Playwrights Foundation- Picks for Tix Theater in the Bay Area

      Playwrights Foundation- Picks for Tix  Theater in the Bay Area

Our Monthly Suggestions for Great Theater This month our Picks for Tix features work old and new. From the talents on stage, to the writers behind it. With so many new shows opening and closing, the Bay Area ha proven again that you can’t give talent an age. There may be a price though, so look forward to the FREE shows and savings below! Enjoy the shows!  Stories written and performed by NPI Instructor Prince Gomolvilas   Songs written and performed by Brandon Patton  May 9–Jun 9 Thu–Sat 8pm | Sun 7pm  $17 tickets in advance Click Here for more info and tickets! Impact Theatre. Pizza. Beer. Plays. This time around, the milieu is the seediest fortune-telling den in Chinatown, where our intrepid team will show us how mystics do that voodoo they do so well.  There are so many songs and stories that they can’t all fit into one evening, so the audience chooses the set list, playing games and winning prizes, and it’s never the same show twice.  Imagine if David Sedaris joined forces with Warren Zevon and then they took over This American Life and turned it into a game show. It’s even better than that. The Cutting Ball Theater presents Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night written by   Andrew Saito *valid for performances May 25-June 2, 2013. Tickets are subject to availability and may not be combined with any other offer. Purchase tickets now at www.cuttingball.com. In neglected neighborhoods of a fictional city lies Scarlett, a woman who takes care of her grandmother by pulling wild animals out of her ears. She makes her living as best she can off of the dreams and desires of married men who are willing to sacrifice everything for her. Drumhead, a lonely morgue worker with a wild imagination, comes across a carnival poster boasting of the wonders of Scarlett and can’t get her out of his head.  Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night follows these seeming misfits on their journey towards each other. Save $5.00* on an Adult ticket! Use the Code: PLAY5 San Francisco Theater Pub Make it good, keep it casual, have a beer  Join THE PUB FROM ANOTHER WORLD, an inter-dimensional crossroads where theater is not bound by the constraints of reality. It is a world where time travel is possible, where unicorns exist. From the minds of eight Bay Area playwrights—including a four-year-old girl (daughter of PF Associate Producer Rachel Bublitz) featured on Boing Boing —come imaginative tales of everything from superheroes to surrogates, monsters to mad scientists, and other flights of fancy.  This one night of staged readings will be Monday, May 20, at 8 PM at the Cafe Royale. Admission is FREE and no reservations are required for this journey, but we recommend you come early for the best seats.  Hyde Away Blues BBQ will provide food for all human guests.   AlterTheater presents a beautiful new play from Marin County, 90 year old playwright Ann Brebner.    After a devastating loss, a multi racial family rebuilds with the help—and sometimes hindrance- of an unexpected visitor.  Click here for more information It’s the Final Weekend!  Tickets are $25 Buy Yours Online!  TBA Member? Limited Rush tickets available for $15 Cash @ the door!

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Pan Left Productions- New Executive Director, Michael Fenlason & Battered Immigrant Woman Project

 

May 2013 In This Issue New to Our You Tube Channel Our work is supported by:   Quick Links… Our Website  Services  More About Us Donate!    Meet Pan Left Productions New Executive Director, Michael Fenlason  My name is Michael and I am the new Executive Director at Pan Left Productions. I am very excited about working with Pan Left to amplify progressive stories and voices. Pan Left’s mission of providing access to equipment and resources, increasing the capability of organizations and individuals to use and make media, is an essential and vital component to our community both in Arizona and beyond. I come to Pan Left with a background in arts administration and development. I am a working playwright, screenwriter and current Artistic Director at Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, as well as a development associate at the Tucson Museum of Art. I believe the arts and social justice organizations can and should work together. To my mind, Pan Left is an exemplary organization for this process. I have spent many, many years working for causes and issues similar to the Pan Left’s filmmakers and media makers. I believe deeply in what Pan Left does and am proud to be a part. Please feel free to communicate with me. I’ll be learning as much as I can in the next few weeks and hope to meet as many of you as possible.    Battered Immigrant Woman Project – Final Release  In 2007, Pan Left began the process of working with a group that strives to help immigrant women who are the victims of abuse, across 7 Arizona counties.  It’s actually a coalition of several public health organizations from all those different places. It was an extremely important project to work on, the idea being to create a training video for service providers (like doctors, nurses, counselors, police, etc) that explained the rights that battered non-citizen women had, since many people are unsure what they should do when they encounter, in the course of their job, a victim of domestic violence who is not a U.S. citizen. (people often wonder is it legal to help them, etc…) Over time many Pan Left people including Mary Charlotte Thurtle worked on the project and when it was finished it was not approved by the Justice Department until recently. The Training Video can now be seen by clicking on the link below. Battered Woman Immigrant Project   ……………………………………………………………………………                             CADRE CORNER “This section is for the members of Pan Left Productions to inform you about the many aspects of Pan Left, about their projects and/or other events and situations happening in the world related to what Pan Left does.” Our commenter this month is Kim Eldon. She is a Arizona Film Festival 2010, Arizona Feminist Festival 2010 and a Lunafest, Tucson 2012 winner. In addition she is attending a MA program in Feature Film Making at Bath Spa University, UK 2013-2014.     Kim Eldon    Please visit our You Tube page at You Tube and our website at Pan Left Productions.   Ron Austin, Pan Left Productions Board Member and Editor

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The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Classes & Workshops Reading & New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell & Social Justice Poets

The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Classes & Workshops Reading & New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell & Social Justice Poets

This Week at the Poetry Center Poetry Center Classes & Workshops Reading Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. The Poetry Center’s Classes & Workshops program is a year-round hive of learning, reading, writing, and creative accomplishments and breakthroughs. Our students work in many genres and media. Join us for an evening of readings by students and teachers who participated during the spring semester. Details | Events Calendar New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell Newly available on voca, the Poetry Center’s online audio/video library: poet Nathaniel Mackey performs with jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell at the Pima Community College Center for the Arts on March 28, 2013. This performance was presented in collaboration with Chax Press and POG: Poetry In Action. Follow voca on Twitter @UAvoca and add some poetry to your day! Social Justice Poets Expect to be transported and challenged by this exhibit featuring poet activists Allen Ginsberg, Demetria Martínez, and many others. Curated by Erin Renee Wahl and the Progressive Librarians Guild of the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science, “Social Justice Poets” gathers poems, photographs, and original documents representing the deep relationship between poets, their poetry, and their causes. We invite you to be infused by the spirit of social justice poets. The exhibit is on view in the Poetry Center library through June 26. (Photo by Jessica Kelly Jenkins)

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Playwrights Foundation- Final Rough Reading 2012-2013 Nikole Beckwith’s IMAGINE MY SADNESS

Playwrights Foundation- Final Rough Reading 2012-2013 Nikole Beckwith’s IMAGINE MY SADNESS   Don’t miss the final Rough Reading of 2012-2013!  NIKOLE BECKWITH’S IMAGINE MY SADNESS We are happy to present the NYC-based Beckwith and her quirky, darkly comic story that reevaluates the very definition of tragedy. You do not want to miss this. Monday, May 13 @ 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University Tuesday, May 14 @ 7:00pm at NOHspace, SF FREE to attend! A $20 donation reserves a seat & a drink on us at the SF reading!   LEARN MORE EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS ON SAT, 5/11. REGISTER NOW! Exploring the Dark Side with USC Writing Professor PRINCE GOMOLVILAS Sat. Mornings, May 18 – Jun. 8 @ PF Prices start at $175; for a limited time only. LEARN MORE DES VOIX FESTIVAL TRANSLATOR DAN HARDER’S A KILLER STORY Now Playing at The Marsh Berkeley Through May 18 / Thur, Fri, Sat at 8pm A Killer Story is a fast-paced, entertaining “noir” tale about a tough, bright sleuth who outsmarts everybody, including himself. LEARN MORE

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Playwrights Foundation- 36th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Playwrights Foundation- WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE! 36th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2 weekends, 6 playwrights, unlimited imagination Playwrights of the BAPF 2013:   Erin Bregman This Play Has No Title (Yet)   Prince Gomolvilas The Brothers Paranormal   Joan Holden The FSM Project A musical about the Free Speech Movement Composer/Librettists Bruce Barthol & Daniel Savio a partnership with Stagebridge Theatre     Kimber Lee brownsville song (b-side for tray)   Jiehae Park Hannah and the Dread Gazebo   Laura Schellhardt The Comparables INFO: Witness the work. Tix available June 1st Who and what? Cick here. Theater professional? Special Professionals Packages Click  here. Be a Part of the Festival!Volunteer. Click here . Expect the Unexpected.

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AtticRep- Presents HELLCAB by Will Kern

Andrea Caillouet designs a conceptual space for HELLCAB by Will Kern   7 ACTORS, 36 CHARACTERS, 80 MINUTES ONE HELL OF A RIDE! A “This is theater at its best.” - Crystal, blogged on atticrep.org ELLCAB  by Will Kern May 16 – June 2, 2013 Directed by Stacey Connelly Production design by Andrea Caillouet Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm Sunday @ 2:30pm At The Attic Theatre in the Ruth Taylor Theatre Building on the campus of Trinity University Stay Connected

AtticRep | Trinity University | c/o Department of Speech and Drama | One Trinity Place | San Antonio | TX | 78209

Odyssey Storytelling- Presents Mommie Dearest; The Love of Family

Odyssey Storytelling Presents…

Mommie Dearest; The Love of Family

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Fluxx Studio and Gallery, 416 E. 9th St., Tucson, $7

Show at 7 p.m., Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

www.odysseystorytelling.com

Join Odyssey Storytelling and 6 invited tellers sharing ten minute stories on the theme: Mommie Dearest; The Love of Family!

Stories about the skeletons in the closet, family vacations in the station wagon, chores, allowance and beating up your brother. Being adopted or wishing someone else would adopt you—what are the smiles in those family portraits hiding? Holiday traditions, your years in psychotherapy, weddings, funerals, birthdays and why you love your mother.

Storytellers: Poet, writer, and Odyssey Producer Shannon Snapp; director and performer Esther Almazan Blue; avid outdoorsman Jose Duenas; Sound artist, Glenn Weyant; along with Robert Zander Crowthers and Robert Ronquillo.

Purchase tickets and get more info at our website: www.odysseystorytelling.com

Contact us at stories@odysseystorytelling.com, or 520-73-4112

GOT STORIES?

To submit your story for consideration, send us a one-paragraph synopsis of your story and a brief bio about you. Don’t be shy – we have a rehearsal and offer lots of guidance. We want to hear your story!

June 6: Lost in Translation

July 12: Breaking Free: Stories of Disobedience

August 1: Saved by the Bell: School Stories

September 5: Big Bad Words: The B*tch Show

November 7: Revenge: Stories of Getting Even

December 5: Wild Kingdom: Animal Encounters

FOR MORE INFO: 520-730-4112, stories@odysseystorytelling.com

 

Odyssey Storytelling is a program of StoryArts Group Inc

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