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February 2002 - Table of Contents & Preview

COVER STORY
African American Retrospective Film Festival

Professional Theatre:
bulletSpeakEasy to Mount "First-Since-Broadway" Production of The Wild Party (MA)
bulletWestchester Broadway Theatre Happenings (NY)
bulletMonkey King Tales: A Chinese Folk Epic at Cambridge Center for Adult Education (MA)
bulletPayomet Performing Arts Center Presents Paul Revere's Mother-in-Law (MA)
bulletPushing Buttons: Three 1-Act Plays at M&M Productions (NY)
bulletMaine's Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Plays at The Public Theatre (ME)
bulletJules Becker's Best & Worst of 2001
bulletAn Interview with Jimmy Tingle by Jules Becker
bulletNational Tour of RENT Plays Stamford's Palace (CT)
bulletNew Rep Turns Into 17th Century Theatre (MA)
bulletThirteenth Street Repertory Co. Presents The Sacred Virgin (NY)
bulletStratford Library Sets 2002 Discussion Series (CT)
bulletPerishable Stages the Unstageable French Revolution (RI)
bulletA Moment with Playwright Emily Jane O'Dell
bulletCity Nights Dinner Theatre Presents Neil Simon's Rumors (RI)
bulletNew England Theatre Conference Turns Fifty!
bulletGoodspeed Musicals Announces 2002 Season at the Opera House & the Norma Terris Theatre (CT)
bulletLimited Engagement of Ensler Play at the Garde Arts Center (CT)
bulletBLAST! Returns to the Wang Center (MA)
bulletFully Committed at Persephone (MA)
bulletWake Up and Dream: A Cole Porter Cabaret at Players' Ring (NH)
bulletWilly Russell's Disarming & Bouyant Comedy Next at Square One (CT)
bulletNew York City Uncovered by Steve Capra
bulletYorktown Stage Auditions Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (NY)

Colleges/Universities/Schools

bulletEve Ensler's Vagina Monologues at RISD (RI)
bulletObie Award-winner & CT Resident Doug Hughes Directs Betty's Summer Vacation at Yale Rep (CT)
bulletAn Unknown "Shakespearean Drama" at Emerson College (MA)

Community Theatre

bulletMilton Players Prepares for February Production of To Kill a Mockingbird (MA)
bulletSouthborough Players Announces King & I Cast (MA)
bulletThe Night of the Iguana at Arlington Friends of the Drama (MA)
bulletYour Theatre Inc. Announces Death & the Maiden (MA)
bulletFranklin Performing Arts Center Presents Bye Bye Birdie (MA)
bulletYCP Theaterworks Stages American Classic: Arthur Miller's All My Sons (NY)
bulletMaine's Belfast Maskers Announces 2002 Season (ME)
bulletSunset Players Announces 2nd Production (MA)
bulletFootlighters to Present Crimes of the Heart (MA)
bulletHole in the Wall Theatre Presents Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead (CT)
bulletClassic Thriller at Clockwork Rep (CT)
bulletHingham Civic Music Theatre Auditions Gypsy (MA)
bulletKing Arthur Reigns at Actorsingers (NH)
bulletBurlington Players Audition The Man Who Came to Dinner (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletWheelock Family Theatre Presents Tuck Everlasting (MA)
bulletSmythe & Saucier's Comedy Circus Returns to Stamford's Rich Forum (CT)
bulletFerdinand the Bull Comes  to Fairfield University's Quick Center (CT)
bulletAmerican Stage Festival's Peacock Players Present New Hampshire Premire of HONK! (NH)
bulletOddfellows Playhouse Presents Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (CT)
bulletNew York Talent Manager / Casting Director Helps Parents & Kids Understand Show Biz (CT)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletCecille Markell's Best Films of 2001

Music

bulletCAPA Presents Three Mo'Tenors Concert (CT)
bulletDon Campbell Wins Male Artist of the Year (ME)
bulletSpecial Two-Night Mardis Gras Ball Extravaganza for Lagniappe 10th Anniversary (RI)
bulletRomance Fills the Air as the Plymouth Philharmonic Presents A Symphonic Valentine (MA)
bulletWaterville Valley Will be "Shakin'" When Eddie Money Performs (NH)
bulletJazz Clarinetist Don Byron Celebrates Duke Ellington at Wesleyan (CT)
bulletJohn Gorka Returns to New England (Touring)
bulletViolinist Andrew Manze & Harpsichordist Richard Egarr Present Music at Amherst (MA)
bulletBoston Musica Viva's Young Music for Young People Presents Two Classics (MA)
bulletChorus of Westerly Presents Ensemble Amarcord (RI)
bulletNew Performing Arts Charity to Start in Westchester (NY)
bullet18th Annual Honor Band at UMass (MA)
bulletEpic Records & Berklee Set to Release All-female Compilation (NY)
bulletBrockton Symphony Orchestra Presents Van Cliburn Medalist (MA)
bulletRon Gill & the Manny Williams Trio to Perform at the Regattabar (MA)
bulletChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Returns to Fairfield University's Quick Center (CT)

Dance

bulletDynamic Sean Curran Brings Dance Company to Wesleyan (CT)
bulletFleetBoston Celebrity Series to Present Garth Fagan Dance (MA)
bulletExciting Evening of Premieres in Contemporary Dance (MA)
bulletJules Becker's Best Dance of 2001

People/Announcements

bulletFederal Education Act Defines Arts as "Core Subject" (NH)
bulletRenown Clarinestist Harry Skoler - On the Move - (MA)
bulletArts Program Funding Available for Non-profit Organizations (CT)
bulletWarner Theatre Names Charles D. Gill Director of Educational Programming (CT)
bulletMichael Hammond Confirmed as New NEA Chairman
bulletMASS MoCA Receives $25K Grant from Rockefeller Foundation & Plans for Fire & Ice: A Winter Ball (MA)

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bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletTwo on the Aisle by Shirley Esthimer
bulletEncores & Off by E. Kyle Minor
bulletAppleSource w/Gary Stevens
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletWords for the Soul by Mathew Phelps
bulletHotline to the Underground by Joe Viglione
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas by Sydelle Pittas

 

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