Entries Tagged as ‘Ben Griessmeyer’

March 23, 2008

2008 SOTC SEASON IS ANNOUNCED!

WE’RE VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2008 PERFORMANCE SEASON!

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THE TEMPEST
William Shakespeare
Directed by Eric P. Holm
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At the Payomet Performing Arts Center
8pm Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 2nd – Sept, 4th

*Please visit www.ppactruro.org for tickets and directions

On Nantucket courtesy of the Nantucket Arts Council

Performance time To Be Determined, July 18th & 19th

*Please visit www.nantucketartscouncil.org for more information

The [...]

September 17, 2007

“The Parade” in THE JEWISH ADVOCATE

The playwright and his onstage persona

By Jules Becker – Monday September 17 2007

    Thanks to re-discovered and newly staged plays, the stature of Tennessee Williams as a playwright and a human being continues to rise.
Just a few seasons ago, Broadway and Boston premieres of his [...]

August 20, 2007

Review of “School for Wives” – Barnstable Patriot

 
Non-traditional WHAT takes Moliere to School

Shakespeare on the Cape troupe features emerging stars

By Heather Wysocki
news@barnstablepatriot.com

Traditionally, arranged marriages and women lacking in worldly knowledge are commonplace on stage.
Traditionally, Moliere comedies feature corsets and bonnets, powdered wigs and elaborate words.
Traditionally, a play’s heroine wouldn’t be played by a man.
But Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre doesn’t concern [...]

August 14, 2007

“School for Wives” a Lesson in Comedy

 
 
‘School for Wives’ a lesson in comedy
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By DEBBIE FORMAN
STAFF WRITER
August 14, 2007 6:00 AM
WELLFLEET — Shakespeare on the Cape takes on Molière with an esprit de corps and mastery of style and gesture that is a grand tribute to the French playwright.
“The School for Wives” was first staged in [...]

August 3, 2007

“Moliere’s ‘School’ is anything but dull scholastics”

(Pictured from L to R: Ben Griessmeyer, Jack Matheson, Elliot Eustis, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Grant Heuke.)
Provincetown Banner
August 2, 2007
By Melora B. North
What fun. “School for Wives,” now on stage at the Julie Harris Stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, is a charming rendition of Moliere’s “L’Ecole des Femmes.” Translated from French into English couplets [...]

August 3, 2007

Love a “Parade”

 
By Rebecca M. Alvin
GateHouse News Service
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 02:01 PM EDT

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Orleans – By In 1940, a 29-year-old Tennessee Williams wrote “The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer.” More than 20 years later, the playwright [...]

August 3, 2007

“Much Ado” a Must-See

By Rebecca M. Alvin
GateHouse News Service
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 02:07 PM EDT

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Orleans – It may be more than 400 years old, but Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is still a crowd-pleaser. The bard’s comedy [...]

July 26, 2007

“Parade” Finally Has Its Day – [Provincetown.com]

Ben Griessmeyer and Elliot Eustis.
”Parade” Finally Has Its Day
In the Hands of Shakespeare on the Cape
By Kahrin Deines
July 25th, 2007
Almost seventy years ago, Tennessee Williams fell in love in Provincetown. He was young, only twenty-nine at the time, at the beginning of his creative career, and still tentative in his identities as both a [...]

July 18, 2007

“In Provincetown, a Lovesick Tennessee Williams Finds His Voice” – Provincetown Banner

Elliot Eustis (dancing) is the not-quite-unobtainable object of desire in Tennessee Williams’ “The Parade.” The Williams-like character Don is played by Ben Griessmeyer.

Tennessee Williams finds his voice
By Susan Rand Brown
Banner Correspondent
Like Eugene O’Neill a quarter century earlier, the young Tennessee Williams arrived in Provincetown in 1940 to hike the dunes and swim, [...]

July 14, 2007

‘Much Ado About Something’ – Provincetown.com

Much Ado About Something
Shakespeare on the Cape Performs
By Kahrin Deines
July 13th, 2007
Much ado is being made this summer on Tuesdays at the Provincetown Theater, but it’s not about nothing. Shakespeare on the Cape – that ambitious young theater company that has built a name for itself in record short time – is back for [...]

July 14, 2007

“Parade” Captures Poignancy of Hope Passed By

     
“Parade” Captures Poignancy of Hope Passed By
By DEBBIE FORMAN
STAFF WRITER
July 14, 2007
PROVINCETOWN — Tennessee Williams’ poetic and lyrical dialogue, which created such beauty in his mature plays, skips languidly across his early one-act “The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer.” And the actors of Shakespeare on the Cape eloquently project [...]