Beowulf Alley Theatre Company-2012-2013 Season Tickets Available

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company-2012-2013 Season Tickets Available

Season Tickets are now on sale for our 2012-2013 season! You can purchase online at http://www.beowulfalley.org, over the phone at 882-0555 or through the mail at 11 S. 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701.

For only $99, you get a ticket to all seven of our main stage productions! That’s right, seven shows! Or if you can’t commit to all seven, we have our flex-pass for only $69 that let’s you pick and choose four shows! Quite a deal!

Our 2012-2013 season is HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen and THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HEDDA GABLER by Jeff Whitty, August 31-September 18th, performed in rep as our season kick-off! As a season ticket holder, you are essentially getting a completely free show as your ticket to The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler is included in your pass!

Next we have GLENGARRY GLENROSS by David Mamet, November 2-18th, MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH by Joel Gross, November 30-December 16th,2012 THREE HOTELS by Jon Robin Baitz, January 4th-20th, 2013 THE PAVILION by Craig Wright, February 15th-March 3rd, 2013, Aristophanes’ LYSISTRATA March 8th-24th, 2013 and closing our season is Tom Stoppard’s ‘THE INVENTION OF LOVE’ March 29th-April 14th. 2013

Our next main-stage production

SINS OF THE MOTHER

by Israel Horovitz

Directed by Vince Flynn

May 3-27, 2012

Douggie returns to Gloucester after a long absence, wanting to learn more about his dead mother. He encounters a group of out-of-work stevedores whose knowledge of his mother’s past is as detailed as his is sketchy. As the past is dredged up, the depths of wounds it left are exposed and retribution is exacted. A powerful and compelling drama about revenge, forgiveness, and the comically human struggle to decipher which is which. This play contains strong language.

BEST NEW PLAY – The Independent Reviewers of New England Awards 2009

Tickets available online at http://www.beowulfalley.org, over the phone at 882-0555 or at the door.

General admission $20

Military, Senior and Teacher discount $18

Student price (with vaild I.D.) $8

Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm

Sunday Matinees at 2:30pm

About Beowulf Alley Theatre Company

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production. Funding is provided through ticket sales and the generous support of individuals and businesses, with smaller support from granting agencies and foundations. Founded in 2001, the intimate, 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators and technicians can present their skills. Beowulf Alley has received critical acclaim, including five Mac Awards and eleven MAC nominations, as well as recognition in the Tucson Weekly’s “Best of…” Awards for acting, set design and new play presentations. The company has presented over 400 performances to Tucson audiences and provides performance and rehearsal space for rent by other organizations.

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company

http://beowulfalley.org

Arizona Theatre Company- Presents John Logan’s RED, Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play

Don’t miss RED at Arizona Theatre Company

Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play

by John Logan

Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, one of the most visionary artists of the 20th century, has landed the commission of a lifetime: a series of murals for New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant. As he wrestles with the overwhelming task of creating multiple paintings on a grand scale, his new young assistant questions his views of art, creativity and commerce, exploring the question, “Is art meant to provoke, soothe or disturb?” Contains mature language.

Only seven performances remaining, Closes April 28, 2012
The Temple of Music and Art, downtown Tucson

Get a sneak peek at Red
See production photos of Denis Arndt and Connor Toms in action at ATC’s webpage for RED. You can also visit our YouTube page to watch a video montage of moments from the production.

Meet the real Mark Rothko
Read a biography of the artist and see the paintings depicted in Red. Also, find out where you can see a Rothko painting in person in Arizona. And test your knowledge of other plays about artists in Preview, ATC’s online newsletter.

Paint the Town Red!
In celebration of this Tony Award-winning play, Arizona Theatre Company has partnered with some local businesses–including the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Etherton Gallery and Red Door Spas–to bring you some extra perks and special offers. Visit our website for more information! http://www.arizonatheatre.org

Share with Friends
Join us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and watch videos on our YouTube channel where you can get up close and personal with artist interviews and select footage from the show. And, don’t forget to share your thoughts on the performance with fellow ATC patrons.

http://www.arizonatheatre.org

Arizona Theatre Company
343 S Scott Ave Tucson, AZ 85701 USA

Trinity University Theatre- 2012-2013 Season

Trinity University Theatre’s Upcoming Season

Trinity University Theatre is proud to announce our
2012-2013 Season

Fall 2012

A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY
Written by Tony Kushner
Directed by Susanna Morrow
September 28th-30th and October 3rd-6th 2012

LA TEMPESTA
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo
November 9th-11th and 14th-17th 2012

LA TEMPESTA will be produced in collaboration with this year’s Stieren Guest Artist, Theatro del Drago, a puppet theatre company founded in 1820 by the Monticelli Family of Revenna, Italy.

Spring 2013

ARCADIA
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Stacey Connelly
February 15th-17th and 20th-23rd 2013

THE CRAZY LOCOMOTIVE
Written by Stanislaw Witkiewicz
Directed by Kyle Gillette
April 12th-14th and 17th-20th 2013

Trinity University | One Trinity Place | San Antonio | TX | 78212
mkushner@trinity.edu Send

Randy Ford Author- Revised INFLATION, DEFLATION, WAR! 50th Installment

On his first day home Fritz asked Pauline, “Was it as long for you as it was for me?” His fear had been heightened by his feelings of vulnerability during the war, and he seized on everything that he could…memories, possessions, and relationships…to recoup what he lost on the battlefield. He also tried to reject all the changes that had occurred, everything that was new to him…like all the changes Pauline made to their home while he was gone. She had picked out new furniture and had rearranged everything. Thus he felt like a stranger in his own home.

But somehow he survived without people knowing what he was going through. The battle scars were real enough; yet he did everything in his power to keep them from showing. Soon he found himself waiting all the time for her to come home. He didn’t know what was going on. And then he was confronted with Pauline’s infidelity. It threw him for a loop. He hadn’t anticipated it. It broke his heart, and he vented by cursing her. He intended to move out, but he didn’t know where he’d go. He didn’t have the stomach to do anything else. It would’ve helped had he been a drunk. There was no way that he could ease his way out, so he ended up staying.

He felt like a stranger, a stranger in a flat with only a few things that belonged to him, and he couldn’t sleep at night. The only comfort he found came from Eva, his boys’ nanny. And just as he began to notice her, he began to depend on her, and just as he was beginning to depend on her, she agreed to live in. He couldn’t believe his luck. It meant that he didn’t have to roam the streets any longer, but he knew that he had to be careful. Unlike his wife, he couldn’t afford a scandal. Unlike her, he didn’t run around with radicals. And there was no use arguing with her. He’d been through that. He knew that he couldn’t change her, and he wasn’t about to tell her why he’d given up trying. He still loved her and he couldn’t believe it when he started to love Eva too. He’d eventually love two women at the same time. And since he knew that Pauline had her own strange ideas about love he knew that he didn’t need to explain to her how he could love her and Eva at the same time. Pauline was important to him because she was the mother of his children and Eva was important because she anticipated his needs. So he loved both women.

How did it begin with Eva? One morning in his study she startled him when she came in there. Up until then he hadn’t really noticed her. She was very slim, tall for a woman, and wore a light, cotton dress. She said, as if she had known him all of her life, “So you’ve finally come home.” She then confidently sat on the arm of the sofa next to him and began to flirt. She said, “We’re glad you’re home, sir.”

“I’m glad to be home.”

“Frau Pauline has missed you, sir.”

“I missed her too.”

“I’m sure you did, sir.”

“You don’t have to call me ‘sir.’ He enjoyed the chatter and didn’t give a shit about depth in women.

“For some time now I’ve been studying you,” she said out of the blue.

“Oh, you have?”

“And I kind of know what you like in women.” And as they talked, Pauline came to mind. Having had a chance to see how women had changed while he was away, he wondered, “Why couldn’t Pauline be little like Eva?” He had been accessing women since he returned and to him the “ugliness of their nakedness” subverted his ideal. Now here was a woman who hadn’t cropped her hair. This made him admire her. Eva suddenly became serious, got up from the arm of the sofa and left the room. He said, “I hope I haven’t gotten off to a bad start.”

Around the same time he’d met his vamp. She was a woman of mixed race, and he went out with her for the purpose of killing all desire. He literally thought about consuming her and tried not to be frightened by the urge. “All men have urges, just as all men drink and all men smoke.” He however wasn’t a rapist. He had seen too many women raped during the war and had seen what happened to men if they didn’t keep their urges in check. This went on for more than a year. Then he made his move on Eva, and all of his urges calmed down. Pauline’s absences and Eva accessibility would further altered the aspect of the situation. It didn’t become a crisis as long as they made love in the dark. But there would continue be uneasiness that only passion could cure.

Randy Ford

Naomi Benaron Author- RUNNING WHAT RIFT?

RUNNING WHAT RIFT?

by Naomi Benaron

The obvious part: The novel is written from the perspective of a Rwandan runner confronted by a deadly rift between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes.

The geophysical part: The Albertine Rift runs through Rwanda (and Burundi, the Congo, Uganda, and Tnazania). “At the rift, Earth’s crust is thinning.” Benaron says, “Africa is splitting apart beneath the crust.”

BENARON’S BOOKS

LOVE LETTERS FROM A FAT MAN, short stories published by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

RUNNING THE RIFT, a novel published by algonquin Books.

To learn more

Benaron’s website: naomibenaron.com

Taken from the Arizona Daily Star/ Sunday, April 22, 2012

University of Arizona Poetry Center- Shop Talk: The Poetry of Fanny Howe & Poetry Reading by Fanny Howe & Family Days

University of Arizona Poetry Center- Shop Talk: The Poetry of Fanny Howe
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6 p.m.
Poet and teacher Michael Rerick leads a discussion of the work of Fanny Howe.

Community Event: Q & A with Fanny Howe
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join in a conversation with visiting poet Fanny Howe. Bring your questions about poetry, Fanny’s work, and the writing life.

Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Join us for a reading by award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Fanny Howe, whose recent collections include THE WINTER SUN and COME AND SEE, both from Graywolf Press.

Family Days at the Poetry Center!
Saturday April 28, 2012
Poetry Joeys workshops: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Corrido Performance: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Poetry Slam: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Plus other writing activities, games, stories, and puzzles for all ages! More detailed descriptions of Family Days activities found here.

Features & News

Poet Fanny Howe will participate in a Q&A at the Poetry Center on April 25 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and will read on April 26 at 7 p.m. Read a review of Howe’s collection of essays, The Winter Sun. Written by Johanna Skibsrud, whose debut novel The Sentimentalists won the 2010 Giller Prize, this review offers a sensitive and nuanced insight into Howe’s investigations of vocation.

April is National Poetry Month! Here in the Southwest, the Corrido is an integral part of our poetic history. We celebrate it every year with our Corrido Contest for High School Students, a program that culminates with a musical performance of the winning Corridos. For National Poetry Month, we’ve designed a broadside with one of our favorites featuring the 2nd place winner of this year’s contest. Download it, print it, and display it in honor of this critically important artform.

Next Week at the Poetry Center
Reading: Creative Writing MFA Students

Wednesday, May 2 and Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Students graduating from the University of Arizona’s MFA in Creative Writing program read from their work.

University of Arizona Poetry Center | 1508 East Helen Street | Tucson | AZ | 85721-0150
bonjean@email.arizona.edu

2012 Arizona International Film Festival- IRISH CINEMA AND OTHER CINEMATIC DELIGHTS

2012 Arizona International Film Festival- IRISH CINEMA AND OTHER CINEMATIC DELIGHTS

This Week at The Screening Room

Monday, April 23, 6:00pm

IRISH SHORTS

A collection of Irish short films that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you want to move to Ireland.

Admission $6

Monday, April 23, 2012 8:00pm

BALLYMUN LULLABY

Ron Coney has been teaching music in Ireland’s only high-rise housing project for fifteen years. During this time, he has seen the area undergo a dramatic transformation, and he sets out to produce a collection of music to help the area’s young people share their story. (Frank Berry, Ireland, 2011, 72 min.)

Admission $8

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:00pm

Indie Shorts

featuring LAST NIGHT AT ANGELO’S

It’s Rae’s last shift waiting tables, and her mission is to confess her true feelings to her favorite regular. It’s strange how often we find family and love in the most unlikely of places. (Michael Escamilla, USA, 2011, 13 min.)

QUEEN

After finding out she’ll be denied the child she plans to adopt, a drag cabaret star does her best to fill the void. (Adam Rose, USA, 2011, 22 min.)

SEEK

A game of hide-and-seek goes terribly wrong when a woman’s 6-year-old son disappears. How far will she go to get him back? (Richard Bell, Australia, 7 min.)

SHOOT THE MOON

Marcy Meyers is down on her luck, so she places her faith in national game show that promises a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win it all. (Alexander Gaeta, USA, 2011, 27 min.)

Admission $6

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:00pm

LOVE FREE OR DIE

Gene Robinson is the first openly gay partnered Episcopal bishop. Passionate about both love and justice, he challenges and inspires his colleagues and parishioners to live their faith. (Macky Alston, USA, 2012, 83 min.)

Admission $8

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