Past EventsAnnual Meeting of the Board of Directors July 12, 2011 @ 7PM The Annual Meeting is a time to officially elect new officers to the Acrosstown’s Board of Directors. This includes the beginning of 2-year terms for the President, Vice-President, Secretary , and Treasurer positions, as well as electing (or re-electing) any other board members not on the executive committee to their 1-year terms. Also during the annual meeting we will be electing/appointing members of both the board of directors and the community at large to chair several open committees, including (but not limited to) the show selection committee for the 2012 season, the financial committee, and the facilities committee. This meeting is open to the public, as are all meetings at the ART, and we encourage anyone who is remotely interested in the inner workings of the ART to attend! Season Opening Gala August 12, 2011 @ 7PM The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre opens its 2011-12 season with a bang, with a celebration of the season-past and a happy anticipation of the one lying just ahead, beginning on August 19. The Art Gala, co-sponsored by the City of Gainesville Division of Cultural Affairs, will be held at the Thomas Center at 302 NE 6th Avenue in Gainesville on Friday August 12 from 7 to 10 P.M. Admission is FREE. Please come and invite your friends to come for an opportunity to meet the officers of ART and the directors of the 9 plays scheduled for the season, who will speak about their shows and many of these will present short scenes from their shows. There will be opportunities for you to learn how YOU can become involved in ART, as a director, actor, tech person and, of course, that all-important component of any struggling theatre, a financial supporter. And, oh yes, refreshments will be served. This is a season kick-off for community theatre before the Gators kick off to play football. You Know I Can’t Hear You When The Water’s Running by Robert Anderson Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, June 27 & 28 @ 7PM more info A collection of four unrelated one-act comedy plays. In The Shock of Recognition, playwright Jack Barnstable auditions Richard Pawling for a role that requires nudity and discovers the overeager actor is more than willing to show his stuff. The Footsteps of Doves focuses on Harriet and George, a married couple shopping for twin beds after many years of marriage. George, who is opposed to the change, strikes up a conversation with Jill, a considerably younger fellow shopper who shares his view. In I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Chuck and Edith realize how empty their marriage has become as they await the arrival of their adult children. I’m Herbert is a scattered conversation between Herbert and Muriel, an elderly couple with memory problems who try in vain to recall their earlier relationships. Hunter Gatherers by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, July 18 & 19 @ 7PM more info In Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s critically lauded satire “Hunter Gatherers”, two married couples join together for a dinner party in celebration of their mutual anniversaries. As the evening wears on, the tension becomes unbearable, egos are bruised, and truths are revealed. “Hunter Gatherers” explores the primal beasts burrowed below the surface of our human guise, examining buried complexities within sustained relationships with a quick wit, twisted plotting, and full of sparkling details which will aim a light toward the darker natures lurking within our core. *Mature Audiences Suggested: “Hunter Gatherers” contains Adult Themes, Adult Situations, Adult Language, & 1980′s Music. |
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Oleannaby David Mamet Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, August 22 & 23 @ 7PM more info Oleanna is a thought-provoking play that looks at the issue of sexual harassment on-campus in a radical light. On stage are two characters. An under-grad student, waiting, seated in front of her professor (whose class she has failed) to discuss her grades. He is on the phone, discussing the impending purchase of his house? And he starts addressing the student. She starts fumbling for words, starts taking notes, the exorcism begins! Before the play is halfway through, the Professor is brought before Tenure Committee for sexual harassment. Who is right, who is wrong? In the process, it questions the basic fabric of the entire society. |
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A Christmas from Heckby Rob Nash Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, September 26 & 27 @ 7PM more info Typical of every good middle class family in Austin, the Hecks gather for a Christmas with their kept secrets but we all know what happens after that set up falls apart…. Austin Heck and his wife Kiama steel themselves for one last Heck yuletide hurrah before the divorce. Their autistic son Bowie Heck recites lines from old movie comedians while awaiting a probation hearing for counter attacking a nasty bully at school. Austin’s little brother, Bowie’s uncle and godfather, the chronically poor, chronically underemployed comedy writer Travis Heck shows up with less-than-half-his-age date Chloe who immediately falls in love with all things Heck. Baby sister Crockett Heck arrives late snarfing eggnog, deliberately and shamelessly tumbling off the wagon. And of course there’s that stranger’s final act pistol which blasts recovering alcoholic Dad’s and Alzheimer’s suffering Mom’s secrets out into the open. Can a typical dysfunctional Christmas force typical Austin, Texas dysfunctional suburban family to find a safe harbor in each other? We’ll bring the eggnog, you bring the family! |
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Galileo of Gainesvilleco-written over 2 years by dozens of denizens of Gainesville’s streets and woods Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, November 21 & 22 @ 7PM more info A modern-day drama centering around an astronomy professor, cosmology, spirituality, and homelessness. This is an original script written by a Gainesville resident, and we are very excited to be able to bring it to our stage! Inspiration comes hard and squirrely into the mind of an astronomy professor. As his accustomed structures crumble, other things are rising…and shining. From classroom to living room to parkland to dreamscape, and from the heights of academia to the grime of street-living, our hero’s journey must include all voices, all visions, to give sense to his expanding sensibilities. |
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Love Lettersby A.R. Gurney The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards – in which over nearly 50 years–from their meeting in the second grade until one of them dies–they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats – that have passed between them throughout their separated lives. |
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The Doormanby Jack Libert Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, January 2 & 3 @ 7PM more info The Doorman, a provocative look into race and socioeconomic relations in New York City during the dawning of the national civil rights movement, is a one act play set in Midtown New York City circa early 1960′s. It is about the interactions in the day of the life of a New York City doorman. *This will be a special one weekend showing. |
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The Auntsby Gary Bonasorte Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, January 23 & 24 @ 7PM more info This drama, set in the living room of a house in Pittsburgh in 1979, is about three women one niece and two aunts. Aunt Meg has come to be with her sister Nan, whose husband is upstairs in agony, dying of cancer. She is also taking advantage of this opportunity to flee her abusive husband. The niece, Pita, arrives to try and cheer everyone up; but the only effect she has is to make everyone even more nervous and upset particularly when they learn that ungainly, plain, not too bright Pita is going to have a baby. |
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Hamlet & The Prince Formerly Known As Hamletby William Shakespeare & Bruce Kane Auditions: Monday & Tuesday, February 27 & 28 @ 7PM more info A night of one acts that both tell the same story, only from different angles. The first is an edited and revised version of one of Shakespeare’s masterworks: Hamlet, it is told in the traditional fashion, just far more condensed. The second involves the tough talking, hardboiled detective Justin Thyme as he travels to 11th century Denmark to find out who whacked Hamlet’s old man and runs into a king named Claudius who wants him dead, a prince named Hamlet who doesn’t know what he wants and a dame named Ophelia who wants everything including Thyme. |
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