Main Street Theater’s Students Present COMMEDIA OF ERRORS

Fasten your seatbelts for this high-speed romp through Shakespeare's classic farce of shipwrecked separations and mistaken identity! Fourteen Houston-area children ages 12 - high school, currently the students of Main Street Theater's Rehearsal and Performance By Audition class, present Commedia of Errors, adapted by Jonathan Gonzalez from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The play will be performed Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, May 8, at 3:30pm. Performances are at Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market, located at 4617 Montrose Boulevard. For tickets, call 713-524-6706, or log on to mainstreettheater.com. All tickets are $5.00.

Twin servants and twin masters separated at birth plus colorful, confused characters equal wrongful beatings, wrongful arrest, wrongful seduction, and wrongful exorcism-in short, hilarity! Students use techniques from the Italian commedia dell'arte and classic American comedy-and their own sense of play-to perform an abridged, updated version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.

Fourteen Houston-area children comprise the cast: Samantha Biedler (77459), Jazmine Blas (77087), Margaret "Margie" Glaser (77005), Patrick Greer (77024), Alyssa Hauser (77079), Emily Hwu (77005), Marielle Issa (77401), Jennifer Laporte (77005), Jenny Matthews (77095), Sarah (Keowee) McNiel (77006), Hannah Nobbe (77379), Cyrus Pacht (77401), Megan Routbort (77401), and Hava Schultz (77071). The student stage manager is Grace Cunyus.

Professional artists direct and design all R&P productions. MST Assistant Director of Education Jonathan Gonzalez adapted and directed Commedia of Errors. Meghan C. Hakes is the Assistant Director. Macy Perrone is the costume designer, and Art Ornelas is the set and properties designer.

Main Street Theater is a performing arts playground where professional theater artists serve as mentors. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, we provide hands-on opportunities for students to make an original contribution in all aspects of play production. In support of Main Street Theater's mission, the Education Department provides a significant educational resource in the community, focusing on education in theater and classical theater for kids, families and educators.

Main Street Theater's Education Department offers a wide range of classes for students of all skill levels, including individual audition coaching sessions, movement and dance classes, comedy improv classes, high school workshops, and a Summer Performing Arts Camp throughout the summer. The Rehearsal and Performance system includes classes for students at two levels: those who are ready to audition for plays for the public and those who want to hone their skills by producing a play in a "lab" context for family and friends. The current Spring R&P Lab class will perform Witches, Britches, Rings ‘n Things: A Patchwork of Folk and Fairy Tales. Classes range from $175 - $500; camp ranges from $60 - $520. For more information or to register for classes and camps, please call 713-524-9196 x 104 or 103 or log on to mainstreettheater.com

Troy Scheid is Director of Education. Jonathan Gonzalez is Assistant Director of Education.

Since 1975, Main Street Theater has produced high quality professional theater for audiences of all ages through its MainStage productions and Main Street Youth Theater. The Main Street Theater Kids On Stage program offers performing arts classes and camps for children 5 years to 19 years of age. The organization produces plays at two locations, 2540 Times Boulevard in Rice Village and 4617 Montrose Boulevard at Chelsea Market.

Main Street Theater is a member of the Fresh Arts Coalition, a collaboration of 25 arts organizations that work collectively to raise awareness of the size and diversity of the arts in Houston, and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theaters. Main Street Theater offers a lively year-round repertory of classic and contemporary plays for audiences of all ages and provides a much-needed showcase for Houston theater professionals. Main Street Theater is also a member of Actors' Equity Association and of ASSITEJ, the world theatre network of theatre for children and young people. Main Street Theater is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston, the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

 

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