Bravissimo
May 23rd at La Jolla Playhouse! Reservations are due May 16th. Visit this link for the reservation form.
SDUSD folks who will be honored this year include Terry Miller from Pershing and our fearless leader, Karen Childress-Evans.
This is always a lovely evening and the food is always good.
See you there!
Summer Reading List
Wondering what plays theatre students should have read by the time they get to college? Check out this list!
THE AMERICANS (parital list):
O'NEILL: Ah, Wilderness!; Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Iceman Cometh; The Emporer Jones; Desire Under the Elms
RICE: Street Scene; The Adding Machine
KAUFMAN AND HART: You Can't Take It With You; The Man Who Came to Dinner
ODETS: Waiting for Lefty; Awake and Sing; Golden Boy
SHERWOOD: The Petrified Forest
HELLMAN: The Children's Hour; The Little Foxes
STEINBECK: Of Mice and Men
WILDER: Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Matchmaker
WILLIAMS: The Glass Menagerie; Summer and Smoke; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
MILLER: Death of a Salesman; The Crucible: A View from the Bridge; The Price
SIMON: Barefoot in the Park; Lost in Yonkers; The Odd Couple; The Sunshine Boys
ALBEE: The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The American Dream; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Delicate Balance
BARAKA (JONES): Dutchman
HANSBURY: A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
LANFORD WILSON: Hot I Baltimore; Balm in Gilead; The Rimers of Eldritch; The Fifth of July
SHEPHERD: True West; Curse of the Strarving Class; Buried Child
RABE: Streamers; Sticks and Bones; The Basic Training of Pavel Hummel
MAMET: Sexual Perversity in Chicago; American Buffalo; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Speed-the-Plow
HENLEY: Crimes of the Heart; The Miss Firecracker Contest
AUGUST WILSON: Fences; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Two Train's Running
KRAMER: The Normal Heart
WASSERSTEIN: The Heidi Chronicles; The Sisters Rosenweig
KUSHNER: Angels in America
THE BRITISH ISLES (Parital List):
ANONYMOUS: Everyman; The Second Shepherd's Play
BEN JOHNSON: Volpone; The Alchemist
MARLOWE: Edward II; Dr. Faustus
SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II; Henry IV Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; Richard III
BEHN: The Rover
WYCHERLEY: The Country Wife
SHERIDAN: The Rivals; The School for Scandal
GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan
SHAW: Pygmalion; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Arms and the Man; Saint Joan; Caesar and Cleopatra; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Heartbreak Hotel
SYNGE: Playboy of the Western World
COWARD: Hay Fever; Private Lives; Blithe Spirit
BECKETT: Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Happy Days; Krapp's Last Tape
OSBORNE: Look Back in Anger; The Entertainer
PINTER: The Caretaker; The Homecoming; The Dumbwaiter; The Birthday Party; The Lover; The Collection
STOPPARD: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Travesties; The Real Thing; Jumpers
THE RUSSIANS: (Partial List):
GOGOL: The Inspector General
TURGENOV: A Month in the Country
CHEKHOV: The Sea Gull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Marriage Proposal; The Boor
THE SCANDANAVIANS:
IBSEN: Hedda Gabler; A Doll's House; Ghosts; The Master Builder; An Enemy of the People (adapted by Arthur Miller)
STRINDBERG: Miss Julie; The Father; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata
THE GREEKS AND ROMANS:
AESCHYLUS: The Oresteia Trilogy; Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra
EURIPIDES: Medea; The Trojan Women; The Bacchae; Hyppolytus
ARISTOPHANES: The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
PLAUTUS: The Twin Manaechmi (very similar to Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors"); Amphitryon
SENECA: Medea
THE GERMANS, AUSTRIANS, AND SWISS (Partial List):
GOETHE: Faust I and II
WEDEKIND: Spring's Awakening; The Lulu Plays
STERNHEIM: The Snob
BRECHT: The Threepenny Opera; Mother Courage; Galileo; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Good Person of Setzuan; Man is Man
WEISS: Marat/Sade
THE FRENCH (Partial List):
MOLIERE: Tartuffe; The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself
BEAUMARCHAIS: The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro
DUMAS, FILS: Camille
ZOLA: Therese Raquin
GIRADOUX: The Madwoman of Chaillot; Amphitryon 38; The Enchanted; Tiger at the Gates; Electra
SARTRE: The Flies; No Exit (existentialism, anyone?)
IONESCO: The Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The Lesson; Rhinoceros
GENET: The Maids; The Blacks; The Balcony
THE SPANISH:
LOPE DE VEGA: Fuente Ovejuna
CALDERON DE LA BARCA: Life is a Dream
LORCA: Yerma; Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba
TIRSO DE MOLINA: The Trickster of Seville
THE ITALIANS:
GOLDONI: The Servant of Two Masters
PIRANDELLO: Right You are If You Think So [If You Think You Are]; Six Characters in Search of An Author; Henry IV
THE EASTERN EUROPEANS (Partial List):
HAVEL: The Memorandum (Czech)
THE AFRICANS:
SOYINKA: The Death and the King's Horseman
FUGARD: Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island; Blood Knot; Master Harold...and the Boys
Upcoming Shows
SDUSD folks who will be honored this year include Terry Miller from Pershing and our fearless leader, Karen Childress-Evans.
This is always a lovely evening and the food is always good.
See you there!
Summer Reading List
Wondering what plays theatre students should have read by the time they get to college? Check out this list!
THE AMERICANS (parital list):
O'NEILL: Ah, Wilderness!; Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Iceman Cometh; The Emporer Jones; Desire Under the Elms
RICE: Street Scene; The Adding Machine
KAUFMAN AND HART: You Can't Take It With You; The Man Who Came to Dinner
ODETS: Waiting for Lefty; Awake and Sing; Golden Boy
SHERWOOD: The Petrified Forest
HELLMAN: The Children's Hour; The Little Foxes
STEINBECK: Of Mice and Men
WILDER: Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Matchmaker
WILLIAMS: The Glass Menagerie; Summer and Smoke; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
MILLER: Death of a Salesman; The Crucible: A View from the Bridge; The Price
SIMON: Barefoot in the Park; Lost in Yonkers; The Odd Couple; The Sunshine Boys
ALBEE: The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The American Dream; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Delicate Balance
BARAKA (JONES): Dutchman
HANSBURY: A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
LANFORD WILSON: Hot I Baltimore; Balm in Gilead; The Rimers of Eldritch; The Fifth of July
SHEPHERD: True West; Curse of the Strarving Class; Buried Child
RABE: Streamers; Sticks and Bones; The Basic Training of Pavel Hummel
MAMET: Sexual Perversity in Chicago; American Buffalo; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Speed-the-Plow
HENLEY: Crimes of the Heart; The Miss Firecracker Contest
AUGUST WILSON: Fences; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Two Train's Running
KRAMER: The Normal Heart
WASSERSTEIN: The Heidi Chronicles; The Sisters Rosenweig
KUSHNER: Angels in America
THE BRITISH ISLES (Parital List):
ANONYMOUS: Everyman; The Second Shepherd's Play
BEN JOHNSON: Volpone; The Alchemist
MARLOWE: Edward II; Dr. Faustus
SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II; Henry IV Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; Richard III
BEHN: The Rover
WYCHERLEY: The Country Wife
SHERIDAN: The Rivals; The School for Scandal
GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan
SHAW: Pygmalion; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Arms and the Man; Saint Joan; Caesar and Cleopatra; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Heartbreak Hotel
SYNGE: Playboy of the Western World
COWARD: Hay Fever; Private Lives; Blithe Spirit
BECKETT: Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Happy Days; Krapp's Last Tape
OSBORNE: Look Back in Anger; The Entertainer
PINTER: The Caretaker; The Homecoming; The Dumbwaiter; The Birthday Party; The Lover; The Collection
STOPPARD: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Travesties; The Real Thing; Jumpers
THE RUSSIANS: (Partial List):
GOGOL: The Inspector General
TURGENOV: A Month in the Country
CHEKHOV: The Sea Gull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Marriage Proposal; The Boor
THE SCANDANAVIANS:
IBSEN: Hedda Gabler; A Doll's House; Ghosts; The Master Builder; An Enemy of the People (adapted by Arthur Miller)
STRINDBERG: Miss Julie; The Father; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata
THE GREEKS AND ROMANS:
AESCHYLUS: The Oresteia Trilogy; Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra
EURIPIDES: Medea; The Trojan Women; The Bacchae; Hyppolytus
ARISTOPHANES: The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
PLAUTUS: The Twin Manaechmi (very similar to Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors"); Amphitryon
SENECA: Medea
THE GERMANS, AUSTRIANS, AND SWISS (Partial List):
GOETHE: Faust I and II
WEDEKIND: Spring's Awakening; The Lulu Plays
STERNHEIM: The Snob
BRECHT: The Threepenny Opera; Mother Courage; Galileo; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Good Person of Setzuan; Man is Man
WEISS: Marat/Sade
THE FRENCH (Partial List):
MOLIERE: Tartuffe; The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself
BEAUMARCHAIS: The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro
DUMAS, FILS: Camille
ZOLA: Therese Raquin
GIRADOUX: The Madwoman of Chaillot; Amphitryon 38; The Enchanted; Tiger at the Gates; Electra
SARTRE: The Flies; No Exit (existentialism, anyone?)
IONESCO: The Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The Lesson; Rhinoceros
GENET: The Maids; The Blacks; The Balcony
THE SPANISH:
LOPE DE VEGA: Fuente Ovejuna
CALDERON DE LA BARCA: Life is a Dream
LORCA: Yerma; Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba
TIRSO DE MOLINA: The Trickster of Seville
THE ITALIANS:
GOLDONI: The Servant of Two Masters
PIRANDELLO: Right You are If You Think So [If You Think You Are]; Six Characters in Search of An Author; Henry IV
THE EASTERN EUROPEANS (Partial List):
HAVEL: The Memorandum (Czech)
THE AFRICANS:
SOYINKA: The Death and the King's Horseman
FUGARD: Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island; Blood Knot; Master Harold...and the Boys
Upcoming Shows
Serra High School
Hamlet
Directed by Ruth Howell
May 13 and 20 at 6 p.m.
May 19 at 2:45 p.m.
May 21 at 2 p.m.
May 13 and 20 at 6 p.m.
May 19 at 2:45 p.m.
May 21 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $5
For more info - rhowell@sandi.net
Marshall Middle School
Bad Auditions by Bad Actors
Directed by Jeff Russell
May 17, 18, 19, 20 all at 6:00pm
Arena style staging
Directed by Jeff Russell
May 17, 18, 19, 20 all at 6:00pm
Arena style staging
$5 per person
For more info - jrussell@sandi.net
Pershing Middle School
Pershing Middle School
Oliver
Directed by Terry Miller
May 18--9:15 AM and 1:00 PM
May 19--9:15 AM, 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
May 20--9:15 AM, 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM
Admission free.
For further information or to make a group reservation. please contact Terry Miller at 619-465-3234 ext. 4111.
Hoover High School
Disney's Beauty and the Beast JR
May 19 at 4pm
May 20 at 5pm
May 21 at 6pm
Tickets are $8 or $5 for students.
We have a free school show on Wednesday, May 18 at 10am if any teacher is interested in bringing some students.
Contact Laura Williams - lwilliams5@sandi.net
Dana Middle School
Much Ado About Nothing
Directed by Kelly Kocar
May 20th at 7:00 p.m.
$5 and available on the danamiddle.com website soon!
Contact Kelly Kocar - kkocar@sandi.net
Valencia Park Academy for Academics, Dramatics and Dance
Silver Jubilee Celebrate 25 Years Of Dance and Drama at Valencia Park.
Saturday, May 21st 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Jacobs Center Celebration Hall Joe & Vi Jacobs Center
404 Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92114
For more info contact Teri Ang - tang@sandi.net
Madison High School
The Love of Three Oranges
Directed by Colette Thomas
May 26 & 27 6:30
May 28 2:00
For more info - cthomas@sandi.net
University City High School
ArtATTACK(Combined visual and performing arts show)
Thursday, May 26 6:00 p.m.
Free to the public
For more info - bbrown3@sandi.net
San Diego High MVAP
Disney Dreams
June 3rd at 6:45 PM
June 4th at 5 PM
For more info - imcvoy@sandi.net
Wilson Middle School
Alice in Wonderland Jr.
June 29, 30, and July 1 @ 6pm
Pre Sale: $2 General, $1 Students/Children
Door Sale: $3 General, $2 Students/Children
"Stacks of Wax"
Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 6pm
Free Admission
For more info contact Paula Zuill - pzuill@sandi.net
Hope to see you soon!
Hoover High School
Disney's Beauty and the Beast JR
May 19 at 4pm
May 20 at 5pm
May 21 at 6pm
Tickets are $8 or $5 for students.
We have a free school show on Wednesday, May 18 at 10am if any teacher is interested in bringing some students.
Contact Laura Williams - lwilliams5@sandi.net
Dana Middle School
Much Ado About Nothing
Directed by Kelly Kocar
May 20th at 7:00 p.m.
$5 and available on the danamiddle.com website soon!
Contact Kelly Kocar - kkocar@sandi.net
Valencia Park Academy for Academics, Dramatics and Dance
Silver Jubilee Celebrate 25 Years Of Dance and Drama at Valencia Park.
Saturday, May 21st 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Jacobs Center Celebration Hall Joe & Vi Jacobs Center
404 Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92114
For more info contact Teri Ang - tang@sandi.net
Madison High School
The Love of Three Oranges
Directed by Colette Thomas
May 26 & 27 6:30
May 28 2:00
For more info - cthomas@sandi.net
University City High School
ArtATTACK(Combined visual and performing arts show)
Thursday, May 26 6:00 p.m.
Free to the public
For more info - bbrown3@sandi.net
San Diego High MVAP
Disney Dreams
June 3rd at 6:45 PM
June 4th at 5 PM
For more info - imcvoy@sandi.net
Wilson Middle School
Alice in Wonderland Jr.
June 29, 30, and July 1 @ 6pm
Pre Sale: $2 General, $1 Students/Children
Door Sale: $3 General, $2 Students/Children
"Stacks of Wax"
Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 6pm
Free Admission
For more info contact Paula Zuill - pzuill@sandi.net
Hope to see you soon!
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