The New Provincetown Players will present their traditional Winter Reading
Series on Tuesday evenings from January 13 through March 17 2009 at 7 pm in the
lobby of the theater at 238 Bradford Street. There is a $5.00 donation at the door.
We are especially interested in original works. Most of the nine plays being read are new and by local playwrights. Hosted by Bob Seaver, NPP board member and curator of the series..
Here are the specific dates:
January 13
January 20
January 27
February 3
February 10
February 17
February 24
March 3
March 10
March 17
ALL 2009 WINTER PRODUCTIONS RUN FRIDAYS – SUNDAYS THROUGH APRIL
ALL PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE A SUNDAY MATINEE 2PM ON THE FIRST WEEKEND OF EACH RUN
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TICK TICK BOOM
ALL WINTER EVENING PERFORMANCES 7:30 PM
REGULAR TICKET PRICES $22.50/18.50
VISIT OUR HOME PAGE (counter-productions.org) FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS BENEFITS or call 508-487-7487
Tick, tick…BOOM! by Jonathan Larson
TICK, TICK… BOOM! takes you on the playwright/composer’s journey that led to the Broadway blockbuster, RENT. Set in 1990, this traditional book musical is filled with instantly appealing melodies, and a unique blend of pop and musical theatre styles. Everyone, regardless of age, will love this youthful, endearing, and thoughtful piece, and will surely embrace the universal ideal of holding onto your dreams through life’s most difficult challenges.
We’re thrilled to be reprising our very wonderful June 2008 Production with returning cast members:
Ethan Paulini, Adam Berry, Denise Parks, Casey Sanderson Musical Director, Susan Grilli Director and the usual talented suspects in the pit!
Tickets $26.50 and $22.50
December 26, 2008 through January 3, 2009 no performance New Year’s Day
PHILADELPHIA HERE I COME! By Brian Friel
Jan 16 – 25th
A highly original piece that launched Friel on the international stage, Philadelphia, Here I Come! centers around a young man, Gareth (Gar) O’Donnell, and his intended move to America, specifically Philadelphia. The play takes place on the night before and morning of Gar’s departure to America. Gar is portrayed by two characters, Gar Public (“the Gar that people see, talk to, talk about”) and Gar Private. All of the action in this play takes place within a period of a few hours on the evening of Gar’s departure, but it also includes flashbacks to pivotal moments.
WONDER OF THE WORLD by David Lindsay-Abaire
Feb 20 – March 1
Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband’s sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, and a pair of bickering private detectives!
EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN IN THE MOON MARIGOLDS by Paul Zindel
MARCH 20 – 29
Frowzy, acid-tongued, supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody about her. Tortured, acerbic, slatternly, she is as much a victim of her own nature as of the cruel lot which has been hers. And yet, as her daughter, Tillie’s experiment proves, something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil. This is the timeless lesson of the play and the root of its moving power and truth.
OLD WICKED SONGS by Jon Morans
APRIL 24 – MAY 3
Hoping to reconnect with his music and shatter the artistic block that’s plagued his career, Stephen Hoffman, a young American piano prodigy, ventures to Vienna in the spring of 1986. He is assigned to an elderly vocal teacher, Professor Josef Mashkan, who gives Stephen the “Dichterliebe” song cycle by Robert Schumann. Although Stephen resents having to study simple vocal accompaniment, he slowly realizes that he is in the hands of a master-teacher. eventually, only music, their one common bond, helps release the burning emotions of the teacher and helps melt the frigidity of the student.
WIT by Margaret Edson
MAY 14 – 24
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED THROUGH PROVINCETOWNTHEATER.COM OR BY CALLING 508 487- 7487
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)
Counter Productions in Provincetown is pleased to present Tim Babcock in Will Eno’s, Thom Pain (based n nothing). He’s just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life – in that order. In his quest for salvation, he’ll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.
A finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, the performance is
directed by Valerie Stanford.
Performances begin Thursday Nov 27 (Thanksgiving night) 7:30pm and run Thurs – Sun, Nov 27 – Dec 7 at The Provincetown Theatre, 238 Bradford St. Ticket prices, $22.50/18.50 Senior/Student. For reservations call 508 487 7487 or visit ptowntheatre.com. For more information visit counter-productions.org.
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill presents
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is proud to present the Third Annual Provincetown Dance Festival. This year’s festival will be a multi-day weekend consisting of two full-scale evening performances and post-performance “meet the artists” events. Both performances will feature full dance troupes. Performers include: AMDP – Adam Miller Dance Troupe | Adam Battlestein from Pilobolus | Spectrum In Motion from Hartford | Scapegoat Garden from Hartford | Tap Group from Boston | Sridar and Rachna Indian dance duet they are creating- from NYC and Hartford | Camille Brown from New York.
Partial funding for the Dance Festival was provided by the Provincetown Visitors Services Board, the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.Tickets for each performance are $28.50. A combination ticket for both evenings is available for $48.50. Premium seats are available at $103.50 for both nights or 78.50 for one night. Student and senior discounts are also available. Tickets may be purchased through PTOWN Tix at 508-487-9793 or click here to buy on line.
Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25 at 7:30 pm
For more information call (508) 349-7511 or visit
www.castlehill.org
The New Provincetown Players at the Provincetown Theater presents The Fall Playwrights’ Festival on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at 7:30 pm and a 2:00 pm matinee on Sunday, November 2nd.
The five never-produced plays were selected as winning submissions by “up and coming” playwrights. DIRTY LAUNDRY by Myra Slotnick gives us a glimpse of a brief encounter between two strangers in a laundromat and the bold conversation that ensues. S-4 by Jim Dalglish is based on a true story about the USS submarine in 1927 with 42 men on board when it was rammed off Woods End Light near Provincetown. CROWS OVER WHEATFIELD by Gregory Hischak imagines a conversation between Van Gogh and Seurrat, as sign painters in the present. SHOPPING WITH ALICE by Rick Ferri sees a man breaking down over a can of lima beans in a supermarket and the elderly shopper who enters his life, and SHOT PUTS by Jerry Thompson has an overbearing Olympian shot-putter slinging a little action into a couple’s routine marriage.
Tickets are $28.50 each, with Seniors and Students at $24.50 and can be purchased by calling 508-487-7487 or click here to buy on line.
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