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Hi,
I am not sure if you are where I need to be searching, but I am going to try. I am looking for contact with Josh Rudy, actor in the boston area. I googled and saw that he was in a play on the site (what happened to willie). I just couldn’t tell the date that the play was run or had ran.
I would like to let him know about the death of a friend of his here in baltimore. If there is any way to pass on my phone number or email address, could you do that or could you let me know his?
Thank you
Betsy Childs
Episcopal Housing Corporation
Baltimore Maryland
443-857-8009
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Well, I found the show: "SubUrbia" done by THE OTHER THEATER at the old Actors' Workshop .
But that was in 1997. The company broke up, most of the actors drifted away.
If anyone has information about JOSH RUDY,m please contact Bdetsy Child directly.
Break a leg...
Love,
===Anon.
Dear Lincoln Purdy:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:40:30 -0500 (EST)
Dear Matt Kandarian (of Everett Dance Theatre ):
1) I have seen what I think of as "anthology programs" featuring several short plays by varied authors that have invited short DANCE pieces as well as plays. (The IMAGE Theatre out in Lowell has done it twice; I can remember two at what is now The Factory Theatre a short while back, but I can't remember the Company that produced the shows in that space); and one over at the Hibernian Hall (The Roxbury Center for The Arts) --- and again, I can't remember the producing company; and another company doing an anthology added a Dance Company when they performed at the Cambridge Cultural Center last year. These were usually shows for which Specific Dance Companies were asked or invited to do a short show.
2) Improve Comedy Groups are so healthy some of them are using their own performing spaces on a permanent basis. And I know of one local company (using what is called "Long Form" Improv) worked with parodies of Musicals suggested by the audience.
Has anyone though of using the Improv template to try DANCE Improv? I don't have much free time once the Theater Seasons start so I've seen too little dance, but if such companies or a company trying this might be working here I'd like to see what they come up with. [NOTE: I've never been to Everett because, with the time problem, I also don't Own or Drive a car.]
3) Probably most important:
I have learned NEVER to bid dancers "Break a Leg!", but I beam all the basic empathies involved in that phrase to you and yours.
Love,
P.S. Hell, I might as well put this into The Theater Mirror's GREENROOM and see if anyone else salutes.
As you may remember we produced William Finn's "A New Brain" last spring. The materials for the show (specifically, the orchestrations) are in terrible shape -- there are inconsistencies (different notes, missing measures, etc) between various orchestra parts, the piano-conductor's score, and so on.
David Zych, our Assistant Music Director, put together a great document detailing every single one of these issues (it's 10 pages long) and he's told me that he would like to share it with others so they don't have to go through the same pain. (I plan on sending it to Sam French as well.)
Due to copyright concerns, I don't want to post the document -- it *should* be okay, but you never know -- but can you post a note suggesting that any group producing the show contact me at
vilas@longwoodplayers.org? I can then send them the document, which will hopefully save them a lot of time and frustration.
Open heart surgery at Boston's Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital on November 14.
Lastly as I snooze and repair, while you welcome the new year in, please pop the bubbly, don the funny hat, shake the noisemaker and explode all the multi-colored baloons for me.
And, hopefully, maybe this coming New Year I'll be celebrating the new dawn with you on the next Valentines Day!
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Hello Larry, my name is Jack Crory. We have met briefly a couple
times, at the Arsenal Center and at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. I am
part of a new group (we're calling ourselves the Lonesome Coyote
Theater) that is looking for places to put up plays in or near Boston.
We have a lot of talent and great shows waiting to happen but we have
very little money,and are looking for a cheap place to start out.
Everyone tells me that you are the expert on fringe theater in Boston,
so I wanted to ask you if you knew of any hole-in-the-wall places in
Boston (or Waltham, where we are from) that we should check out if we
are looking for a place to put up our first show. Any lead you can
give us would be much appreciated!
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Probably the best opportunity would be the newly-named FACTORY THEATRE
[ http://www.thefactorytheatre.org/index_files/Page532.htm ]
It's a two-story brick-walled box where a lot of small/new companies have worked, so it's well-known to theater-Junkies.
The "Black Box" space at the Boston Center for The Arts is more of a crap-shoot, since the "resident" companies get first dibbs, and visitors have to use dates that may not be best for opening a brand new company,
[ http://www.bcaonline.org/venues_rentals/venues.php ]
There may be a scheduling problem at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre as well, but the staff there is charmingly positive about plays.
[ http://www.bu.edu/bpt/about/index.html ]
And the new kid on the block is in Watertown: The New Repertory Theatre in The Armory Arts Center has a Black Box Theatre under their main-stage
Again, there is a "Downstage Company" --- The New Rep's vest-pocket-plays series --- but outside groups are welcome there.
You might look at The Footlight Club in Jamaica Plain:
[ http://www.footlight.org/rentals.html ]
It's the oldest continually in-use theatre-building and it's Always renovating. Again, the ground-floor is a large-ish space with flat floor and folding-chairs, no real Stage, no risers.
In Charlestown is The Charlestown Working Theatre:
[ http://www.charlestownworkingtheater.org/about.cfm ]
And here's two more:
CAMBRIDGE FAMILY YMCA THEATRE
And Hibernian Hall (Roxbury Center for The Arts)
With ANY of these, plan on Heavy Advertising (post-cards, press-coverage if possible); none of them really have any "regular audience" --- people come to see either particular Plays or favorite Companies, so being new is a bit of a disadvantage; you will have to create your own audience.
But there are two interesting ways to reach lots of Theater PEOPLE:
ActorNews
StageSource
If you don't mind, let me put all this, including your original letter, into The Mirror, so that people who know more than I do can get in touch with you.
Break a leg all!
Dear Larry Stark - I worked with Chris Connaire on a few productions at the People's Theater during the late 1970s and was wondering if she is still in town. Do you know where she works now? Regards,
Come see The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Jeff Goode's hilariously disturbing monologue play that shares the real dirt on Santa's perversions, Vixen's allegations, Rudolph's mental health, and why Dancer no longer dances. December 19-30 at The Piano Factory. Jump into the holiday spirit of giving by supporting this charitable production; all proceeds from the entire run benefit the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Check out the hysterical video trailer/prequel for the theatrical performance at http://www.reindeerinboston.com to see how the reindeer came to be behind bars. See if you can spot the cameos by all your favorite Boston theater scene faces
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LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Larry -
I would not normally comment on anyone's review, mo matter how much I
might disagree - I believe that perception is truth to the perceiver.
However, I would be greatly remiss if I allowed a factual error to go
uncorrected at a fellow cast member's expense.
Beverly comments on my "gorgeous tenor voice" and my "meticulously
manicured beard (complete with waxed mustache)". Honesty wins out over
pride. I am compelled to point out that Evan Xenakis is the owner of
both the voice and the beard, and he deserves the recognition.
I don't know your web site enough to know the proper forum for such
feedback. I trust that you will give this information the dissemination
it warrants. Thank you for allowing me to set the record straight.
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
From: Robert Bettencourt rob_bett@yahoo.com
Hey Larry,
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
Hey Larry,
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
Hey Larry,
I think that you should start another page on theater mirror for anyone who wants to write an article about independent theater in and around Boston, perhaps someone ( a college student perhaps) would pick up one of the great ideas you have had for subjects and write about it. At least some coverage would get out there.
The true reality of the situation is that the lack of independent theater coverage in Boston will eventually lead to its demise.
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Larry,
In many ways The Globe has been better to Image Theater than a lot of the smaller local papers. Denise Taylor will feature Distant Music in her West Weekly section tomorrow. Admittedly it's not easy to get coverage, it takes many phone calls, faxes and e-mails, but at least they were responsive and thought the show noteworthy.
Recently we were informed by your fellow IRNE voter and critic David Andrews that there is no money in the budget of the Metro West Daily News or The Tab to enable him to do any coverage of Distant Music, or any other local plays for a while. I find this staggering considering it's literally in their back yard, and that ours is more than likely the only play being performed in an Irish Tavern at this time, making it a unique story. We have found the smaller papers are owned by large conglomerates and local reporters have been laid off. It is sad when a local paper can't pay the $50 or so to a critic to cover a play. Wouldn't it be wonderful if good critics like you, or Beverly Creasey, or Mr. Andrews were able to freelance to fill in the gaps? Regrettably, I was told by the editors of these papers it just wasn't possible! And what about the Herald? Hello, let's get serious! If George Clooney blew his nose in Gloucester 2,000 lines would be dedicated to where he tossed the tissue, but if a great new play was being performed at the old Devanaughn space it would go unnoticed.
In the end, it comes down the money. Larger theaters can take out bigger ads and wield more power. So far, the Globe has been able to at least give us the time of day, as long as they feel it's a unique and a good story.
Larry, you are doing such a benefit to the theater community. You continue to shine a light on the smaller theaters companies who are worth noting and we all truly appreciate it, and appreciate you!
We felt we would be making a mistake if we did not at least let your readers know that Ms. MacDonald and the Globe have been there for us many times.
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
To read it all from the beginning, click here.
Hey Larry,
I recently got married and went to Scotland for my honeymoon, we were in Edinburgh for the tail end of the Fridge Festival. What an awesome energy there is in that city during the festival. I only managed to drag my wife to two plays because we also wanted to see the city and we had to catch a tour we had booked to the Highlands the following week. But I could feel the community through the city, people gathering to talk about when to see friends in shows. Other people going to shows of people they did not know. I was envious of the energy and the community. It was all around and it wrapped me up like a warm blanket. Maybe it is like that because the festival only happens once a year and is only a month long. Perhaps that kind of community that I wish Boston had cannot be sustained for longer, it could be too exhausting. I don't know.
But when I got back from my honeymoon, I did not get an email from a theater company interested in the fringe proposal, not one. I only got three emails back although they were very positive emails from individuals who were lending their support and encouragement. I was very appreciative to them for they confirmed that I am not indeed crazy and a support system of some kind is needed in Boston. No one was willing to join me although the replies all had great ideas no one wanted to join and get things started and I am too tired to be an army of one.
I was wondering how you were coming with your fringe section? Have you gotten any takers on the ad campaign? I know you got one enthusiastic company to join but was he the only one?
As for me I am going to focus on my writing (which I need to get back to) directing a play here and there and perhaps even acting in a play here and there. But I truly feel that the type of community that is sourly needed in Boston is unattainable simply because not enough people want it, perhaps they cannot see the vision or the possibly of what it could be and they fear change. Perhaps they can but still fear change. What I do know is that theatre being run this way presently cannot last indefinitely, only a few will manage to survive, the ones big enough to have a budget and get reviewed in the Globe. But even they will die out at some point, probably if and when they get big enough to compete with the road shows. It is too bad.
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Larry,
"I learned last night that no one had written a review of this play --- unfortunately, not even myself. I must apologize to everyone connected with it, both for my own inaction and for my fellow reviewers' as well. I hear audiences have been spotty --- from fifteen to sold-out --- and the absence of any of my colleagues means, I regret to say, that there is no possibility that "Simon Says" can be even in contention for the IRNE Award as the best new play this year --- which I believe it deserves. I'm writing this at eight on Friday morning and there are only three more performances, but I would advise anyone to break any previous commitments in order to see this show before it closes. The experience will be well worth it, and unforgettable."
I understand that you cannot be everywhere and that you cannot review everything, there is only so much one person can do. It is too bad that a play that you enjoyed so much will go unnoticed not only around award time but because it did not get a lot of exposure I am sure not many people knew about it or had the courage to take a chance on it.
I think that a copy of your review of this play should be emailed to every IRENE reviewer.
It's also a reason why playwrights in Massachusetts send their stuff out of the state rather then trying to get a production here. There doesn't seem to be a point.
Hey Larry,
Dear Larry,
Now we're beginning to think of doing it again. Have you seen
anything recently that deals with questions like genocide,
persecution, arbitrary denial of rights, arrogance by the
police or other government representatives, cover-ups....
good things like that?
LARRY STARK REPLIED:
Let's see what I might have reviewed lately:
"Two Rooms"
"Still Life: A Documentary"
"Race"
"Emhanced Interrogation Techniques"
"SIN: A Cardinal Deposed"
"Fat Pig"
"Titus Andronicus"
"I have before Me A Remarkable Document Given to Me by A Young Lady from Rwanda"
"Hilary And Monica"
"The Trial of One Short Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae"
"Lost + Found"
"Home"
"Frozen"
"The Goat" or "Who Is Sylvia?"
"Talking to Terrorists"
"Wake Up And Smell The Coffee"
"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"
"1776"
"The Women"
"Almost Asleep"
"Stuff Happens"
"Urinetown"
"Lysistrata"
"Homebody Kabul"
"Blue/Orange"
"For Colored Girls Who Have Tried Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf"
"The Trojan Whore"
"The Ocean Room"
"The Story"
Well, that should get you started, at any rate.
Hello, I'm a 16 year old filmmaker and I am currently looking for
scripts that I can make into films. I have posted this on my
website www.corysmovies.com and a friend of mine showed me your
website because he thinks it's really cool. Anyway, I was wondering
if there was anyway I could have a note posted that I am looking for
scripts, even if it was really short, or a link or something, just to
help get my message out there.
I was
really just curious... I'm just trying this out to see if anyone
will respond.
ctomascoff@rcn.com
Hello, Larry!
I am writing this short note to express my frustration with a recent article printed in
"The Weeekly Dig" about our ongoing Playwrights' Platform Festival at BU (thanks to the generosity of Kate Snodgrass and Marc Olivere for allowing us to use their wonderful facility)
In the article by Julia Reischel (a very nice person, by the way) I am quoted as saying the following ridiculous statement, and I quote: "...I think it's a shame that Boston has not created great plays yet.."
HELLO? Why and how in God's name would I ever make that statement when I had spent the ENTIRE interview bragging about the great plays being created in and around Boston? What I had said was:
"I think it's a shame that no local plays have yet to receive huge national commercial success..." Biggo-differnce-oh! I went on to tell Ms. Reischel that we are getting there and mentioned great playwrights like Ronan Noone, John Kuntz, Melinda Lopez, etc...
I have sent a letter to their editorial department but I am not confident that they will print it.
The gist of the article was fine and she did express my frustration with many of my fellow playwrights that we should be considered by more local theaters for possible productions with the same measure of respect afforded a New York or Chicago playwright.
Thanks to many of our theaters and hard working people like Kate Snodgrass, Rose Carlson, Leslie Chapman, Playwrights Platform, Yellow Taxi Productions, Hovey, to name a few... I believe that we are getting there. If our work is up the the writing standards of others, (and I believe it is) I only ask that Artistic Directors in the area at least "give us a read".
Thanks so much for your time, and to my fellow playwrights who may have read that article and said to themselves, "Jeeze! How can Bisantz say that? What an asshole!" I assure you, I am still an asshole, just not THAT kind of an asshole!
Write On, my friend!
Okay…
Hey Larry,
Hi all,
I'm home for the rest of the year on maternity leave.
Sidney Orion Luckey
Hello All,
I first met Jim about ten years ago at Playwright's Platform and quickly learned of his sharp mind, down to earth kindness, intelligence and probably most of all his wit. In fact, his creative sense of humor was actually kind of warped, and I think that is what I will miss most about him. You could always laugh and have fun in his company.
Jim wrote stage plays and dabbled in performing himself. He reveled in an Improv group that used to descend on various public places until the police threw them out. He like to say the same about the Wildebeast of the Sarengetti - they also threw him out for insisting they barbecue the antelope before dining. He played in my shows "A Left Turn at Albuquerque" as the old, miserable drunk and in "Ballplayer" as the old, miserable coach. (Jim was certainly not an old, miserable person, however.) He also read for me in readings of "Peter Van" [Smee was made for him] and possibly "Flossy, Queen of Spades" too. He used to enjoy telling people I was keeping his mediocre acting career alive.
Some of you knew him better than others. Jim was great fun to work with, and he was a very good sport - such as willingly belching out a couple of lines from Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" in Albuquerque. We laughed about that one for a long time afterwards - couldn't believe people paid money and heard that. Jim was an accomplished photographer and enjoyed the outdoors - hiking and climbing. More importantly, though, he was simply a darn good guy with a lot of friends who will miss him.
I last saw Jim in February. He looked weaker, but his spirit was still strong. We joked and had a good time. Yet, about a month later he was too weak to attend a show he, Susan and I had tickets for.
He married Susan Fagen in 2004. Their address is 41 Unity Road, Belmont. There is tentatively going to be a service next Saturday afternoon. I don't have any details yet but I can let you know if you are interested in attending.
Hi, Harvey, et al., Dear Mr. Stark
Thank you for recognizing our play and cast in this way and for giving us such a terrific night! I hope to see you again there next year, perhaps with another great "team" like that of FLESH AND BLOOD which we recently closed.
To: "Norm Gross \(E-mail\)" norm@pmpnetwork.com,
On behalf of Hovey Players, thank you for two IRNE-nominations. The 5Women ladies were happy just to have been nominated and thrilled to be part of the ceremonies. Our only disappointment was that Melissa Sine could not attend. She sent her regrets, because she is directing grade-school children in a play and she held rehearsal with them last night.
We all had a great time. I especially had a great time seeing old friends I don't see because we are all busy doing our own shows throughout the season!
Thanks again and congratulations another successful IRNE-bash.
Best,
Hi Larry,
Hello Larry Stark!
She was a friend, and my partner in the first years of running the company, and the reason it continued on for so many years, bringing many talented people into the it. We saw one another for the last time at the twentieth reunion of the ODT in the kettle bowl in JP. If you still have these postings somewhere, I would love to read them. Her life was entirely about theatre, and I'm sad about her passing, and wish to add my affectionate farewell to her spirit, which was indominatable.
Thanks for your continued support, all those years, and for looking after this request, if you can.
The "Open Audition" – Or "Bait And Switch"?
Scenario One: You are single, unattached and, frankly, lonely. You
finally, at a friend's suggestion, look at the Personals listings on
the Internet. You find an ad for someone who seems perfect –
attractive, single, sharing many of your interests - and you write
them an e-mail. They respond positively and you arrange to meet.
Optimistically, you day-dream about the possibility that you might
really hit it off and this first meeting might lead to a long-term
relationship, maybe even a marriage. You meet, and they are
everything they said they were – except they tell you that they lied
about being single (they are actually married) but they still want
to date you, now and then, when their spouse isn't available.
Scenario Two: You've spent most of your working life in the
restaurant business. As a kid, you worked as a busboy, then a
waiter, then as a maitr! e-de and now you've looking to continue in
your career field. You see a classified ad for the position of
restaurant manager - the job you have been training for and hoping
to find. You apply and set up an interview. When you arrive at the
interview, you are told that the position of restaurant manager
really was never available – but the restaurant desperately needs
part-time busboys and figured if they advertised for "restaurant
managers" they'd get a better class of applicant.
Scenario Three: You've been looking for a new car and you see a
classified ad for a great one that you'd really like – and it's on
sale at a price you can afford! You go to the car dealer and he
says, "We really don't have any of those cars available, but we knew
that if we put one in our advertising, people would come and we
might be able to sell them a different car once they got here".
Scenario Four: For years you have devoted yourself to the plays of
Shakespeare. You've directed different Shakespearean plays and have
played many Shakespearean roles. Like many Shakespeare fanatics, you fantasize about playing the role of King Lear when you are old
enough and experienced enough. You come across an advertisement
announcing "open auditions" for a community theater production
of "King Lear". Your chance has come! "Open auditions"! Everyone has
an equal chance for the role, based on how well they do at the
audition and whether they fit the Director's concept! You drive to
the theater on the night of auditions, having spent every spare
moment of the past several days re-studying the script and your
audition monologue. Upon arriving, you are told, "The Producer's
brother-in-law was cast in the role of King Lear a month before the
audition, but the smaller roles are hard to fill, and if we had
announced that the role of King Lear had been pre-cast, actors of
your quality wouldn't have! come to the audition. So it's really
an "open audition" for all the other roles".
Any of these sound familiar to you? Scenarios Two and Three are
violations of the criminal law statutes, whereas Scenarios One and
Four are not, but all are unethical and all are wrong.
But since this is a website for people in the New England entertainment field, let's focus on Scenario Four and it's all too frequent occurrence in non-professional theaters in New England. (In the over-twenty years I was a member of Actor's Equity, I never encountered "Bait And Switch Open Auditions" in the professional theater.) Since my arrival in New England many years ago, I have encountered variations on this scenario many times. Some of those amateur theater companies are no longer in existence while others are still running. Should we, as actors, directors and stage technicians, continue to support these community theaters with our efforts, or should we boycott them until they are forced ! to either change their operating practices or go out of business?
In deference to Larry, I will not specify community theater groups past and present in this Greenroom posting, but I will gladly share specifics with anyone wishing to contact me directly.
Hi, Larry:
Larry, I need your help. Can you help me locate a theatre group who has done Jake's Women and has a tape of their production. I am slated to direct it with rehearsals starting on Nov. 1 and I'm having trouble getting a handle on it trechnically. Seeing what someone else has done with it will help enormously. With all your contacts, I thought you might be able to help0 me locate one that I can buy or borrow.
Love your site. I wouldn't have thought Boston had 90 theatres, but it is a cool town so I'm not that surprised. I'm in Mundelein which is a far northern suburb of Chicago about half way between downtown Chicago and Milwaukee and I know Chi has a peck of them. I don't think anyones ever counted them but it's a busy theatre town.
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Dear Theater Artist,
Playwrights' Platform members have been extensively produced in the Boston area, and many have gone on to great professional success.
If you would like to allow Playwrights' Platform members to contact you, and ask for your participation in readings or performances of their new work, please fill out this form:
Your privacy will be respected!
If you would not like to participate in the Playwrights' Platform talent database, please simply fill in your email address and select "No" where we ask for your permission to use your contact details.
Larry,
LARRY STARK AGREES!
Hey there,
Some of you may know that pimarily what I do in life is produce theatrical events and benefits. The larger-scale event that we do is the World AIDS Day Concert that started two years ago with Children of Eden and continued last year with a concert of Pippin. We chose this year to start working with a new charity that we felt may be able to be a little more hands-on with the event and came across the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation. We had selected The Secret Garden as our concert for this year, and I quickly met up with Mike and Carol, who run the foundation. You hear "Mike and Carol" and you think about the Brady's...this Mike and Carol are quite clearly closer to The Sopranos. Staten Island. Clearly "Family," and some of the kindest, hardest-working people I'd ever met.
Carol started the foundation along with her son, Joey, who contracted the virus through a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery. It was 1984 and he was four years old. When they discovered he had the virus (at age 8), Joey decided he needed to stand up and be a ray of hope for other children that had no one.
Now, in 2005, Joey is 26. Six years ago, Joey, his Mom, and her husband, Mike started Camp T.L.C.. TLC is a one-week summer camp program for teens living with the challenge of HIV and AIDS. Most are inner-city kids. Most are orphans who've lost their parents to AIDS during their childhood. Most are either foster children or live in group homes, never to be adopted due to their illness.
I do a lot of benefits, but for the first time, I had the unique opportunity to visit Camp TLC and see with my own eyes, (and ultimately my heart) exactly where the money raised goes. I'd expected to visit for a few hours on Friday and head back that night. Carol immediately started begging me to stay and see the talent show that evening, spend the night and return to Staten Island with them on Saturday for the counselor de-briefing with the therapist. I agreed and started seeing the camp for myself.
Kids being kids...for the first time in their lives. For this one week, they're not a red ribbon and they don't have to hide. Physicians going out in rowboats to deliver medication to them so as to not interrupt their day. Water fights, soccer tournaments, and a talent show...kids getting up and dancing in groups to hip-hop music. Kids getting up and reading poetry they'd written earlier in the week. Kids getting up and playing the piano-for the first time, unafraid of judgement and condemnation. Kids being Kids, instead of a disease.
I heard stories from children who nearly died this year, but chose to live...the most astonishing thing...they chose to live so they could come back to camp. Some children did pass away this year, and together, with a circle of friends who had compassion, they sent a boat into the middle of the lake. The boat had a phoenix-shaped flag with the names and pictures of the 3 young girls lost this year. The boat was filled with candles the living lit in hope for their souls. And together, they said goodbye. And together they chose to embrace life.
I'm forever changed. For the first time, I know why I've been doing what I've been doing. Not to say any charity I've worked with was worth less than another, but to see with my own eyes these children who need help, I'm changed.
If I could share my eyes and ears with you right now I would, because writing about it cannot possibly describe what I feel right now and what I experienced this weekend.
So...go visit the World AIDS Day Concert Website and support if you can. Under the Donate Now menu item at the top of the page, there is an easy quick and secure way to donate online.
Again, thank you for your patience with me and I wish you all the best the world has to offer.
Hello:
I am writing from Swine Palace, the professional theatre company affiliated with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the Baton Rouge Performing Arts Alliance. I am hoping you can pass on to your constituent organizations information regarding an arts-related unified disaster relief effort. As the reports from New Orleans continue to come in, it is clear that South Louisiana faces a dire situation as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Here in Baton Rouge, we are expecting our population to double in the next few days as more evacuees and displaced citizens are relocated here.
Currently, we are working on a number of ways to service the many evacuees in Baton Rouge and further participate in the disaster relief efforts. As such, we would like to appeal to our fellow arts organizations across the country to participate in what we are calling the Arts United for Hurricane Relief program. We are asking that organizations consider ways to solicit hurricane relief donations. Some of the ways that they might participate is by placing a donation jar in the their lobby, including an insert or ad in the program, including a link on their website or possibly donating the proceeds of a special performance. There are a variety of funds to which the proceeds can be donated including the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org), The Hurricane Katrina Displaced Residents Fund or the Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Recovery Fund both of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (www.braf.org), the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund of the LSU Foundation, or a Hurricane Relief organization of their choice. We are certainly not asking that any organization jeopardize their own funding efforts, but any assistance would be greatly appreciated. We are currently setting-up a link on our website (www.swinepalace.org) which will provide additional information, links and downloads as well as a list of all the organizations that participate. In the meantime, organizations who would like to participate can contact me at 225-578-9274 or ksosno1@lsu.edu.
Larry!
Such fun memories you recall. Theatre Company of Boston and their grand success with David.
Hi! You have absolutely no idea who I am, however, I am trying to
find someone who has been in some shows with this theatre company. I
know Dared from the days he used to teach a youth theatre camp at the
Framingham Civic League. I was one of his students. He may not
remember me, however, I have been trying to find a way to contact him
for quite some time now. I want to let him know what a profound
impact he's had on my life. I'd love to fill him in on my success as
a performer...much of which is largely thanks to him. I don't know if
you have any way of contacting him, and I understand that this email
is excessively random. I just had no other way to get in touch. I
appreciate your time. Thank you so much!
Dear IRNE Committee ---
Larry, I wonder if you would post this "Thank you" note:
Just a note to thank all the wonderful actors, technicians and fabulous audience members who participated in our 33rd annual and MOST SUCCESFUL (and profitable!) new works festival ever!
The technical staff was amazing (our musical alone had 28 lighting cues and was expertly tech'd by Ann Garvin and her staff in ONE hour!)
We literally had no where to put audience members on closing night! The atmosphere was electric and the audience respose extremely positive. But most important: the playwrights had the unique opportunity of seeing their work in front of a live audience, and we now know how to "tweak" and improve our offerings.
Thanks so much to Kate Snodgrass and Mark Olivere of Playwrights' Theatre for offering their space to us...a wonderful place to perform. And kudos to Sandy Burns, and Steve Gilbane, winners of the audience choice awards, and Kelly DuMar, the winner of the coveted Playwrights Choice Award.
Hey, Actor-Newsies!
Please send any annoucements you have my way. I will be trying to
stick to the same rules as Sheila (no audition announcements, unless
it is an emergency, etc), but welcome announcements of shows you are in,
shows you have seen and think we should all see, birth and wedding
announcements, that sort of thing. You can send the announcements to
me at my Yahoo email account of:
Hi Larry,
Vitals:
AT TIMES LIKE THIS LARRY STARK CAN THINK OF ONLY ONE TIRED CLICHE:
Happy
Hi thar!!!!!
I am a stunt coordinator in feature films and television. J, Anna,Mikeal,Kate were perfouned enfluance on my work and my life , please responed and give them my love!!!!!!!!!
NOTE:
And to celebrate the premiere, I’m moving back to Mass.! The job came through!!!!! I’ll be in Mass sometime in May!!! Dates are to be determined!
-----Original Message-----
theatreflective is wicked excited to present Massholia, a new rock 'n' roll musical comedy about: unrequited love, diehard Red Sox fans, disgruntled pilgrims, misguided Duck Tours, conniving Salem Witches, President John Kerry, John Kerry Jr., a magical turkey, misunderstood Massholes, and the year Massachusetts secedes from the Union.
We can't wait to see you in May!
The Complete letter in
Thanks!Jeremy G.
LARRY STARK REPLIED:
Hello Larry,
Hi Larry - just a brief belated THANK YOU for the IRNE's Best Director award
for RAGTIME - needless to say, it was an honor sharing the nominations with
such esteemed directors but to tie (and with Spiro!) was completely
unexpected. Please relay my thanks to the rest of the committee and hope this
marks the beginning of quality community theatre recognition ( have to plug
VIOLET @ the Footlight Club 4/1 - 4/16 ) -
My heart is still beating too fast. I am so proud and Happy looking at that AWARD, How can I thank all of you. And you, with your cute pussycat face...you are a darling man. Can you let everyone know how my sister and I feel about this whole fukakta piece of paper and what it means to us for our 60 years. I truly luv ya...
NOTE:
Hi Larry,
LARRY STARK REPLIED:
Larry,
BTW, for Shakespeare Now!, our touring season dates are:
Hi there, Mr Stark --
LARRY STARK REPLIED:
Hi Larry,
January 1, 2005
Contact: Sharyn Shipley, sashipley@comcast.net or (425) 391-1189
Rolling World Premiere performance of STARCROSSED – the prequel to Romeo & Juliet
STARCROSSED, a new comedy by award-winning playwright, S.Abramhoff Shipley, will premiere at The Player’s Ring Theater in Portsmouth, N.H., February 4-20 and will be produced by Soul Soup Productions and directed by Billy Butler. For information or tickets, call (603) 436-8123.
The play is next slated to be produced by Steinbeck Presents at San Francisco’s Phoenix Theater from May 13-June 5. Directed by Jeffrey Hartgraves. For information or tickets, call (414) 820-1565 or (866) 811-4111.
STARCROSSED takes a hot blooded and wildly romantic perspective on the misadventures that led to the tragic vendetta between the Montagues and the Capulets. With bawdy humor and extraordinary consequences, lives hang in the balance as love, fortune, and honor are risked on the turn of a card, the edge of a sword. A tale of friendships gone awry and unforgivable acts committed in the name of love, this bawdy adventure of young lovers and fine swordplay is a prequel to Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
For more information on STARCROSSED, visit www.angelfire.com/in2/mywork.
S.A. Shipley, a Seattle-based playwright, is the author of more than twenty plays. She received the Dramalogue "Play of Year" Award for her comedy, CARYATIDS, and was a nominee for an NAACP Image Award. For more information on this play and about the playwright and her works, visit www.angelfire.com/in2/mywork.
Hi Larry -
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:49:52 -0500
[ LARRY ---
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:18:08 -0500
At 0413 PM 12/10/2004
In a recent venture, I've put together a collection of sound effects and environments that I've recorded over the years. This first collection will be called "Haddon Kime's sounds of New York City and Boston Volume 1." Please see my website for it here
I'm wondering what the advertising fee would be for me to put a small ad (say 450X250) on the front page of your website for a few months to push it out to the Boston theater scene?
I don't even know if you do this kind of thing, but it never hurts to ask...
DATE: 06:21 PM 12/10
We can do a "banner Button" ad of some sort, and try to charge you $75.00 for six months.
Break a leg....
At 0646 PM 12/10/2004, you wrote
Let me know how big you'd like the banner to be? I think they're usually 750X250 or something like that, but whatever will work on your site the best is what I'll design.
Thanks so much Larry, can I pay you through PayPal?
Yeah, PayPal works.....
DATE: 07:45 PM 12/10
Okay, for fabrication and et cetera I must wake up Lee VanderLaan who does all the Hard work around here.
LEE?
You and Lee have to talk, and he'll set everything up.
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:53:40 -0500
hahaha Thank you Larry -
Just so you know there's no sound on my SFX CD page just yet. I hope to have a sample or two up within the week, but, that page in paticular wouldn't be that great a way to check your sound system.
Here's one with some working sound clips:
I'm off to make a donation!
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:54:22 -0500
Haddon,
You have a very interesting website with much creative work. If you have a banner posted I would be happy to mount on our server and link to your site. If not, please send me by attachment a banner you have worked up. Some examples of the sizes we think work best are: 300 x 170 (Yates House Productions), 400 x 80 (NEED), 243 x 190 (Story Foundry). Banner ads that do not overwhelm the page are best, I think.
Please indicate where the banner should be linked (your main page, sub page, special page, etc).
Thanks again, and I look forward to working with you.
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:05:39 -0500
Larry,
May 8, 2004 $5.00 from Sharon Shipley (sashipley@comcast.net)
Minus the handling fees (about 3%) the total comes to $115.30.
Concerning the above deposits: If you haven't acknowledged them (Sharon & Paul) it might be good to do so. You didn't know, I didn't know until now, an oversight which should not have happened. I thought we'd get notification when an amount was deposited. I will see that this is corrected, and an email notice is sent when a deposit is made.
Cheers, and Happy Solstice!
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:35:37 -0500
Hi Lee -
I'm going to be advertising a CD of sound effects so I will need it to link here:
Thanks for your work on theatermirror. As you've no doubt seen and heard, It's an incredibly resource for the Boston theater community.
Sincerely,
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:00:50 -0500
Yes, that would be OK. Looking forward to it.
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:45:44 -0500
Hi Larry,
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:01:04 -0500
Wow! Thank you so much Lee. It looks great!
The most important contribution you could make right now in the ongoing battle to save Boston's Gaiety Theatre would be to call and/or email Mayor Menino's counsel, Merita Hopkins, and demand that she urge the Mayor to save the Gaiety for the following reasons:
1) The Gaiety was designed by celebrated architect Clarence Blackall and is the last remaining vaudeville theatre in Boston (the birthplace of American vaudeville in 1840).
2) The Gaiety's acoustics have been tested and found to be finer than any downtown Boston theatre or concert hall save for Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall, on which it is par.
3) The Gaiety Theatre presented the first integrated shows in Boston and is a chapter in both the Harlem Renaissance and African-American history.
4) Many Boston area theatre companies and chamber groups need a concert hall of modest size (1,500 seats) as Jordan and Symphony Halls are booked to the maximum.
5) According to engineering experts commissioned by the Friends of the Gaiety Theatre, demolishing the Gaiety will cost nearly as much to demolish it as to refurbish it and build over it.
6) It is illegal to tear down a theatre in the designated Theatre District.
You can contact Merita Hopkins by phone and by email:
MERITA HOPKINS
Dear Friends of Paul,
Wellesley College Campus is accessible from Rte. 16 and Rte. 135.
Larry,
Larry,
I tried getting info from the Globe internet obits but to no avail.
Just curious. When did he die?
I haven't spoken with Paul in many, many years. Last time I spoke with him was 10 or 15 years ago at a NETC convention, I think. At the time he was promoting a book.
I first met Paul in the middle fifties. I had returrned to Emerson in the spring of '55 after being in Korea for a year and got a job that summer as the only technician [carpenter and electrician] and bit player at the Eastern Slope Playhouse in North Conway. An Equity company in its 7th season. The pay was room and board and $25.00 per week.The producers were Edward P. O'Donnell andW.F.Halpin. We seldom saw Halpin who worked in the box office or in some office we couldn't find and Mr. O'Donnell worked at the Boston Veterans' Administration as some sort of clerk. You might say that O'Donnell ran the company by long distance because he only showed up on weekends, late Friday through early Sunday. Most of the company stayed at one rooming-house in North Conway and we all ate dinner and breakfast together. Being theatre folk, the din at the table was usually cacaphonic and boisterous and the conversations lively. O'Donnell came every other Friday night through Sunday afternoon. O'Donnell, it was reported, had been a Trapist Monk for many years before he became a theatre producer. The woman who owned the house we stayed in told us that while as a monk he had taken a vow of silence and at one time had not spoken for 17 years. Every so often on a weekend, he would bring with him to dinner some pale young man [different one each time] who, rumor had it, was contemplating becoming a monk. Needless to say, whenever O'Donnel came to the table, there was never any conversation. The young guests never uttered a peep: always looked down at their plates. We all ate our food and got out of there as quickly as possible. The silence was breathtaking. [Looking back at it now, the whole scene could have been out of a Woody Allen movie.]
Zeke Berlin who taught at Yale many years and later directed a lot of Off bway shows was the director for the whole season and directed all the shows. Russ Whaley who later chaired the drama department at Carthage College was the designer. Lyle Dye who later became the executive director of the Equity Library Theatre was the stagemanager.
Barstow had been at the theatre for a few shows the summer before and came in that summer to do one show: a silly little "sophisticated English farce" by Leslie Stevens called "Champagne Complex." Paul played the role of Carter Bowen "the worldly, good-natured psychoanalyst" [words right out of the program which I have saved in one of my scrapbooks!] I think Paul was there for three weeks: two weeks of rehearsal and one week of the run.
Since my room had two beds, and I was the only one in the complex who did not have a room mate, Paul was assigned to my room.
Paul was married at the time and his wife, who was home in the Boston area, was in the final weeks of a pregnancy. The first morning Paul was my room mate, I remember awaking to the sounds of Paul running down the hall to the bathroom and then to further sounds of someone throwing up. This continued for almost the whole time Paul was there until about two days before the end of the run when Paul got the news that his wife had delivered, I believe, a baby girl. Then the retching stopped. It seemed that Paul had morning sickness. The morning sickness I found interesting and amusing. What I thought strange was that he was away in NH doing some silly role while his wife was in Boston going through child birth. Other things I remember about Paul was that he was tall, lanky, rather skinny and moved around that tiny stage in loping movements, sort of like a giraffe in a confined space.
At the time, Paul told me he was an Anglophile. He loved everything British, expecially the monarchy with its tradition and pomp, and he affected an English dialect even off the stage. I actually thought he was English. He often told me that he believed that America should have royalty. I was young, impressionable, volatile---still had not fully adjusted to civilian life and peppered my sentences with four letter expetives... and was from a mill town in New Jersey across the river from New Yawhk.. You could cut my accent with a knife then. I thought Paul who was self-confident, regal [taught at Wellesley of all places!!!!], who peered down reservedly at my 5'7", was the epitome of New England culture. I ran into him years later in Boston at an audition and he had modified the accent to uppercrust New England. He sure fooled me. Then! That was fifty years ago. Time sure changes people...or does it????
Dear Friends,
This was typical Paul, a man with an acute recollection and vivid wonderment to make no story ever dull.
I had the fortune to have met Paul in his favourite city, Budapest, in the spring of '73 and was again fortunate enough to have been in contact with him in his latter years until shortly before his passing.
Anybody who knew him will miss this man's amicable and relentless considareration, kindness and gratitude. I'm saddened to have lost such a dear friend, but am content to know that he had lived his life the fullest.
Godspeed Paul, and Oh Joy unbounded, wherever your sojourn may take you...
From: BarstowP@aol.com
Here, oh patient ones, is another travel narrative. Nowadays, it is all that people associate with me. "Where have you been? And where are you going next?" is the opening conversational gambit. Travel has become my modus operandi and my Raison d'etre. So be it. With my hearing poor and my dentures undependable I am reluctant to act because I cannot place my voice with proper assurance. No complaints -- I had a good run and I am content. I'm still up for workshops and coachings but reluctant to take on the full responsibility of directing. So I rest between travels.
2004 is becoming my Black Sea year. My last voyage was with Grand Circle Travel [a very favorite agency with me] and consisted of a cruise from Budapest to the Black Sea. Lufthansa flights are always good, and I was glad to experience the new Munich airport en route. At Budapest we were met and taken to an excellent hotel. But this was unfortunately equidistant from the tourist venues in Pest and from Hero's Square and the museums. But very near was the Pasta Dost Restaurant/Grill. an Italian eatery where everything hot or cold imaginable was served with unlimited wine for about $12,00 - The only restriction was of time: three hours maximum.
As most of you know, Budapest is one of my favorite cities. I now think of it as the city of fascinating facades. As we strolled the area around our hotel the buildings displayed an astonishing variety of styles, side by side but somehow harmonizing. Gothic, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, modern and eclectic -- one might be in Rome, Florence, Barcelona or the Arabian Nights. One of my favorite new buildings is sheathed in reflecting glass panels. From across the boulevard one can make reflected buildings dance simply by moving one's head.
I was delighted when we toured the elegant Opera House and were treated to an excellent piano/soprano recital.
The 153 travelers were divided into four color-coded groups, each with its own tour leader. My, can I say, traditional good fortune [portable karma] held as we had the most congenial group and the best tour leader. I also found a delightful travel companion, charming, witty, energetic enthusiastic and engaging. Traveling solo, I always hope for such a happy circumstance, and so far I have always found a kindred spirit.
Our cruise ship was the latest version of the Grand Circle model, both comfortable and luxurious. Habituated to comparable vessels, I kept heading for my previous cabin. Blessedly, there were a dozen or so of us who enjoyed dancing to a marvelous duo of keyboard and electric violin. I danced every night of the cruise, with great delight
Our first stop was at Osijek, Croatia, a destroyed and rebuilt city where a sub-set of twelve joined a local family for lunch. Their modest home was backed by a farm area (geese, pigeons, pigs, chickens, etc.) amid a garden which supplies most of their food. This was a charming interlude of gracious hospitality, though the father was unemployed and the family's circumstances precarious.
Our introduction to Serbia was at Novi Sad, a university town and commercial center. I was eager to see Belgrade (not visited by me since 1973) and to assess the damage from the NATO bombings. Much has been reconstructed, and temporary bridges cross the Danube. St. Sava Orthodox Cathedral is huge and empty.
We proceeded to Rousse, Bulgaria, and from there to Veliko Tarnovo, the country's ancient capitol. There we enjoyed another home-hosted lunch. This time we were in the elegant household of a very prosperous family in Arbanassi, an historical district scrupulously maintained. If the facade is right, owners can do what they like within the walls, so there were elegant lawns and gardens, cum swimming pool. The father owns two pharmacies in the city.
Then it was on to Constanta, a charming and elegant resort with casinos and all the accouterments of elegance. From there we had an exciting ride on a private train of real elegance en route to Bucharest.
The Romanian capitol is an elegant city, where the classical severity of the former Royal Palace is overcome by the extravagant Peoples' Palace -- second only to the Pentagon as the largest building in the world. Again, not having been there since 1973, I could wonder at it all. Contrary to general assumptions, I think the People's Palace actually a rather handsome structure, though one must lament the historical structures and areas which were destroyed to make room for the monument.
For our final dinner we had superb cuisine and service in a garden setting and a last chance at dancing before an early morning flight back to Boston.
This was my last choice and least favorite of the Grand Circle river cruises, but only because the river's sites were less interesting than those of the Rhine, the Main and the upper Danube. But one could easily and wisely take a "Cruise to Nowhere" on a Grand Circle ship.
I am now awaiting October 8 for departure on Swan-Hellenic MINERVA II, sailing the perimeter of the Black Sea, Istanbul to Athens.
May all your journeys end in joy. Paul Barstow
From: Larry Stark [mailto:larry@theatermirror.com]
From: "Jackie Davis" jdavis@roxmulti.org
HI Larry!
Dear Friends,
This concert is a benefit for The National AIDS Fund as well as for the Storm Theatre. I cannot tell you how excited I am about the way this event is shaping up! Gabriel Barre, one of the city’s hottest directors, as well as up-and-coming choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler are both heading up my artistic team, with the incomparable Mark Hartman musical directing. Once again, I am producing the event along with Ms. Kate Shindle, who is not only (scientifically proven to be) one of the hottest women in the country (Miss America 1998), but a mastermind at all things producorial.
Included among my cast, (and I can't rave about all of them, as there are 130 of them) are some Broadway legends (Terrence Mann, Charles Busch), some Tony nominees (Laura Benanti, John Tartaglia), some amazing newcomers (Michael Arden) an amazing surprise or two (do you really think I’m going to tell you what they are)? This is truly going to be an evening to remember.
I am telling you about this for two reasons…1) you shoulld buy a ticket NOW if you can and 2) you should go to www.pippinconcert.org and make a contribution NOW if you can-however small, $10 would be WELCOME. $10,000 would be more welcome, but do what you can. If you'd like to make a contribution by check, it can be made payable to The Storm Theatre, 145 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036 and is entirely tax-deductible. All the information can be found on the website under "Sponsorship Opportunities." It has been a very difficult year for these organizations, so ANY help you can offer would be fantastic!
I sincerely hope to see each and every one of you at the show and thank you for all the support you have given me in my work up until now!
Much Love at the start of this holiday season!
Jamie xx
Fellow Artists:
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To Whom It May Concern: Hi Larry (or whoever is handling the Greenroom),
Marc Miller, co-editor, THE SOURCE
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HCC/LMDA Grant Recipients
Haymarket Community Corporation (HCC) in conjunction
with The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the
Americas (LMDA) is pleased to announce the 2004
recipients of dramaturg grants. The program is
designed to assist theaters in utilizing dramaturgs in
their productions. Because of the funding source, the
program is currently limited to Massachusetts.
$1,500 Boston Theater Works (Boston, MA) production of
“Homebody/Kabul”. Bridget Frey will be their
dramaturg.
$1,500 Double Edge Theater (Ashley, MA) work in
progress and workshop production of “Master and
Margarita” Jennifer Johnson will be their dramaturg.
In addition to the funding of the productions, the
dramaturgs have been invited to the annual convention
of the dramaturgs which this year is happening in
Philadelphia.
HCC has extended the program and granted additional
funding of $500 to two other dramaturg/theater
combinations who had applied to the program:
Based on the response, the program will be continued
for an additional year.
HCC is a nonprofit corporation which funds in several
categories including the arts.
LMDA is an international network of dramaturgs,
literary managers and theater artists, with a mission
to affirm the role of the dramaturg, to expand the
possibilities of the field to other media and
institutions and to cultivate, develop and promote the
function of dramaturgy and literary management.
Do you know where I might see a review of Westside Story in Waltham, Massachusetts (Reagleplayers)? My son is Action and I live in Oklahoma....thank you so much
LARRY STARK REPLIED:
Hi Larry,
You are always welcome at Essayons Productions. Consider the gratis tickets to be paid in full through your sweat equity in the Boston Theatre scene.
I hope that you realize what a unique contribution the Mirror is to theatre. Most sites out there are either straightforward reviews, straightforward listings, or a combination of both. The Mirror is a true meeting of the boston theatre scene's professionals, amateurs, dilletantes, fans and critics.
Any other theatre community in the country would probably die to have a forum like yours. And theatregoers would flock to it like mad.
All this to say, thank you. Take some time off, enjoy.
Remember, we all accept the fact that professional or olympic athletes need recovery time and we admire them so much for their accomplishments , but we rarely relate that need for recovery to our own lives, we think somehow that we can run a sprint for several months straight, or a marathon for decades.
Thank you, Larry. I have put the New England 411 in my favorites and I will do it myself from now on. Thank you very much. This is my first time doing the publicity.
Thanks - I'll be sure to do posting to 411 myself now. Thanks for doing
it for me in the past.
see! honest! we use NE Theater 411!
OPENINGS STILL AVAILABLE IN LEDDY SUMMER CAMPS!
AND LARRY STARK REPLIED: Hey there,
THE BOSTON March 30, 2004
Thank you for continuing to recognize and support new plays. Aside from the playwrights and theatre companies who take a chance with new works, the audiences would never know about new plays in our community without your reviews. Your investment in the play development process continues to make new works interesting to producers and sexy to Boston audiences. The playwrights and theatre companies engaged in this enterprise are in your deby.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Hello!
Hi Larry,
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:02:30 -0500
Well, Kelly, there aren't 39 theatres here. I found NINETY-THREE of them inside the Boston City Limits alone a while back.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre will be looking for 45 new plays for the 2005 Boston Marathon just as soon as the 2004 Marathon ends ... about 19 April of this year.
Those are what dripped from my mind on a moment's notice.
In any case, break a leg.
I've had a huge increase in the number of visitors to my web site,
WWW.STAGEPAGE.INFO
Almost all of the visitors came in looking for free monologues-- but most were leaving right away, before going from the monologue index to look at any of the individual monologues.
I don't know where these crowds are coming from-- though a lot seem to be coming through aol-- but with all this traffic I feel it's worth the effort to try to make it easy for people to find what they are looking for. I've been working with my friend the web designer to try to make the monologues page "user friendly". Some of the changes seem to be working-- traffic, and page views, are still going up. But I'd really appreciate it if you auditioning actors and acting teachers would take a look at
http://www.stagepage.info/monologs/_monologs.html
and tell me if the navigation works for you, and how it might be improved so it would work well for a fairly clueless kid.
Hi Larry
I just wanted to follow up with our conversation about replacing our ad on
your website for A CHRISTMAS STORY with an ad for Rex Smith coming to The
Company Theatre on January 31, 2004.
Fresh off the 2002 national tour of KISS ME KATE, Rex will be presenting an
evening of his many BROADWAY hits.... certainly something your theatre-hungry
readers will want to know about.
Can we move forward on this?
Best, STEVE WHITE
THIS IS WHAT LARRY STARK REPLIED
In a word.....................NO!
If you need to Adverti
I hesitated when I got the letter below, about whether it was only personal,
and, I hoped, it talked of only a temporary, interruption ---
or whether I should put it up in The Mirror.
I had become a little busy (Or was it just that I didn't want
to admit all he says is really true?).
Sadly, I now realize I must. T hank you for jogging my elbow.
I'm sure Tony will appreciate knowing his absence leaves a hole in people's lives
and in their awareness of theater, and I suggest you write him personally, as I will
again once your note, and his, go into The Mirror (Tonight, I hope).
Tony covered all the theater from Boston down to Connecticut like a warm,
loving blanket and I met him only a couple times we saw the same shows. I
regret losing his range and his energy.
Thank you BOTH
!
Love,
From: TANNICONE@aol.com
Subject: Re: Message from Tony
I can only stay online a few minutes before bedtime so I think my
reviewing days are over. Unfortunately. Don has a girl who is reviewing
for him maybe she can handle some of my stuff. Her name is Kim Kalunian.
Not only do I have diabetes I have terrible arthritis in the back and neck
and can only sit in one place for a few minutes and need to pace around.
Still on insomnia med.
Love to you and all my readers and theater people.
Thank you for everything!
Love,
Tony
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:24:50 -0500
From: "Lincoln Purdy"
Thank you for the update. I am very sorry to hear that Tony is in poor health. Like you, I hope it is a temporary setback. Tony always had kind words for everyone and he was particularly kind to our son Andrew whom he singled out in the reviews of the productions my son was in. I will definitely reach out to Tony to wish him well.
Best Regards,
Lincoln Purdy
TO: "Everett Dance Theatre (Matt Kandarian)" mkandarian@everettdancetheatre.org
FROM: larry stark larry@theatermirror.com
DATE: 10 January, '08
I have two suggestions:
This sounds like a great opportunity to share/expand audiences for everyone.
Has anyone yet thought of starting a DANCE Mirror, similar to The THEATER Mirror?
I'm sure there would be enough serious enthusiasts And Performers involved in dance locally to make this Unifying Internet Locale a way of tipping disparate companies to other's work and to "The Big DANCE Picture" and, simply, telling audiences for One Company that others they never heard of Exist.
Right now, probably the only "single source" for dance information is the coverage in NEW ENGLAND ENTERTAINMENT DIGEST, but in the unfolding digital age I don't think a monthly newspaper, good though it is, is enough.
Think about it, at least. You're probably Overworked as it is with Everett's p/r, but maybe a "committee" could try?
NOTE: Nicole Pierce's EGOart company [ http://www.egoartinc.com/new-show.htm ] has a website that lists only TWO other companies' performance info in a quirky web-site. Maybe you should talk about this? She's doing a dance program in Cambridge on 25 & 26 January, and I'll be at one of them. If anyone from Everett shows up, yuou or they should say hello.
===Anon.
( a k a That Fat Old Man with The Cane also k a larry stark )
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:15:47 -0500
From: "Vilas Sridharan" vilas.sridharan@gmail.com
Subject: Longwood Players' "A New Brain" Score Corrections
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:54:35 -0500
From: debbykatz@hotmail.com
Subject: Whatever happened to Norm Gross during the final days of 2007?
Successful 6 hour replacement of a malfunctioning aortic valve, with a similar cow's valve, plus a necessary mitro valve repair as well!
Recovery following at the hospital's I.C.U. until November 19.
Discharged and transferred to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale, MA for R&R beginning at that time.
Discharged and transferred on December 6 to the home of son-in-law and daughter Steve and Alison Rosen, 3 Lantern Lane, Canton, MA (781-828-8088) for rehab, recovery and rest through January 2008.
We missed you, Norm.
Ihope you get back to work soon!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:14:22 -0500
From: "Jack Crory" jackcrory@gmail.com
Subject: The Lonesome Coyote Theater
Thank you and Happy New Year,
Jack
[ http://www.cambymca.org/theatre.html ]
[ http://www.rcahh.org/rental.htm ]
[ Actornews_Boston@yahoogroups.com ]
Rick Park send this e-mail Bulletin whenever he has received information, and many people depend on it.
[ enews@stagesource.org ]
Every Friday they e-mail a news-bulletin in which I think you can list your show for free.
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark )
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:29:23 -0500
From: "Campbell, John[BOS]" JOHN.CAMPBELL@oliverwyman.com
Subject: Looking for Chris Connaire
John Campbell
john.campbell@oliverwyman.com
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:11:19 -0500
From: "Reindeer in Boston" reindeerinboston@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Reindeer on Theater Mirror
If performances of "The Eight" are even Close to the fun of making this promo-teaser, it will be a winner!
It's the ultimate "A.B.C.C." show!
["ANYTHING But 'A Christmas Carol !"]
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:02 -0500
From: "Fell, Ed" EMF@epm-inc.com
Subject: Review Comment for "A Little Night Music"
I read with interest Beverly Creasey's review of "A Little Night Music"
at the Vokes Theatre, since I rarely get to do a show that appears on
The Theater Mirror.
Edwin Fell
"Mr. Lindquist"
The baritone with the equally dashing mutton chops
just switched the eDWIN and eVAN names in her review.
I hope that's an adequate fix?
Thanks for catching the mistake!
I'll get this letter into the Greenroom in a bit; I think it's a good idea for people to be aware that Corrections Are WELCOME.
Break a leg...
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark )
From: Robert Bettencourt rob_bett@yahoo.com
[Excerpt]
I wanted to drop a line to you and let you know what an interesting section that you have started with your experiment with the Globe. It is interesting for someone to take the Globe and dissect it in the way that you are doing, as way of seeing how the Globe is covering theatre. I remember last year when the Globe's Sunday section was entitled Arts rather then Arts and entertainment. At least I knew then I would get some sort of theatre coverage even if it was one review. Now, they don't even have to cover Boston Theatre and sometimes they don't. Although I can admit to the Globe being very powerful I don't think it can single handily kill Boston Theater, although combined with the fact that there is no one strong consistent theater community in Boston might just manage to kill it. Who knows?
Rob
From: Robert Bettencourt rob_bett@yahoo.com
Subject: Your Globe Piece
As I have said, I have found your Globe piece this month in TheaterMirror to be very interesting if not surprising. But I was wondering a follow-up might be to see how other papers in other theater towns such as Chicago, Minnesota, etc treat theater in general but also if they support the local theater that goes on around them.
Rob
From: Robert Bettencourt rob_bett@yahoo.com
Subject: Bravo Larry!
Once again thank you so much for your coverage of the Boston Globe and there lack of coverage of the independent theatre scene in Boston. It was a very interesting month.
Keep up the great work.
Rob
From: Anngarvin4@aol.com
Subject: Hello!
I have enjoyed reading your day to day synopses of the Boston Globe coverage of the local theater scene... quite an undertaking and it makes for fascinating reading. Jerry and I are extremely happy and proud that you mentioned the exciting things that we are doing in Lowell ( and, in the next two weekends at The Skellig in Waltham, thanks for the plug!). I do feel it would be remiss however, if we didn't point out that Sandra MacDonald of The Globe did indeed come to Lowell and gave us a wonderful review in April for Jim's play "Distant Music". We appreciated the trip she made and sincerely hope that she, as well as you, and others will see our upcoming shows.
Ann Garvin
Image Theater
At 08:49 AM 9/19/2007, you wrote:
I wanted to drop a line to you and let you know what an interesting section that you have started with your experiment with the Globe. It is interesting for someone to take the Globe and dissect it in the way that you are doing, as way of seeing how the Globe is covering theatre. I remember last year when the Globe's Sunday section was entitled Arts rather then Arts and entertainment. At least I knew then I would get some sort of theatre coverage even if it was one review. Now, they don't even have to cover Boston Theatre and sometimes they don't. Although I can admit to the Globe being very powerful I don't think it can single handily kill Boston Theater, although combined with the fact that there is no one strong consistent theater community in Boston might just manage to kill it. Who knows? As for me I am done trying to carve a community from this petrified wood. My email project has failed miserable.
Ever your friend in Theatre,
Rob
From: Robert Bettencourt rob_bett@yahoo.com
Subject: It is too Bad
The next time someone emails you about why the smaller plays and companies are not making it into the IRENE awards. Please remember your opening paragraph to your review of Simon Says.
Rob
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:33:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher Teague chris@metrostagecompany.com
Subject: Hello!
Thank you SOOOO much for the Metro ad. I will gladly
give you whatever money you need from us. Our tickets
are $20...so I can give $20. But if you need more
from me, just let me know.
Cabaret is running two weeks (the weekend of the 7th
and 14th) I'm hoping we'll be listed
for both weekends. I'm happy to pay extra to make
that happen. :)
This was a wonderful idea, and I'm so grateful you
went ahead and did this.
Should I just give you the money at Cabaret? Or do
you need it faster (I can mail it or drop it off if
you want)
Thanks again!-Chris
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "E Wayles Browne" ewb2@cornell.edu
Subject: Plays
Once before, I remember, I asked your advice about plays, because
our local group of Amnesty International was interested in doing
one with a human-rights message. In the end, we did two: one
was The White Rose, by Lillian Garrett-Groag, about a group of
students in Nazi Germany who wrote leaflets against Hitler.
The other was Coyote on a Fence, by Bruce Graham, about the
death penalty, a thing which we're also against.
Both plays were well received by the local public, and they
certainly energized us!
Best,
Wayles
--
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
e-mail ewb2@cornell.edu
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LS2rooms.htm ]
Hostage; wife; government; reporter. Brilliant play!
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSstillAYTB.htm ]
A study of the returning soldier's attempts to shift gears
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/BEVrace.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSrace.htm ]
ALL the racial epithets, voiced full-throat, and "reasonable" justifications of racism
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/TAeitgt.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/TASINacdgamm.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/BEVfpspeakeasy.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/BEVfpspeakeasy.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/BEVrwanda.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/CRgloucesterhilary.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/KBtrial.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSl+fqs.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LShqsbca.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/CRfrozennewrep.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LStgowislsobi.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LStttstc.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSwuastctof.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSldojic1.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/CRlyric1776.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LStwsescbca.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSasmtpcwt.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/BEVstuff.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSurinetownTIII.htm ]
[ http://www.portlandphoenix.com/theater/top/documents/04475493.asp ]
[ http://www.portlandphoenix.com/theater/top/documents/04475493.asp ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSboz.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSfcg.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LSttwm6d.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LStoc1111.htm ]
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/LStszsc.htm ]
The reporters get it wrong. Neatly honest!
(Insert wry emoticon of your choice HERE.)
Break a leg!
Love,
===Anon.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:20:23 -0400
From: Cory Tomascoff ctomascoff@rcn.com
Subject: Screenplay Call Question
Thanks a lot,
-Cory Tomascoff
website: corytomascoff.com
and as above: corysmovies.com
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:45:47 +0000
From: Jbisantz@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Quotes and mis-quotes
First of all I want to thank you for all the work you do for the local theater community and express my sympathy on behalf of all the Playwrights Platform folks regarding the death of Will Stackman. A great guy and a presence that will be sorely missed.
Jerry
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:13:10 -0400
From: "Lana Bornstein" lanaborn@gmail.com
Subject: help me Larry!!
Can anyone shed some light!!??
I had a fabulous audition a few months ago for a company called The Contemporary Theatre of Boston.
Yes, I said fabulous, because even though I didn’t get the part and got called back three times, the directors were so nice and gracious that I really wanted to stay in touch and support them. However, I cannot find much information on them! I know the production is The Maids and I also know that they are doing something very unique called “salon” theatre. Can anyone shed some light??? Please Larry, he who knows all…..!!
Help me!!
Lana B.
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:49:44 -0500
From: leigh barrett LeighBarrett@comcast.net
Subject: Coaching available
So good to see you the other night at Souvenir. I'm so glad you
enjoyed it. We are having a blast...
On another note.
I've been thinking of getting back into the "coaching biz". I've
taught for NSMT and for Emerson College but what I really love is
coaching a piece into the actor.
Is there any way to let your readers know that I'm available?
Thanks for your help!
Leigh Barrett
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Naeemah A. White-Peppers" nwp97@yahoo.com
Subject: It's a boy!!
we did it!! Sidney Orion Luckey was born on Friday.
I stayed up all night last night and created a webpage
for him (in between feedings). Check out the page and
the pictures.
Going back to work in January. hope you're well, and
hope to hear from you soon...
http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/s/sidneyorion
Steele Ocean Luckey
http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/s/steele/
*******************
IT'S A BOY!!
Sidney Orion Luckey
September 15, 2006
8lbs;1oz and 20in
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 23:03:48 -0400
From: "Harvey Soolman" ballplayerHS@comcast.net
Subject: Sad news
I received some terrible news today that Jim Moran has passed away. Jim had been very ill with lung cancer, with which he was diagnosed a little over two years ago.
That's all.
Harvey Soolman
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:38:44 -0700
From: "Rob Astyk" robastyk@fastmail.fm
Subject: Re: Sad news
Thank you, Harvey, for the news and the eulogy.
I first met Jim when Harvey asked me to play the bartender in "A Left
Turn at Albuquerque" and was immensely glad I did. Jim was one of those
sweet, gentle souls that most of us wish we could be, the ideal we never
quite reach. I'm sure that Jim would not have seen himself that way, but
I did and so did others. Perhaps that's enough: that we leave an
impression of goodness and decency in our wake as we daily traverse this
uncertain sea. The world is a little less bright without Jim Moran in
it.
Take care,
--
Rob Astyk
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Achilles Vatrikas avatrikas@yahoo.com
Subject: IRNE awards
I wanted to personally thank you for honoring our TAKE ME OUT team with an IRNE of Best Ensemble during your ceremony last Monday in Boston. What a fun night! I have to admit it was a first for me and it became even more exciting by being awarded along with my co-actors.
Thanks again.
Yours,
Achilles Vatrikas
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:29:42 -0500
From: "Aguillon, Michelle M." Michelle_Aguillon@dfci.harvard.edu
Subject: Many Thanks
"Stackman Will \(E-mail\)" profwlll@yahoo.com,
"Larry Stark \(E-mail\)" larry@theatermirror.com,
"Kay Bourne \(E-mail\)" kaykatze@aol.com
Michelle Aguillon
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:20:24 -0500
From: leigh barrett leighbarrett@comcast.net
Subject: Thanks!
I don't have emails for everyone on the committee and hope that you won't mind being the messanger. I just wanted to reiterate my gratitude to you and the rest of the IRNE committee, as well as all of the independent reviewers. You can't know how much we of the Boston theatre community appreciate your unwavering and tireless support of our work in all it's various capacities. I thank you once again for the honor you bestowed upon me last night and hope to continue to do work that you feel worthy of note.
Best,
Leigh Barrett
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:10:56 -0500
From: svgemma@optonline.net
Subject: Open Door Theatre
In 1972 or 1973, there was a struggling little theater group called the open door theater, which you supported and helped sustain. I was just talking with Geralyn Horton, who told me of your web site, and of Susan McGinley's death. I've gone through the postings in the Greenroom and cannot find any mention of this, and wonder where I could find what Geralyn described as lots of tributes to her which were posted after the announcement of her death.
Yours truly,
Sally Gelling (Oliver-Smith in those years)
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:50:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Richard White fightdirector@yahoo.com
Subject: For "The Greenroom"
Rich White
Rich White Rich White Fight Associates "Have Sword...Will Travel" (508) 733-8472
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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:24:59 -0500
From:
Great article in NEED... I agree that one of our chief functions is to
REPORT... As I review NYC productions for NEED, vitually none of my readers
will see the show... and I'm aware of that duty to DESCRIBE unique work...
- Steve Capra
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:57:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Johnwlynn@aol.com
Subject: Jake's Women
Thanks for any help you might be in getting me a tape. John Lynn
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Loann gsv_novel_identities@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Non acting job for actors listing at TheatreMirror
Here is an announcement regarding Useful People for the Greenroom.
Loann
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:54:56 -0400
From: Patrick M Brennan pbrennan@theworld.com
Subject: Playwrights' Platform Talent Database
Playwrights' Platform exists to provide a home for our playwrights to network between themselves and with other talented people such as yourself. Our playwrights are always in need of the talents of other theater artists to help give life to their new works. We network with the Boston theater scene in search of actors, directors, and other talented individuals.
Joining our talent list is a good way to make connections with new playwrights who have bright future prospects!
http://www.playwrightsplatform.org/addyourtalent.html
Your contact information will be maintained on a secure, password-protected database which will only ever be available to Playwrights' Platform members. You will not receive spam by placing yourself in our database.
Thank You!
Patrick Brennan
President, Playwrights' Platform
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:52:35 -0400
From: Robert_Deveau@harvardpilgrim.org
Subject: New "Old Theatre" Website
Last summer a bunch of alumni from Somerville's short-lived but highly productive Theatre 369
met for a 30 year reunion. One of the results was this website. Its still in its beginning stages,
but we have many more photos, posters and programs to post. My hope is that this may grow into a
site to remember other Boston little theatres of the past.
I thought Theater Mirror folks might enjoy taking a look. Maybe you can add this to your
links?
Bob Deveau
http://www.theatre369.com/
Actors and Theater Companies, like Keats have names that are writ on water......
Something Should be done to keep alive the glow of aspiration and hope it Always takes to put on a performance and give it to people.
A while ago someone formed a committee to create a Theatre Museum for Boston.
Maybe, if people with memories send them to you Bob, we can revive the idea!
The small sliver of Boston's theatre history that I've lived through certainly deserves the attention!
Break a leg with it!
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:14:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jmcgonnigal@aol.com
Subject: my life has changed...
I've had some major personal things going on and this past weekend, I was thrown for a whole new unexpected loop.
Much Love, Jamie
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:28:02 -0400
From: "Jeff Poulos"
I received this today, and wanted to pass it along to you. We at StageSource are spreading the word to over 200 theatres companies and over 2000 theatre artists working in the Greater Boston/New England region about this Arts United for Hurricane Katrina relief. I thought you might be interested in story of the arts community across the country rallying.
Yours,
Jeff Poulos
----------------
From the desk of Kristin Sosnowsky,
Managing Director,
Swine Palace Productions,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
Thank you for your assistance.
Kristin Sosnowsky
Managing Director
Swine Palace Productions
Reilly Theatre
Tower Dr. - LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-9274
225-578-3527 (Box Office)
225-578-9279 (Fax)
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:43:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jf3148@aol.com
Subject: Frank/Reagle A Swell Memory Piece, Larry
What sweet reminiscences from your memory archives in Theater Mirror reprinted from NEED. I missed original so glad you reprinted on site. Such nice echoes awakened things within me. The Siobhan McKenna/Jason Robards - Macbeth. William Hunt was producer and I'd apprenticed at South Shore Music Circus with daughter Elise. In audience eve I saw that Macbeth was a gorgeous Marilyn Monroe with Arthur Miller in tow.
I avidly look forward to installment 2.
Hope your poor legs are holding up for you.
(Yours in Bush bashing!) ; - )
Frank/Reagle
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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:36:43 -0400
From: rinal@sc.rr.com
Subject: Dared Wright
Rina BolducRinaL@sc.rr.com
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SnailMail from:
Judith McIntyre
to THE IRNE COMMITTEE % Larry Stark
13 July '05
I am SO sorry this note has taken so long to reach you.
I just wanted to "thank" the committee for nominating me as Best Actress in Boston for 2004 season. It was quite an honor. I have my beautiful certificate smack center in the middle of my office bulletin board and I look at it daily. Considering the talent in Boston/NE it is especially nice to be acknowledged. Thank you all for attending all the theatre that you do and for putting it all out there for the public. We have so much competition in the entertainment field today that live theatre needs all the support it can get, Here's to another great season
Sincerely,
Judith McIntyre
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:40:59 -0400
From: Jerry Bisantz biz362@earthlink.net
Subject: Playwrights' Platform Festival
Thanks!
Jerry
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:15:18 +0000
From: "poochini109" poochini109@yahoo.com
Subject: [Actornews_Boston] Actornews Back in Business!
Having missed my bi-weekly Actor News ever since the incomparable
Sheila Stasack had to give it up, I finally decided to contact her
and see if we couldn't transfer the duties over to me! And so, here I am,
filling in as an understudy for La Sheila.
poochini109@yahoo.com
Hope we can get the ball rolling again and hope that I have finally
mastered this Yahoo Groups thingee!
Take care and hope to hear from you soon!
Rick Park
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:59:05 +1000
From: "Samsor Safi" samsor@sci-chem.com
Subject: Dawn Jenks( Tamming of the shrew)
My name is Samsor Safi from Australia, I'm an old friend of Dawn Jenks from Shakespeare and Company, trying to track her down, would you have her email details, or can you please forward my details to her, your help would be greatly appreciated. my email is: samsor@sci-chem.com.
many thanks
Samsor
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:37:50 -0400
From: Patrick M Brennan pbrennan@pbrennan.net
Subject: Please welcome Zoe Jean Brennan!
5/13/2005 10:40 pm
6 lbs, 12.2 oz
20 in
Mother and daughter doing fine.
Pictures forthcoming.
B I R T H Day!!!!!!!!
Love,
===Anon.
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:02:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ross Clay capfunder@yahoo.com
Subject: The Boston Pocket Mime
My name is Ross Clay I worked with the folks at the " pocket" there enfluance was emence!
If you have never read "Life Upon The Wicked Stage...", J Tormy's excellent history of THE POCKET MIME THEATRE, DO It NOW! (It's a gem!)
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:51:59 -0400
From: "Mark Sickler" msickler@EmpireResorts.com
Subject: FW: Massachusetts is Seceding - don't miss it!
Hey guys-
Look what my friends are doing in NYC (I was in the original workshop production 2 yrs ago)! Yeah, it’s “wicked freakin’ awesome”!
The Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington. (F to Delancey. JMZ to Essex) in NEW YORK
You must be right. I'm seventy-two and read the TIMES on Sundays. It was probably a big article on the PLAY when it got the Pulitzer than I remembered as being in the Book Review.
Frankly, I wish it WERE a novel; there's Much too much Subtext that the actors have to handle for a stage show.
Sorry for the lapse!
Love,
===Anon.
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:12:04 -0500
From: "Sandra Myatt" s.myatt@comcast.net
Subject: Theatre/Theater
"A note of pure obstinant pedantry:
THEATER is an art.
It is practiced in THEATRES."
At the risk of being even more obstinate (not obstinant), is it not the other way around?
Have a great day - enjoyed your website.
Yours,
Pendant Visitor 676201 : )
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:14:03 -0500
From: BILL DOSCHER
Thanks again!
Bill Doscher
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:24:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Bakerbobbi@aol.com
Subject: Hi
Bobbi Baker
DOLLY AND BOBBI BAKER (THE FABULOUS BAKER SISTERS) were honored with a Special Award for OUTSTANDING LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN CABARET by The Boston Association of Cabaret Artists, and the award was announced at this year's IRNE Award Party.
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From: "Ellen F. Goldberg" EFGold1@comcast.net
Subject: Looking for....
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:58:38 -0500
I am looking for an old friend of mine. I was searching on the internet and located a review of a show she was in. Her name is Marilyn Mays and she and James Walker were / are (?) in "A Gardener in Love". Would you have a contact number for her? I have no idea how long ago the show was produced... so forgive me if it;s been a longtime.
I appreciate your help.
Blessings,
Ellen F. Goldberg
Found the review:
[ http//www.theatermirror.com/gills.htm ]
It's dated 1999, the company no longer exists, and the director is about to move to Canada!
I can put this in the GREENROOM and see what other people know......
Thanks for thinking of The Mirror!
Break a leg...
Love,
===Anon.
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From: "Linda Lowy" linda@shakespearenow.org
Subject: the amazing YOU
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:11:17 -0500
You are amazing. Truly amazing. I think you are the HEAD THEATER ANGEL of Massachusetts. Your list is beautifully organized and very clear. Congratulations.
(February through May) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(March through May) Romeo and Juliet
(April through May) Macbeth
Thank you for all you do.
LInda
_________________________________
Linda Lowy
Artistic Director
Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company
www.shakespearenow.org
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:02:18 -0500
From: chelsea girl ogygia.ave@gmail.com
Subject: help identifying play
I'm trying to remember more details about a play that came to Boston
in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The play was called "The Phantom Of
the Opera" and it played a very abbreviated run at (I believe) the
Charles Playhouse. It WAS NOT the Andrew Lloyd Webber production
(obviously), nor was it the Kopit/Yeston "Phantom". I don't remember
the playwrights or actors involved, but all of the advertising
contained a large disclaimer stating that it WAS NOT the ALW
production. It got terrible reviews and seems to have sunk without a
trace.
Do you remember anything about this?
Best,Chelsea Spear
Nope. Nothing comes to MY mind, and I of course leaped to the Yeston PHANTOM as what I thought you meant.
Was It A Musical???
Jill Hobgood's musical web-site is still kept up
[ http//www.saintmarys.edu/~jhobgood/Jill/musicals.html ]
and you might get something there.
I'm putting your letter into The GREENROOM right now, and I hope someone salutes....
The Yeston PHANTOM did play TURTLE LANE PLAYHOUSE, but in 2000
[ http//www.turtle-lane.com/showlist.html ]
(It was perhaps the silliest thing I have ever seen; I haven't seen the even sillier Sir Andrew version in any of its incernations yet. I suspect that were I to try, both IT and I will disappear in a big flash of sulpher&brimstone at the first downbeat of the oveture.... [Insert wry emoticon of your choice here!] )
I wish I could help, and I hope someone can!
Break a leg ....
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark )
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From: "Sharyn Shipley" sashipley@comcast.net
Subject: StarCrossed by Sharyn Abramhoff Shipley
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:33:29 -0800
Happy New Year! My new play, StarCrossed, is going to be performed in Portsmouth, NH opening Feb 4. I'll be there. Any chance you can make it?
Here's all the info - If you have a moment, tell me where else to send the release, will you?
Hope the New Year finds us all well, warm and well-fed.
Sharyn
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:00:12 -0500
Subject: Results
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
Haddon Kime here. Just wanted to let you know that since my banner has been up on your site (5 days now) I've received 25 hits from your site and I've sold 12 CD's. Of course, I can't tell which theatermirror viewers are the buyers, but I'm sure some of them are...
Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Haddon
Subject: MAtter Familias Review
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
Hey Larry -
Haddon Kime here. How are you this holiday season?
I of course, am checking out your site for feedback on our latest outing at BPT, and found the link for Beverly's review is not working
The link on your site is thus:
http://www.theatermirror.com/mfbpt.htm
Would you be able to fix it, or perhaps email me the text of the review?
Thanks so much.
Haddon
I CHECKED AND, YEAH, I HAD DONE EVERYTHING BUT Upload THE REVIEW! SO I FIXED IT...
BUT BEFORE I COULD SEND A COPY TO HIM, I GOT THIS: ]
Subject: Thanks
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
Thanks Larry.
Happy Holidays!
Haddon
Subject: Advertising?
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
Hi Larry -
Haddon Kime here. I hope as always this note finds you well. Thank you for your feedback on Matter Familias.
http//www.haddonkime.com/sfx_cd.html
Thanks so much,
Haddon Kime
TO: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
FROM: Larry Stark larry@theatermirror.com
Re: advertising?
COPY TO: lee@easterncomputer.net
If not, we can dicker.....
Love,
===Anon.
Great. That sounds fantastic!
Sincerely,
Haddon
Love,
===Anon.
TO: Haddon Kime
COPY TO: lee@easterncomputer.net
We got a Live One here......!
(Insert wry emoticon 0f your choice here!)
(He Consults, so where he is when is a bit chancy...)
But as soon as he tells me it's up, I'll press the magic button!
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a Mere Content-Provider also k a Anon. )
Subject: Re: advertising?
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
I'll go and check out the donation button now.
http://haddonkime.com/producers.html
Sincerely
Haddon Kime
To: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
From: Lee Vander Laan lee@easterncomputer.net
Subject: Re: advertising?
I see your $75.00 Paypal deposit has come in, thank you very much.
--Lee Vander Laan
Web Head, Theatermirror.com
To: Larry Stark larry@theatermirror.com
From: Lee Vander Laan lee@easterncomputer.net
I just CC:ed you with a message to Haddon Kime that his $75.00 Paypal had been received. On looking at the Paypal account (which I hadn't for some time), I see there is EXTRA MONEY in it from two other admirers.
July 16, 2004 $5.00 from Sharon Shipley
Oct. 25, 2004 $35.00 from Paul O'Shaughnessy (frommage@comcast.net)
Dec. 11, 2004 $75.00 from Haddon Kime
I shall forward to your Citizens bank account.
--Lee
Subject: Re: advertising?
Cc: Larry Stark larry@theatermirror.com
To: Lee Vander Laan lee@easterncomputer.net
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
I'm going to design a banner now specifically for your site. Is it possible that I could go just a bit wider than NEED? Say 450X80?
http://www.haddonkime.com/sfx_cd.html
I'll send you a URL of the banner by the end of the day...
Haddon
To: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
From: Lee Vander Laan
Thanks again,
--Lee
To: Larry Stark larry@theatermirror.com
From: Lee Vander Laan lee@easterncomputer.net
Subject: Haddon Kime banner
I just finished posting Haddon Kime's banner on default and welcome. Be sure to copy from right to left before modifying.
I hope you agree with the placement. I gave him choice billing just under the Company Theatre in "default.htm". In welcome I inserted it just under your daily headlines. (also later on before Yates House). He was such a gem to work with, I wanted to give him a "top spot" to help promote his special.
Regardz,
--Lee
Subject: Re: Your banner
From: Haddon Kime haddon@kime.com
To: Lee Vander Laan lee@easterncomputer.net
Happy holidays to you. I'll be in touch after the first of the year, as I have to up the price to 19.99 then, so I'll need to update the banner then.
It looks really wonderful. Money well spent!
Sincerely,
Haddon
From: "Carl Rossi" carossi54@hotmail.com
Subject: Papa, could you please post this Gaiety notice? Thank you!
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:22:51 +0000
Phone: (617) 635-4020 V
E-mail: merita.hopkins@cityofboston.gov
From: BarstowP@aol.com
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:37:17 EST
Subject: MEMORIAL FOR PAUL R. BARSTOW
Thank you for all the e-mails and cards remembering Dad, they have been both comforting and inspiring. Many of you have asked for details about the Memorial on Sunday, December 12th. It will be in the Alumnae Hall Auditorium, on the Barstow Stage, Wellesley College starting at 1:00. We are also having a reception in the ballroom afterwards for those of you who wish to stay for it. If you associate any particular music with Dad, please bring a cd to share at the reception.
From the 135 entrance, the parking garage for Alumnae Hall will be the first right you take off the College Road. Park in the multi-level garage and walk across the circular drive to Alum.
From the 16 entrance, you will wind through campus, staying on the main College Road. After passing a construction site on your left you'll see the sign for Alumnae Hall, also on your left. Pull in and park in the big garage.
From: "Urs A. Reinhardt"
Subject: Re: Paul Barstow
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:30:03 -0500
Paul passed away exactly a week ago from today.
There will be an obituary forthcoming as soon as Vicky, one of his two daughters, has submitted it to the news organizations..
There also will be a memorial service on Sunday, Dec. 12th at Wellesley College.
Regards,
Urs
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:49:22 -0500
From: Bailey & Mort Kaplan vze2vht3@verizon.net
Subject: Paul Barstow
I read the 'travel letter' re Paul Barstow and gather that he passed away? I don't remember seeing anything in the papers about it.
My best, have a good Thanksgiving.
Mort Kaplan
From: "Urs A. Reinhardt"
Subject: To my Friend Paul Barstow in Memoriam V
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:27:03 -0500
Below is Paul's last report from his previous trip to the Black Sea as well as some pictures I took on my last visit to Uxbridge:
Your Friend Urs
To: Thomas.Abbott@t-online.de
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:32 PM
Subject: EASTERN EUROPE TO THE BLACK SEA
From: "Jackie Davis" jdavis@roxmulti.org
Subject: RE: Spell #7
At 03:23 PM 11/18/2004
Hello Larry! I just read your week that was, regarding Spell, and thanks
for your great comments, however, Sunday 14th was not our last show! We close Saturday, November 20 so there's still time to fill the house!
Jacqueline M. Davis, Executive Assistant
Roxbury Multi-Service Center
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:44 PM
To: jdavis@roxmulti.org
Subject: Re: Spell #7
WEEEEEEhawken! ! !!!!!!
Sorry for the stupidity, GLAD I was WRONG!!!!
I love you all......
Break a leg!
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a That Fat Old Man with The Cane )
Subject: RE: Spell #7
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:15:38 -0500
No stupidity at all! We actually had a very full house last night, so I'm
giving ALL the credit to you!
From: "Rik Pierce" RikP@pobox.com
Subject: Re: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:06:41 -0500
I don't know if you've heard from anyone. I forwarded your review to the
cast and crew and they were thrilled this afternoon at the matinee. It's
such a sorrow that so much work is going to be gone, torn down, and buried
in two more weeks. But that's the case with community theatre. I'm pleading
for us to do "The Fantasticks" next. We all need a physical break here!
Thank you for your generous words. They were very welcome.
Rik
From: Jmcgonnigal@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:17:50 EST
Subject: Pippin In Concert!!!
As most of you may already know, I am producing a concert version of the musical PIPPIN in NYC on Monday, November 29, 2004.
From: "Carl Rossi" carossi54@hotmail.com
Subject: Papa, could you please post this in the greenroom?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:30:20 +0000
I am attaching a petition on behalf of the Friends of the Gaiety Theatre for members of Boston's theatre community to sign to support the preservation of our historic Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street. Town Hall needs to know that our theatre community is aware that a valuable part of Boston history risks demolition in the name of gentrification.
Please read the petition and contact me saying that you will allow me to attach your name, your title, any theatre(s) with which you are associated and, if willing, your e-mail address.
Example: Carl A. Rossi / Playwright / carossi54@hotmail.com
On 15 November, I will draw up a list of accumlated names, attach it to the petition and e-mail it to the Friends of the Gaiety who will then forward it to Town Hall.
Whether or not you plan to sign this petition, please alert other artists who would be interested - the Friends of the Gaiety need as many artists' names as possible. I was told a similarly-signed petition helped to save the Opera House; if so, then lightning could possibly strike twice for the Gaiety.
Thank you!
Carl A. Rossi
We, the artists of Boston’s theatre community, do hereby declare that the Gaiety Theatre located at 659 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, deserves to be preserved and re-established as a performing space for the following reasons:
1. The Gaiety fulfills three criteria for landmark designation as specified in Section 4 of Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1975: (a) the Gaiety is Boston’s last remaining example of a vaudeville/burlesque house; (b) the Gaiety has the distinction of being the only remaining one of two Boston theatres that regularly presented African-American performers during the Jazz Age and is thus a vital chapter in African-American history; (c) the Gaiety is one of Boston’s few remaining theatres designed by noted architect Clarence Blackall who set new precedents with his engineering and acoustical designs.
2. The Gaiety’s auditorium has been tested and found to be structurally intact with excellent acoustics that would be perfect for chamber ensembles, small-to-mid-scale productions and jazz concerts.
3. The Gaiety’s preservation and reestablishment would serve a need for those companies desperately in need of performing space who cannot acquire bookings in Boston’s established houses and would preserve the character of its immediate neighborhood (i.e. Chinatown).
4. The Gaiety was designated by Boston's Midtown Cultural District zoning and Boston Landmarks Commission as, “...worthy of preservation.”
Affixed are our signatures/titles as of this ____ day of ___________, 2004.
[signature list]
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:06:12 -0400
Subject: Note for the Greenroom
To: greenrm@theatermirror.com
From: "Marc Miller" mmiller@jff.org
Would it be possible to post the note below in The Greenroom?
Many thanks.
***
StageSource is preparing the 2005-2006 edition of THE SOURCE: THE GREATER
BOSTON THEATRE RESOURCE GUIDE (our 20th Anniversary edition). We’d like
your help in making THE SOURCE an even more comprehensive resource for
everyone in the Boston-area theatre community. Please send us your
suggestions for people, organizations, and companies that we could add to
the new book. In particular, we seek information on these types of
resources: venues for performances or rehearsals; organizations serving
the theatre community; people and places to get training; casting
directors; talent agencies; audio, film, and video producers; places to
perform improv, comedy, or cabaret; and suppliers professional services or
materials for the theatre community. Also, contact us for advertising
opportunities! THE SOURCE will be read and continually referenced by
thousands of theatre professionals. Please send all suggested listings,
with contact information whenever possible, to thesource@stagesource.org.
Thank you.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:30:55 EDT
Subject: Seeking Submissions: NEED's Annual Casting Issue
NO FEE
, you can...
P.O. Box 88, Burlington, MA 01803
Ph: 781.272.2066 or 978.772.2545 - Fx: 781.229.2676 or 978.772.2989
.jacneed@aol.com
Would you like a guaranteed space in the issue? If you advertise in this issue, we are offering ad spaces at the 6-ad discount rate - so, if you purchase a business card ad (3.25" x 2.25"), it's just $20. A 1/10th page ad (4.75"w x 3.25"h) is just $35. A 1/4 page (4.75"w x 8"h) - just $85! A full page (9.5"w x 16"h) is just $250!
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Coyne
Additional sources of funding are being sought to
expand the program to other areas.
$500 Nancy Vitale and the Williamstown Theatre
Festival
$500 Elizabeth Wightman and Shakespeare Now!
Maxine Kern
Joe Coyne
lmdagrant@yahoo.com
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:30:45 -0500
From: "Stephane Shellenberger" SShellen@snu.edu
Subject: Westside Story - Waltham, Massachusetts
Stephane Shellenberger
I have a short squib in my "weekly journal", but beyond that I have no idea.
THE REAGLE PLAYERS is a group that falls in the cracks. The daily newspapers in Boston have declared them a "Comunity Theatre", which they are not, and then declared them a "suburban" group and sneered that they only cover shows on their urban turf. I'll bet the Waltham paper(s) --- if such exist! --- look at all the New York/Broadway/touring "stars" and the bus-loads of patrons from outside the city and declare "This is a Major Regional Theatre, and our pages cover only Local events!"
And so Neither the local nor the metropolitan even send reviewers, who would see a major regional theatre doing professional-level productions (old-style Summer Stock!) of great classic musicals for huge audiences every summer.
Frankly, I think none of these newspapers feel the slightest compunction to find and evaluate good theater.
Love,
===Anon.
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From: "Arthur Hennessey" norfolk1a@hotmail.com
Subject: Always Welcome!
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:56:58 -0400
I tried to send you this earlier, but I think I got bumped off line so I apologize if you are receiving it again.
Thanks,
Art & Amanda
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From: MaggeeDD@aol.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:03:26 EDT
Subject: Re: 'Bad Seed' grows in Allston
Maggee Davis
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From: "Jeff Poulos" jpoulos@stagesource.org
Subject: RE: Hard Hat Concert at Opera House!
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:11:28 -0400
Jeff
-------------------
Jeffrey Poulos
Executive Director
StageSource
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From: "Mill 6 Theatre Collaborative" mill6theatre@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Mill 6 press release for June production!!
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:34:54 -0400
Yep, their entry screen is very easy to use, we used it for R&J as well.
http://www.netheater411.com/attractions_cdetail.asp?ID=303
Thanks Larry!
Irene
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From: "Events at Leddy Center" events@leddycenter.org
Subject: SUMMER CAMPS AT LEDDY SCHOOL!
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:29:11 -0400
EPPING, NH - Leddy Center School still has openings in summer camps starting June 21! SING OUT with Mary Gatchell, a fun singing camp for 9 to 15 year olds, runs from June 21 through June 25, 10:00am to noon. MUSICAL THEATER CAMP for ages 9 to 15 with Elaine Gatchell, Mary Gatchell, and Dan Beaulieu runs from July 5 through July 16, 9:00am to 1:00pm. HALF-PINT ACTING CAMP #1 for ages 7 and 8 with Linda Carter runs from July 19 through July 23, 10:00am to 11:30am. HALF-PINT ACTING CAMP #2 for ages 7 and 8 with Jennifer Cardin runs from August 2 through August 6, 10:00am to 11:30am.
Call 603-679-2781 or e-mail leddycenterschool@leddycenter.org for more information. Visit www.leddycenter.org for the schedule and all the details!
Leddy Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit NH Arts & Education organization.
Nothing personal, but, no, I won't put this up in The Mirror.
However YOU can put it up Yourself into NEW ENGLAND THEATER 411
Just click to get there, and follow instructions.
After this transition-week, I will link The Mirror DIRECTLY with ther proper NET411 pages.
Break a leg all!
Love,
===Anon.
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:37:43 -0400
Subject: Re: auditions
From: "Zinnia, aka Nancy Politzer"
I confess my techno clutz status.( But have other redeeming qualities)
Alas!
I went to the link you provided, but did not understand how to create a
listing.
What is "NET411?
Thanks.
Zinnia (aka, Nancy Politzer)
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From: "Matt B. Pedersen" matt@daimi.au.dk
Subject: Re. Michael McNeal
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:24:26 -0800
I have been searching the internet for an old friend from Boston named Michael McNeal... a black guy who used to go to either Hardvard to BU. I know he used to do theater back in 92, but I have lost touch with him and am trying to locate him ... I was wondering if you have any pointers to where he might be found ?
Thanks
Dr. J. Pedersen
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[ NOTE: this arrived here yesterday by snail-mail]
PLAYWRIGHTS'
THEATREBR>
at Boston University
Kate/Jake
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
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From: "Carl Rossi" carossi54@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:58:15 +0000
I have just learned that my play YELLOW TO LAVENDER, about actress Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, was one of seven finalists in this year's Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition in New Orleans; the winner was "Loose Hog in the House of God" by Thomas Christopher.
So....woo-hoo! (Sort of.)
C.R.
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:02:30 -0500
From: Kelley Spada
I just found your website and am excited to hear that there are 39 theaters here! After New York, Boston's scene has felt very dry to me. Thank you for the encouraging information... I plan on sending you ten bucks for the complete list, but until then I wanted to ask you if you have thought of keeping a record of theatres and festivals that are currently accepting submissions. Seems like you would have a lot of the leg work already completed...
Thanks, Kelley
To: Kelley Spada
Subject: boston theaters
You're a playwright, right?
I haven't separated-out the script-calls for short-play festivals aroiund here, but there are a lot of them:
The Hovey Summer Shorts (this year at Turtle Lane Playhouse in Newton) may still be looking for 10-minute plays for this year.
The Acme Theatre in Maynard does a Winter festival of new plays
The Playwrights' Platform reads new plays every month, and holds a Festival of promising plays from them every Summer.
The Theatre Cooperative in Somerville does a set of Ritalin Readings each fall, with workshops and then full-productions arising from them as the year progresses.
Shadow Boxing, based in Cambridge, does much the same.
The Arlington Friends of The Drama announced a new play festival a short while ago.
And the Huntington Theatre has scheduled readings of New Plays at Studio 210 before opening their two new Theater-Spaces at the Boston Center for The Arts next fall.
I expect others in the six New England states who were left out of this list will tell me about my memory lapses.
In the meantime, you can look up those people's websites here in The Mirror and see what their rules and deadlines might be.
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark )
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:22:04 -0400
From: Amy Hill amyhill@earthlink.net
Subject: looking to contact John Quinn
Dear Larry:
I am an old acquaintance of John Quinn's from Charlottesville. I worked
with him years ago as a publicity person for Offstage Theatre.
Do you have a current e-mail for him or Beth? Myself and a C'ville
"townie" (currently a neighbor) realized the other day that we both knew
John from many years ago, and both wanted to see if we could contact him
to say hello and see how he is doing.
Best,
Amy Lowenstein Hill (434) 979-2878
and (on the behalf of) Carol O'Connor (434) 296-6908
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From: Geralyn Horton g.l.horton@mindspring.com
Subject: help, please! (for greenroom, or??????)
I have another 20 or so monologues to add, but it'll be less work if I get the design right before I add more.
Geralyn Horton, playwright
Newton, MA
http://www.stagepage.info
From: SWhiteJB@aol.com
Date: 2004/01/03 Sat AM 09:14:22 EST
Subject: Rex Smith at Company Theatre
781-982-9029