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May 1999 - Table of Contents & Preview

COVER STORY:
Baryshnikov & Yale
Present White Oak Premiere

Professional Theatre:

bulletPulitzer Prize-winner at the Wilbur (The Gin Game)
bulletOn the 20th Century at Goodspeed
bulletScotland Road Takes the Titanic Into Uncharted Waters at New Rep
bulletTheatreZone Learns to Drive
bulletThey're Playing Our Song at Bridgeport
bulletWe Won't Pay!  We Won't Pay: Italian Street Theatre in Providence
bulletCabaret at the Colonial: Local Boston Performers Featured with Teri Hatcher
bulletPigs are Flying at Lyric Stage Company of Boston
bulletSpring at Northern Stage (VT)
bulletBienvenue, Monsieur Marceau by Steve Capra
bulletStrutting & Chaos by Shirley Esthimer
bulletFeature & Review: Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter at Long Wharf by E. Kyle Minor
bulletLucille Lortel: I Took "A Walk" in Moscow by Betty Tyler
bulletThere Won't be Trumpets at Players' Ring
bulletNever the Sinner: For Shame Lyric Stage by Steve Capra
bulletA.R.T. Presents New England Premiere of McDonagh Play
bulletMy Kind of Town...Chicago Is (Shubert Theatre)
bulletNumber 14 Offers a Busload of Laughs
bulletThe Once Future King at Westchester Broadway
bulletWasserstein at Long Wharf
bulletPortland Stage Company Presents Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women
bullet1959 Comedy Class Party: An Interactive Participatory Entertainment in Dedham (MA)

Colleges/Universities/Schools

bulletNew York State Theatre Institute Establishes Balfior Scholarship
bulletUCONN Students Present a Celebration of Life & Art; An Aids Benefit
bulletOpera American-style at UMASS
bulletBrandeis University Presents World Premiere of The Milk of Human Kindness in the Laurie Theater
bulletKing Kong Conquers Cambridge (Harvard)
bulletYale Rep Has Hay Fever
bulletBristol Community College Theatre Rep to Perform Shakespeare (The Comedy of Errors)
bulletTheatre Institute for Educators to be Held at Vassar

Community Theatre

bulletThe Cemetary Club at Hovey Players of Waltham (MA)
bulletPlaywrights Wanted for Summer Shorts Festival
bulletHey!  You Want to Start Something?  We'll Tell You Where to Go! by Harry Anderson (New/Alumni Repertory Theatre, MA)
bulletNeil Simon at Harlequin (NY)
bulletYorktown (NY) Stages Last Show of Season
bulletNoah's Ark Lands on Belmont Shores (MA)
bulletCenter Stage Casts Area Premiere (NY)
bulletNext Door Theatre Presents AUGUST: An Original Comedy by Patrick Cleary
bulletFootlighters Present Fiddler on the Roof (Walpole, MA)
bulletMugford Street Players Take Sylvia to England (MA)
bulletYou're in Newton, Charlie Brown (Newton Country Players, MA)
bulletGreater Norwalk (CT) Community Theatre Salutes a Few Good Men by Sherry Shameer
bulletA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Concord (MA)
bulletHole in the Wall Wins "Best of Community Theater" by Hartford (CT) Advocate

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletThe Bushnell (CT) Concludes Children's Series
bulletStamford (CT) Theatre Works Offers Children's Performing Arts Summer Camp
bulletSummer at Stamford Theatre Works
bulletTwelfth Night as Part of Theater for Young Audiences Series (MA)
bulletCirque Eloize Returns to Stamford (CT) with All-new Excentricus
bulletOddfellows Playhouse Springs into Spring (Middletown, CT)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletCall for Entries to the 3rd Annual Providence-Rhode Island International Film Festival
bulletJoan Quinn Eastman: On & Off Camera by Angel Connell

Music

bulletProvidence Performing Arts Center Presents 4th Annual Greater Providence Gospel Fest
bulletThree Classical Charlie Chaplin Silent Films with Vintage Ragtime Music
bulletMasterworks Chorale Performs Classical Masterpieces with Latin-American Flavor
bulletNot-to-Miss Ocean State Light Opera Gala: June 2
bulletEntrain & The Coors by Jeff Cabral
bulletGreg Greenway Headlines Stamford's Rich Forum
bulletTito Puente to Perform at Northeastern University
bulletMuseum Concerts Presents Harpsichord Benefit
bulletThe Queen of Salsa Comes to the Bushnell
bulletAuditions Announced for 6th Annual Summer Youth Jazz Workshop
bulletPianist Joanne Brackeen Makes Arkadia Jazz Debut
bulletDenim & Diamonds: Plymouth Philharmonic Benefit May 15

Dance

bulletFive Leading Choreographers Present Premiere Dance Works at Green Street
bulletThe Heannette Neill 20th Anniversary Concert
bulletAn Evening of "Green" Choreography in Cambridge
bulletGranite State Ballet Announces Auditions
bulletIsland Moving Co. Performs at Rhode Island College
bulletParsons Dance Company Pirouettes Onto Quick Center Stage
bulletContrasts at Boston College Dance
bulletBaseball (MOMIX) at The Bushnell
bulletBen Stevenson's Gothic, Mysterious Dracula Swoops Into Boston
bullet1999 at the Pillow...Jacob's Pillow

People/Announcements

bulletLong Wharf Begins Nationwide Search for Season Interns
bulletThe Music Hall Hires New Managing Director
bulletShakespeare Students Say "Forget About Watching the Film, Let's Do It Ourselves!"
bulletOak Street Theatre Receives Capital Improvement Grant
bulletWomen Are Doing It for Themselves: Perishable's 7th Women's Playwriting Festival
bulletOak Street Theatre Celebrates Past, Present & Future at 5th Anniversary Fundraiser
bulletNew York State Theatre Institute Now Accepting Fall'99 Intern Applications

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