You ever ridden a bus? Taken it just because it was there? Or maybe you’re one of those regulars who depends upon the bus route for your day-to-day operations? Maybe you get to know the people on the bus as a part of your community, they become like your family, and are woven into your story as much as your daily cup of coffee? That’s the notion or at least the essence that playwright Nancy Luse is aiming for with her new work Bus Buddies,
By the pricking of my thumb… a wicked new year does this way come!
Not exactly what Shakespeare had in mind, but the dude had a lot going on with thumbs. I mean biting them started a whole street brawl in that other bloody tragedy, so why shouldn’t pricking them bring about the end of days? Seems par for the course with the country’s current climate. What better way to welcome the new year than with a production of the bloody and iconic,
author: Ashley Gerhardt
Endangered Species Theatre Project is back again with their fall production of The Canterville Ghost. A Short story written by Oscar Wilde in 1887 and adapted for the stage by Anne Raugh, Deanna Kinzie, and Christine Mosere. I was lucky enough to catch this show on Oscar Wilde’s actual birthday, and boy oh boy am I glad I did! This delightful story of an American family who moves into an English manor set the late 1800’s is charming,
You go to the theatre for a little relief, to be a community of people who laugh together. Or perhaps in this case, clutch their hands to their hearts and cry together. God of Vengeance, a real play by Sholem Asch, written in 1906, was surrounded by controversy, and on March 8th 1923, the Broadway production was cut short when the entire cast, producer, and one of the theatre owners were arrested and indicted (and later convicted) on charges of obscenity…of indecency.
Resolved to never belong to anyone but herself, Edna Pontellier controlled her own destiny.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Picture it. A balmy, breezy, almost tropical evening on Grand Isle. Louisiana Gulf. Cottages. 1890’s. Summertime. Can you feel the sea breeze blowing in? Smell the scent of the water? Can you hear the French Creole dialect running thick like Cajun gumbo through the words that get spoken? You’ll picture it a whole lot better if you slip on over to Endangered Species Theatre Project this April to experience their extraordinary production of Rebecca Chace’s The Awakening.
Isn’t it amazing the things we don’t know? Like that when a woman says she wants a new car, she really means she wants a new life! And you’re in for one heck of a ride with Becky’s New Car at Endangered Species Theatre Project this spring, settling into New Spire Arts in the heart of downtown Frederick. Directed by Rain Pryor, this oddly heartwarming farce, written by Steven Dietz, is just what everyone needs to shake up their end-of-winter-welcoming-spring routine.
This green plot shall be their stage! And by this, tis meant
the Hodson Outdoor Theatre of Hood College, unless of course it rains, and then
there’s an indoor option, but speak not, yet mortals, of tempests— that’s
another Shakespeare altogether! Think instead upon the season, the season of
midsummer, and attend ye well to the first-annual Frederick Shakespeare
Festival, presenting productions by Endangered Species (theatre) Project, and
in this case the production be A Midsummer Night’s Dream.