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January 2001 - Table of Contents & Preview

COVER STORY
Local Film Producer's Serial Intention is to Leave Behind His Own Mark by Angel Connell

Professional Theatre:
bullet2000-2001 Subscription Season Marks the Downtown Cabaret Theatre's 25th Anniversary on Golden Hill (CT)
bulletBoston Lyric Opera Celebrates Season with Opera Magic: Live the Fantasy (MA)
bulletSquare One Theatre's 2001 Season Features Romantic Drama, Riveting Thrills & Bittersweet Comedy (CT)
bulletTwo Performances Added to The Sound of Music at the PPAC (RI)
bulletForever Plaid Comes to Waltham (MA)
bulletSpecial Phantom Performance to Benefit The Actors' Fund of America (MA)
bulletAnnie Get Your Gun Runs at SRT (NH)
bulletDavid Black's Broadway Psychodrama Comes to Westerly (RI)
bulletLes Miserables: Legendary Award-winning Musical Returns to Boston's Colonial (MA)
bulletThe Acting Company of Greenwich Announces Cast for Hedda Gabler (CT)
bulletHedda Gabler Makes an Entrance at the Huntington (MA)
bulletFollies Opens February 9 at TLP (MA)
bulletI Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Continues at the Stuart Street Playhouse (MA)
bulletA.R.T. Presents Three Farces & a Funeral (MA)

Colleges/Universities/Schools

bulletSpingold Theater at Brandeis University Announces Spring Line-up (MA)
bulletPlymouth State College's Educational Theatre Collaborative Receives Moss Hart Memorial Award (NH)

Community Theatre

bulletThe Sunset Players of Sharon Announce Winter Production (MA)
bulletFootlighters Present Arsenic & Old Lace (MA)
bulletSouthborough Players Cast Little Shop of Horrors (MA)
bulletWakefield Repertory Theatre Presents Brigadoon (MA)
bulletThe Visit at Arlington Friends of the Drama (MA)
bulletThe Jewish Theatre Ensemble Presents Neil Simon Pulitzer Prize-winner (RI)
bulletRidei nthe Roller Coaster that is Dr. Cook's Garden (MA)
bulletHovey Presents Crossing Delancey (MA)
bulletNewton Country Players Casts Guys & Dolls for March Production (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletKAT Company Performs at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (NH)
bulletDiane Purdy's Children's Theatre Workshop Celebrates a New Home (MA)
bulletGuest Performances at Concord Youth Theatre (MA)
bulletBroadway Smash Hit Musical Roars Back to New England (CT & MA)
bulletFranklin's Big Adventure at The Bushnell (CT)
bulletCirco Comedia: With the Explosive, Absurd & Delirious Duo, Smythe & Saucier, at Rich Forum (CT)
bulletAnnie's Back in New England (CT & RI)
bulletThe Stage Directions Guide to Working Back Stage

Film/Video/Tech

bulletNew Hampshire Film Commission Seeks "Film Friendly" Host Locations (NH)
bulletContra Dance Documentary Film Premieres (MA)
bulletWGBH Radio Boston Welcomes New Year with Traditional Broadcast (MA)

Music

bulletMusic as a Sacrament by Steve Capra
bulletB.B. King: "King of the Blues" Returns to Stamford's Palace Theatre (CT)
bulletA (Cynical) Look at Music Award Shows: Are They Really Necessary by M. William Phelps
bulletConducting Symposium at Rhode Island College (RI)
bulletHartford Symphony Orchestra Performs A Vienesse New Year (CT)
bulletCelebrated Virtuoso to Play Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata & Chopin's Sonata No. 2 (CT)
bulletClean Vocals for Static X Newmann: KMS 105 Outperforms All Others for this Heavy Band (CT)
bullet70s Icons, Village People, Open the New Year at Stamford's Palace Theatre w/Special Guest Comedian Jak Swersie (CT)
bulletCelebrate the Chinese New Year with the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Society (MA)
bulletLibrary to Present Indian Hill School Music Students (MA)
bulletMusic's Best Kept Secrets - Lorenza Ponce by Devin Travers

Dance

bulletReflections on a Dance Legend: Martha Graham Subject of Talk at Harvard (MA)
bulletPerformance to Showcase Talents of MCC Artist Grants Recipients in Choreography (MA)

People/Announcements

bulletNew Era for the Huntington: New Artistic Director, New Theatre Spaces, New Plays (MA)
bulletCreative Thinkers!  Be Part of First Night Providence: 2002 (RI)
bulletOpera New England Annual Benefit Luncheon (MA)
bulletBLO Receives MCC Grant & Hosts Costume Gala (MA)
bulletJeffrey Poulos Appointed New Executive Director of StageSource, the Alliance of Boston Theatre (MA)
bulletRegional Entertainment Production & Administration Job Expo Set for February (MA)
bulletWGBH Boston Names Lucy Sholley Media Relations Director (MA0
bulletMCC Program Coming Up Taller, Again (MA)
bulletBoston's The Source Published (MA)
bulletMy Life...in Smithereens, Personal History Linked with World Events (MA)
bulletModern Orthodox Breaks Stage II Box Office Record (CT)
bulletGoodspeed Announces Name Change (CT)
bulletArts Program Funding Available for Non-profit Organizations (CT)
bulletGE Plastics Division Awards $22,500 Gift to Shakespeare & Company (MA)

PLUS! Monthly Features...

bulletNEED Theatre Listings
bulletNEED Audition Listings
bulletNEED Music Listings
bulletNEED Dance Listings
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
bulletCut...Print by Angel Connell
bulletWords for the Soul by Mathew Phelps