Join in the excitement as many of the area's outstanding performers and visual artists come together to make this dream come true!
Events at Chelsea High School:
Mrs. Potatohead Show, Starring Margaret Ann Brady and Dorothy Dwyer, Sat. Dec. 5, 8:00pm
Botanica: Comedia de Milagros, Presented by Escena Latina (in Spanish), Sat. Dec. 12, 8:00pm
Children's Events at Williams School Music Room:
The Stargazer's Apprentice, Starring Mike Francis, Sat. Dec. 12, 2:00pm
World of Stories & Dance, with Debra Crosby, Grupo Tikal, and Kolo, Sat. Dec. 19, 2:00pm
Events at Actors Workshop:
Fo Festival: A Celebration of the Work of Nobel Prize Winning Actor/Playwright Dario Fo
Directed by Ron Jenkins, Dec. 4-6, Fri. and Sat. at 8:00pm, Sun. at 2:00pm
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, Dec. 11-13, Fri. and Sat. at 8:00pm, Sun. at 2:00pm
Clarence Darrow by David W. Rintels, Starring Ed Sorrell, Dec. 18-19, Fri. and Sat. at 8:00pm
IMPROVathon with ImprovBoston, Improv Asylum, Guilty Children, Comedie du Jour & TheatreZone Improv, Sun. Dec. 20th, 8:00pm
Late Night at Actors Workshop:
Talking to Maybe, Starring David Hanbury & Peter Rubijono, Fri. and Sat. Dec. 4 & 5, 11:00pm
Methods of Madness, Starring Emily Culver, Fri. and Sat. Dec. 11 & 12, 10:30pm
It's a Wicked Good Life, Starring Marty Barrett, Fri. and Sat. Dec. 18 & 19, 10:30pm
At Bunker Hill Community College, Chelsea Campus, 175 Hawthorne Street in Bellingham Square across from City Hall:
Art Exhibit and Auction, Exhibit runs December 1-20th, Auction December 20th 2:00-4:00pm
Events at Chelsea High School:
Mrs. Potatohead Show
Starring Margaret Ann Brady and Dorothy Dwyer
Saturday December 5, 8:00pm, Chelsea High School, 299 Everett Ave., Chelsea
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
This celebration of ÒIrish American Woman Being" has been hailed by local critics as Òwildly fresh and utterly unforgettable." Join Brady and Dwyer for a comedy collection of sketches, monologues, and song as they create characters with Òa comic chemistry that's both explosively funny and weirdly endearing," Boston Phoenix. The Mrs. Potatohead Show has been delighting audiences since 1994, and has been seen as part of the Women on the Edge series, at First Night, and most recently at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Botanica: Comedia de Milagros
by Dolores Prida
Presented by Escena Latina (in Spanish)
Directed by Juan Pedro Paniagua
Saturday December 12, 8:00pm, Chelsea High School, 299 Everett Ave., Chelsea
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the US invasion of Puerto Rico, Escena Latina presents this comedy of cultural and generational conflict between three generations of Puerto Ricans living in New York's El Barrio. While the older generation struggles to preserve their traditions, a new generation is making other plans. Escena Latina is a Boston based, Latin American theatre group established in 1991. It brings together Latino actors from a range of countries including Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States. This presentation is in Spanish.
Children's Events at Williams School Music Room:
The Stargazer's Apprentice
Starring Mike Francis
Saturday December 12, 2:00pm, Williams School Music Room, 180 Walnut St., Chelsea
Tickets are $6 for adults, half price for Chelsea residents. Children accompanied by adults are free.
The Stars can talk in The Stargazer's Apprentice. Twinkle twinkle little star... children wonder what you are. Planets, stars and all the other heavenly bodies are a constant source of fascination. What do they do? Where are they? What are they made of? Through song, story, games and puppetry, The Stargazer's Apprentice brings the answers to many of these questions about our Universe to young stargazers. Designed for families with children ages 5-10.
World of Stories & Dance
with Storyteller Debra Crosby, Guatemalan dance group Grupo Tikal, & Balkan dance group Kolo
Saturday December 19, 2:00pm, Williams School Music Room, 180 Walnut St., Chelsea
Tickets are $6 for adults, half price for Chelsea residents. Children accompanied by adults are free.
Take a trip through the world of the imagination. Join Kolo for a dance tour of the Balkan countries, then you're off to Guatemala for traditional Mayan dances with Grupo Tikal, and storyteller Debra Crosby brings stories from near and far that will introduce you to new characters and reacquaint you with old favorites. Designed for families with children ages 7-12.
Events at Actors Workshop:
Fo Festival: A Celebration of the Work of Nobel Prize Winning Actor/Playwright Dario Fo
Directed by Ron Jenkins
December 4-6, Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
Dario Fo's unique political comedy has brought him many distinctions including being barred from the United States and the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. This first Boston area celebration of Fo's work since he won the prize includes excerpts of new work, Sex, Thanks, Don't Mind if I Do, and classics, Mistero Buffo, etc., which will be performed live by Italian actress Sasha Perugini, local performers, and on tape by the master himself. Director Ron Jenkins has worked with Dario Fo since 1986 when he served as the on-stage simultaneous translator for Fo's American tour of Mistero Buffo.
The Chairs
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by Cliff Odle
December 11-13, Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
Ionesco's tragic farce takes us to a sort of tower surrounded by water where an old married couple are awaiting death and preparing to impart what they have learned from life. The stage fills with chairs as a flood of invisible guests arrive, all awaiting the Orator the old man has hired to tell his story to the world. ÒThe Chairs...is screamingly funny. It is only later that you might remember that nightmares can also provoke screaming. It's a question of perspective." New York Post. Ò90 minutes of spellbinding entertainment, not to mention weeks of philosophical debate." George Hatza, Reading Times.
Clarence Darrow
by David W. Rintels
Starring Ed Sorrell
December 18-19, Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
Clarence Darrow is the passionate epic of a man larger than life, a magnificent saga of the giant whose towering greatness broke through every convention. Based on Irving Stone's book Clarence Darrow for the Defense, this portrait of the man who defended union leaders and anarchists and who is now best known for the Scopes Monkey Trial was called ÒGutsy, exciting, inspiring, funny, beautiful." by WCBS-TV. Performing is TheatreZone stalwart Ed Sorrell, who has been hailed by local critics as ÒDelightful!" The Boston Globe, ÒRises above the crowd!" Boston Herald, ÒExcellent!" Bay Windows, ÒPositively Magnetic!" MIT Tech, and ÒWise and Wonderful!" Provincetown Advocate.
IMPROVathon
with Guilty Children, ImprovBoston, Improv Asylum, Comedie du Jour & TheatreZone Improv
Sunday December 20th, 8:00pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
All tickets are $15 and include refreshments.
See Boston's Best Improv Comedy Groups as they join forces for an unforgettable closing night bash, refreshments included in the price of admission. TheatreZone Improv, the folks who brought you Alice under Glass or the Wrath of the Inner Queen, welcome Boston comedy legends Guilty Children, ImprovAsylum, Comedie du Jour, ImprovBoston -Boston's longest running comedy troupe- and the ever outrageous Marty Barrett for an evening of high energy interactive performances not to be missed.
Late Night at Actors Workshop:
Talking to Maybe
Starring David Hanbury & Peter Rubijono
Friday and Saturday December 4 & 5, 11:00pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
Workshop Production of a work in progress. All tickets $5.00
David Hanbury, best known in TheatreZone circles for his chilling performances as the Queen in Alice under Glass or the Wrath of the Inner Queen, takes to the stage with performance artist Peter Rubijono. Bay Window's described David's performance in his first original work, Of Lost Time, as ÒPersuasive and adept...Hanbury has an energy and physicality that is compelling to watch." Talking to Maybe combines video, sound, movement, and text to venture into the ecstasies and agonies of communication.
Methods of Madness
Starring Emily Culver
Friday and Saturday December 11 & 12, 10:30pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
Workshop Production of a work in progress. All tickets $5.00
Emily Culver received rave reviews for her recent appearance in TheatreZone's The Handless Maiden. The Theatre Mirror called her performance a Òstunning tour de force...every new role, is distinct and complete" and Bay Windows said ÒCulver draws both the ear and eye with captivating magnetism." Emily is also known to TheatreZone audiences for her performances in The Well of Horniness, Blood Wedding, and Alice under Glass. This one woman show, at once funny and powerfully moving, explores the 90's version of hell and purgatory: fear, anxiety, self-destruction, and Prozac.
It's a Wicked Good Life
Starring Marty Barrett
Friday and Saturday December 18 & 19, 10:30pm, Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston.
$12, $10 for students and seniors, and there is a $2 discount with advance purchase.
Marty Barrett, co-creator of Boston's newest cult comedy sensation The Orange Show, updates and Bay-States a classic holiday story with his hilarious one-man, 12 character show, It's A Wicked Good Life. It is the story of George Bailey, a mild-mannered guy from Billerica Falls, MA, and how he finds out what life would be like without him. It's A Wicked Good Life has been performed at the Little Flags Theatre in Cambridge and for two years at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in Boston. Editorial Humor called It's A Wicked Good Life ÒThe Funniest Show in the City" and INsite Magazine wrote" Marty Barrett's It's A Wicked Good Life makes it fun to go to the theatre again: everyone had a great time."
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