open to student actors ages 11-21

Each month-long 80 hour class intensive will prepare young actors for admission to performing arts high schools, college theatre programs, conservatories, and graduate schools.

Foundations and Realism

June 4-29, 1-5pm, Monday-Friday, public performance Saturday, June 30.

A daily one-hour voice or movement class followed by three hours of Chekhov scene study, with a three-hour audition intensive each week.

Shakespeare

July 9- August 3, 1-5pm, Monday-Friday, public performance Saturday, August 4.

A daily one-hour voice and speech class followed by three hours of Shakespeare scene study, scansion, and text analysis, with a three-hour audition intensive each week.

Tuition: $1000 per intensive, scholarships and payment plans available on request

All acting classes taught by Jennifer McCray Rincon, Executive Artistic Director and master acting teacher for Visionbox, a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.  From 1991-2008, Ms. Rincon was Head of Acting at the National Theatre COnservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.  She works in English and Spanish.

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General Auditions for Visionbox Projects and Ongoing Classes and Summer Intensives

Auditions are ongoing through May

All actors interested in study or casting in Visionbox productions need to audition with two contrasting pieces, one contemporary, one Shakespeare verse, for Visionbox artistic staff.

2012 productions will include The Othello Project, Fatherlessness Stands Trial, Death of a Salesman.  All ethnicities encouraged to audition.  All three productions will feature African American actors.

For appointments email info@visionbox.org or call 720-810-1641.

The 50’s are out … and change is in the air in this 2003 Tony-Award winning musical which has been delighting audiences across the country. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show.” Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, racially integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair? Hairspray contains music that will leave you dancing in the aisles.

Information: More information concerning individual tickets, discounted group sales, and the Curtain Call Society can be found at csfineartscenter.org or by calling the FAC Box Office at 719.634.5583.

See the rest of the press release here.

Directed by Stephen Weitz

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.

“A triumph…truth, purity, and simplicity suffuse [this] thoroughly engrossing new play.” —Washington Post

“Stunning…taut, shattering, yet delightfully exuberant…altogether fascinating.” —NY Newsday.

Gross Indecency is produced in partnership with the CU Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance

Featuring:

Chip Persons, Cole Cribari, Michael Bouchard, Daniel Leonard, Bob Buckley, Brendon Milove, Jim Hunt, Haydn Winston, and Sam Sandoe

Gross Indecency runs April 19 – May 5

Opening Night Celebration, Friday, April 20

Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 7:30pm, Sunday@ 4:00pm

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder

Tickets at 303.444.7328 or www.TheDairy.org

Thrifty Thursdays – All tickets $15 on Thursday nights!

Visit www.BETC.org for more information!

It’s understandable. At a time when a helpless and victimized American Public is staring down deep economic crisis, when the nation seems as divided as any since the middle 19th century, when our President can’t live up to the hype of his national messiah monicker, and when international issues with seemingly no clear answers permeate the news, the last thing upper middle class suburbanite theatre tourists want to see is a politically charged musical that explores our strange emotional connection to what is, arguably, the highest office on the planet.

Well, since you missed it in New York, now is your chance to see its Regional Premiere in Colorado. Ben Dicke, Director-Xanadu, Robbie Hart-The Wedding Singer, Neil Tilden-1940s Radio Hour, will produce the show at the Aurora Fox Studio Space from September 7-October 28… and he simply doesn’t care. Highlights of the show include an incredible emo (ask your 14 year old daughter what that means) rock score and as much political incorrectedness as you can cram into an hour and 45 minutes. And, it’s here just in time for elections.

So, whether you’re a bleeding heart, blue blooded Liberal Dem who shops at Whole Foods cause you read somewhere that it will save cross-bred pigs from being slit ear-to-ear by illegal immigrants in a western Colorado slaughter house or you’re a fifty-something, overweight Republican investment banker who just hired three illegal immigrants to flip four of your newly acquired bank owned properties in the south suburbs, you’ve got to get a ticket. Heck, you might even learn something about Populism.

Ben’s campaign for backing has begun on the newly popular website kickstarter.com. His hope is to raise $10,000 in initial funds (he’ll need almost four times that to produce the show well). His plan is to raise it in $25 increments as much as possible thereby getting a jump on pre-sales for the show. For a better look at Ben’s vision for the show, please check out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/988700953/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson.

Purchase tickets today!

Coal Creek Community Theater of Louisville, CO seeks submissions for their 6th Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase. Colorado playwrights are encouraged to submit their short plays by May 11, 2012.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Scripts of 15 – 40 minutes in performance. No musicals or multiple act plays will be considered.
2. Only one (1) submission per playwright.
3. Playwrights must be from the state of Colorado. (Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for those living in towns that immediately border state lines)
4. Scripts must include a cast list with brief character descriptions and short summary of the play.
5. Preferred method of submission is electronic in either Word or PDF format.
6. If you wish to submit by USPS, 6 copies of each script must be submitted in standard manuscript format and bound, not stapled, with card stock cover. Copies will not be returned.
7. In either case, please include a cover letter with title of play, resume and ALL contact information for playwright:  address, phone and email address.
8. A short playwright bio or resume should be included.
9. Please send scripts: via email to ccctshowcase2012@hotmail.comor mail to CCCT Showcase, Attn: Play Reading Committee at P.O. Box 791, Louisville, CO 80027.
10. Deadline for submissions is May 11, 2012.  Finalists will be notified by July 9, 2012.
11. Submissions may have been performed as staged readings or educational projects.
12. Scripts that have been professionally published or performed will not be considered.
13. Playwrights whose work has been selected for the Showcase two years in a row must skip a year before submitting again.

All scripts submitted will be read, reviewed and scored by the members of the Play Reading Committee.  Three or four finalists (depending on the performance time of the selected pieces) will be chosen for a reader’s theater presentation at the Coal Creek Community Theater Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase on August 26, 2011.  The winner of that competition may be taken to the Colorado Community Theater Coalition Festival in 2012 in full production with playwright’s permission.

The winner of the 1^st Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase, The Organist’s Daughter by William C. Kovacsik, won FIRST PLACE at the CCTC Festival and competed at the American Association of Community Theater’s Regional Competition in 2009, and the winner of the 3^rd Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase, Senior Moments by Don Fried, earned its leading actor “Best Actor” honors at both the state and regional competitions in 2010 and 2011.  Don also received a special award at the AACT Regional Festival for his original work.  Other winners have since had their works published or performed throughout the region.

For more information on Coal Creek Community Theater, please visit www.ccctheater.org.

Auditioners are asked to prepare a 1 minute comedic monologue (preferably classical) and be prepared to read from the script.

Auditions will be held at Spark (240 South Broadway, 2nd floor) on Sunday April 22nd 6-10pm with callbacks Monday April 23rd 7-10pm. The show begins rehearsal in mid-June and plays July 27-August 25th on Thursday-Saturday nights. Those with travel plans in June and July are still encouraged to audition, as we can be flexible with rehearsal dates.

For more information or to set up an audition time, please email Michael: michael@sparktheater.org