theatre@first

The next Scripts with Chicks playreading get-together will be on Sunday, June 24, 1:00 p.m. We will be reading Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or, The Vibrator Play). (Men, note that there are three male roles in this one.)

Hey directors and people who have taken pictures at our previous shows,

I would love to include every mainstage show we've ever done in the picture binder I'm putting together for Pride, but having combed Flickr and the T@F website I have no performance photos at all from the following shows:


All In The Timing
Murder In The Cathedral
You Can't Take It With You
12 Angry Jurors
Much Ado About Nothing
Never After
Dracula
As You Like It
Equus
The Lady's Not For Burning

Surely someone took photos of those shows? I don't need prints, just a link or file. Seeking in-costume performance (no rehearsal or green room). I can fill the book from what's on Flickr, but I'd love to be able to show table visitors more of our awesomeness.

A friend of mine is writing for the 48 hour film festival, and his team needs more male actors. Male actors who can sing. His writing is excellent, funny and authentic; I'd jump at the opportunity, but I'm already overbooked on Saturday. If you're interested, contact him at stripeyg@yahoo.com

I finally got around to uploading my Pride and Prejudice photos to Flickr.

Is there a play with all or primarily female roles you'd like to get together to read with some theatre buddies?  Let me know -- I'm currently picking the script for the next Scripts with Chicks reading.

I'm also picking the date, but boy, May and June are tough months!  It looks to me like the options I could cope with are Sunday, June 3 and Sunday, June 24.  Unless I experiment with a weekday evening.  So, the date questions for those interested in attending these things:

Could you make June 3?
Could you make June 24?
Do you prefer one to the other?
Would a weeknight be easier for you to make than a weekend afternoon?  If so, what's your preferred weeknight, in general?

We had a spectacular Bare Bones performance on Thursday! The audience laughed every time Andrew said "Dear Miss Hanff," and even the stalwarts admitted to tearing up just a bit. Congratulations to everyone involved and thanks to everyone who came out to share it with us.

We're all excited to find out what the next show will be--do you know? Is there a script burning a hole in your pocket? Are you ready to direct for the first time, or the first time in a while? Have you been itching to try your hand at it, or jonesing to do theatre despite a packed calendar.

Visit http://www.theatreatfirst.org/shows/bare_bones/bare_bones.shtml to submit your proposal for the summer round of Bare Bones!

Proposals are due by May 11th and the performance will happen in late July. Casts are limited to six actors. Works by playwrights from communities under-represented in the theatrical canon are especially encouraged, but all proposals will be carefully considered.

Feel free to ask questions and I'll look forward to receiving your proposal!

Just a reminder: script read, Crimes of the Heart, today, 1 p.m. at my house (message or email me for directions if you don't know where that is).

I had the joy of sitting in on the dress rehearsal for 84 Charing Cross Road tonight and I am just bursting for you all to see it. Gilly has done an amazing job with an extremely fine cast. You'll laugh, you'll cry...and you'll be glad you made it out to see everyone!

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Bare Bones: Staged Readings at Theatre@First proudly presents

84 Charing Cross Road
Written by Helene Hanff
Adapted by James Roose-Evans
Directed by Gilly Rosenthol

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Thursday, April 19th at 8pm
Unity Somerville - 6 William St @ College Ave
Suggested Donation $5
No reservations required

Bare Bones presents new works and rarely performed pieces in the spare, intense setting of a directed reading. The fantastic cast of 84 Charing Cross Road will charm, amuse and engage you in this story of a struggling New York writer and her twenty-year correspondence with a London bookshop. Sometimes the people you feel closest to are the ones you've never met.

For more information visit http://www.theatreatfirst.org.

The next edition of Scripts with Chicks will be Sunday, April 22, 1-4 p.m. At my house (contact me for directions if you don't know where that is). We'll be reading Crimes of the Heart. Not only is this a fun play, but there's a proposal in the works for T@F to produce it, so come along and check it out!

Save the date!

The next edition of Scripts with Chicks will be Sunday, April 22, 1-4 p.m. We'll be reading Crimes of the Heart. Not only is this a fun play, but there's a proposal in the works for T@F to produce it, so come along and check it out!