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Cincinati sends a Love Song to Santa Fe
Last spring the Cincinnati Playhouse produced The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer as its Rosenthal New Play Prize winner. That script, by Carson Kreitzer, is getting a reading on Thursday and Friday this week in Santa Fe, N.M. "So what?" you might ask. Well, there's another Cincinnati connection. The reading is at the GARSON THEATRE COMPANY, whose artistic director is NICK MANGANO, a member of the drama faculty at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, where he heads up CCM's master's degree program in directing. Mangano created this professional theater company at the College of Santa Fe -- 2003 is the inaugural season -- to provide opportunities for professional actors and faculty artists with ties to that school and CCM. A season of "provocative new works that shed light on our times" has featured a production of The Laramie Project (which runs through Sunday) with a cast including CCM grads TOM KORBEE, LINDSAY MARLIN and MIKE FRIEMAN, in addition to CCM faculty member DIANE DANZI. Also presented this week on Thursday will be a reading of Stephen Belber's The Death of Frank; Belber was part of the team from the Tectonic Theatre Project who created The Laramie Project, about the murder of a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, in 1998. ...
If the slow summer theater season has you itching to see something new, you might consider an excursion to ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, which launches its 2003-2004 Tuesday with the tribute to Jazz great "Fats" Waller, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' (through Sept. 14.) Waller flourished in Harlem in the 1920s, writing memorable tunes including "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Lookin' Good, but Feelin' Bad." tickets and performance info: 502-515-1210 or www.ActorsTheatre.org ...
A year ago many of us were excited by the season planned for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival by then-artistic director JASSON MINADAKIS, which included Bent, Martin Sherman's provocative play about the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. CSF's season didn't exactly go as planned -- Bent and several other productions were replaced by more audience-friendly fare -- and Minadakis departed for Actor's Express Theatre Co. in Atlanta, where he's the new artistic director. That theater has Bent on its calendar for June 2004. Minadakis has also scheduled productions of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange (which Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati stages locally this fall) and Edward Albee's Play About the Baby. Info: www.actors-express.com ...
Ever wonder about your tax dollars at work? Some of our State of Ohio income taxes are allocated to the OHIO ARTS COUNCIL, and then returned to the area in the form of operating grants to area theaters: Children's Theatre Company ($16,352); Cincinnati Black Theatre Company ($12, 286), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ($142,747), Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival ($16,270) and Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati ($18,728). Dayton's Human Race Theatre Company received $18,728). ...
And if you want to earn a few more dollars -- a percentage of which might end up in the till at the Ohio Arts Council -- check out the third annual JOB FAIR staged by the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) on Aug. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m. CAA manages a variety of performing arts venues, including the Aronoff Center and Music Hall. They'll be filling part-time positions in several customer service areas: ticketing services, bartending and concession sales; event security; custodial services and front-of-house and audience services, including ushers. Over 50 people were hired in 2001 and 2002. If you're interested, stop by for information; applications will be available and can be submitted at the fair.
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Previously in Curtain Call
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc. Burnham & CEA's
By Rick Pender
(August 6, 2003)
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc. Art Imitates Life
By Rick Pender
(July 30, 2003)
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc. CEA's Lucky Number
By Rick Pender
(July 23, 2003)
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Burning Passions Bad decisions about love mean good theater (July 23, 2003)
Fine Tuning Calling All Tenors (July 23, 2003)
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