Ayana Crayton as “Woman”, “Castor” and “Charon”, Brandon Townsend as “Zeus” and “Orpheus”, Kaleel Van Voorhees as “Pandora”, “Medea/Sirens/Single Lonely Women/Harpies” as well as “Actor 1” who plays Paris/ The Advisor/Trojans/Hector/Helen and Porsha Lipsey who plays “The Therapist”, “Atalanta” and “Eurydice”. A lot of fun for all ages! Tickets are $10 at the door; showtimes are 7pm on Friday, May 16 and 2pm on May 17 at the MSU Auditorium Building Arena Theatre (blackbox theatre space in the basement) 542 Auditorium Rd, East Lansing, 48824. Parking can be accessed across the street. For more information, please call 517-203-8324. "Show your support for the local performing arts in downtown Lansing by voting for Riverwalk and proud theatre supporter Evan Pinsonnault in the Top of the Town Awards below:http://lansingcitypulse.wehaa-server4.com/survey-29-2014-top-of-the-town-final-five_.htmlThe deadline is midnight so get your votes in before the curtain (and poll) closes. Thanks!"
Over this past "off season" a badly needed re-roofing of the Playhouse (inside Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge) was completed. While this is a fabulous improvement, the mess that was left behind is not!
This is where you come in. We are having a clean the theater day, this coming Saturday, May 17, 9am-3pm? to clean up the mess left behind by the installation of the new roof. We will have cleaning supplies available for you to jump in and help make the theatre spic and span. If you have a shop-vac that you can bring that would be great. Come spend what time you can spare, we appreciate it. For more info or directions, questions, contact LeAnn Dethlefsen at 803-9785 or better yet, leanndethlefsen@aol.com. Thanks again, see you there. Directed by Lynn Lammers
May 15 - June 15, 2014Pay-What-You-Can Thursday May 15 Co-production with Tipping Point Theatre comes to the Williamston Theatre stage next week. The reviews are already glowing: "Two charming theater vets make Tipping Point's Old Love irresistible" - Detroit Free Press "There is no shortage of laugh-out-loud lines, and Lammers allows them to land organically – no punched-up, hey-folks-here-comes-a-joke delivery allowed, and Mahard and Crawford execute the directive with ease." - EncoreMichigan.com He’s recently divorced. She’s newly-widowed. He’s a man who won’t give up, and she’s a woman who won’t give in. In a story that spans three decades, we travel with two unlikely companions who encounter each other at strange and inopportune times. When the time is finally right, will they be able to give in to their desires for courtship? Find out if a trip to the circus is what it takes to start over, again. Featuring Ruth Crawford and Thomas D. Mahard. Tickets are now on sale!! Call (517) 655-7469 or www.williamstontheatre.com 5/15-17, 22 & 24 Ixion Theatre Ensemble Launches with World Premier of The Four Disgracers5/10/2014
Ixion, a theatre ensemble based in Lansing, makes its debut with the world premier of The Four Disgracers. This collection of four locally written, original one-act plays will debut in REO Town's Art Alley, 1133 S. Washington, Lansing, MI. Performances are May 15-17, 22 & 24 at 8 p.m. with a special matinee on the 24th at 4 p.m. Tickets are $15.(Note: persons pledging to Ixion's rebooted kickstarter at the $25 level save $5 on two tickets.)
The Four Disgracers was conceived by Ixion Artistic Director jeff croff. “As we looked at scripts and thought of ways to launch, it struck me that maybe the inspiration for our name could also inspire our first production,” observes Croff. “ The name of our troupe was inspired by a trip to the Detroit Institute of Art, where I encountered Friederich Goltzius's engraving set named The Four Disgracers. The engravings featured four figures from Greek mythology: Icarus, Phaeton, Ixion and Tantalus. After reading Goltzius’s Latin interpretation of the Ixion myth, I had a name for the new troupe. So I thought why not take the inspiration provided by art and see if it could inspire new art?” Croff then recruited four local playwrights to develop short plays. each derived from a different Greek myth. After months of writing and rewriting, The Four Disgracers took shape with “Distance from the Son”; “Tantalizing Menu”; “Empty” and “Icarus Flying”. “Distance from the Son” by O.G. Ueberoth transforms Phaeton into Pate, a manchild struggling to find himself and deal with his daddy issues. Helios has become a cantankerous old soldier, who is helping out with conflicts as well as his usual duties. “Tantalizing Menu” by Sarah Hauck takes us front and center with a family dinner filled with backbiting, acrimony and new menu items. Tantalus becomes a nervous and edgy host hoping that everyone appreciates his time in the kitchen. “Empty” by Brad Rutledge transforms the tet a tet between Zeus and Ixion into a meeting of a mafia don with his lieutenant. Tough guys talk and get a little nervous as truths come out. “Icarus Flying” by A. S. Freeman offers a fresh perspective on the myth. We enter a totalitarian world and learn Icarus’s mom’s perspective. Cast of The Four Disgracers includes: Joseph Mull, Rico Bruce Wade, Angharad McGaugher, Michael Stornant, Cassie Little, Rikki Perez, Kris Vitols, Paige Dunkel and jeff croff. After failing to reach its initial goal, Ixion has relaunched its kickstarter with a more modest goal. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1149284117/second-act-the-four-disgracers PCTC produces Michigan premiere of play tackling issues of race, housing, aspirations for a better life
Peppermint Creek Theatre Company, is proud to announce the two week run of Clybourne Park, a humorous and insightful new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bruce Norris. The play was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play. Clybourne Park closes PCTCs eleventh season, titled “Battlelines”. Clybourne Park, by playwright Bruce Norris, takes its title from the white neighborhood mentioned in Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, about an African-American family busting the color barrier in a white Chicago suburb. The sole white character of Raisin, Karl Lindner, has been lifted from Hansberry's play for Clybourne Park. Here, he's trying to convince white neighbors not to sell their home to a black family.The play portrays fictional events set before and after the Hansberry play and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago. It premiered in 2010 in New York. The Washington Post raved that the play "applies a modern twist to the issues of race and housing and aspirations for a better life." Clybourne Park is a wickedly funny and fiercely provocative play about race, real estate and the volatile values of each, exploding in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. It is through this prism of property ownership that Norris' lacerating sense of humor dissects race relations and middle class hypocrisies in America. Clybourne Park Director, Blake Bowen, spoke about what drew him to the play, “Clybourne Park, with its humorous text about racial and economic changes in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, is a genius riff on A Raisin in the Sun. I was really drawn to the many layers in which the play is tackling the issues of race, and communities, and just how far we’ve come in regard to prejudice and acceptance in 50 years. As I read the play, I was laughing one minute at the intelligent and honest ways the characters speak to each other and tackle some very prickly topics, only to be silenced by the play's tragic streaks just moments later. Bruce Norris has written a tremendous play that speaks immediately to Peppermint Creek’s mission statement to create dialogue around issues that are both current and universal.” The production will take place at Peppermint Creek’s performance venue, the Miller Performing Arts Center, 6025 Curry Lane, South Lansing MI 48911. The show will run Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, May 18, and Thursday, May 22 – Saturday, May 24, 2014. Show times are Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, and the first Sunday at 2pm. Tickets can be ordered online at www.peppermintcreek.org, and are $15 general admission, and $10 for students/seniors 65+. This production of “Clybourne Park” is being directed by PCTC’s Associate Artistic Director, Blake Bowen, and stars a cast of 8 veteran performers from the Greater Lansing area. To purchase tickets, visit www.peppermintcreek.org. Follow “PCTC”on Twitter: @PeppermintCreek or on Facebook. Press photos are available on request. Clybourne Park Peppermint Creek Theatre Company CAST LIST RUS/DAN - Jack Dowd BEV/KATHY - Heather Lewis KARL/STEVE - Joe Dickson BETSY/LINDSEY - Shannon Bowen JIM/TOM - Scott Laban FRANCINE/LENA - Jenise Cook ALBERT/KEVIN - Jerry Parker KENNETH - Devin Faught |
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