BWW Review: FADE TO BLACK marches on at MATCH
You have ten plays with ten sets, ten casts, ten directors, and ten different playwrights. All of them run only ten minutes at most. It's easy enough to assert that if you don't like something, just wait ten minutes and something new is in front of you!
THE DESERT OF LOVE Captures The Heart Of Desert Theatregoers
The Writers Studio at the Coachella Valley Repertory Conservatory presented its first-ever Twilight Showcase this weekend, a staged reading of 'The Desert of Love,' a new full-length play by Writers Studio member Bruce Bonafede. The play was directed by Andy Harmon and starred Domingo Winstead, Richard Marlow, Phylicia Mason, Dan Graff, Sean Timothy Brown and Lisa Hammert. The stage manager was Roy Boucher.
BWW Review: ROSE AND WALSH at Theatre Suburbia
ROSE AND WALSH now playing at Theatre Suburbia is Neil Simon's meditation on how love lives on after death, and it serves as a reminder of what a great author can do with a good concept. It's a touching, sweet, and well produced evening out at Northwest Houston's longest running all-volunteer playhouse.
'Pro99' Actors' Equity Members Send Open Letter to AEA President
Members of the 'Pro99' movement of Actors' Equity Association have issued an open letter to AEA's newly elected president, Kate Shindle, in response to her victory and to her inaugural address as president of the national union for actors and stage managers. The open letter is signed by over 400 Equity members (listed below), including such notable names as Ed Asner, Francis Fisher, Sally Kirkland and Alfred Molina. The 'Pro99' movement formed in late 2014 in opposition to AEA's rollout of a new plan that will effectively force 'intimate theaters' in Los Angeles to pay Equity actors minimum wage, go 'non-union' or even close - despite an overwhelming vote against the plan by 66% of the Los Angeles membership on an advisory referendum. 'Pro99' members around the nation, who take their name from the current AEA '99 Seat Plan' that allows members to volunteer in smaller venues, oppose AEA's new promulgated plan. They are requesting that Equity leadership put a moratorium on the plan until local members' voices can be heard, and that the union work with its members to develop an alternative plan that will more realistically address the needs of the Los Angeles theater community.
Northern Palm Beaches Cultural Alliance Elects New Officers
Roger Buckwalter, Chair of the Northern Palm Beaches Cultural Alliance (NPBCA), recently announced the election of new officers and members to the Board of Directors. The election took place at the May 9 meeting, held at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta.
Responsive Classroom Publishes New Edition of The Morning Meeting Book
TURNERS FALLS, Mass., April 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc. (NEFC), developer of Responsive Classroom, a research-based approach to integrating high-level academics with social-emotional learning, has just published a third edition of The Morning Meeting Book. While keeping intact key aspects of this immensely popular book, the new edition reflects NEFC's most current thinking about the best ways to implement Morning Meeting (see sidebar) in K8 classrooms.
34th Annual Samuel French Inc. Off Off Bdwy Short Fest Held 7/14 In NYC
A selection of 40 short plays, chosen from over 700 submissions by playwriting workshops, university theatre programs, and professional companies from the US and abroad will be presented at the 34th Annual Samuel French Inc. Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival on July 14th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street).
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Fest Runs 7/14-19
A selection of 40 short plays, chosen from over 700 submissions by playwriting workshops, university theatre programs, and professional companies from the US and abroad will be presented at the 34th Annual Samuel French Inc. Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival on July 14th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street).
34th Annual Samuel French Inc. Off Off Bdwy Short Fest Held 7/14 In NYC
A selection of 40 short plays, chosen from over 700 submissions by playwriting workshops, university theatre programs, and professional companies from the US and abroad will be presented at the 34th Annual Samuel French Inc. Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival on July 14th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street).