Theatre--Workshop

Cite des Arts presents a Discussion with visiting NYU Professor Caroline McGee

 

for Local Student Actors & Parents interested in applying at Top Acting Programs

 

Thursday July12 @ 6 30 pm—109 Vine Street---&….

 

***Master Acting Workshop July 10-14, 2012 featuring scene & monologue work**

 

Lafayette, La. – Cite des Arts will present an informational discussion, free & open to the community, regarding the application process and financial aid issues at the top academic & professional programs in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, & nationally.  

 

Associate Professor McGee has mentored a number of local Louisiana students for successful acceptance to NYU Tisch Drama, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia, Emerson and Brown universities, Asolo Rep/FSU, Second City/Chicago, Northwestern U/Steppenwolf, and more.  

 

The acting workshop, July 10-14, 2012, from 4-6 pm will feature acting techniques of legendary masters Lee Strasberg and Michael Chekhov in exercises exploring modern classics plays by Chekhov, Williams, Shepard, O’Neill, and the hottest plays in the current New York season, including: Becky Shaw, Other Desert Cities, August Osage County, Good People, Venus in Fur, Sweet & Sad, Sons of the Prophet, Jerusalem, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, After the Revolution, and others. 

 

Actors of all ages and levels of experience are welcome to apply. Classes are at Cite des Arts from 4:00 -

6:00 pm, July 10-14. Fee: $200. For more information and to register: mcgeec50@yahoo.com

 

McGee served as Director of the Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU BFA Programs, Associate Professor for the MFA Acting Program at The Catholic University, Washington, DC, and currently also teaches acting and script analysis for film at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Art. She studied at Yale Drama School & received her Master's at UC Berkeley and was among the first group of CODOFIL scholarship students to study in France at The National Acting Conservatory. 

Theatre--Performance (Cast Profiles)

This is the next in a series of profiles of the cast of THE GLASS MENDACITY, which opens Friday, June 15th.

Michael Cato (Mitch O'Connor) – A graduate of ULL’s Performing Arts department, Michael has been acting in the Acadiana region since 2006. His work has since extended to the field of sound design, for which he has received honors from the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival on five occasions. He is a member of Acadiana Repertory Theatre, based in Lafayette. Michael considers Dr. Watson in Hound, Freddie inNoises Off, and Howie in Rabbit Hole among his favorite roles he's played on stage. In this play, Michael finds himself in the mishmash of Tennessee Williams' male characters, and while he himself has never been to a monster truck rally, he’s certainly not lacking in the important humanities.

Theatre--Performance (Cast Profiles)

This is the next in a series of cast profiles from THE GLASS MENDACITY, which opens on Friday, July 15th at Cite Des Arts.

Mary Gail Lamonte DeVillier (Amanda Dubois) - Mary Gail has been enamored with acting since high school when she saw her first stage play, a production of The Glass Menagerie and declared, "I can do that."  Years later she indeed did portray the story's matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, on two occasions, once with her daughter, Jody Lamonte Powell, cast as Laura. She has had lead or supporting roles in over 25 plays, over 60 years. Prior credits include Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Emma in Over the River and Through the Woods, for both of which she won the Eunice Players' Theatre's Best Actress Irving Award, and Louise in Always...Patsy Cline, all directed by Jody. She retired in 1998 after a 33 year career as a Children's Protective Services Worker. After the recent death of her second husband, she returned to Opelousas to be near her family. She has three children and eight grandchildren, one of whom lives in heaven. She is grateful to Jody, her frequent and favorite director, for casting her in such a delicious role and allowing her to be part of such a talented group of actors.  Much like Amanda, Mary Gail delights in having her children near her, and can always find the humor in any situation, tragic or otherwise.

Theatre--Performance (Cast Profile)

This is Katryn Schmidt, another member of the cast of THE GLASS MEDACITY.

Katryn "Katt" Schmidt (Maggie the Cat) - With an extensive history in stage and film work, Katt brings a lot of passion and experience to the stage. Local theatre work includes Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Mrs. Webb in Our Town, and Prudence in Beyond Therapy. She also played many different women and even a few men in Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show, and was seen earlier this year in The Vagina Monologues in Lafayette. Her film work includes Lord Byron, which was screened at the Sundance Festival in 2011. Katt is excited to be working with such a talented cast and crew on this show, especially with her loving husband, Brick, whose affection she longs for and goes to great lengths to receive. Katt and her character share more than just a name; Katt spends her days in attempts to save the world and has learned much about relationships...one Brick at a time. Maybe one day she will meet her Stanley!

Theatre--Performance (Cast Profile)

Another member of the cast of THE GLASS MENDACITY, opening at Cite Des Arts this Friday.

Erin Segura (Laura Dubois) - Erin is a 2005 graduate of Northwestern State University with degrees in Liberal Arts and Dance. Since then she has been very active in theatres across Acadiana. Her favorite roles include Shelby in Steel Magnoliasat Teche Theatre in Franklin, Rita in Educating Rita at Cite' des Arts and Iberia Performing Arts League, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Acting Unlimited, Inc. in Lafayette, Xanthias in The Frogs with Acting Unlimited Repertory Academy in Lafayette, and most recently, Mona Lipshitz (Merry Murderess #6) in IPAL's Chicago. Her next role will be that of Polar Bear in AUI's Wolves in the Walls. Erin loves theatre as a hobby and appreciates the friendships she's made through community theatre that last long after the show is over. Much like Laura, Erin is shy in "real life", and encounters people who are surprised to learn that she performs on stage.

Theatre--Performance (CastProfile)

Meet the cast of THE GLASS MENDACITY, opening on Friday, June 15 at Cite Des Arts.

Billy Walker (Big Daddy Dubois) - Billy is excited for his first production with NathanaelT Productions and Cite' des Arts since the bulk of his work has been done in New Iberia with Iberia Performing Arts League. His most recent performance was as Billy Flynn in IPAL's production of Chicago. Other performances include IPAL's The Unexpected Guest, Remember When, andGuys and Dolls, as well as Firelight Performing Arts' production of Oliver!. During the day he is a salesman for Manuel Builders. He loves being on stage and thanks his wife and family for their love and support. Billy notes that, much like Big Daddy, even though he has a rough exterior, he would do anything for his family!

Theatre--Performance

The Glass Mendacity at Cite' des Arts
Produced by NathanaelT Productions LLC
Directed by Jody L. Powell

 "a streetcar full of laughs"......The Times Picayune
"literature’s most dysfunctional family, the DuBois clan - Tennessee with a Twist"........Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival


Tennessee Williams’ more well-known plays "The Glass Menagerie", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" are family dramas, and as such, they are filled with fragile and damaged Southern characters who are driven to madness, alcoholism, deceit, and fantasy.  Thus, they are easy targets for lampooning and parody, which is just what the authors of this play have done with them.  In addition, the authors have taken family members from each play, mixed them up, and created an entirely new outrageous brood. Audiences with a strong familiarity of Williams’ plays will get the most out of the show, but the humor of "The Glass Mendacity" is broad enough to make it appealing to all. 


In this mingling of characters where families are merged and relationships are shifted, Big Daddy, the patriarch dying of a spastic colon is married to Amanda Dubois who still recounts the number of gentlemen callers she had in her youth (the number grows with each new telling).  Together, they are the parents of Brick, so rendered catatonic by self-pity and alcohol that he comes across as a real stiff; Blanche, the tragic nut case, now married to the working-class brute Stanley Kowalski; and Laura, the dreamer whose shyness is underscored by her limp.  True to her original story, Maggie the Cat, the scheming seductress, is still married to Brick.  And of course, there’s Mitch, a combination of the gentleman caller and the lawyer acquaintance who properly greases the wheels and can’t keep his eyes off of Maggie.


The two-act comedy has plenty of verbal gags twisted from Williams' original scripts that will keep the audience in stitches.  The actors have free range of the stage, delivering the original plays’ best lines with sharp characterizations and all the flair as if they were playing the originally written roles.

The cast includes:
Michael Cato as Mitch O'Connor
Katryn Schmidt as Maggie the Cat
Mary Gail Lamonte DeVillier as Amanda Dubois
Brick Dubois as himself
Deborah D. Ardoin as Blanche Dubois
John Snyder as Stanley Kowalski
Billy Walker as Big Daddy Dubois
Erin Segura as Laura Dubois
Performances dates:
Friday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 24 at 2:00 p.m.

 Tickets are available at citedesarts.org or by calling 291-1122 or at the door.

By Maureen Morley and Tom Willmorth
Story by Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Maureen Morley, and Tom Willmorth
Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

Theatre--Auditions

Cité des Arts will be having auditions for the play Buried Child June 22 from 5pm-7pm, and June 23 Noon to 3pm. Performances will be August 24-26 & August 31-Sept. 2, at Cité. Cooper Helm is directing.

In his 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama, Buried Child, Sam Shepard takes a macabre look at one American Midwestern family with a very dark secret. When Vince brings his girlfriend, Shelly, home to meet his family, she is at first charmed by the "normal" looking farm house which she compares to a "Norman Rockwell cover or something"--that's before she actually meets his crazy family--his ranting, alcoholic grandparents (Dodge and Halie) and their two sons: Tilden, a hulking semi-idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Strangely, no one seems to remember Vince at first, and they treat him as an intruder. Eventually, however, they seem to accept him as a part of their violently dysfunctional family.

Character Breakdown:
Dodge: in his seventies
Halie: his wife, Mid-sixties
Tilden: their oldest son, forties
Bradley: their next oldest son, an amputee, forties
Vince: Tilden's son, twenties
Shelly: Vince's girlfriend, twenties
Father Dewis: a Protestant minister, age unknown

There are two boxes of scripts in the Cité des Arts office. Anyone who wants to read the play can borrow a script. Please note the $3 holding fee for the scripts.

Theatre--Performance

The Glass Mendacity at Cite' des Arts
Produced by NathanaelT Productions LLC
Directed by Jody L. Powell 

"a streetcar full of laughs"......The Times Picayune
"literature’s most dysfunctional family, the DuBois clan - Tennessee with a Twist"........Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 

Tennessee Williams’ more well-known plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are family dramas, and as such, they are filled with fragile and damaged Southern characters who are driven to madness, alcoholism, deceit, and fantasy.  Thus, they are easy targets for lampooning and parody, which is just what the authors of this play have done with them.  In addition, the authors have taken family members from each play, mixed them up, and created an entirely new outrageous brood. Audiences with a strong familiarity of Williams’ plays will get the most out of the show, but the humor of The Glass Mendacity is broad enough to make it appealing to all.  

In this mingling of characters where families are merged and relationships are shifted, Big Daddy, the patriarch dying of a spastic colon is married to Amanda Dubois who still recounts the number of gentlemen callers she had in her youth (the number grows with each new telling).  Together, they are the parents of Brick, so rendered catatonic by self-pity and alcohol that he comes across as a real stiff; Blanche, the tragic nut case, now married to the working-class brute Stanley Kowalski; and Laura, the dreamer whose shyness is underscored by her limp.  True to her original story, Maggie the Cat, the scheming seductress, is still married to Brick.  And of course, there’s Mitch, a combination of the gentleman caller and the lawyer acquaintance who properly greases the wheels and can’t keep his eyes off of Maggie. 

The two-act comedy has plenty of verbal gags twisted from Williams' original scripts that will keep the audience in stitches.  The actors have free range of the stage, delivering the original plays’ best lines with sharp characterizations and all the flair as if they were playing the originally written roles. 

The cast includes:
Michael Cato as Mitch O'Connor
Katryn Schmidt as Maggie the Cat
Mary Gail Lamonte DeVillier as Amanda Dubois
Brick Dubois as himself
Deborah D. Ardoin as Blanche Dubois
John Snyder as Stanley Kowalski
Billy Walker as Big Daddy Dubois
Erin Segura as Laura Dubois 

Performances dates:
Friday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 24 at 2:00 p.m. 

Tickets are available at citedesarts.org or by calling 291-1122 or at the door.
By Maureen Morley and Tom Willmorth
Story by Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Maureen Morley, and Tom Willmorth
Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

Theatre--Announcements

Announcements from Cite Des Arts:

We're looking for a stage manager for The Glass Mendacity directed by Jody Powell performances are June 15-17, and 22-24.  Persons interested can call Jody at 337-580-1787. 

We're also looking for a director for the show Promises by Jermaine Werner.  The performances are Sept 13-Sept 23.  For more info folks can call Christy at 337-291-1122

There will be auditions for the play Buried Child by Sam Shepard at Cité des Arts June 22 5-7pm, and June 23 noon to 3 pm.  The show is being directed by Cooper Helm and will be performed August 24-26, and August 31-Sept 2.

Theatre--Auditions

Auditions for the play The Rehearsal, 17th c. comic satire by George Villiers,  will be at Cité des Arts, 109 Vine St. Lafayette, LA

Auditions May 9, 10 (Wed, Thurs) 7-9 pm (Cité des Arts) and May 12 (Sat) 12 noon - 3 pm

The Rehearsal is a light and funny play-within-a-play which boasts a lavish display of period costumes of original design. The comic farce features silly players who galumph and posture their way through the play, making sport of the social conventions of the time. Nothing makes sense, or does it?

The Rehearsal is about a playwright who believes he is savvy to the newest trend in everything, including his newest play. When he invites two young men to sit witness to his “future hit,” they find it to be cockamamey and utterly absurd.

The Rehearsal, performed first in 1671, penned by the infamous wit, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and the play is 60 years post-Shakespeare and just past the Cavalier/ Musketeer period in history. Importantly, it is probably the very first example of the Theatre of the Absurd. Mel Brooks is said to have based his work The Producers on this funny play.

A platoon of gifted volunteers is launching this project under the direction of Lauren Greene Whyte, a long time participant in Lafayette theatrical efforts. Your support for The Rehearsal’s creative group -- seamstresses, marketing people, prop builders, et al --is needed, and any contribution will be gladly received. Please see
our site on Kickstarter.com and enter “The Rehearsal” under projects. We sincerely appreciate your consideration; it is our aim to entertain you.

Performances will be performed at Cité des Arts, 109 Vine St. Lafayette, LA 


Performances July 19, 20, 21,22, 26, 27, 28 and 29

Theatre--Auditions

Cite Des Arts is holding auditions for The Glass Mendacity directed by Jody Powell May 9 and10th 6:00pm-8:00pm.

Also, they have auditons for The Rehearsal: a Restoration Play by George Villiers, directed by Lauren Greene Whyte, May 9 and10 7:00-9:00pm, and May 16 and17th 7:00-9:00pm

Theatre--Performance

Cité des Arts and Gris Gris Productions present Sam Shepard’s award-winning play True West April 13-22 at Cite des Arts, 109 Vine St. in downtown Lafayette.

True West is a character study that examines the relationship between Austin, a screenwriter, and his older brother Lee, set in the kitchen of their mother's home 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Austin is house-sitting while their mother is in Alaska, and there he is confronted by his brother who proceeds to bully his way into staying at the house and using Austin’s car. In addition, the screenplay which Austin is pitching to his connection in Hollywood somehow gets taken over by the pushy con-man tactics of Lee, and the brothers find themselves forced to cooperate in the creation of a story that will make or break both their lives. In the process, the conflict between the brothers creates a heated situation in which their roles as successful family man and nomadic drifter are somehow reversed, and each man finds himself admitting that he had somehow always wished he were in the other’s shoes.

"I wanted to write a play about double nature, one that wouldn’t be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff,” Shepard explains on his website. “I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It’s a real thing, double nature. I think we’re split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It’s not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It’s something we’ve got to live with. True West has ... arguably become Shepard’s signature piece, the leanest, most pointed of his full-length works,” writes David Krasner in A Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama.


The play stars Brock Hoffpauir, Blake Hoffpauir, Dominick Cross and Winnie Daphin-Bacqué and is directed by Bruce Coen. “I’ve been wanting to do this play for a long time because I feel that Sam Shepard is one of our great American playwrights and it’s time to bring him back to Lafayette,” said Coen.

Cite is also offering gourmet meals for Saturday shows from the "Conscious Gourmet" that need to be reserved by Friday by 5 PM.

Performances are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 13-14, 20-21 and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 15 and 22.
This show is based on adult themes and adult language is used at times. Therefore this is not a show for children.

For more information, contact Bruce Coen at (337) 984-0754.

Theatre--Workshop/Camp

StoryPalooza, a new, collaborative summer camp between three Acadiana nonprofits, is now accepting registrations for its four one-week camps starting June 4. 

Children and teens ages seven to 17 will participate in stops during the week at AOC Community Media, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Cité des Arts.

Using the organizations’ areas of expertise, The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra will conduct both music and art classes guiding the students to prepare music, sound accompaniment and visuals for use in the live performances of the stories. Cité Des Arts will focus on acting and theatre, while AOC will give the campers a hands-on learning experience with animation. Each camper will spend time at each nonprofit experiencing all spectrums of storytelling and developing their own story ideas into shows and productions at the end of each week. 

“This unique summer camp will be all about developing productions from story ideas generated from our students and crafted with guidance from our professional teaching artists,” said Ed Bowie, executive director of AOC.

Students will tell their own stories while learning the skills necessary to write the script and the accompanying musical scores, create visual sets, act on stage and on film, and learn to capture it all visually using equipment of the digital media age. 

Each week-long camp’s tuition is $280 per student with a 10 percent discount for multiple weeks or multiple students in a family. There is a $25 registration fee. The deadline for the full payment of $280 is May 1. The camp will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Students are expected to bring their own bag lunch, and snacks will be provided during breaks.

The camp will run from June 4-8 and June 18-22. Space is limited in each week’s camp. To register your child, call the ASO Conservatory of Music at (337) 232-4277 ext. 2 or visit
http://www.acadianasymphony.org/conservatory/storypalooza. 

For more information about StoryPalooza, contact AOC at info@aocinc.org, ASO at (337) 232-4277, Cité des Arts at (337) 291-1122 or ASO Conservatory of Music at (337) 232-4277 ext. 2. 

Theatre--Performance

This Friday and Saturday at 7:30 check out two African American plays: "Tales of Black Folk" and "A Street Corner Medley" by Austin Sonnier .  This will be presented as readers' theatre on the Mainstage at Cite Des Arts. 

Theatre--Master Class/Workshop

Master Acting Workshop Taught by NYU Professor Caroline McGee -- 

March 20-23—4 30 - 6 pm 

Cite des Arts will sponsor another session of McGee’s Master Acting Workshop for actors and students of all ages and levels of experience. She has mentored a number of local students for successful acceptance to top-flight institutions including NYU Tisch Drama, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia and Brown Universities, Second City/Chicago, and more. 

This session will focus on legendary acting techniques of Lee Strasberg and Michael Chekhov. Improvisation exercises will focus on scenes and monologues from Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, and Sam Shepard. 

For more information and to register contact Caroline McGee: mcgeec50@yahoo.com or call her at 347 677 3164

Fee: $200 for 4 sessions. 

Caroline served as: 

-Director & Producer of the Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU BFA Programs 

-Director for the MFA Acting Program at The Catholic University, Washington, DC

-The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Art, Pace U. BFA Acting and Moscow Art Theatre Professional Acting Workshop 

She studied at: 

-Yale School of Drama

-received her Master’s at UC Berkeley; 

-Caroline was among the first CODOFIL scholarship group to study in France at the National Acting Conservatory in Strasbourg. 

As an actor:

- she has worked in films with Woody Allen, Gregory Peck, Danny DeVito 

-and in theatre, at the NY Shakespeare in Central Park, Yale Rep, Williamstown and Berkshire Festivals, and in Paris, Avignon, Dubrovnik and Sarajevo Festivals. 


Also of interest might be:

Ira Cohen, acclaimed by The London Times in 2007 as a “Lost Genius Refound,” appears in Lafayette, March 21, Cite des Arts, with a special screening of his underground film classics: "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" and "Kings with Straw Mats" – an offering of the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. Presented by poet and critic, Allan Graubard, with discussion and reading. Length: 3 hours. Admission: $5. 

In the 1960s two New York lofts fascinated the art world: Andy Warhol’s “Factory” and Ira Cohen’s “Mylar chamber.” Featured in Life Magazine as the preeminent artist of the psychedelic era, Ira Cohen created extraordinary images and films with his friends William S. Burroughs, Jack Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Ludlam, Angus MacLise, and many more. Xavier Garcia Bardon, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, said, “the film is an important artifact of the era, an ecstatic journey full of magical beings, animals and plants…a hallucinatory, almost trance-inducing experience.” 

"Kings with Straw Mats" is Ira Cohen’s poignant poetic testament to the great Kumbh Mela Festival, India’s annual pilgrimage of sadhus and holy men to the Ganges River, shot in 1986. 

For more on Ira Cohen 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/arts/ira-cohen-an-artist-and-a-touchstone-dies-at-76.html 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/may/13/ira-cohen-photography-in-pictures 

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Allan Graubard, poet, playwright and critic, is published internationally now in 13 languages. Recent books and theater works include And Tell Tulip the Summer (Quattro Books, Toronto), Roma Amor (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC), Woman Bomb/Sade (Theater Row, NYC), and Erotic Eulogy (Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC). Allan has written extensively on Ira Cohen and has appeared in performance with him in New York and London. Caroline and Allan have collaborated as husband and wife in varied theatrical performances over the past 3 decades. He is a member of the Pointe Noire/Richard, La. Pataphysical Society and cooks a mean crawfish etouffee. 

Theatre--Auditions

Cite Des Arts and Gris-Gris Productions are preparing for their co-production of Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST, opening April 13th and running through the 22nd (Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2 Sunday matinees at 3 pm).

TRUE WEST was recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers. This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee's trashy Western tale.

"Shepard's masterwork.... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed by a 37 year old genius." - New York Post.

"It's clear, funny, naturalistic. It's also opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory, you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time he's presenting another." - San Francisco Chronicle.

They are also looking to cast the 2 smaller roles:

Saul Kimmer: late forties, Hollywood producer, almost 2 scenes

Mom: early sixtes, one scene

Bruce Coen will be having readings next week at Cite for these 2 roles, date and time TBD. If interested contact Christy at Cite 291-1122 or Bruce Coen @ 984-0754

Theatre--Performance

"Rockets and Polar Bears" Plays by Gabrielle Reisman

WhenSat, February 25, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Where109 Vine Street/Downtown Lafayette off of Jefferson (map)

DescriptionOne Act Plays by Gabrielle Reisman, Directed by Regina Sullivan

Theatre--Performance

Loren Farmer  and the Eavesdrop Theatre will produce the tense new drama by David Mamet called Race at Cite des Arts, 109 Vine Street Downtown Lafayette, February 3, 4, 10, 11, & 12.  Evening performances will be at 7:30pm, Sunday matinee’s will be at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10.00 and may be purchased at the door, or from the website www.citedesarts.org

David Mamet tackles America’s most controversial topic in a provocative new tale of sex, guilt, and bold accusation.  Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman.  When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface.  When David Mamet turns the spotlight on what we think but can’t say, dangerous truths are revealed and no punches are spared.

Theatre--Auditions

Cite Des Arts is announcing auditions for a play called Taste, to be directed by Regina Sullivan. Production will be Feb. 24-March 4th.
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Set in the Bywater on the eve of carnival season,, Taste tells the story of six young New Orleanians, some locals, some transplants. While cooking a meal in a house that may be under construction or may be under demolition (only time and money will really tell), new friendships sizzle, old ones scorch, and dinner is ultimately served.

They are  looking for four males, white, black, and extraterrestrial, between the ages of 18 and 35.  They are  also looking for two females, white and black, between the ages of 18 and 35.


Actors may bring a monologue, or be prepared to cold read from the script.

Auditions will be Dec 11, 12, 13 from 5:30 - 7pm at Cité des Arts 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA