The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) presents The SantaLand Diaries

The SantaLand Diaries
By Davis Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
Back by popular demand!
November 30th – December 24th, 2011

*Due to adult content, SantaLand is not recommended for children under 13.

BETC returns once more to this hilarious and irreverent tale detailing Sedaris’ real-life experience of working as an Elf in Macy’s SantaLand. For those searching for the cure for the common Christmas show, look no further. This uproarious show has played to packed houses the last two years, so be sure to get your tickets early!

“[BETC’s SantaLand is] quite possibly the best Christmas-themed show.” – Boulder Weekly

“BETC’s version of SantaLand reaches out and tickles the Bad Santa that lives in many of us.” – Boulder Daily Camera

Producing Ensemble Director’s Comments: SantaLand is fast becoming a tradition in Boulder. We’ve literally been turning people away the last two years, so we felt it was only right to give them another shot at it. With Geoffrey Kent returning as our velvet-clad hero, it’s sure to be anything but a “Silent Night.”

Remaining Performance Dates and Times:

Wed, Dec 21st — 7:30pm
Thurs, Dec 22nd — 7:30pm
Fri, Dec 23rd — 7:30pm
Sat, Dec 24th — 1pm and 4pm

http://www.paragontheatre.com/thepride.php

May 7 — June 4, 2011 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30pm

And join them for a FREE PANEL DISCUSSION!
Panel discussion on GLBT issues raised in The Pride at 6:30pm on Monday, May 9, 2011 at Kim Robards Dance. Led by Associate Professor Bud Coleman from CU’s Dept. of Theatre & Dance, the panel will include Jim Hunt, John Moore, Taylor Gonda and Jake Walker.

http://www.dangeroustheatre.com/

Description from the Dangerous Theatre Site:

Warning! This is an immoral morality play about sex and war. Donna and Trish are sex workers in a brothel in Manchester, England. They will regale the audience with stories about life as a prostitute and the (im)moral implications of the profession. Trish also tells the audience about her relationship with her Granddad, who was a decorated Royal Air Force bomber pilot in WWII. It will make you laugh…until you cry.

TICKETS ONLY $10.00

Every Friday & Saturday in April @ 7:00

Call 720-233-4703 to make reservations or online at http://dangeroustheatre.ticketleap.com/

Denver’s Dangerous Theatre
2620 W. 2nd Ave. #1
Denver, CO 80219

Mr. Spacky…the Man Who Was Continuously Followed by Wolves, will extend due to demand for one evening only! The additional show will be on Saturday, April 16, at 8pm.

Where: For reservations and tickets, please visit www.thecatamounts.org and click on this link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/159224, or call 720-468-0487. Presented at Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom Street, Boulder, CO.

Who: The Catamounts are a Boulder-based performance group dedicated to creating boundary-defying, progressive, contemporary performance through a collaborative process that integrates theater, music, and dance. In both our professional productions and in our educational residencies, we endeavor to broaden the experience of live performance, and the relationship between artist and audience, and to acknowledge that we are living in a time that demands the constant reinvention of artistic forms. The organization was founded in 2010 by Amanda and Ben Berg Wilson, and is inspired by their decade-long collaboration through Striding Lion, a Chicago-based performance group with whom the Catamounts are a sister-organization.

April 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m

From the Aurora Fox Press Release:

K2, the play, is a 75-minute harrowing tale of two long-time friends/mountain climbers (William Hahn and Jude Moran) who are stranded on a ledge at 27,000 feet. After an accident leaves one of the men with a severely broken leg, the two survive the night only to confront the fact that they have lost several pieces of important climbing equipment and a safe return to base camp seems unlikely. Their fight for survival spawns several discussions which expose the philosophical differences between the two men as they taunt and tease about the merits of each other’s lifestyle and face their own mortality.

Click for more information and ticketsThe Aurora Fox

The Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 East Colfax Avenue, Aurora CO 80010 303-739-1970 www.AuroraFox.org

RASHOMON
by Fay and Michael Kanin
based on stories by Ryunokuke Akutagawa

September 9 – October 9, 2011

Discover a world of honor, intrigue and deception
Challenge yourself to uncover the truth as four people give different accounts of the same crime. Brimming with action and secrets, Rashomon is a compelling tale about the quest for justice and the complexities of human nature.

ESCANABA (regional premiere)
by Jeff Daniels

November 18 – December 18, 2011

Celebrate enduring connections
Make this Christmas special and feel right at home with a mystical tale full of quirky characters, warmth and humor. In Michigan’s U.P., two hunting buddies explore family, loyalty and the journey to find a place where they can truly feel settled. In the process, they learn how to deal with black bears, why you should never try to hang a cabin door by yourself and exactly what it takes to bring down the Soady Ridge Buck. Holy Wah!

CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
by Lynn Nottage (regional premiere)

January 27 –February 19, 2012

Uncover the power of new perspectives
Explore the turbulence of changing convictions and the hidden possibilities obscured by ridged preconceptions. Join us in 1950s Harlem for a lyrical, funny and moving tale about the fractured quest toward self discovery. Race, religion, politics, and community ties are all challenged as one family navigates the changing times and re-defines itself as it tries to make room for its various members to find their own joy.

XANADU (regional premiere)
book by Douglas Carter Beane
music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar

March 2 – April 1, 2012

Believe in the magic again.
Escape with us and revel in an outrageously fun romantic adventure on skates. Xanadu is a sweet story about following your muse, risking it all for love and making your dreams come true.

AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE BIG HEART
by Terry Dodd

April 20 – May 13, 2012

Find Where You Belong

Make new friends, have a good laugh and let the real you break free. Join us at the Big Heart Bar and Grille where you will find a group of beautiful losers in a rural bar on a Saturday night. Join them as they open their hearts, struggle against past mistakes, and try to ensure the bad guys get what they have coming. This is a fun, down-to-earth romp with real people who will remind you of folks you know- maybe even yourself.

Season Ticket packages start at just $75 for all 5 shows. You can buy yours tonight!
Early bird subscribers also receive FREE admission to Gravity Defied Theatre’s
production of A CHORUS LINE and PHAMALY’s production of THE ELEPHANT MAN.

Add even more entertainment to the Season. Include our GALA Variety Show in your season subscription package.
Presented by The Aurora Fox Board and The Aurora Chamber of Commerce, our 27th Season GALA BENEFIT
will be held on Saturday, September 10, 2011 @ 6:00 p.m. The GALA includes food and wine tasting,
silent auction, and a fun variety show. Tickets for the GALA are $50 per person.

Proceeds benefit both The Aurora Fox and The Aurora Chamber of Commerce.

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

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

The Aurora Fox will present the Regional Premiere of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury October 1-31, 2010 on the Aurora Fox Mainstage (Fridays – October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 –at 7:30 p.m./
Saturdays – October 2**, 9, 16, 23, 30 at 7:30 p.m./Sundays – October 10, 17, 24, 31 at 2:00 p.m.). Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 for students/seniors and $18 for groups of 10 or more. Call 303-739-1970 or visit www.AuroraFox.org to make reservations.

Author Ray Bradbury adapted his award-winning novel into this live fantasy thriller which explores the conflicting natures of good and evil, modesty and vanity, need and want. In this masterwork, two 13-year old boys (played by Andrew Fisk and Miles Goeglein), rebelling against the constraints of youth, experience a harrowing adventure when a nightmarish traveling carnival comes to their Midwestern town just in time for Halloween. The carnival’s leader is the mysterious “Mr. Dark” (Jude Moran) who bears a tattoo for each person he has lured into a deadly devotion to the circus. Mr. Dark’s malevolent presence is countered by that of Will’s father (James Nantz), who fearlessly battles evil forces to save the souls of the impressionable teens.

If ever there was a story that cuts across genres, Something Wicked This Way Comes is it. By turns a fable, a dark fantasy, a coming-of-age tale, it is also one of the best works of literature produced by an American writer. It has influenced everyone from Stephen King to Stan Lee to Alice Cooper and many other creative minds in different artistic genres. It is a story to be experienced by youngsters aching to reach adulthood and seasoned grown-ups who remember the sweeter, simpler times of youth. This tale about the year that Halloween came a week early to a small town will certainly not be forgotten by anyone who sees it live!
Executive Producer/Director, Charles Packard and Projection/Sound Artist, El Armstrong had the privilege of meeting with 92-year old Bradbury in his Los Angeles home this summer. He confirmed many of the “between the lines” ideas they had culled from the novel and reacted excitedly when they explained their vision for The Aurora Fox stage production.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is directed by Charles Dean Packard with Scenic Design by Charles Dean Packard, Sound and Projections by El Armstrong, Lighting by Jen Orf, Costumes by Sharon McClaury, Properties by Katerina Niemisto, and Stage Management by Eric Veik.

SPECIAL EVENTS:
The Aurora Fox will be hosting an opening night post-show party on October 1st, with an opportunity for patrons to meet their favorite actors and take a peek behind the scenes.
There will be a special MASQUERADE GALA BENEFIT PERFORMANCE on October 2nd at 6:00 pm. Included will be a great dinner from Carrabba’s Italian Grill, wine a-plenty, a silent auction with some outstanding prize packages, a carnival midway, a performance of Something Wicked This Way Comes, and coffee and dessert to top off the evening. Tickets are just $50.00 per person for that evening’s Gala and all proceeds benefit The Aurora Fox and The Aurora Chamber of Commerce. Formal attire or Elegant Costumes are encouraged. Call 303-739-1970 to make reservations or for more information.

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OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS:
* Friday, Oct. 8th at 7:00 p.m. – FREE BEER FRIDAY.
* Sunday, Oct. 10th at 2:00 p.m. – SUPER SENIOR SUNDAY ($16 tickets for seniors, as well as free hot beverages).
* Saturday, Oct. 30th at 7:00 p.m. – FOX HALLOWEEN PARTY w/ COSTUME CONTEST (details to follow)

Promotional video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5_fk-fu9a0