I fear I've become a theater bum. For over 15 years I've spent most of my weekends (and a lot of evenings) working with a community theater company here in Athens. Click on a title in the list further down this page to see some pictures and/or deepthink about productions I've taken part in.

  • Next on the Town & Gown stage is Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, opening in February. Eric makes the dreary journey into town from the farm to direct.
  • The 2007-8 Mainstage season opened in September with Anton Chekhov's drama Three Sisters. We continued the next month with Dina's Second Stage production of David Mamet's Oleanna.
  • Then came a strikingly good production of Godspell. Amy's holiday musical revue A Classic Christmas appeared on Second Stage just before the holidays. (You should know that in Athens, everything not labeled "Bulldawg" is labeled "Classic." It is the work of some long-ago Chamber of Commerce bard.)
  • After Streetcar, Second Stage presents Glengarry Glen Ross, with Tom Tanner not playing a nebbish (April 25-27); then we have a special "Curtain Up!" fundraiser, So They Say: A Storytelling Event, the next weekend. April 11-20 will see Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy on the Mainstage, followed by a Second Stage feature called Patio/Porch. The season continues with The Fantasticks (June 13-22) and a Second Stage production of As You Like It (June 27-29). We close with The Miracle Worker (Aug. 15-24).
  • Theater links: I've collected lots of addresses for theater companies, suppliers and other sites of interest.
  • Finding scripts: Here you can get links to publishers and rights houses for straight plays and musicals. I can also suggest strategies for locating low-royalty plays.
  • Shakespeare: It turns out the web is a terrific resource for productions of classic scripts.
  • Amateur Theater Division: These pages
    • offer some good how-to stuff
    • tell how our motto was adopted
    • list my own production credits
    • and introduce my design aides Scaleboy® and Scalemaid®.
  • Town & Gown Players: "My" community theater company maintains a fast-changing web site offering lots of information about performances, auditions and so forth. Our newsletter, The Envoy, is available online too. Eric the webmaster is now introducing Wiki technology to the site, which should make the pages change even faster.
  • My own Town & Gown pages: By not throwing things away, I've accumulated a lot of data about the company's history, plans for its fiftieth anniversary, the space it occupies, and some artifacts.

Now here are those links to production pages, latest season first.

  
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