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Looking for something dramatic to do tonight? Mike Mulvihill and Charmi Neeley will read their play Riddle Me, Riddle Me on Friday, Feb. 12 at 7:00 p.m. This is the first step in the VPI process, in which the playwright reads his play – or in this case, where the playwrights read their play – to [...]
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Looks like more excitement is in store from WordSmith Poetry Jam: Mark your event calenders and invite all your friends The next WordSmith Poetry Jam will be on Wednesday, December 16th. Location: Random Row Books (315 West Main Street). It’s on the corner of Main and McIntire across from Greyhound. Time: 7-10pm – Open Mic [...]
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Check the VPI website for more information and a schedule of readings: The Virginia Playwrights Initiative (VPI) is a part of the Hamner Theater’s continuing mission to foster new works for the stage, specifically those by Virginia playwrights. VPI provides a venue for the playwright to workshop, rewrite and rehearse a new script with a [...]
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Looks like a great opportunity for sharpening some fun skills: The Charlottesville Women’s Theatre Project in cooperation with the Bridge PAI is pleased to offer two workshops aimed at digesting questions about how we write for performance and how we perform what we write. Facilitator Kristina Weaver brings to the table a repertoire of skills [...]
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Fresh hot WriterHouse news: 1. Register Now for Spring 2009 Classes Spring course descriptions are now available on our website! Classes in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and creativity begin April 13. We are offering two new classes this session: Young Adult Fiction Workshop, and Special Problems in Narrative Writing. Printed brochures will be available next week [...]
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Terrific recording from the Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen spoke to a meeting of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on February 13, 2009. His presentation, “The Theater of the Imagination,” traced the history of theater from Shakespeare’s time to our own, including the connection and competition between theater and film. According to [...]
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I pity the fool who misses this opportunity: ASC Special Event A special event for area college students. Come join us for a performance of Measure for Measure, with a pre-show pizza party and a post-show Talk Back with the actors. Experience a play at the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. All for [...]
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Cliff has a review of the new Hamlet at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, performed by the touring company. The company is about to go on tour, but they’ll be returning in the spring. It was a great show, and the performances were worthy of the play. Anyway, so the production my friends and I saw [...]
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Fri-Sat, July 18th-19th — EDGAR ALLAN POE COMES ALIVE! — 8pm at The Bridge The Bridge is proud to host the Charlottesville premiere of the Traveling Jones Theater’s “Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!” starring Scott Craig Jones. This mesmerizing one-man show includes word-for-word hair-raising performances of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “Annabel [...]
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King Lear is currently playing at the American Shakespeare Center. I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Excellent performances all round, but James Keegan‘s Lear is a stand-out. American Shakespeare Center’s King Lear ASC: King Lear This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 13 July 2008
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Today is the 555th anniversary of the birth of Richard III. Historians tell us that Shakespeare maligned him, but I think Will is, as usual, playing a double game with us. Shakespeare makes Richard III a most preposterously attractive villain, and allows him to begin his tragical-comical-historical-pastoral play with a terrific speech: Now is the [...]
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I received this notice today of some upcoming seminars at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton. I attended a teacher seminar at the ASC a couple of years ago when I was still homeschooling my son. I had a great time, met some very nice teachers from all over Virginia, and learned a lot. Plus, [...]
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