www.BoulderEnsembleTheatre.org
BETC is proud to announce the casting for the remainder of Season 6.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus
From the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Directed by John Thornberry

Featuring:
James O’Hagen Murphy as Raskolnikov
Chris Kendall as Porfiry
Crystal Verdon as Sonia

Crime and Punishment runs Feb. 18 – March 5, 2011

AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFE DU GRAND BOUEF
by Michael Hollinger
Directed by Rebecca Remaly

Featuring:
John Arp as Victor
Josh Hartwell as Claude
Crystal Verdon as Mimi
Michael Bouchard as Antoine
Bob Buckley as Gaston
Theresa Reid as Miss Berger

Empty Plate runs April 21 – May 7, 2011

Producing Ensemble Director’s Comments: “We are so proud and excited to be bringing this amazing group of new and returning artists to BETC. This reaffirms our commitment to using the best local talent as we pursue our mission.”

Visit www.BoulderEnsembleTheatre.org for more information!

About BETC:

The mission of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is to expose, to entertain, to educate, and to inspire our audiences with the powerful, transformational potential of theatre. BETC stages plays that chronicle the human condition. We target an audience of adults and young adults in Boulder County and surrounding areas through production of contemporary plays, regional and world premieres, and revisited classics. Through our professional theatrical productions, we alter our community’s cultural perceptions and provoke discussion beyond theatre’s boundaries.

BETC arose in 2005 as Oddball Players with our inaugural production, An Evening of Plays. In our first full season as BETC, we presented two productions: Anouilh’s Antigone, and two one-acts by Tony and Pulitzer winner John Patrick Shanley, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Savage in Limbo. Additionally, we presented Week #22 of the world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays.

Season 2 featured Tennessee Williams’ American masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie, the austere and thought provoking Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, and the madcap, sidesplitting comedy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Our production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was honored with a 2007 Denver Post Ovation award nomination for Best Drama, and Complete Works was nominated for the 2008 Ovation Best Comedy Award.

Season 3 began with the Regional Premiere of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig and continued with Stop Kiss by Diana Son. The season concluded with the World Premiere of Morisot Reclining by acclaimed local playwright, William C. Kovacsik. Morisot Reclining was recognized with a Best New Play Nomination as part of the 2009 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards and Denver Post Ovation Awards.

Season 4 kicked off with the Regional Premiere of Cormac McCarthy’s haunting play, The Sunset Limited followed by our first holiday production, The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris. Last season closed with The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. The Clean House received awards for Best Actress in a Comedy and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy from Boulder’s Daily Camera.

Season Six opened with the Tony and Pulitzer award-winning drama, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley and was followed by a remount of The SantaLand Diaries.

The new Candlelight Dinner Playhouse 2011-2012 season includes Big River; Annie Warbucks, the Sequel; Scrooge the Musical; Anything Goes and Oklahoma.

For more information: http://www.coloradocandlelight.com/season_tickets.html

Performance Now Theatre Company
announces auditions for
The Music Man

January 28, 29, 30

Auditions will be held:
Friday, January 28 from 5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 29 from 2:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Callbacks – Sunday, January 30, from 6-10 p.m.

Director & Choreographer – Kelly Van Oosbree
Musical Director – Michael Bowerman

All Roles are Open!
Ages 8 and up

Auditions will be held at:
Little Theatre Dance Studio (Please do not call Little Theatre for audition info!)
2670 E. County Line Rd.
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
(In strip mall; Southeast corner of County Line Rd. and University)
Use Google Maps. Do NOT use MapQwest!!

PREPARE:
32 bars from a traditional non-contemporary musical of your choice.
Please bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided. No taped music or a cappella allowed.
Be prepared to read and sing from the script and score at your audition

BRING:
Headshot, resume, and dance shoes (in case they are needed)

REHEARSALS:
Rehearsals are at either of the two following locations:
Little Theatre Dance Studio, 2670 E. County Line Road, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Little Theatre Dance Studio, 9142 W. Ken Caryl Ave., Littleton, CO 80127

Read-thru will be (tentatively) Tuesday, Mar. 1, 7:00 p.m. (location TBA)
Rehearsals will begin Saturday, March 5
Rehearsals will be Saturdays 1:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. and Sundays 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
There may be a few week-night music rehearsals TBA
No rehearsal Sunday, April 24 (Easter)

Tech Week (Rehearsals) Apr. 25 – 28, 6:00-10:00 p.m. at Lakewood Cultural Center

PERFORMANCES:
Performances are held at the Lakewood Cultural Center (Wadsworth & Alameda)
(Please do not call LCC for audition info!)

There will be thirteen (13) Performances:

Friday Apr.29, 7:30 pm
Saturday April 30, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday May 1, 2:00 pm

Thursday May 5, 7:30 pm (corporate buy-out)
Friday May 6, 7:30 pm
Saturday May 7, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday May 8, 2:00 pm

Friday May 13, 7:30 pm
Saturday May 14, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday May 15, 2:00 pm

All actors will receive a $150 stipend.
Actors are expected to assist with strike after the final performance.

www.PerformanceNow.org

2011 Children’s Program with Vintage Theatre

The next eight-week program will begin March 5. Classes are held every Saturday from 12:30 to 3:30 at the Vintage.

For more information: http://www.vintagetheatreproductions.com

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities will hold auditions for “The Lady With All the Answers,” by David Rambo on Thursday, February 17, 2011.

More information:

http://arvadacenter.org/the-center/arvada-center-announces-auditions-for-the-lady-with-all-the-answers

Paul Sills’ Story Theatre
A Comedy Directed by Meridith Grundei

Jan 14 – Jan 30, 2011

Friday at 7:30 pm
Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 2:00 pm

Starring: Matt Bachus, Beau Augustin, Bruce Montgomery, Andrea Rabold, Sean Maslow, Len Matheo, Rebecca Donnella, and Jodi Thomas

Transformation, mime, and dance are the basis of the “Story Theatre” method. Story Theatre improvises plays from stories, myths, folk tales, and legends, each told with a lean production style. All the trappings are created by the actors with their bodies and voices. The no-frills storytelling creates some evocative effects.

Tickets and information at http://www.evergreenplayers.org

Colorado College will be hosting a performance of “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” by Dr. E. Patrick Johnson on Thursday, March 10 at 7 pm in the Armstrong Theatre. This event is free and open to the public, and is being sponsored by the Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund, the Feminist & Gender Studies Program, the Race & Ethnic Studies Program, and the Drama & Dance Department.

About E. Patrick Johnson
E. Patrick Johnson is Professor and Chair in the Department of Performance Studies and Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is also a Fellow at the ESB Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College. A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality and performance. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity published by Duke University Press in 2003, which won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award and the Errol Hill Book Award. He is also co-editor (with Mae G. Henderson) of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology with Duke University Press (2005).

About “Pouring Tea”
This dramatic reading is based on the oral histories collected in Johnson’s most recent book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South–An Oral History (2008), published by the University of North Carolina Press. The oral histories are from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South and range in age from 19 to 93. This performance covers the following topics: coming of age in the South, religion, sex, transgenderism, love stories, and coming out. Johnson embodies these and others’ stories in the show.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT HEIDI R. LEWIS AT (719) 389-6081 OR HEIDI.LEWIS@COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU