2015
oc@oc season closer!
new england theater lab presents:
Thieves of darkness
Saints & Poets Production Company brings you
A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail
The Saints & Poets Production Company (Winnie-the-Pooh, Charlotte’s Web) presents a musical adaptation of one of A.A. Milne's famous tales of the "bear of very little brain." It's Christmas Eve in Hundred-Acre Wood and old gray donkey Eeyore is absolutely miserable. It seems he's lost his tail and Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Christopher Robin, and all the rest join together to find it and give their friend a Merry Christmas. Brought to life with a combination of live actors and puppets by the Burlington area’s acclaimed puppet theatre company, A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail is suitable for all ages.
12/5 10 am, 2:00 and 6:00 pm
12/6 10 am and 2:00 pm
12/12 10 am, 2:00 and 6:00 pm
12/13 10 am and 2:00 pm
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12/5 10 am, 2:00 and 6:00 pm
12/6 10 am and 2:00 pm
12/12 10 am, 2:00 and 6:00 pm
12/13 10 am and 2:00 pm
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Schein on
selections from theatre works 1973-2015
Friday & Saturday, 11/27 & 11/28 at 8 pm
Sunday, 11/29 at 2 pm
For the past forty years, working with artists ranging from from Whoopi Goldberg to Guillermo Gomez-Peña to street performers in Ethiopia, David Schein has created over 25 original theater works ranging from solo pieces to 60 person operas to “straight plays” to audience-based improvisations to language based performance poems.
In November 2015, at Off Center for The Dramatic Arts in Burlington, Schein, will preview a retrospective selection of past works which will include songs, monologues, scenes and improvisations from Distraction, Note from Earth, TOKENS: A Play on the Plague (music written with Candace Natvig) MYethiOPIA, Out Comes Butch, Infarcation, My Murder, The Last Word , (written with Whoopi Goldberg), Hotball (written with Geof Hewitt), Stones, Chismo, and Life is Not A Country Western Song.
Performances will be Friday through Sunday November 27-29 Thursdays through Saturdays at 8PM.
Admission $8 student, $15 adult,
tickets at Brownpapertickets and at the door.
information/reservations at 716-640-4639 or
[email protected].
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In November 2015, at Off Center for The Dramatic Arts in Burlington, Schein, will preview a retrospective selection of past works which will include songs, monologues, scenes and improvisations from Distraction, Note from Earth, TOKENS: A Play on the Plague (music written with Candace Natvig) MYethiOPIA, Out Comes Butch, Infarcation, My Murder, The Last Word , (written with Whoopi Goldberg), Hotball (written with Geof Hewitt), Stones, Chismo, and Life is Not A Country Western Song.
Performances will be Friday through Sunday November 27-29 Thursdays through Saturdays at 8PM.
Admission $8 student, $15 adult,
tickets at Brownpapertickets and at the door.
information/reservations at 716-640-4639 or
[email protected].
Small Potatoes Theater Company is committed to creating and producing enlivening theater with an emphasis on the original and obscure. Co-directors Pamela Formica and Emer Pond Feeney are long-time creators/performers in the local theater, music, dance, and literary scenes, and you have probably seen them somewhere before.
Women’s Fictions, written and directed by Emer, is a one-act play revolving around Mary Shelley and her stepsister Claire Clairmont and a pair of their modern-day analogues, as well as the publishing industry, the complexities of ambition, and the creation of family memory through storytelling. Small Potatoes Theater Company is excited to bring this original multi-media theater piece to the Off Center stage for the first time in November of 2015 as part of its inaugural season of Original Content.
Showtimes:
Thursday, November 12 7:30 pm
Friday, November 13 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 14 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 15 1:30 pm
Thursday, November 19 7:30 pm
Friday, November 20 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 21 7:30 pm
Ticket prices: $12 evening $10 matinee
Tickets are on sale at BrownPaperTickets.com
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Women’s Fictions, written and directed by Emer, is a one-act play revolving around Mary Shelley and her stepsister Claire Clairmont and a pair of their modern-day analogues, as well as the publishing industry, the complexities of ambition, and the creation of family memory through storytelling. Small Potatoes Theater Company is excited to bring this original multi-media theater piece to the Off Center stage for the first time in November of 2015 as part of its inaugural season of Original Content.
Showtimes:
Thursday, November 12 7:30 pm
Friday, November 13 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 14 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 15 1:30 pm
Thursday, November 19 7:30 pm
Friday, November 20 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 21 7:30 pm
Ticket prices: $12 evening $10 matinee
Tickets are on sale at BrownPaperTickets.com
We think it would be, like, totally rad if you'd come to our party. Our parents are gonna be out of town, and all the coolest sketches will be there.
"Seven Minutes in Heaven:
I'm, Like, Totally Crushing on the Best of Stealing from Work"
October 29th - November 1st
Starring Cael Barkman, Chris Caswell, Kevin Christopher, Marianne DiMascio, Jory Raphael, and Geeda Searfoorce.
Direction and Sound Design by Jess Wilson
Stage Manager - Jessica Bernard
Written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio.
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"Seven Minutes in Heaven:
I'm, Like, Totally Crushing on the Best of Stealing from Work"
October 29th - November 1st
Starring Cael Barkman, Chris Caswell, Kevin Christopher, Marianne DiMascio, Jory Raphael, and Geeda Searfoorce.
Direction and Sound Design by Jess Wilson
Stage Manager - Jessica Bernard
Written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio.
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Stealing from work presents:
"Seven Minutes in Heaven:
I'm, Like, Totally Crushing on the Best of Stealing from Work"
2015 archive
Year one oc@oc
Theatre MosaicMond and OC@OC presents:
Fantasia De colores
written by Maura campbell directed by Georgette Garbès Putzel
Fantasia De colores is a new play by Vermont award winning playwright Maura Campbell. A fantasy with dark spots staged experimentally by Georgette Garbès Putzel at Theatre MosaicMond.
Dates: October 18 and 22, 23, 24, 25.
Time: All shows at 8:00 PM
Tickets at theatremosaicmond.brownpapertickets.com and at the door.
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Marabo presents:
Marabo Productions presents
The Death of Rosie Callaghan
VT playwright Jeanne Beckwith’s full-length original dark comedy
about what happens between once-close friends when old secrets are revealed,
October 2-4 and October 8-11 at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington.
Set in Lynn, Massachusetts, The Death of Rosie Callaghan examines the aftermath of
the long-ago death of a teenaged boy and the recent death of a woman central to the
lives of the characters. After hearing that neighbor Rosie Callaghan has died, a
hairdresser, Jimmy Grace, steals a mail truck. That’s how some people mourn.
“Can secrets go to the grave with you?” asks Dennis McSorley, who plays the part of
Red Dolan. “What happens in Rosie Callaghan’s house stays in Rosie Callaghan’s
house—or does it? Even if you keep your mouth shut, there’s always talk and everyone
‘hears’ things.”
Written and Directed by Jeanne Beckwith, an award-winning playwright whose plays
have been performed in New York, Boston, and throughout the U.S. Her full-length play A War Story at the Rialto was produced by the State Theater of Turkey for extended runs in Ankora and Istanbul. She teaches at Norwich University and lives in Roxbury, VT.
The Death of Rosie Callaghan
VT playwright Jeanne Beckwith’s full-length original dark comedy
about what happens between once-close friends when old secrets are revealed,
October 2-4 and October 8-11 at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington.
Set in Lynn, Massachusetts, The Death of Rosie Callaghan examines the aftermath of
the long-ago death of a teenaged boy and the recent death of a woman central to the
lives of the characters. After hearing that neighbor Rosie Callaghan has died, a
hairdresser, Jimmy Grace, steals a mail truck. That’s how some people mourn.
“Can secrets go to the grave with you?” asks Dennis McSorley, who plays the part of
Red Dolan. “What happens in Rosie Callaghan’s house stays in Rosie Callaghan’s
house—or does it? Even if you keep your mouth shut, there’s always talk and everyone
‘hears’ things.”
Written and Directed by Jeanne Beckwith, an award-winning playwright whose plays
have been performed in New York, Boston, and throughout the U.S. Her full-length play A War Story at the Rialto was produced by the State Theater of Turkey for extended runs in Ankora and Istanbul. She teaches at Norwich University and lives in Roxbury, VT.
Can I buy you a cup of coffee? Are our lives extraordinary? Mundane? Are even the simplest aspects of existence underwritten by a depth, a churning significance? Does everything happen for a reason? What makes a sin? Where is home? Does a sentence need a period? What happens when something is erased? Is there balm? Shall I leave room for cream?
An investigation of how we negotiate the simple and complex, The Question is asking.
John Milton Oliver is a writer, teacher, scholar, and actor living in Burlington, VT. He has written for and performed in a number of theatrical productions and independent films in Vermont and is a founding member of the Howard and Pine Poets.
September 17-19, 24-26 at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, 294 North Winooski Ave, Burlington VT.
Directed by Jordan Gullikson.
Tickets available at: www.greencandletheatre.com or flynntix.org, $10; $12 at the door.
Part of the OC@OC: Season 1.
An investigation of how we negotiate the simple and complex, The Question is asking.
John Milton Oliver is a writer, teacher, scholar, and actor living in Burlington, VT. He has written for and performed in a number of theatrical productions and independent films in Vermont and is a founding member of the Howard and Pine Poets.
September 17-19, 24-26 at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, 294 North Winooski Ave, Burlington VT.
Directed by Jordan Gullikson.
Tickets available at: www.greencandletheatre.com or flynntix.org, $10; $12 at the door.
Part of the OC@OC: Season 1.
Rue Mevlana presents MOTLEY RUE.
The eclectic Rue Mevlana is back this September with Motley Rue, a one-night-only show at the Off Center For The Dramatic Arts on September 5th! Featuring songs from their new album Pop Corn, Motley Rue combines pounding dance tracks, ethereal visuals, and the most original band of misfits this side of Burlington. We've got disco sounds, we've got pop songs, and we've even got a little Greek drama - you never know what to expect when Rue Mevlana takes the stage! With two shows at 7 & 9pm, there's plenty of our uncommon entertainment to go around. Get your tickets now, and we'll see you in September!
Rue Mevlana's live act has been described as....
"infamously salacious live act.... oft-titillating"
&
"glammy electro-pop curiosity Rue Mevlana stand out.... the sinfully sensuous collective with it's Bowie by way of Warhol stage show"
SEVEN DAYS
Two performances! One Night Only!
September 5th 2015
Show begins at 7pm & again at 9pm
$12 in advance. $15 day of show
Get Tickets Here;
http://motleyrue.brownpapertickets.com/
http://m.bpt.me/event/1780253
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Phineaus’ Tāl
Phineaus’ Tāl by Grady Shea is a duel plotline, one-act play set in the not-too-distant future. It explores the outsider and how we treat those with radical ideas. What is now a celebrated or accepted concept was once a new idea and that is not always a seamless change. The play challenges the social structures that reward and demand normalcy and the dystopic setting warns of where stubborn mindedness could lead. Playful as much as it is contemplative, Phineaus' Tāl is appropriate for all audiences.
Cast:
Kevin Boyd
Brendan Collins
Steve Crimy
Bob Fishel
Justin Gentry
Caroline Grossman
Gianna Kiehl
Roberta Nubile
Grady Shea
Alex Spencer
Lighting Design:
Oliver Kiehl
Sound Design:
Kevin Marx
Tix at the door $10 doors open at 7pm
Cast:
Kevin Boyd
Brendan Collins
Steve Crimy
Bob Fishel
Justin Gentry
Caroline Grossman
Gianna Kiehl
Roberta Nubile
Grady Shea
Alex Spencer
Lighting Design:
Oliver Kiehl
Sound Design:
Kevin Marx
Tix at the door $10 doors open at 7pm
By Grady Shea
August 27th, 28th and 29th at 7:30pm
August 27th, 28th and 29th at 7:30pm
The final Playmakers of the season is Monday, 6/29, at 7:30pm and it's going to be a Short Shorts night! Anyone can bring a play that's five pages or fewer and we'll cast and read it right there and then. Plus, in the spirit of Short Shorts night, producers Chris Caswell & Mary Beth McNulty will be presenting directed short excerpts of all three plays from last month: by Carolinne Griffin, G. Richard Ames, & J. Elan Cohen. Hope you can make it! — with Chris Caswell, Joy Kipp, G Richard Ames, Seth Jarvis and Mary Beth McNulty.
Screwed
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Written and Directed by Stephen Goldberg
Cast: Aaron Masi, Alex Dostie, Tobin Jordan, and Ashley Watson May 20-23, 27-30, all shows at 8:00 PM How do we find our hearts, our pain, how can we we fix it? Can we fix it? Leo and Artie are doing their best to overcome their situation. Maybe they just need some women? Is it love, is it friendship, is it sex, is it addiction, is it a belief system, is there a way out, a door to comfort? How can we open that door to freedom, when all else is screwed, hopeless? The best a play can do is leave an audience thinking and feeling, and yes, laughing about the illusion of tragedy, failure, and true friendship. Real plays have a long afterlife. Screwed will do that. No need to tell the story, it needs to be an experience. It will also be a celebration of the publication of Screwed: Five Plays by Stephen Goldberg |
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May 20-23, 27-30, all shows at 8:00 PM
$15 at the door
$15 at the door
This play was first performed in 1997 at the original Off Center on Church St
The Saints & Poets Production Company (The Rocky Horror Puppet Show, The Moreau Horrors) presents an original musical comedy based upon the life of one of history's most infamous rulers. Directed by Seth Jarvis, O, Caligula! A Mvsical features book and lyrics by Kevin Christopher and music by Patricia Julien. This new work mixes a little bit of history, a dash of the cult classic film Caligula and a whole lot of irreverent adult fun to bring Rome's most notorious Caesar to the stage.
O, Caligula! contains lots of adult content and is intended for mature audiences only.
Performances:
04/16/15 7:30 PM
04/17/15 7:30 PM
04/18/15 2:00 PM, 04/18/15 7:30 PM
04/23/15 7:30 PM
04/24/15 7:30 PM
04/25/15 2:00 PM, 04/25/15 7:30 PM
04/30/15 7:30 PM
05/01/15 7:30 PM
05/02/15 2:00 PM, 05/02/15 7:30 PM
Tickets are $20 and are available at flynntix.org or at the door for cash.
This month's Playmakers will be Monday, 3/23, at 7:30pm. New work will be shared by Chris Caswell, Mary Beth McNulty, & Dayton Shafer and a directed reading of a piece by Laura Roald will be presented by Cael Barkman and Kerry Cameron. Should be a great night! Hope you can make it. — with MissKerry Cameron,Chris Caswell, Mary Beth McNulty, Laura Roald,Dayton J Shafer and Cael Barkman.
Typhoon of Tenderness.
Actor Dennis McSorley and musician John Gagne perform a story that is all too real. Starting in joyful youth and ending in despair and possible hope: it is a story of love, loss and the tempest that addiction creates in one life and all those who witness.
A new work, Typhoon of Tenderness was performed at Off Center in November 2014 and returns as part of the OC@OC season.
A new work, Typhoon of Tenderness was performed at Off Center in November 2014 and returns as part of the OC@OC season.
Monday 2/16
This month's Playmakers will be Monday, 2/16, at 7:30pm will feature new work by Genevra MacPhail, Laura Roald, & Geeda Searfoorce as well as a directed reading of a play by Kristofer Fiore presented by Aaron Masi and Dean Dennis. Should be a great night!! — with Kristofer Fiore, Geeda Searfoorce, Laura Roald, Aaron Masi,Genevra MacPhail and Dean Dennis.
STEALING FROM WORK:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Porch Forum
February 4th - 8th, 2015
Wednesday, February 4th - 7:30 p.m.*
Thursday, February 5th - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 6th - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 7th - 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 8th - 4:00 p.m.
Stealing from Work is back with a full show of original sketch comedy written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio. Join actors Cael Barkman, Marianne DiMascio, Jory Raphael, and Sarah Venooker for a fast-paced evening of lunacy and lampoonery. Directed by Seth Jarvis, the actors deftly transform into a different set of extraordinary characters, alternately spoofing contemporary film and culture and the political issues of our time. With sound design by Jess Wilson, Stealing from Work’s production takes on familiar and new topics, all with a local flavor.
Leave the kids at home. Stealing from Work is immature humor for mature audiences only.
Tickets
*Tickets for Wednesday, February 4th, are “pay what you can” and are only available at the door.
For all other performances tickets are $15.
Tickets for performances on February 5th - 8th 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.
Wednesday, February 4th - 7:30 p.m.*
Thursday, February 5th - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 6th - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 7th - 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 8th - 4:00 p.m.
Stealing from Work is back with a full show of original sketch comedy written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio. Join actors Cael Barkman, Marianne DiMascio, Jory Raphael, and Sarah Venooker for a fast-paced evening of lunacy and lampoonery. Directed by Seth Jarvis, the actors deftly transform into a different set of extraordinary characters, alternately spoofing contemporary film and culture and the political issues of our time. With sound design by Jess Wilson, Stealing from Work’s production takes on familiar and new topics, all with a local flavor.
Leave the kids at home. Stealing from Work is immature humor for mature audiences only.
Tickets
*Tickets for Wednesday, February 4th, are “pay what you can” and are only available at the door.
For all other performances tickets are $15.
Tickets for performances on February 5th - 8th 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.
OC@OC season openers Mickey Western and company in the house starting friday!
