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March, 2005 - Table of Contents & Preview
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COVER STORY
Performers: Holdon Log Creates Powerful Tools for Organizing Your Professional Life
by Chris Cardoni

Professional Theatre:
bulletOur Hearts as Fiction at 11:11 (MA)
bulletBarely Balancing Artists Group Presents Rebel Without a Cause (NY)
bulletTony Award-winning Millie Comes to PPAC (RI)
bulletBack By Popular Demand: The Edwards Twins at The Regent Theatre (MA)
bulletQE2 Presents Talking Heads 2 (MA)
bulletActing FAQ: Acting -Talking to Agents by Bob Fraser
bulletPaula Poundstone Live at the Regent (MA)
bulletAnimus Ensemble Presents Ntozke Shange's For Colored Girls... (MA)
bulletTheater Hall of Fame Inducts Twelve New Members by Caldwell Titcomb
bulletBroadway Today: Tom Hewitt by Jim DeBlasi of The Cue
bulletIndy Finds a Superstar by Shirley Esthimer
bulletConnecticut Renaissance Faire Announces Auditions (CT)
bulletShear Madness: A Perfect Cut Turns 25 by Jules Becker
bulletReagle Gets Its Irish Up (MA)
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas: What's the Big Idea? by Sydelle Pittas
bulletTheaters Need to Inform Patrons of Equity or Non-Equity Productions by Joanne Greco Rochman

Colleges/Universities/Schools/Training

bulletBoston Conservatory Theater Ensemble Presents City of Angels (MA)
bulletAfter Mrs. Rochester: Hauntingand Compelling at Smith (MA)
bulletStop, Dropand Role with Rachel Flehinger (ME)
bulletTextron Young Actors Studio Spring Session Currently Enrolling (RI)
bulletWashington Street Players Ofer Spring Theater Workshops (MA)
bulletAfter School Theatre Workshops at UNH (NH)
bulletStudio Arena Theatre School Announces Spring 2005 Classes (NY)
bulletChariu R. Smith Releases Extraordinary Women from U.S. History - book pReview by R.J. Nickerson

Community Theatre

bulletThe Vokes Players Announce Auditions for The Retreat to Moscow (MA)
bulletMassasoit Theatre Company Presents Gypsy (MA)
bulletNew Hampshire Theatre Awards Its Own by Kevin Riley
bulletSouthborough Players Announce Cast for Musical Revue (MA)
bulletFamous Locals at Hovey: Jack Neary & Edgar Allan Poe by Michelle M. Aguillion
bulletAward-winning Proof Opens in Burlington (MA)
bulletActorsingers Celebrate 50th with Gala (NH)
bulletA Wicked & Witty Look at the 60s: Tomfoolery at Acme (MA)
bulletMugford Street Players Present The Dresser (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletAll Children's Theatre: A Spring Season Filled with Magic, Mystery, Hope & Laughter (RI)
bulletUNH ArtsReach Theatre Tours And Then They Came fo Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank (NH, MA, ME)
bulletCathy Rigby in Her Farewell Performance as Peter Pan (CT)
bulletDangerously Entertaining: ACT Announces Teen Playwriting Winners (RI)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletThe New England Indie Scene by William Gynan
bulletCinema Circus: A Family Film Event at CCAE (MA)
bulletCalling All Screenwriters: ScriptBiz Seeks Comedic (or otherwise) Shorts (RI)
bulletGreen Mountain Film Festival to Be Held in Montpelier (VT)
bulletConnecticut College Professor to Speak About Her Bollywood (CT)
bulletWinterized Opera House to Re-open April 1 (ME)
bulletOpening Night Gala for 9th Annual Maine Jewish Film Festival Set for March 12 (ME)

Music

bulletSenegals' Orchestra Baobab in Somerville (MA)
bulletClose Encounters with Music Presents Cocoa & Rococo (MA)
bulletJames King at Union Street (ME)
bulletConnecticut College Concert Band & Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert (CT)
bulletA Brief History of Cabaret
bulletThird Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University (CT)
bulletAdults Take Up Music in Record Numbers at Portsmouth Music & Arts Center (NH)
bulletWriter Paul Auster & Clarinetist Don Byron Together at MIT (MA)
bulletRiverside Theatre Works Presents Boston's Biggest Cabaret Festival Ever (MA)
bulletAmazing Things Arts Center Presents The Follen Angels (MA)
bulletBlues Legend Rory Block at Boothbay Opera House (ME)
bulletSpring 2005 Passim Classes & Workshops (MA)
bulletMichael Ricca with Ron Roy on Piano Present Take Me to the World (MA)
bulletPoets of the Piano at Concord Community Music School (NH)
bulletPersian Music at Berklee Performance Center (MA)
bulletBeethoven Celebration Begins March 1 with Portland Symphony Orchestra (ME)
bulletWhat is Cabaret: Thoughts from the Pros
bulletSylvia Greenberg Comes Once in a Lifetime (MA)
bulletThe Cornerstone Coffeehouse Presents the A Capella Music of All About Buford (MA)
bulletRichard Shmishkiss: From Broadway to the Great American Songbook (MA)
bullet10th Annual USA Songwriting Competition Begins: 2004 Winners Announced
bulletPink Floyd & The Second City at Rochester Opera House (NH)
bulletBoston Conservatory Opera Presents Albert Herring (MA)
bulletBACA Cabaret-A-Thon (MA)
bulletMozart Masterpieces from New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra (NH)
bulletWords from the Soul: Rap, O'Reilly & Shakespeare: All Part of 'The Game' by M. William Phelps
bulletBeethoven's "Eroica" Symphony on HSO Classical Connections Series (CT)
bulletWorld Music Presents Blind Boys of Alabama at Berklee (MA)
bulletThird Annual March Mandolin Festival (NH)

Dance

bulletPortland Ballet Receives Anonymouse Challenge Grant for 25th Anniversary (ME)
bulletDaniel McCuster Works with Island Moving Company to Create Consent to Gravity (RI)
bulletWesleyan Hosts Annual DanceMasters Weekend (CT)
bulletCRASHarts Presents Boston Debut of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (MA)
bulletBattleworks Makes Boston Debut (MA)
bulletMoscow Ballet Offers Educational Trip to Moscow in June (MA)
bulletThe Best of 2004 in Dance by Jules Becker

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Reviewed In This Issue

bulletDressed Up! Wigged Out! (Boston Playwrights' Theatre)
bulletMiss Saigon (Turtle Lane Playhouse, Newton)
bulletThe Tempest (Boston Theatre Works, BCA)
bulletThe Moonlight Room (SpeakEasy Stage, BCA)
bulletThe Kreutzer Sonata (Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell)
bulletQuills (New Repertory Theatre, Newton)
bulletAscension (5th African-American Thetre Festival, Wimberley Theatre)
bulletThe Redundant Tendency to Be Myself (NY)
bulletGood Vibrations (NY)
bulletJinny Sagorin: It's For You CD Release (MA)

Monthly & Regular Features...

bulletNEED Theatre Listings
bulletNEED Audition Listings
bulletNEED Music Listings
bulletNEED Dance Listings
bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletActing FAQ by Bob Fraser
bulletBroadway Today by Jim DeBlasi
bulletBehind the Scenes by Chuckie Finn
bulletTwo on the Aisle by Shirley Esthimer
bulletTheatre Matters - Connecticut Style by Joanne Greco Rochman
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletJump Cut by George T. Marshall
bulletWords for the Soul by M. William Phelps
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas by Sydelle Pittas

 

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