2013 Archive
November 22:
The Bearded Warrior Comedy Show
Featuring Phil Davidson, Josh Star, Joe Gingras, & Mike Thomas
Hosted by Adam Cook
Friday 11/22 at 8 PM
$7 at the door
The Bearded Warrior Comedy Show
Featuring Phil Davidson, Josh Star, Joe Gingras, & Mike Thomas
Hosted by Adam Cook
Friday 11/22 at 8 PM
$7 at the door
November 16:
The Elephant Tuskateers present
Elephant Medicine
Following the debauched joy of last season’s Bloody Maria, the Elephant Tuskateers bring you a sample of their new rock and roll opera, Elephant Medicine. Set in India, a young European princess seeks to unite with her elephant minder prince in rags at the tumultuous elephant circus gathering, guided by her spiritual mother, Madama Helena, led onward by Maestro master showman of the Elephant Circus, followed and harassed at every turn and twist by Hotel Dick, the house detective--you! The Audience and Katerina, your princess in waiting, get a fun ride atop the elephants back amidst a group of eccentric elephant minders, elephant dancers, and circus folk.
To see if she 'll unite in royal union with Ketu her prince in rags, come hear and taste, see and feel, and be touched by this little rock and roll Beamtown (Burlington) extravaganza!!!!
Doors open 10:08 pm; Show starts at 11:07 pm.
Admission: $9.99, exact change.
To see if she 'll unite in royal union with Ketu her prince in rags, come hear and taste, see and feel, and be touched by this little rock and roll Beamtown (Burlington) extravaganza!!!!
Doors open 10:08 pm; Show starts at 11:07 pm.
Admission: $9.99, exact change.
November 7 - 9:
The members of Off Center are proud to present
The Third annual burlington fringe festival
November 7–9, All shows 8 p.m.
EIGHTEEN ACTS over THREE NIGHTS! Among the most beloved and respected members of the Burlington theatre scene, both underground and otherwise! Comedy, dance, stand-up, and drama…something for everyone, from a mixture of theatre artists as varied as the schedule indicates!
...at Burlington’s home for cutting-edge theater
—Off Center for the Dramatic Arts.
Free parking and for your convenience!
EIGHTEEN ACTS over THREE NIGHTS! Among the most beloved and respected members of the Burlington theatre scene, both underground and otherwise! Comedy, dance, stand-up, and drama…something for everyone, from a mixture of theatre artists as varied as the schedule indicates!
...at Burlington’s home for cutting-edge theater
—Off Center for the Dramatic Arts.
Free parking and for your convenience!
Performance Schedule
Thursday, November 7
MC: Seth Jarvis
David Schein - Infarcation
Regi B - It Ain't Done It! (Stand-Up Comedy)
The House of Lemay
Dustin Bruley - Stand-Up comedy
Brett Cox - Christopher Durang Is Under the Weather and They Got Louie
Mickey Western and the Elephant Tusketeers - Elephant Medicine
Friday, November 8
MC: Phinneus Sonin
Regi B - It Ain't Done It!
The Off Centurians - Oh Doggie
Jeanne Beckwith - Doll Hospital
Maura Campbell - Perfect
Henry Kellogg and Absurdist Artichoke Players – Bubbles
Green Candle Theatre Co. - We Be Pirates!
Saturday, November 9
MC: Kim Jordan
Regi B - It Ain't Done It!
Recille Hamrell - Cherished Moments
Clarke Jordan and the Raggle Taggle Players - A Conversation With Your Mother
Dennis McSorley - One and One
Dana Block - Monkey Man (Shatterproof)
Taryn Noelle - In Search of Home
Tickets, $15.00 at the door (check or cash only at the door), or purchase tickets in advance online by credit card at Brown Paper Tickets.
Thursday, November 7
MC: Seth Jarvis
David Schein - Infarcation
Regi B - It Ain't Done It! (Stand-Up Comedy)
The House of Lemay
Dustin Bruley - Stand-Up comedy
Brett Cox - Christopher Durang Is Under the Weather and They Got Louie
Mickey Western and the Elephant Tusketeers - Elephant Medicine
Friday, November 8
MC: Phinneus Sonin
Regi B - It Ain't Done It!
The Off Centurians - Oh Doggie
Jeanne Beckwith - Doll Hospital
Maura Campbell - Perfect
Henry Kellogg and Absurdist Artichoke Players – Bubbles
Green Candle Theatre Co. - We Be Pirates!
Saturday, November 9
MC: Kim Jordan
Regi B - It Ain't Done It!
Recille Hamrell - Cherished Moments
Clarke Jordan and the Raggle Taggle Players - A Conversation With Your Mother
Dennis McSorley - One and One
Dana Block - Monkey Man (Shatterproof)
Taryn Noelle - In Search of Home
Tickets, $15.00 at the door (check or cash only at the door), or purchase tickets in advance online by credit card at Brown Paper Tickets.
November 4:
Off Center presents
Playmakers
Playmakers is a monthly series presented by Off Center for the Dramatic Arts that features both directed and cold readings of new works by local playwrights. The aim is to offer a venue for playwrights to share, test, and develop their work while at the same time fostering communication and collaboration within the theater community and encouraging artistic experiment.
Each night will consist of one directed reading and up to three cold readings.
The plays will be no more than 20 pages (or 25 minutes), though excerpts are acceptable.
The plays may be cast in advance, but will not be rehearsed.
All readings will be scheduled in advance.
Each month a different pair of theater artists will volunteer to select one of the cold readings to then present as a directed piece the following month. These playmakers will assemble a cast and team (if necessary) and develop the work – without the playwright’s involvement. The directed readings will provide opportunities for theater artists to practice their craft separate from the demands of production, as well as give playwrights a chance to see their work interpreted.
The format allows for and encourages those involved to experiment beyond their normal roles. Actors can direct; writers can perform; directors can write.
What have you.
There will be no open discussions or feedback sessions. However, audiences will be encouraged to leave comments, questions, & criticisms – cards & pencils provided. Further feedback may be offered through e-mail and individual conversations.
The series is open to the public. Suggested donation $3-5.
The scheduled playwrights are:
11/4:
Seth Jarvis
Aaron Masi
Steve Goldberg
Geeda Searfoorce
12/16:
Emer Pond Feeney
Bruce Campbell
James Moore
& a directed reading presented by: Chris Caswell & Jordan Gullikson
For more info or to get involved: [email protected]
...follow Playmakers on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/playmakersvermont
Each night will consist of one directed reading and up to three cold readings.
The plays will be no more than 20 pages (or 25 minutes), though excerpts are acceptable.
The plays may be cast in advance, but will not be rehearsed.
All readings will be scheduled in advance.
Each month a different pair of theater artists will volunteer to select one of the cold readings to then present as a directed piece the following month. These playmakers will assemble a cast and team (if necessary) and develop the work – without the playwright’s involvement. The directed readings will provide opportunities for theater artists to practice their craft separate from the demands of production, as well as give playwrights a chance to see their work interpreted.
The format allows for and encourages those involved to experiment beyond their normal roles. Actors can direct; writers can perform; directors can write.
What have you.
There will be no open discussions or feedback sessions. However, audiences will be encouraged to leave comments, questions, & criticisms – cards & pencils provided. Further feedback may be offered through e-mail and individual conversations.
The series is open to the public. Suggested donation $3-5.
The scheduled playwrights are:
11/4:
Seth Jarvis
Aaron Masi
Steve Goldberg
Geeda Searfoorce
12/16:
Emer Pond Feeney
Bruce Campbell
James Moore
& a directed reading presented by: Chris Caswell & Jordan Gullikson
For more info or to get involved: [email protected]
...follow Playmakers on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/playmakersvermont
October 31 through November 3:
STEALING FROM WORK:
Episode II - Son of the Bride of the Shadow Goes to Camp, in 3D!
The Stealing from Work gang is back with a full show of original sketch comedy written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio. Join actors Chris Caswell, Kevin Christopher, Marianne DiMascio, and Geeda Searfoorce for a fast-paced evening of lunacy and lampoonery. With each sketch the actors deftly transform into a different set of extraordinary characters, alternately spoofing contemporary film and culture and the political issues of our time. Stealing from Work’s sophomore production takes on familiar and new topics, all with a local flavor.
October 31st and November 1st at 8:00 p.m., November 2nd at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and November 3rd at 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $15.
Tickets may be purchased by calling 86-FLYNN, online at www.flynntix.org, or at the door.
Additional information is available at www.facebook.com/StealingFromWork.
Leave the kids at home. Stealing from Work is immature humor for mature audiences only.
Photo features Kevin Christopher (top), Geeda
Searfoorce, Chris Caswell, and Marianne DiMascio.
Photo credit: Christopher Ryan
More about Stealing from Work
Albeck and DiMascio recently received a Vermont Arts Endowment Grant from the Vermont Community Foundation. Reactions from the sold-out run of their first production included, “I laughed constantly! The sketches poked great fun at the PC do-goodism of privileged white Vermonters and, overall, a sort of wry and ridiculous (and completely outrageous!!) postmodern feminism,” and “Thank you for being so brilliant, poignant, and naming all of the everyday absurdities we regularly fail to acknowledge. YES YES YES!”
October 31st and November 1st at 8:00 p.m., November 2nd at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and November 3rd at 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $15.
Tickets may be purchased by calling 86-FLYNN, online at www.flynntix.org, or at the door.
Additional information is available at www.facebook.com/StealingFromWork.
Leave the kids at home. Stealing from Work is immature humor for mature audiences only.
Photo features Kevin Christopher (top), Geeda
Searfoorce, Chris Caswell, and Marianne DiMascio.
Photo credit: Christopher Ryan
More about Stealing from Work
Albeck and DiMascio recently received a Vermont Arts Endowment Grant from the Vermont Community Foundation. Reactions from the sold-out run of their first production included, “I laughed constantly! The sketches poked great fun at the PC do-goodism of privileged white Vermonters and, overall, a sort of wry and ridiculous (and completely outrageous!!) postmodern feminism,” and “Thank you for being so brilliant, poignant, and naming all of the everyday absurdities we regularly fail to acknowledge. YES YES YES!”
October 9-12:
PresentsGoldberg & Campbell
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What the Press Has Said:
"Girdich and MacPhail execute the work skillfully...Dostie’s and Masi’s [are]...skilled physical actors who energize Goldberg’s solid direction."
- Erik Esckilsen, Seven Days (read the article HERE)
"Burlington’s most prolific and respected playwrights...“Sacred & Profane” provides a sweet-and-sour note showing the range of theater in general and more specifically of Vermont’s playwriting talent."
- Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press (read the article HERE)
"...fascinating and most entertaining theater..."
- Jim Lowe, Times Argus (read the article HERE)
"Girdich and MacPhail execute the work skillfully...Dostie’s and Masi’s [are]...skilled physical actors who energize Goldberg’s solid direction."
- Erik Esckilsen, Seven Days (read the article HERE)
"Burlington’s most prolific and respected playwrights...“Sacred & Profane” provides a sweet-and-sour note showing the range of theater in general and more specifically of Vermont’s playwriting talent."
- Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press (read the article HERE)
"...fascinating and most entertaining theater..."
- Jim Lowe, Times Argus (read the article HERE)
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Don and Tom
by Stephen Goldberg
What is innocence, what is guilt? What is the price to be paid to an unforgiving society, men accused of crimes of passion. You the audience are the jury and judge. How for giving can we be?
and
Cleaning Day
by Maura Campbell
Jenny Greene is a single mother who cleans up after suicides. She arrives at the home of Iona whose terminally ill husband had committed suicide the day before. She is still in shock, but makes the best of this strange experience by offering Jenny her hospitality. As Jenny works her way through the house and the day, she discovers that the story Iona told the police may not be the whole truth, and that in fact they share much more than the tragedy that has brought them together.
Starring Alex Dostie, Aaron Masi, Tracey Girdich, Genevra MacPhail, Ben Ash, and Peter Keegan
Tickets ON SALE NOW at greencandletheatre.com and brownpapertickets.com
For more information visit greencandletheatre.com, call Aaron at (802) 373-1639, or send an e-mail us at [email protected]
by Stephen Goldberg
What is innocence, what is guilt? What is the price to be paid to an unforgiving society, men accused of crimes of passion. You the audience are the jury and judge. How for giving can we be?
and
Cleaning Day
by Maura Campbell
Jenny Greene is a single mother who cleans up after suicides. She arrives at the home of Iona whose terminally ill husband had committed suicide the day before. She is still in shock, but makes the best of this strange experience by offering Jenny her hospitality. As Jenny works her way through the house and the day, she discovers that the story Iona told the police may not be the whole truth, and that in fact they share much more than the tragedy that has brought them together.
Starring Alex Dostie, Aaron Masi, Tracey Girdich, Genevra MacPhail, Ben Ash, and Peter Keegan
Tickets ON SALE NOW at greencandletheatre.com and brownpapertickets.com
For more information visit greencandletheatre.com, call Aaron at (802) 373-1639, or send an e-mail us at [email protected]
September 12-22:
Presents
produced by Jess Wilson & Kevin Christopher
Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 12-14 and 19-21, at 7:30 p.m.
with Saturday & Sunday Matinees (Sept. 14, 15, 21, & 22) at 2 p.m.
“The production is a cascade of fascinating theatrical
effects…their dexterity in accomplishing it all is magnificent to watch.”
– Alex Brown, Seven Days
"...a fast-paced ride with plenty of comedy along the way."
- Erin McIntyre, BroadwayWorld.com
"Caswell [is]...possibly the city’s most versatile stage performer"
- Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press
The Puppet Shoppe is a two-person, many-puppet play set in the near future. As authorities collect all books in existence to create a comprehensive database of knowledge, two puppet shop owners find themselves in possession of the last book in existence, and must decide whether or not to turn it in. But can they trust the authorities? Can they even trust one another? Directed by Jordan Gullikson, The Puppet Shoppe is recommended for audience members ages 14 and up.
Tickets on sale now at 802-86-FLYNN / www.flynntix.org
with Saturday & Sunday Matinees (Sept. 14, 15, 21, & 22) at 2 p.m.
“The production is a cascade of fascinating theatrical
effects…their dexterity in accomplishing it all is magnificent to watch.”
– Alex Brown, Seven Days
"...a fast-paced ride with plenty of comedy along the way."
- Erin McIntyre, BroadwayWorld.com
"Caswell [is]...possibly the city’s most versatile stage performer"
- Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press
The Puppet Shoppe is a two-person, many-puppet play set in the near future. As authorities collect all books in existence to create a comprehensive database of knowledge, two puppet shop owners find themselves in possession of the last book in existence, and must decide whether or not to turn it in. But can they trust the authorities? Can they even trust one another? Directed by Jordan Gullikson, The Puppet Shoppe is recommended for audience members ages 14 and up.
Tickets on sale now at 802-86-FLYNN / www.flynntix.org
June 22, 23, 29, and 30:
For actors and those who want to explore acting:
The Meisner Acting Workshop
Beginners Meisner Technique Class
“Acting is not an imitation of life, but a greater truth.”
--Sanford Meisner
Consists of 4 afternoons (Total hours of instruction: 20).
Total Cost: $225 ($100 Nonrefundable deposit will reserve a space in the workshop. The remainder will be paid on the first morning of the workshop. Or you can pay in full by check or by Paypal).
You can also mail a check or cash to: Carole Zucker, 139 Fire Pond Road, Charlotte, VT, 05445.
Remember, classes fill up quickly!
Dates/Times: June 22, 23, 29, and 30 (Saturdays/Sundays, 12-5)
Location: Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Suite 116C Burlington, VT 05401
Contact: Workshop Instructor, Carole Zucker.
Website: www.actingworkshops.info.
E-mail address: [email protected].
If you drop me a line, I will be happy to discuss the technique in more detail. The registration form is on the website.
You can also phone me at: (802) 425 4936 to discuss the workshop.
THE TECHNIQUE:
Sanford Meisner was an American actor/teacher who began his career with the Group Theatre in the 1930s. He eventually formed the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, considered to be one of the finest acting schools in the world. Meisner created a technique that develops the actor’s instincts, sharpens their sensitivities, and enriches the actor’s most important tool, their imagination. The technique begins with “the repetition exercise,” a deceptively simple improvisatory exercise based on listening and responding to your partner in the moment. In each class, different elements—circumstances, character and location, and the performance of various “activities” (such as handling objects) are added to the basic structure of the exercise. Meisner work is an excellent technique for increasing an actor’s spontaneity, essential to actors working in any
medium—film, theater and television. The technique also eliminates self-consciousness, which is helpful both as an actor and in your life. You
do not need experience as an actor to take this workshop, just a sense of commitment to the process.
THE INSTRUCTOR:
Carole Zucker has been called “Montreal’s Acting Guru” (Montreal Mirror), and a “Muse for Aspiring Actors” in The Citizen. She taught Cinema Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) for over thirty years, and her area of expertise is performance. Zucker was the first university professor in Canada to design a course specifically devoted to film acting. She will resume teaching acting to Film Production students at Champlain College in Burlington this coming year.
Dr. Zucker is a trained actor, having studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Uta Hagen at the HB Studios, both in New York City. She has performed in numerous off-off Broadway productions and in regional theatre throughout North America. Zucker has previously taught a workshop in
Montreal since the 1990s and in Burlington, courses on The Meisner Technique and Scene Study at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Off Center for Dramatic Arts.
She is the author of seven books, including Figures of Light (Plenum, 1995,) which features interviews with 21 American actors and directors, including Tommy Lee Jones; John Lithgow; Sydney Pollack; Christine Lahti, et al. This was followed by In the Company of Actors (A & C Black, 1999), a collection of interviews with 16 British and Irish actors including Dame Helen Mirren; Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Alan Bates, Stephen Rea; Fiona Shaw; Janet McTeer; Helen Mirren; Simon Callow, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Miranda Richardson. She has spent the better part of three decades studying and teaching acting in North America and in England, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the acting process. Conversations with Actors on Film, Television and Stage Performance, a collection of actor interviews (Heinemann Drama, 2002). Zucker published The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival with Wallflower Press (London, 2008), and her book Interviews: Neil Jordan has recently been published by The University of Mississippi Press. She is the winner of numerous arts grants from the Canadian government for her work on performance. Zucker has just received a fellowship to study the archives at The University of Texas at Austin, of the famous acting teacher Stella Adler, for a biography called The Work of Stella Adler: Teacher, Philosopher, and Creator.
“Acting is not an imitation of life, but a greater truth.”
--Sanford Meisner
Consists of 4 afternoons (Total hours of instruction: 20).
Total Cost: $225 ($100 Nonrefundable deposit will reserve a space in the workshop. The remainder will be paid on the first morning of the workshop. Or you can pay in full by check or by Paypal).
You can also mail a check or cash to: Carole Zucker, 139 Fire Pond Road, Charlotte, VT, 05445.
Remember, classes fill up quickly!
Dates/Times: June 22, 23, 29, and 30 (Saturdays/Sundays, 12-5)
Location: Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Suite 116C Burlington, VT 05401
Contact: Workshop Instructor, Carole Zucker.
Website: www.actingworkshops.info.
E-mail address: [email protected].
If you drop me a line, I will be happy to discuss the technique in more detail. The registration form is on the website.
You can also phone me at: (802) 425 4936 to discuss the workshop.
THE TECHNIQUE:
Sanford Meisner was an American actor/teacher who began his career with the Group Theatre in the 1930s. He eventually formed the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, considered to be one of the finest acting schools in the world. Meisner created a technique that develops the actor’s instincts, sharpens their sensitivities, and enriches the actor’s most important tool, their imagination. The technique begins with “the repetition exercise,” a deceptively simple improvisatory exercise based on listening and responding to your partner in the moment. In each class, different elements—circumstances, character and location, and the performance of various “activities” (such as handling objects) are added to the basic structure of the exercise. Meisner work is an excellent technique for increasing an actor’s spontaneity, essential to actors working in any
medium—film, theater and television. The technique also eliminates self-consciousness, which is helpful both as an actor and in your life. You
do not need experience as an actor to take this workshop, just a sense of commitment to the process.
THE INSTRUCTOR:
Carole Zucker has been called “Montreal’s Acting Guru” (Montreal Mirror), and a “Muse for Aspiring Actors” in The Citizen. She taught Cinema Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) for over thirty years, and her area of expertise is performance. Zucker was the first university professor in Canada to design a course specifically devoted to film acting. She will resume teaching acting to Film Production students at Champlain College in Burlington this coming year.
Dr. Zucker is a trained actor, having studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Uta Hagen at the HB Studios, both in New York City. She has performed in numerous off-off Broadway productions and in regional theatre throughout North America. Zucker has previously taught a workshop in
Montreal since the 1990s and in Burlington, courses on The Meisner Technique and Scene Study at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Off Center for Dramatic Arts.
She is the author of seven books, including Figures of Light (Plenum, 1995,) which features interviews with 21 American actors and directors, including Tommy Lee Jones; John Lithgow; Sydney Pollack; Christine Lahti, et al. This was followed by In the Company of Actors (A & C Black, 1999), a collection of interviews with 16 British and Irish actors including Dame Helen Mirren; Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Alan Bates, Stephen Rea; Fiona Shaw; Janet McTeer; Helen Mirren; Simon Callow, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Miranda Richardson. She has spent the better part of three decades studying and teaching acting in North America and in England, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the acting process. Conversations with Actors on Film, Television and Stage Performance, a collection of actor interviews (Heinemann Drama, 2002). Zucker published The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival with Wallflower Press (London, 2008), and her book Interviews: Neil Jordan has recently been published by The University of Mississippi Press. She is the winner of numerous arts grants from the Canadian government for her work on performance. Zucker has just received a fellowship to study the archives at The University of Texas at Austin, of the famous acting teacher Stella Adler, for a biography called The Work of Stella Adler: Teacher, Philosopher, and Creator.
June 6 - 15:
Off center and no walls
present
Waiting for Angels
Image by John Douglas
Conceived by Stephen Goldberg
Staged by Allan Nicholls
With: Charles Papasoff, R. Bill Gagnon, Stephen Goldberg, Paul Schnabel, and Genevra MacPhail
June 6–8 (Thurs–Sat) and June 12–15 (Wed–Sat), 2013; All shows 8 PM.
From the Playwright: “This is not a “play,” more like a happening, bringing artists together to make a new form of performance. It’s a dedication to the lost ones, the ones on the other side in this rain drop of a life and the ones waiting to be there, in no-place. No Walls means transparent, without geometry, mystical, avoiding logic, and The Off Center is a place to experiment, take chances, fly on the magic of angels and devils. Every moment is danger and possible bliss, with its sex, love, terror, and intoxication.”
Come to Off Center for the Dramatic Arts to experience this trans-arts event!
Tickets, $15.00 at the door (check or cash only), or purchase in advance online at Brown Paper Tickets by clicking the button below.
Staged by Allan Nicholls
With: Charles Papasoff, R. Bill Gagnon, Stephen Goldberg, Paul Schnabel, and Genevra MacPhail
June 6–8 (Thurs–Sat) and June 12–15 (Wed–Sat), 2013; All shows 8 PM.
From the Playwright: “This is not a “play,” more like a happening, bringing artists together to make a new form of performance. It’s a dedication to the lost ones, the ones on the other side in this rain drop of a life and the ones waiting to be there, in no-place. No Walls means transparent, without geometry, mystical, avoiding logic, and The Off Center is a place to experiment, take chances, fly on the magic of angels and devils. Every moment is danger and possible bliss, with its sex, love, terror, and intoxication.”
Come to Off Center for the Dramatic Arts to experience this trans-arts event!
Tickets, $15.00 at the door (check or cash only), or purchase in advance online at Brown Paper Tickets by clicking the button below.
David Schein's Daring comedy,
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Schein says: I was sketching out solo shows in the Berkeley studio and wanted to do a riff in which I was a woman, so I got on a bra and a dress and started trying to move as if I had a woman’s body, and to speak as if I was a woman – whatever that means. Immediately I became the biggest “queen” you could imagine, meaning a gay stereotype. But that didn’t fit either, this was San Francisco in the eighties, I had a lot of gay friends, they weren’t all queens, some acted and looked more “manly” than straight old me, so where did that leave me trying to play a woman? Then I realized that there were a lot of different flavors of gender in a person just waiting to come out, gay, straight, male, female, butch, top, bottom and more - and that everybody was their own unique cocktail of sexual identities. In one afternoon I thought up a story tying together all the personas within me and all the self-awareness trends of the time. I improvised the show that night. The rest is Butch history.
Note from Earth:
"A swan song for the planet..."
– Chicago Tribune
"...an extended performance poem on the nature of love, the earth, and the universe. ...rich images and language."
– Chicago Reader
Schein says: A 15 minute, lyrical, funny and sad obituary for the ‘barbecued cue ball” that Nisbet calls Earth, full of physics, wry sci-fi and winsome yearning for an evaporated girlfriend who is “such a gas.” Jim wrote “Note” and I first performed it in 1983 long before the term “global warming” was ever coined. Now, after 30+ years, revisiting it, I find its relevance astonishing and spooky, while the language is star-struck, as sweet and beautiful as “points and specs of light against a deep black and blue universe.”
Warning: “Out Comes Butch” has sexual content and language that may offend - for mature audiences only.
Admission: $12 cash or check at the door.
Note from Earth:
"A swan song for the planet..."
– Chicago Tribune
"...an extended performance poem on the nature of love, the earth, and the universe. ...rich images and language."
– Chicago Reader
Schein says: A 15 minute, lyrical, funny and sad obituary for the ‘barbecued cue ball” that Nisbet calls Earth, full of physics, wry sci-fi and winsome yearning for an evaporated girlfriend who is “such a gas.” Jim wrote “Note” and I first performed it in 1983 long before the term “global warming” was ever coined. Now, after 30+ years, revisiting it, I find its relevance astonishing and spooky, while the language is star-struck, as sweet and beautiful as “points and specs of light against a deep black and blue universe.”
Warning: “Out Comes Butch” has sexual content and language that may offend - for mature audiences only.
Admission: $12 cash or check at the door.
Potato Sack Pants Theater Presents
HAG FEST 2013!
Henry Allen Gordon was born on September 24th 2012! It's time to celebrate his arrival with a new show! Come on down to Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington, and see Potato Sack Pants Theater perform ALL NEW sketches and enjoy the artists market before the show!
May 17th (Friday) & May 18th (Saturday)
7PM to 8PM ~ Art Reception
8PM to 10PM ~ HAG FEST SHOW
Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/323604
May 17th (Friday) & May 18th (Saturday)
7PM to 8PM ~ Art Reception
8PM to 10PM ~ HAG FEST SHOW
Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/323604
Heat & Hot Water Productions is proud to present...
Gruesome Playground Injuries
by Rajiv Joseph
Director by Mark Alan Gordon
Gruesome Playground Injuries is a peculiar, hilarious, yet deeply moving love story. Like gauze from a wound, it unwraps the tender moments when two lives intersect. Spanning 30 years, from a middle school dance, to an errant fireworks incident, to the wake of an uncaring parent, Kayleen and Doug continually hurt and heal themselves and each other. With an unlikely combination of snappy dialogue and horrifying accidents, this play cuts into and reveals the gross and icky business of love and life.
"...two brilliant performances that create some of the darkest and funniest moments you will ever see on stage." -Alex Brown, Seven Days
“It turns out two good actors and a fascinating script about the power of friendship is all you really need.” -Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press
Dates/Times:
Thursday, May 2 - Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. Saturday matinee)
Wednesday, May 8 - Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. Saturday matinee)
Tickets:
$20 general, $15 students at the door (cash/check only) or online at Brown Paper Tickets
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Theatre Mosaic Mond
presents
ASTERION
by Diego Mattos
A labyrinth of dreams and myth, time and the infinite, solitude and spleen. Asterion is one the names given to the Minotaur, the mythological figure half man half bull, condemned to spend his days trapped in a well-designed labyrinth. However, what happens when the labyrinth turns into a waiting room, and the myth into the body of an immigrant? Asterion talks about existing in two places: past and present, dreams and memory, joy and fear. And with the help of Jorge Luis Borges, the play also inquires deeply about solitude, frustration, utopias and the numberless contradictions that form our own labyrinths and stories.” Follow Asterion at www.theatremosaicmond.net.
April 19, 20, 21. Times: All shows: 8:00 PM.
Ticket price: $14 unique price. Buy tickets NOW on line at: http://asterion.brownpapertickets.com, or at www.theatremosaicmond.net, or at the door 30 minutes before the performance.
April 19, 20, 21. Times: All shows: 8:00 PM.
Ticket price: $14 unique price. Buy tickets NOW on line at: http://asterion.brownpapertickets.com, or at www.theatremosaicmond.net, or at the door 30 minutes before the performance.
Dennis McSorley
presents
Who Made Me?
Written and performed by Dennis McSorley
March 22 & 23, 2013
Actor/storyteller Dennis McSorley returns to Off Center with his solo performance, Who Made Me? Touching the heart of doubt and faith that we all explore, it is both funny and moving.
The remounting of Who Made Me? arises from the enthusiastic audience response following its debut in October of 2012. Those responses included such comments as:
"Incredible belly laughs..."
"Found myself nodding 'yes' and grinning ear to ear." and
"Many opportunities to pause and reflect on big issues close to the heart."
Shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 22 & 23, 2013.
Tickets are only $10 (cash/check only) at the Off Center box office.
Actor/storyteller Dennis McSorley returns to Off Center with his solo performance, Who Made Me? Touching the heart of doubt and faith that we all explore, it is both funny and moving.
The remounting of Who Made Me? arises from the enthusiastic audience response following its debut in October of 2012. Those responses included such comments as:
"Incredible belly laughs..."
"Found myself nodding 'yes' and grinning ear to ear." and
"Many opportunities to pause and reflect on big issues close to the heart."
Shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 22 & 23, 2013.
Tickets are only $10 (cash/check only) at the Off Center box office.
Future Wave presents
MY COUNTRY IS THE WORLD AND THE WORLD IS MY STAGE
A One Man Show by World Citizen #1 Garry Davis
Produced and Directed by Arthur Kanegis
PERFORMED LIVE IN FRENCH & IN ENGLISH
Fri. March 8th at 7 p.m. in English & Sun. March 10th at 2 p.m. in French
COME & BE FILMED FOR THE FINAL SCENES IN A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY!
IN ENGLISH: Friday March 8th,
6:30 sign-in & snacks.
7:00 PM Show Starts
IN FRENCH: Sunday March 10th,
1:30 sign-in & snacks
2:00 PM Show Starts
Please arrive early -- no entry while show in progress
Ticket price: Free, but suggested donation is $5
Only 50 seats – priority to those who arrive before 6:45pm and RSVP to
[email protected]
A song and dance man from the Golden Age of Broadway, now in his 90s, returns to the stage to enthrall us with his astounding journey from the Broadway Stage, as Danny Kaye’s understudy, to the World Stage, as the first official World Citizen. Garry Davis’ true life story cuts through the barbed-wire borders imprisoning our minds and takes us dancing into a future with… No Borders! No Boundaries! No Fear!
Q & A- MEET FILM DIRECTOR ARTHUR KANEGIS, producer of the documentary & forthcoming feature film.
See his award-winning short at www.onefilms.com
The performance and audience will be filmed by Dreamlike Pictures for Kanegis’ forthcoming documentary.
ATTENDANCE CONSTITUTES PERMISSION TO BE FILMED.
NO AUDIENCE CAMERAS!
SNEAK PREVIEW: You are invited to a private Work-In-Progress Free Screening of the documentary, Tuesday March 5th, 8:30 PM at North End Studio B (next to OffCenter)
“Elegant and delicious storytelling! It plunges me into history – forties' and fifties' Broadway, Postwar Europe, Camus, Einstein, Roosevelt and the birth of the UN. I couldn’t believe I'd never heard of Garry. His story must be told… a riveting heroic tale with resonance for our time: a troubled war veteran using his thespian skills in a nonviolent battle to save his soul, the planet, and all humanity.” -- Mimi Kennedy, Actor (Midnight in Paris, Dharma & Greg, Erin Brockovich.)
VOLUNTEERS & MOVIE EXTRAS NEEDED. PLEASE CONTACT:
Georgette Garbes Putzel “Theatre MosaicMond” [email protected]
A Production of FutureWAVE, Inc., a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Educational Organization
Fri. March 8th at 7 p.m. in English & Sun. March 10th at 2 p.m. in French
COME & BE FILMED FOR THE FINAL SCENES IN A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY!
IN ENGLISH: Friday March 8th,
6:30 sign-in & snacks.
7:00 PM Show Starts
IN FRENCH: Sunday March 10th,
1:30 sign-in & snacks
2:00 PM Show Starts
Please arrive early -- no entry while show in progress
Ticket price: Free, but suggested donation is $5
Only 50 seats – priority to those who arrive before 6:45pm and RSVP to
[email protected]
A song and dance man from the Golden Age of Broadway, now in his 90s, returns to the stage to enthrall us with his astounding journey from the Broadway Stage, as Danny Kaye’s understudy, to the World Stage, as the first official World Citizen. Garry Davis’ true life story cuts through the barbed-wire borders imprisoning our minds and takes us dancing into a future with… No Borders! No Boundaries! No Fear!
Q & A- MEET FILM DIRECTOR ARTHUR KANEGIS, producer of the documentary & forthcoming feature film.
See his award-winning short at www.onefilms.com
The performance and audience will be filmed by Dreamlike Pictures for Kanegis’ forthcoming documentary.
ATTENDANCE CONSTITUTES PERMISSION TO BE FILMED.
NO AUDIENCE CAMERAS!
SNEAK PREVIEW: You are invited to a private Work-In-Progress Free Screening of the documentary, Tuesday March 5th, 8:30 PM at North End Studio B (next to OffCenter)
“Elegant and delicious storytelling! It plunges me into history – forties' and fifties' Broadway, Postwar Europe, Camus, Einstein, Roosevelt and the birth of the UN. I couldn’t believe I'd never heard of Garry. His story must be told… a riveting heroic tale with resonance for our time: a troubled war veteran using his thespian skills in a nonviolent battle to save his soul, the planet, and all humanity.” -- Mimi Kennedy, Actor (Midnight in Paris, Dharma & Greg, Erin Brockovich.)
VOLUNTEERS & MOVIE EXTRAS NEEDED. PLEASE CONTACT:
Georgette Garbes Putzel “Theatre MosaicMond” [email protected]
A Production of FutureWAVE, Inc., a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Educational Organization
In House Productions presents
winds of change
by Lesley Becker
Winds of Change is a drama about a family transformed as wind energy towers go up on a mountain ridge. Written by Vermont playwright Lesley Becker, the play is set in a town enmeshed in heated controversy as their rural community undergoes momentous changes during construction of a large-scale utility project.
The play examines the impact on the lives of families living close by the wind towers, and the tension between competing values. Community integrity and a beloved way of life are weighed against the looming threat of climate change and the real need for renewable energy.
Each character has hopes and dreams - the new neighboring wind power utility impacts their future in unimaginable ways.
Annette Smith, executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment describes the play as having “powerful insights into a changing landscape”.
This production features Bob Carmody as the father, Emily Lyons as the daughter, Karen Geiger as the neighbor, Charles Yarwood as the son, Mary Scripps as the company representative, Jayden Choquette as the returning veteran and Johannes Garrett as the town board chair. Please note: the production will have flashing lights.
Tickets $12 at the door tickets (cash or check only) or in advance at http://windsofchange.brownpapertickets.com (online tickets, $13.41).
Box office opens at 7:00 p.m.
Like Winds of Change on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/WindsOfChangeAPlay
The play examines the impact on the lives of families living close by the wind towers, and the tension between competing values. Community integrity and a beloved way of life are weighed against the looming threat of climate change and the real need for renewable energy.
Each character has hopes and dreams - the new neighboring wind power utility impacts their future in unimaginable ways.
Annette Smith, executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment describes the play as having “powerful insights into a changing landscape”.
This production features Bob Carmody as the father, Emily Lyons as the daughter, Karen Geiger as the neighbor, Charles Yarwood as the son, Mary Scripps as the company representative, Jayden Choquette as the returning veteran and Johannes Garrett as the town board chair. Please note: the production will have flashing lights.
Tickets $12 at the door tickets (cash or check only) or in advance at http://windsofchange.brownpapertickets.com (online tickets, $13.41).
Box office opens at 7:00 p.m.
Like Winds of Change on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/WindsOfChangeAPlay
Pathways Vermont
Presents
Six Billion Utopias
A collaborative performance about gender and mental health
Saturday, February 2, 8:00 pm
This performance was created from interviews about the ways the mental health system affects how we experience gender. It explores the experiences of a diverse cast of characters as they navigate these complicated issues. Originally created in Oregon, this staged reading features actors from the Brattleboro area queer community.
Presented by Pathways Vermont.
Tickets: $15 suggested donation
Call (888) 492-8218 for reservations or online at pathwaysvermont.org/six-billion-utopias.html
Green Mountain cabaret – January Spectacular
Neo-Burlesque at It's best
Saturday, January 26th, 7:30 & 10 p.m. (Both shows are 18+)
Tickets: ADVANCE TICKETS SOLD OUT! A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR, $15
The mercury may be dipping into the negatives, but our weather girls are predicting an unseasonable heat wave at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts on Saturday January 26th. With two shows at 7:30 & 10pm, Alexa Luthor and her Sugar Shakers are back to bring sizzle and sass to the stage in Green Mountain Cabaret’s monthly Neo-Burlesque Spectacular.
The Sugar Shakers and the Peepers Boys will be welcoming their special guests: Comedians Jen Pearson and Dustin Bruley, improv troupe People with Faces, break dancing sensation Kyle Airwalker, and the sultry tones of Rosita LaVoz. So wipe off your feet and come into the heat for a steamy treat that’s sure to fog up your glasses as you Enjoy the View!
Remember, these shows are 18+ so leave the kids at home. For more information go to http://www.greenmountaincabaret.com. This will be an evening that promises to be both tantalizing and toasty.
Vermont’s hottest new neo-burlesque variety show, Green Mountain Cabaret is the brain-child of Chicago burlesque sensation, Vermont native, and "Kryptonite to Clothing," Alexa Luthor. She and the Sugar Shakers are bringing cabaret into the 21st century with a flash of legs, lyrics, and laughs.
Glitz, Glamor, Guffaws, and more abound in this cabaret that reminds you how fantastically fun burlesque can be. Green Mountain Cabaret will warm the cockles of your heart (and other areas). And remember, when you visit Green Mountain Cabaret, Enjoy the View!
Tickets: ADVANCE TICKETS SOLD OUT! A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR, $15
The mercury may be dipping into the negatives, but our weather girls are predicting an unseasonable heat wave at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts on Saturday January 26th. With two shows at 7:30 & 10pm, Alexa Luthor and her Sugar Shakers are back to bring sizzle and sass to the stage in Green Mountain Cabaret’s monthly Neo-Burlesque Spectacular.
The Sugar Shakers and the Peepers Boys will be welcoming their special guests: Comedians Jen Pearson and Dustin Bruley, improv troupe People with Faces, break dancing sensation Kyle Airwalker, and the sultry tones of Rosita LaVoz. So wipe off your feet and come into the heat for a steamy treat that’s sure to fog up your glasses as you Enjoy the View!
Remember, these shows are 18+ so leave the kids at home. For more information go to http://www.greenmountaincabaret.com. This will be an evening that promises to be both tantalizing and toasty.
Vermont’s hottest new neo-burlesque variety show, Green Mountain Cabaret is the brain-child of Chicago burlesque sensation, Vermont native, and "Kryptonite to Clothing," Alexa Luthor. She and the Sugar Shakers are bringing cabaret into the 21st century with a flash of legs, lyrics, and laughs.
Glitz, Glamor, Guffaws, and more abound in this cabaret that reminds you how fantastically fun burlesque can be. Green Mountain Cabaret will warm the cockles of your heart (and other areas). And remember, when you visit Green Mountain Cabaret, Enjoy the View!
