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Dog & Pony was deemed BEST THEATRE TROUPE in Chicago Magazine's Best of Issue! Woo hoo! Congrats to one and all. We are the BEST THEATRE TROUPE in CHICAGO for 2007. Yipee!
APE
by Paul Oakley Stovall
World Premiere play by Artistic Associate Paul Oakley Stovall*
Directed by Artistic Director Krissy Vanderwarker*
Raven Theatre West Stage, 6157 N. Clark St.
SEPTEMBER 12TH - OCTOBER 13TH
Performances are Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for students and seniors
All Wednesdays and Thursdays are Pay-What-You-Can
Box office number: 773-235-0492
No performance Wednesday, Oct. 10. Added performance Saturday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m.
APE is a new American play about evolution, creation science and motherhood. The piece asks: how much of you is by your own design? What grows you? Who changes you? Aaron is growing fast. At 15, he is obsessed with texting, aliens, and his own body. Amanda, his mother, is afraid that he is turning away from God. Joyce, his biology teacher, is struggling with her faith. When nature takes over, their beliefs systems are all tested.
Cast: Evan Fillon, Celeste Frazier, Faith Noelle Hurley,* and Laurie Larson
Designers: Grant Sabin,* set; Catherine Tantillo,* costumes; Matthew Gawryk,* lights; Sorin Brouwers, sound; Becky Bishop, stage management; Devon de Mayo,* movement; and Rosemary Naeger,* props and producer.
*=Dog & Pony Artistic Associate
Check us out at www.dogandponychicago.org
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE the MAKE BELIEVER'S BALL A ROARING SUCCESS!!!!
HOORAY!!!!
DOG AND PONY IS...
Artistic Director
Krissy Vanderwarker*
Associate Artistic Director
Devon de Mayo*
Managing Director
Heather Clark
Literary Manager
Jarrett Dapier
Artistic Associates
Sheila Callaghan
Matt Gawryk
Deitrich Gray
Brendan Griffin*
Scotty Iseri
Amber Johnson
Marta Juaniza
Linda Laake
Rosemary Naeger
Grant Sabin
Paul Oakley Stovall
Board of Directors
President
Ryan Compaan
Vice President
Bryan Vanderwarker
Camille Beaufils
Anton Britton
Devon de Mayo
Courtney Hannel
Jenny Lawton*
Ryan O’Connor
Krissy Vanderwarker
Tarik Yetken
HA FRIENDS FROM DOG AND PONY THEATRE COMPANY COME OUT TUESDAY AND DRINK WITH US!!!
When: Fat Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008 8:30pm-10:30pm Where: The Spot 4436 N. Broadway Ave Chicago, IL 60640 How Much: $25 for advance tickets $30 at the door
FEATURING: A TWO-HOUR HOSTED BAR from 8:30pm-10:30pm (Meaning all Well Drinks, Beers (excluding Guinness), Wines, Hurricanes, and Swamp Waters will be free) BEADS!! BEADS!! BEADS!! The Mardi Gras "Hook-Up" - a speed dating game for singles Door Prizes
More info check out: http://rogersparktheatre.org/ or call 773-613-9410
Abe on Jupiter, a weekly workshoping group that has been around for three years, is seeking new influences and new playwrights. We are looking for writers like ourselves who have produced or at least have college training in theater. If you are a playwright and are looking to workshop a play and are willing to commit to a weekly meeting, please contact me for more info. We meet in a coffee house in the West Loop after hours, so we have the whole place to ourselves, but the menu is still available. We are also always looking for actors of any calibre who want to network with playwrights, brush up on cold reads and get involved periodic staged readings
LOCATION: Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave., just south of Addison PRICE: $30 Tickets are available by clicking https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/18 or by calling 866.811.4111
See the show, enjoy complimentary drinks, and afterwards hang out with the cast and crew and dance in our very own Las Vegas nightclub. DJ Chas will be spinning the tunes.
Can't make the party? Dirty Diamonds runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm through December 1st. (No performance Friday November 23rd) All seats are $20
About Dirty Diamonds
A man in Las Vegas for the first time soon gets tangled up with a femme fatale, who entices him into a plan to recover some buried diamonds. Together, along with the woman's ex-boyfriend, they work to recover the diamonds in time to hand them over to a murderous drug kingpin. Little do they know the kingpin has other plans for them.
CAST
Stan - Mike Beyer Rita - Heather Tyler Victor - Matt Engle Fishman - Dave Skvarla
CREW Producer - Allison Cain Asst. Producer - Abbie Colton Director - Manny Tamayo Asst. Director - Eric Roach Playwright - Mike Beyer Stage Manager - Josh Graves Asst. Stage Manager - Elizabeth Bruins Lighting Design - Maggie Fullilove-Nugent Set Design - Alan Donahue Technical Director - Ron Rude Props Master - Adrienne Guldin Sound Design - Chas Vrba Costume Design - Rachel Sypniewski Fight Choreography - Anthony Tournis Graphic Designer - Arlo Guthrie
We continue our war against superstition at Duke's Bar
(6920 N Glenwood, parking in rear, cold beer in
front).
Three sets of rump-shaking
semi-modified
old-skool
country folk rock.
Super Mini Trio
Friday July 13, 2007
9.39 pm - no cover
Duke's Bar
6920 N Glenwood
Rogers Park, Chicago, USA
Hello, Dog & Pony!
We wanted to let you know that Renegade Seven Company's first Chicago production, "The Tiniest Sound in Recorded History" opens this weekend at Gorilla Tango Theatre!
Written by Chelsea M. Marcantel and directed by Luke Siddall, the show will be utterly life-altering. Promise.
"TTSRH" runs Sat/Sun through May 27th, so come early, come often, and bring your friends. For details, ticket info, and rehearsal pictures, please visit Our Website.
Hope to see you there and Thanks for being our friend!
Hey Dog & Pony, what are you doing May 19th? If you don't have plans (hell if you do change them) we would love to see you out at Strawdog's Casino Night! It is our fundraiser, it is themed 1970's Vegas (so wear a costume if you have one) and come gamble, drink and dance to 70's tunes with us. It costs only $10.00 to get in (buy your ticket online at www.strawdog.org and you get a $5.00 chip to gamble) We would love to see you there.. brings some friends lets have some fun!
*********DYLAN RICE'S SINGLE "THE LIE" TO BE RELEASED ON COLUMBIA RECORDS/MUSIC WITH A TWIST CD COMPILATION "REVOLUTIONS." THE CD WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT RHAPSODY ON APRIL 24, ALL DIGITAL SERVICES ON MAY 8, AND IN STORES ON MAY 15. ************
Scab opens next weekend, call 312-281-8041 to reserve your tickets now! April 27 - May 19 Wed - Sat at 8pm EP Theater 1820 South Halsted St. Visit our website for more details.
Announcing: Open auditions for The Factory's next show "Siskel & Ebert Save Chicago"! Chase Park (4701 N. Ashland) Saturday April 21st, 1 pm - 4:30 pm and Sunday April 22nd, 11 am - 4:30 pm. Email factorytheater@gmail.com to request a specific time. **Stage combat a plus!**
Only 4 Performances of How To Act Around Cops remain!
Don't miss out! Make your reservations today!
Call the Open Cage Box Office at (773) 929-7911
Thursay April 5th- 8pm
Friday April 6th- 8pm
Saturday April 7th- 8pm
Saturday April 7th- 10:30pm
"There's also the matter of the car. How they got that little Honda Civic up to Angel Island's second floor theatre space is a puzzle that will keep the mind occupied..."
Chicago Tribune
From November 13, 2002 to November 12, 2003, playwright Suzan Lori Parks wrote a play a day for a year. From 2006-2007 theatre companies all over the country are producing these plays in a grand theatrical celebration, with no charge for the audience.
Sansculottes , in co-production with MOB Productions, Pavement Group, Manifest and Morning After Company bring you Week 21 of 365 Days/365 Plays.
Park's short plays range from pop-saturated silliness, to politics, to meditations on life, the universe and everything.
A writing collective assembled by Sansculottes wrote short plays in response to Parks' plays in Week 21, and all of these plays will be performed in a fantastic one-night event. DJs will spin before, between and after performances. Don't miss it.
There are performances at both 8pm and Midnight so you have very little excuse not to come.
365 Days/365 Plays
Week 21
Saturday April 7th, 2007
Doors open @ 7pm - party all night long
Performances @ 8pm & midnight
Heart of Gold Loft - 3036 North Lincoln
Brought to you by Sansculottes, Pavement Group, Mob Productions, Manifest & The Morning After Company
*There is no admission charge but there will be drinks for donation, so bring your party hat and dancing shoes*
“It’s a riddle that’s funny—and awfully frightening. 4 Stars.”
Time Out Chicago
“Ewing's performance is so enjoyably difficult to pin down.”
Chicago Tribune
“Wenz, who pulls off an entertaining stoner/paranoid type reminiscent of Mark Ruffalo”
Time Out Chicago
"ensemble is fresh-faced and appealing"
Chicago Reader
Only two weeks left to see Open Cage Ensemble's How To Act Around Cops! Tickets are starting to go fast and seats were added for last weeks' performances. Don't let this Chicago premiere pass you by! Call the box office at (773) 929-7911 to reserve your tickets now. Don't forget to mention your MySpace discount coupon and get $5 bucks off!!!
Open Cage Ensemble
How To Act Around Cops
Angel Island Theatre
735 W. Sheridan Road
Thursday through Saturday 8pm
Saturday Late-Night 10:30pm
WHATCA GONNA DO WHEN COPS COMES FOR YOU? TIME OUT CHICAGO LOVES HOW TO ACT AROUND COPS!!!
How to Act Around Cops
Open Cage Ensemble at Angel Island. By Logan Brown and Matthew Benjamin. Dir. Zachary Davis. With Joel Ewing, Mark H. Howard, Chad Morris, Danyel Read, Greg Wenz.
For all the violence that erupts in this black comedy (and, of course, the giggles induced from watching unprepared suckers sink further into quicksand), what’s puzzling is how well those two ingredients meld together, often occurring simultaneously without skipping a beat. During one numbing chase scene, a character yells, “You’re paranoid; it’s fucking frightening! Ease up—Jesus Christ!” There’s obvious irony there, but when furtively wedged into a chaotic argument, it’s tough to notice. And thus, writers Brown and Benjamin avoid two overly common mistakes of the genre: Mocking and drawing out a ridiculous situation don’t necessarily make it funny.
Cops opens like a Hunter S. Thompson passage (and looks equally trippy, with only smoke and headlights filling the stage): Two seemingly drugged-up twentysomethings drive through the middle of nowhere. They’re blasting Nine Inch Nails, sweating profusely and drawing a blank on what happened that night. Madson (Wenz, who pulls off an entertaining stoner/paranoid type reminiscent of Mark Ruffalo) bugs out when he sees sirens behind him; his friend (Ewing, also enjoyable) finds a purse with a bag of coke in it and swallows it before the cop (Morris) confronts them. Elsewhere, the cop busts in on a biracial couple (Howard and Read, displaying less chemistry than the other duo) experimenting with S&M.
It might sound like easy shock-tainment. But as the two events connect, the script points to the dangers of complaisance, turning up the heat on its characters for telling a cop what they think he wants to hear. It’s a riddle that’s funny—and awfully frightening.—Tim Lowery
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The Chicago Actors Studio Training Workshops and Theatrical Complex has intership positions open for individuals wishing to gain valuable experience and training in Acting, Directing, Producing, Videography (working the Camera), Film & Video Editing, Lighting & Sound, Set construction and Design and Theater & Business Management and Promotions.
Program comes with totall free training in all these areas. Some minor prior experience and training may be required in certain positions.
Contact, Edward Dennis Fogell or Phil Circle at 773-645-0222
