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September 2009 - Upcoming Shows

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Time for the start of the 2009-2010 theatre season! Coming up later this month, Town and Gown Players are presenting Stephen Sondheim’s Company. The play tells the story of a 35-year-old bachelor, five married couples who are his friends, and his three girlfriends. As he struggles with ideas of commitment and marriage, we view his life in a series of vignettes. Join the Players at the Athens Community Theatre (115 Grady St) the 18th through 20th and the 24th through 27th of September. Thursday through Sunday shows are at 8pm and the show starts at 2pm on Sundays. Tickets are $18 dollars, $15 for students and seniors, and half-price for the special Thursday show.

Starting the second week of that run, University Theatre begins its production of Our Lady of 121st Street. The play tells the story of twelve neighbors coping with the theft of the body of a recently deceased nun. The show runs the 24th, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 30th of September and the 1st, 2nd, and 4th of October. Sunday shows are at 2 30pm while the rest of the shows are at 8pm. Tickets are $12 for students and $15 otherwise.

That same weekend the Athens Creative Theatre presents Cookie Dough’s not Fattening until You Bake It. Running at the Morton Theatre, this lighthearted comedy looks at some of the world’s major religions, their customs, and the significance we attach to them. The show runs September 24th through 27th and October 1st through 4th; 3pm shows on Sunday, 7 30 pm otherwise. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students, children, and seniors.

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February 2009 - Shows and Auditions Update

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Hello, All. Glad to see you’re here. Glad you’re ready for some great shows and another chance for your big (local) break! We’ve got a few shows coming up this month and auditions as early as next week, so read on.

Shows

Most immediately, there’s a visiting show at the Classic Center tomorrow night: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy. Cost is $10 to $75, depending on your choice of seat. Tickets can be purchased online or over the phone from the Classic Center.

While it’s too late to catch Athens Creative Theatre’s production of Letters of South Apple Valley (which ran this past weekend), there is dessert theatre this weekend (the weekend of Valentine’s Day) on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The site doesn’t list starting times, but the cost is $15. For more information, see the ACT page on Love Letters, the show running this weekend.

(In the vein of dessert theatre, Two Story Coffee is having a murder mystery event this Saturday evening at 8:30. Cost is $15 individually and $25 for a couple.)

The Town and Gown Players‘ production of Caberet opens this Friday the 13th and runs two weekends, per their usual (Fri-Sun, Thurs-Sun) schedule. Shows Thursday through Saturday begin at 8pm, with the Sunday shows starting at 2pm. Standard tickets are $18, but $9 for the Thursday shows, with prices for Students, Seniors, and T&G Players’ members at $15 normally, $7.50 on Thursday.

Then there’s the University Theatre production of The Changeling, which opens the Thursday the 19th of February and runs until March 1st (Thurs 19 - Sat 21, Tues 24 - Sun 1) starting at 8pm everyday but the final day, Sunday March 1st. Tickets are $12 for students, $15 for everyone else.

As usual, Town and Gown has a second-stage production the week after their usual production, this one running Friday the 27th of February through Sunday March 1st (showtimes as above). The show? The Mother of God Visits Hell, which is a drama and a comedy about Virgin Mary’s visit to Hell and the ensuing conflict between Heaven and Hell as she seeks forgiveness for those suffering in Hell. Ticket prices are only $5 for all.

Auditions

Town and Gown is holding auditions for their production of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (to run mid- to late-April) this coming Monday and Tuesday (the 16th and 17th of February) at 7pm.

NB: All Town and Gown shows and auditions are held at the Athens Community Theatre off Prince (not to be confused with the Athens Creative Theatre).

Thanks

That’s all I found in a quick run through of the theatre scene this month. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, and I’ll get it up here ASAP. Hopefully you’ll get some reviews of shows this month, though this semester is proving much busier than I’d ever anticipated. As usual, you can offer to help with our calendar, updates, or reviews by shooting me a message at help@athenstheatre.com .

Peace,

Dave H

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December 2008 - Shows and Auditions Update

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Welcome to the beginning of the end of 2008. We’ve got some exciting stuff going on at the end of the semester, just when you could use (or not) a distraction from your studies for finals.

Upcoming Shows

Very first day of the month, we’ve already got an interesting offering before us: a double–triple feature in the Arena Theatre of the UGA Fine Arts Building. Starting at 7pm with Campfire Kids: A Folklore Halloween and continuing with Hugo: a 1920s silent movie come to life, finally wrapping up with Improv Athens invading the scene upstairs (in the Balcony Theatre) at 9pm. All this is free, so even the frugal can have a little fun!

Starting the 5th and running through the 14th, you can check out Town and Gown’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. The show is high comedy from the wonderful author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and only costs $15 for students and seniors ($18 for everyone else). Showtime is 8pm Thursdays through Saturdays, 2pm on Sundays.

Auditions

In addition to a few good shows, we’ve got a few good opportunities to get on stage ourselves. University Theatre is holding its auditions for the Spring season on the 4th and the 5th (callbacks on Saturday, the 6th). The slate for which you’re auditioning includes: The Changeling, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Dangerous Liaisons. For more info on the season, check out the University Theatre page about this year’s productions.

Following these auditions, you can go for Town and Gown’s production of Cabaret on Monday, the 8th, or Tuesday, the 9th. Note that the show will go on in February and I’m not sure whether or not the rehearsal schedule starts in December. For more info from them, check out the T&G listing about Cabaret.

Peace,

Dave H

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November 2008 - Upcoming Shows Update

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

First off, this afternoon is your last chance to get out to Atlanta to see Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 7 Stages (5pm in Atlanta). If you make it out there, or made it out there for any other shows, feel free to send us a follow-up review.

Upcoming Shows

Coming up this weekend we’ve got University Theatre’s production of Our Town opening on Thursday (6 November) and running Thursday through Saturday at 8pm two weekends in a row (6-8, 13-15 November). There’s another show next Wednesday (12 November), also at 8pm, and a final show at 2 30pm on 16 November. Thornton Wilder’s play will be at the Morton Theatre for each of these shows. Ticket prices are the usual $12 for students, $15 otherwise.

In exciting, novel news, we’ve got a show from Athens Creative Theatre midmonth. The show runs 14-16 November at 7 30pm the 14th and 15th and 3pm on the 16th. The production is an intriguing piece called Live Art Playbills. Featuring songs from Evita, Hairspray, Wicked, Oklahoma, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Nunsense, Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain, Sunday in the Park with George, Bye Bye Birdie, and RENT, the show promises to be quite interesting. Unfortunately, they don’t list prices on their website, so I’ve got no further details just now.

That weekend is absolutely packed with shows, as there’re also a couple of visiting shows in town. At the Classic Center on 13 November The Pajama Game comes to town. Showtime is 7 30pm and tickets range from $10 to $65. A few days later Pirates of Penzance comes to the UGA Performing Arts Center on 16 November. The show starts at 7 30pm and the prices are $27 and $32, though students can get $36 passes good for any four shows at the Performing Arts Center during the course of the 2008-2009 season. (For more info, check out the Classic Center event entry for The Pajama Game and the UGA PAC page mentioning the Gilbert and Sullivan Show.)

That’s it for the monthly update; lemme know if I missed anything good!

Thanks for reading,

Dave H

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October 2008 - Shows and Auditions Update

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

We’re getting better as we grow up, resulting in a monthly update before midmonth! It might be a bit late for some things (like auditions for Arcadia), but we should have things under control by the end of the year.

Upcoming Shows

First up in October was the Town and Gown Players’ production of Moon Over Buffalo, but don’t let that use of the past tense scare you: we’ve still got another weekend to see the show. The remaining dates are October 9th through 12th, the Sunday show being at 2pm while the others are at 8pm. As with all T&G mainstage shows, this one runs you $15 as a student or $18 as a general member of the public. Don’t forget that, if you go this Thursday, the price is halved!

Following Moon Over Buffalo, University Theatre’s new Studio Series has a run of Pillowman from October 14th through the 17th and the 19th–only five days! Be sure to catch it at 8pm on the 14th through 17th or 2 30pm on the 19th for only $7 if you’re a student or $10 regular admission. Check out University Theatre’s calendar entry for Pillowman for more information.

That weekend we’ve got another wonderful Town and Gown show, this one a Second Stage production: Meanwhile, Back at the Superlair… The show runs only one weekend, as per T&G’s usual arrangement for second stage shows. The dates are the 17th through the 19th of October while the cost is only $5! Surely even the average cash-strapped college student could afford to attend this piece, which promises to be an entertaining bit of farce for the evening.

Last (in this post) but not least, it’s time for a quiz: back in August, University Theatre did a production of what show that will open this month at 7 Stages in Atlanta? If you guessed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? then you’re exactly right. The run’s a bit complicated to list as a bunch of dates, but let’s see what we can do: October 16th through 19th, 23rd through 26th, 30th-31st AND November 1st and 2nd. Thursdays through Saturdays, the show starts at 7 30pm; Sundays the show’s at 5pm. Also note that there are a few special performances: 2pm on Saturday the 25th of October and 10am on Thursday the 30th of October. Tickets are also a bit of a hassle to list, ranging from about $10 to about $20. Check out the ticket prices for shows at 7 Stages for more details.

Hope to see you all soon,

Dave H

PS - We still really need your help! Send me an email if you think you can help in any way!

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Apologies: Brief Update and a Call for Help

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Hello all,

So I’m sure many of you checked back sometime in…oh…the month of September in anticipation of our September update, only to discover that we hadn’t posted a word since we told you it’d be up on September 1st.
The short version is actually quite long, filled with excuses, but comes down to this: we need more staff. If you’d like to start seeing regular reviews and updates, bother your friends to sign up to help us or, if you’re not too averse to helping out yourself, then volunteer. Direct your happy messages to dave.h@athenstheatre.com for the time being.

Business aside, I would like to point out that the University Theatre production of Museum opened this weekend and will run this Tuesday through Sunday (8pm each day but Sunday, when it starts at 2 30pm). Student tickets are $12 and regular adult tickets are $15. With any luck, we’ll get a review of this one by Thursday or so.

My sincere apologies for our delay in updates,

Dave H

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August 2008 - And We’re Back!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

We’ve been waiting all summer, but now’s the time to get into gear and get ready for the massive influx of students in Athens. In this post we’ve got news on auditions, shows this month, and our new Google Calendar.

Upcoming Shows

In August we’ve got Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, put on by University Theatre in an off-mainstage production. The show runs Thursday, 14 August, through Wednesday, 20 August, at 7 30 pm every day except Sunday, when the show will be at 2 30 pm. The play will be directed by Del Hamilton (of 7 Stages) and star two members of UGA’s acting faculty and two members of the Graduate Acting Ensemble. Take advantage of this opportunity to catch the production in the Cellar Theatre before it moves to 7 Stages in Atlanta later this fall for a professional run. For further information on the play, check out the Wikipedia article.

Starting nearly the same time we have the Town and Gown Players’ mainstage production of As You Like It. Opening Friday, 15 August, the show runs a normal T&G shedule: Friday through Sunday two weeks in a row with a special (and popular) $5 performance on the Thursday of the second week. In terms of dates, that’s the 15th through the 17th and the 21st through the 24th. General admission is $18 dollars, but student admission is only $15. If you plan to take advantage of the Thursday show, be sure to call ahead, as these ones usually sell out.  As usual, Wikipedia is a good way to find out more about this Shakespearean piece. (Don’t forget, Town and Gown shows are at the Athens Community Theatre.) This show is the official end of the 2007-2008 T&G season, so you don’t want to miss out!

I’ve also recently discovered that there’s a show, It’s a Thin Line, on Saturday, 16 August, at the Morton Theatre with a matinee at 3pm and an evening performance at 7pm. This is a Weston Christian Productions show, and tickets are $25 until 11 August, after which they are $35. For more info you can check out the Morton Theatre calendar of events.

Audition Opportunities

University Theatre starts out the semester with auditions commencing Thursday, 21 August–just three days after the start of classes. Auditions run for two days (the 21st and the 22nd) and you’ll need two contrasting monologues that you can deliver in three minutes (total). Note that you will be cut off at three minutes and that it is suggested that you read the scripts in preparation for auditions. Callbacks are on the weekend, the 23rd and 24th, and “may consist of cold readings, movement, improv”, or anything else they feel like. You’ll be auditioning for any shows in the Fall season as well as the January production of The Underpants. For more information, you can check one of the events listings for auditions or callbacks on the department site.

Town and Gown’s first auditions are for a mainstage production of Moon Over Buffalo on the 18th and 19th. The show will run in early October. The following week are auditions for the second stage production of Meanwhile Back at the Super-Lair… on the 25th and 26th (Monday and Tuesday, respectively). No monologues for either of these, as you’ll just be doing cold readings from the script. The second show will run 17-19 October with rehearsals getting off the ground in September. For more audition information on Moon Over Buffalo or Meanwhile Back at the Super-Lair… you should consult the T&G website.

Google Calendar and Other Site Progress

As of today, we’ve got an official Athens Theatre Google Calendar [XML | iCal] which we’ll be doing our best to keep up-to-date. I’m also working on finding other sites about theatre in Athens in order to set you up with some convenient (and hopefully useful) links.

On a sadder note, I must report that there won’t be reviews for all the shows in August with our current staff (me), as the semester starts on the 18th (and I intend to attend some of these auditions myself) and it’s arather hectic time of year. If you’re interested in joining us and helping out, shoot an email to the.management@athenstheatre.com, or to me directly at dave.h [at] athenstheatre (dot) com. We’re also wide open to questions and comments.

Hope to see you all soon,

Dave H

PS - Don’t be too worried; we’ll do what we can, so far as reviews are concerned.

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