What: Student 10 minute play festival
Where: Black Box Theatre, Pless Hall (82 Washington Square East)
When: Friday, March 27th at 8 pm
Saturday, March 28th at 2pm & 8 pm
Sunday, March 29th at 3 pm
Cost: FREE
Featuring…
The Great Harvest, by Dori Robinson – Directed by Mimi Liu
Awake, by John Socas – Directed by Stephen Black
One Tennis Shoe, by Shel Silverstein – Directed by Ashleigh Hill
Random, by Karl O’Brian Williams – Directed by Beth Slepian
And You for Me, by Annaleigh Kress – Directed by Annaleigh Kress and Alex Gordon
You Know, by Joe Salvatore – Directed by Guleraana Mir
An Original Physical Theatre Piece, Facilitated and Directed by Liz Wexler
From The New Victory Theatre:
We are opening our latest show, La Famiglia Dimitri on Friday. We’d like to invite the New York community–those who live here or those just visiting for the weekend– to join us for our 7pm performance. I’ve also set up a special 10% discount code that people can use to see the show here on Friday night.
The New Victory Theater is New York’s theater for kids and families, presenting a wide variety of professional productions from around the world. This season, we are presenting 15 incredible productions from masters of theater, circus, dance, music and puppetry–family theater your family never outgrows. The New Victory Theater is located in the heart of Times Square on 42nd Street.
La Famiglia Dimitri makes its US premiere at The New Victory this Friday. Working together, five members of the Dimitri family perform traditional circus stunts like unicycling, magic and more. Live music and playful drawings accompany over two dozen acts in this two hour show. Clown Dimitri, the head of the family and one of the world’s greatest clowns, uses funny facial expressions and exaggerated body language to keep the routines coming and the excitement building until the grand finale…a dramatic tightrope journey over the audience!
Ticket Prices:
Orchestra and Front Mezzanine: $35; with discount: $31.50
Rear Mezzanine: $25; with discount: $22.50
Balcony: $12.50; with discount: $11.25
https://secure.newvictory.org/newvictory/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=943&emailsource=FD1113
From the Irish Theatre Institute regarding their plans for Friday, March 27, 2009:
To celebrate World Theatre Day, Irish Theatre Institute will host an informal coffee morning at its premises 17, Eustace Street, Temple Bar. Dublin 2.
Irish Theatre Institute will distribute the 2009 World Theatre Day message by Augusto Boal, director, writer and founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatre maker who has had an important impact on contemporary theatre. His message is published by the International Theatre Institute.
http://www.irishtheatreinstitute.com/events.html
Carla Estefan, production manager of several theater companies from Sao Paulo, Brazil including Cia. Triptal, sends us this update on 3/26′s planned events in Augusto Boal’s home town:
O Movimento Redemoinho, que une grupos teatrais de 14 estados do país, tem participado do intenso debate que ocorre há anos sobre a reformulação das políticas públicas para a área cultural. Nesse período,na contramão de propostas de ação pública baseadas em renúncia fiscal, chegou a formular um projeto de fomento – o Prêmio Teatro Brasileiro – que prevê não apenas a manutenção de trabalhos continuados, mas a produção e a circulação de espetáculos, através de verbas do orçamento da União. Em paralelo, através de documentos públicos, discussões e artigos de jornal, reafirmamos nosso interesse em trabalhar a favor da construção de ações públicas que sejam capazes de desprivatizar e desmercantilizar os processos culturais que ocorrem no país hoje.
acesse:
1- http://www.grupos.com.br/group/redemoinho/Messages.html?action=message&id=1205095909532341&year=08&month=3&prev=1
2-http://www.cooperativadeteatro.com.br/newsDetails.do?id=732
3-http://teatrodegrupos.blogspot.com/
For your english edification, here’s a translation:
The vortex movement, which unites theater groups from 14 states of the country, has participated in the intense debate that occurs many years on the reform of public policies for the cultural area. During this period, the contramão proposals for public action based on tax waiver, has to formulate a project to promote – the Brazilian Theater Award – which provides not only the maintenance of continued work, but the production and circulation of spectacles, through funds from At the Union’s budget, through public documents, discussions and newspaper articles, we reaffirm our interest in working for the construction of public actions that are capable of deprivitasation and demercantilization cultural processes that occur in the country today.
Doug Howe of the Internationalists sends us this WTD happy hour event in NYC –
Come join The Internationalists for a Happy-Hour Celebration of World Theatre Day 2009. Augusto Boal’s Message will be read at 6:30pm and a video of Robert LePage’s message, recorded by friends of the company from around the world, will be broadcast. Drink specials last all evening and include $3 domestic bottles, $4 domestic drafts and $5 well drinks.
Friday, March 27, 2009
5:00pm – 8:00pm
The Irish Rogue (Upstairs)
356 West 44th Street (bet. 8th and 9th Aves.)
New York, NY
It’s Brisbane everyone and Queensland Theatre Company is welcoming in World Theatre Day as the clock ticks past midnight.
Around 11pm this evening, cast, crew and friends from the opening night after party of That Face will head to South Brisbane’s Sling Bar inBoundary Street, West End.
If you’re a theatre lover, join us!
Mon. March 23rd was Theatre Night at FINAL DRAUGHT Reading Series at The Other Space in Vancouver, BC. We packed the house to read 3 Scripts as our Final Final Draught of Season #7 & there were prizes & general “good will & theatre love”
Final Draught was happy to DONATE the door to GVPTA’s World Theatre Day Events.
As our Final Night at THE OTHER SPACE – we wave good bye to a Great Home for Final Draught & GREAT HOSTS – HOARSE RAVEN THEATRE.
We are happy to present new Scripts (Theatre, Film, TV) from Oct to Mar every year & are THRILLED to be part of WORLD THEATRE DAY & the GVPTA.
So World – THEATRE is alive and well in Vancouver, BC, Canada -
So…go see a show, write a show, produce a show – Theatre is Everywhere…ENJOY.
Thanks From FINAL DRAUGHT READING SERIES – enjoy WORLD THEATRE “Week” & Final Draught will see you in Oct. 2009.
(check out our Facebook Group – Final Draught or our Website www.finaldraught.com
Later – Jason Broadfoot (a Final Draught Producer)
This coming Friday, March 27, theatre artists the world over will spend part of their day acknowledging and honouring the larger community of the art form they share in. Designated “World Theatre Day” by the International Theatre Institute, this a marvelous opportunity for us to celebrate together an art form and a way of life that binds us, regardless of borders, language or political differences. It’s a day of communion.
A small group of us theatre types from several points around the planet got to talking about this day on twitter a while back (twitter’s handy for pan-continental conversation) and decided it was a worthy enough idea to give it some broader exposure. So being fairly Web 2.0-minded, we set up a blog to raise some awareness and to act as a virtual gathering spot for our fellow theatre artists to meet ‘n greet. Our mission, in a nutshell, was this:
1. Do something that expresses your love of theatre.
2. Share it with the world.
Well, I’m proud to say the idea has proven to have legs. I’d even go so far as to say it’s taken flight. We’ve been getting letters telling us about WTD events that we’ve had to run through google translator to be able to read. Here, check the WTD map. My favourite response on the blog so far told us that: وب لاگ نوجوانان linked here saying, “1 فروردين: روز جهاني رفع تبع …” It’s wonderful, and wonderfully inspiring.
The key to the project is its simplicity. We’re fascilitating that part of us that loves to be a part of a community bound by passion. We would love you to join us if you feel so inclined.
Here’s what I’m doing on Friday. Two members of my theatre company just so happen to be involved in a play that’s running that night. One of them wrote it, the other is in it. (It’s Bill Marchant’s Ashes at the Firehall, click here for all the info, and a word from Bill.) So we’re taking the night off from creating, and we’re taking a field trip…dinner together, drinks, then we’re going to sit in the dark and watch some enlightening art. The director of the play is reading Augusto Boal’s WTD message just before curtain, which I’m going to video tape and upload to the site for all to see. After the play we’re all going to trip down to the Vancouver WTD after-party and raise a glass to our fellow artists around the world, and drop some good wishes onto the site as well. I hope to see you there, live in person or on the blog.
What are you guys doing? Share in the comments, or better yet, upload some video, photos or text to the media feed like this…
Simon Ogden | The Next Stage Theatrezine
From Deb Pickman, publicist at the University of British Columbia’s Theatre program:
We’re offering $5 rush seats on World Theatre Day for Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato’s wild comedy The Idiots Karamazov – and of course we’re reading the WTD message before the show!
www.theatre.ubc.ca
http://blogs.arts.ubc.ca/wordpressmu/theatre/
Twitter: @TheatreUBC
Do you make or love theater? Do you live in the world?
Then we want to see your stuff.
Submissions are now open to the world to add to the World Theatre Day Tumblr media feed. Send us your images, videos, and short bursts of text to http://tinyurl.com/wtdmedia (yes, that’ll open up an email to us), and check out the international extravaganza of theater media in our sidebar.
Be sure to tell us who you are, and where you’re from. You can even include an URL to your website or blog.
Detailed instructions for submitting your material (do it today!) are right here on this blog. And yes, if you want to participate but don’t make theater yourself, send a link of your favorite theater and tell us why you love it!
