Town & Gown Players pages on my site
Sad but true: When you turn knowledge over to Town & Gown it can get lost. That's why I have saved many of the documents I've worked on and put them in a visible place here. Some verge on being official, some duplicate material that's on the company's own web site, and some are just mine. And my "Features" pages have some good reference material that is definitely unofficial even though it's mostly stuff I have learned by working with T&G.
Town & Gown is now well into the 2007-8 season, which began with Chekhov's Three Sisters in September. The David Mamet two-hander Oleanna followed on the Second Stage.
Next on the program was Godspell, in a well-done production; then, just before the winter holidays, came the Second Stage A Classic Christmas. (Classic this, Bulldawg that; the boosters make sure one or the other appears on every sign and every publication in Athens.)
The great Tennessee Williams drama A Streetcar Named Desire is in rehearsal as I write this. It opens in February. Second Stage productions, indeed, are like streetcars; if you missed Classic Xmas, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross will be along in a minute. Dynamite cast in that one, by the way.
With the "Curtain Up" fundraising campaign in full swing, the company couldn't pass up So They Say: A Storytelling Event, which fits neatly into the designated begging weekend after GGR. The next Mainstage show is Beyond Therapy, by Christopher Durang. Kindly leave the children at home.
I don't know if Patio/Porch, on Second Stage, is an original script or not; I'm told it is a linked pair of one-woman one-acts. Our musical this season is The Fantasticks. (I think we've reached May 2008.)
Dina's Second Stage production of As You Like It is up next, followed by the Mainstage finale, The Miracle Worker, in July.
Best way to describe this season: When it's over you will know you've been in a fight.
Visit the official T&G web site for further information, audition announcements, cast lists, poster previews and other juicy stuff.
Mainstage shows must cast by open auditions. To get clear what that means, read an unofficial FAQ page on auditions.
It isn't my own work, but I have a Town & Gown production history: a list of all the shows the company has ever put up. (The list is now current through summer 2008.)
This is mostly mine: a set of drawings of the Athens Community Theater. If you plan to use this space, here's how to learn the way the land lies.
An illustrated narrative of Facilities Week 2005
A resource for directors: my Biobank
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