NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench.
The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop the monologues during this time of lockdown, with the goal of having them ready for live performance as soon as theatres re-open.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Set To Open THE WAY SHE SPOKE
The production is directed by SDC Zelda Fichandler Award winner Lisa Portes.by BWW News Desk
Isaac Gómez s THE WAY SHE SPOKE is set to make its Wisconsin premiere as part of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre s (MCT) Virtually Re-Imagined Season. The production will be released on March 16th, 2021 via the MCT website, milwaukeechambertheatre.org.
THE WAY SHE SPOKE is a haunting, visceral piece that digs for the roots of an epidemic of violence that has resulted in the murders of thousands of women and gives voice to a community rendered silent by fear. Michelle Lopez-Rios returned to Milwaukee for this powerful one-woman performance that blurs reality as she shares harrowing details of the fates of las desaparecidas, the vanished women of Ciudad Juárez.
The class will take place Sunday, March 21st at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT.
Eight slots are available to sing for Patti and get feedback. The final half hour will include a Q&A with the opportunity for participants to ask questions. Tickets are also on sale for those wishing to audit (observe only) the class. Those participants will not be able to interact with Patti, or perform for her, but may submit questions.
Slots to participate are limited and $75 each. Tickets to observe the class are $25.
Using her trademark positivity, Patti can guarantee a creative and inspiring session as she guides you through how to tell the story of your song.
Studio Tenn will host a 30-year reunion of the original cast of Assassins, a Tony Award-winning musical.
Patrick Cassidy, Studio Tenn s artistic director, was part of the original cast and organized the reunion. The free virtual event is slated for Monday, March 8 at 7 p.m. as part of the “Studio Tenn Talks: Conversations with Patrick Cassidy.
The show premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in December 1990. It closed out the following year after more than 70 performances.
It explores the lives of nine real-life people who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, a United States President, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.