Entries Tagged as ‘Provincetown’

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 [...]

February 20, 2008

Theater review: Shakespeare on the Cape has us on ‘Cloud 9′

Sharp, bright actors give a brisk and entertaining staging of Caryl Churchill’s wild play.
By GRAYDON ROYCE, Star Tribune
Last update: February 20, 2008 – 11:24 AM
It is heartening to see the good that has come from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA program. A handful of recent graduates banded together [...]

December 24, 2007

::NEWSFLASH:: SOTC in ‘Backstage’

“Shakespeare on the Cape
Even without such ties, however, important work is possible. As an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, Eric Powell Holm spent the summer between his junior and senior [...]

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

“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 20, 2007

‘Boys Will Be Girls, and Girls Will Be Boys’ – In Newsweekly

William Henderson July 19, 2007

Boys will be girls and girls will be boys

GENDER-BENDING CASTING ON DISPLAY IN SUMMER SHAKESPEARE ON THE CAPE PRODUCTIONS

 

In 2005, its inaugural season, Shakespeare on the Cape performed in an experimental space at The Schoolhouse Gallery. Their productions of “Twelfth Night” and “A Midsummer [...]

July 19, 2007

“A Fresh Look at Shakespeare” – Provincetown Banner

Excerpts from “A Fresh Look at Shakespeare” by Melora B. North
“Now in their third season, the troupe of men and women, all trained at the Guthrie Theater at the University of Minnesota, are presenting their version of this classic comedy in Elizabethan English that is both enchanting and listener friendly. Directed [...]

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 [...]

July 9, 2007

FLASHBACK!! “The Parade” Premiere 2006 Provincetown

“The Parade” Premier 2006 Province Town
Originally uploaded by zookeeperwendy

So I found that my Mom had this photo on her Flickr account. Her username is “zookeeperwendy” if you’re interested– haha.
It’s funny to look back on this photo and try to imagine how I was feeling right then and there…
XO