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May, 2006 - Table of Contents & Preview
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COVER STORY
Deborah Henson-Conant: THe Woman, Her Harp & The Music
by T.J. Fitzgerald

Professional Theatre:
bulletPleasurable Play for Mother's Day Weekend at Yellow Taxi Productions (NH)
bulletBoston Theatre Works Presents The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (MA)
bulletJames Earl Jones to Star in Thurgood at Westport (CT)
bulletGoodspeed Musicals Opens Li'l Abner (CT)
bulletTheatreWorks Presents Lobby Hero (CT)
bulletRelive the Rivalry: North Shore Music Theatre Opens 2006 Musical Season with an Updated Damn Yankees (MA)
bulletStageworks/Hudson Announces 2006 Mainstage Season (NY)
bulletK&K Gets Naughty with Murder at Club Fishnet (MA)
bulletBroadway Today: Natalie Venetia Belcon by Jim DeBlasi of The Cue
bulletImagine On Golden Pond Meets Grumpty Old Men in the Touching A Month of Sundays at The Public Theatre (ME)
bulletActing Career FAQ: Never Face Facts by Bob Fraser
bulletNew Rep Opens Long-Awaited Production of Ragtime (MA)
bulletNora Theatre Presents Regional Premiere of The Man Who (MA)
bulletCape Playhouse Launches 80th Anniversary Season (MA)
bulletMeet the Cast: Wuthering Heights Promises to Be Acting Loft's Musical Triumph by Michelle Saturley
bulletAcorn Shakespeare Ensemble Hosts Staged Reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream (ME)
bulletTheatre Matters - Connecticut Style: Spring Into Musicals by Joanne Greco Rochman
bulletZeitgeist Presents Hiding Behind Comets (MA)
bulletMagic & Music at Rochester is May (NH)
bulletA.R. Gurney's Buffalo Gal Concludes Square One's 16th Anniversary Season (CT)
bulletCat & Mouse Game of Intrigue at Stamford Theatre Works (CT)
bulletLyric Stage Co. Announces Three Selections for 2006-2007
bulletBoston Comedy & Movie Festival Seeks Submissions for $10K Stand-up Contest (MA)
bulletElliott Norton Nominees Announced (MA)

Colleges/Universities/Schools/Training

bulletShakespeare Summer Workshop Seeks Student Actors (CT)
bulletEmily Dickinson Free at Libraries (TOURING)
bulletSummer Theater Programs for Kids & Teens Burn Up the Stage at TheatreWorks (CT)
bulletYale Repertory Theatre Concludes 40th Anniversary Season with Brand New All's Well That Ends Well (CT)
bulletTextron Young Actors Studio: Trinity Rep Summer Camp Now Enrolling (RI)
bulletActing Loft Now Accepting Registrations for Summer Musical Theatre Workshops (NH)

Community Theatre

bulletGateway Presents 20th Century Celebration (MA)
bulletPound Ridge Presents Sylvia (NY)
bulletCity of Angels in Burlington (MA)
bulletOscar Wilde Comedy at Your Theatre (MA)
bulletVokes Players Present David Lindsey-Abaire's Wonder of the World (MA)
bulletHovey Players Presents Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (MA)
bulletEMACT Prepares for 53rd Annual Community Theatre Drama Festival (MA)
bulletExit 7 Players Present Cabaret (MA)
bulletTheatre III Celebrates 50 Years of Theatre (MA)
bulletVokes Announces 2006-2007 Season (MA)
bulletThe Dining Room Closes 2005-2006 Perry Players Season (CT)
bulletA Tale of Intrigue & Betrayal Opens at the Kent Community House (CT)
bulletInspirational Musical Gives New Meaning to Love, Family & Self-Esteem (MA)
bulletMy Act Hosts Spring Drama Festival (NH)
bulletValley Players Presents King o'the Moon (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletChario High School Presents Guys & Dolls (RI)
bulletFirstWorksKids Festival Assembles Performers from Around the Globe (RI)
bulletACT Presents Fantasy & Silent Auction
bulletLittle Red Wagon Tour Accepting Bookings (TOURING)
bulletOddfellows Offers Shakespeare Academy (CT)
bulletThe Doctor is In!  Make an Appointment to See Tommy Tune in Dr. Dolittle (RI)
bulletACTS Students Present Cabaret (MA)
bulletCare Bears Live: Caring and Sharing Friends (MA)
bulletOddfellows Playhouse Presents A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room (CT)
bulletUNH Theatre Day Camps & Dance Intensive Summer Series (NH)
bulletKids Coop Presents Seussical (NH)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletScreen Reels: PAUL McGUIGAN, JEFFREY KATZENBERG, TIM JOHNSON & WANDA SYKES by Cecille Markell
bulletPremiere Documentary of Revels Founder John Langstaff at the Capitol Theatre (MA)
bulletKid Filmmakers (RI)
bulletJump Cut: Aquamarine's Sara Paxton by George T. Marshall
bulletHats & Spats Annual Benefit in Kingston (NY)
bulletMaine Jewish Film Festival's Free Holocaust Memorial Day Film Project Moves to New Venue with Screening (ME)
bulletChicks Make Flicks May Screening: Echoes of Bats and Men & Other Shorts (MA)
bulletNegadon: The Monster from Mars Attacks New York City (NY)

Music

bulletPortland Symphony Orchestra's Toshi Shimada Bids Farewell (ME)
bulletPortOpera Plans Mozart Birthday Ball with Costumes, Music & Dancing (ME)
bulletNSMT Announces 2006 Celebrity Concert Series (MA)
bulletSpyro Gyra, Taylor Dayne & Edgar Winter at The Ridgefield Playhouse (CT)
bulletTrio Mix Business & Pleasure by Beverly Creasey
bulletA Summer of Music with Fort Point Channel Music Series (MA)
bulletBluegrass Comes to Strawberry Park (CT)
bulletJames Levine & the Boston Symphony Orchestra Announce Details of the BSO's 2006-2007 Season (MA)
bulletThe Regent Theatre Presents The Ultimate Elvis Elvis Tribute Show (MA)
bulletGlimmerglass Oepra's A Barber, Pirates, Passion... and More! to Tour New York, Massachusetts & Connecticut (TOURING)
bulletWorld-class Pianist/Composer Ann Sweeten Accompanies Listeners on a Transcendent Journey to A Place in the Sun
bullet"The Godfather of Soul" at the Zeiterion (MA)
bulletPlymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Brings Broadway to Memorial Hall (MA)
bulletMusic for Middlesex III Comes to Chevalier Theatre (MA)
bulletSound Thinking: Conversations in Music by Jeff Hutton
bulletChameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston Presents When this old world was new... (MA)
bulletThe British Invasion at The Quick Center (CT)
bulletCabaret Stars Celebrate John Beresford (MA)

Dance

bulletBates Dance Festival Announces 24th Season of Contemporary Dance & Music (ME0
bulletREACH! BU's Summer Outreach Dance Program Seeks Youth Dancers 5/6 Audition (MA)
bulletRidgefield Playhouse from Movies & the Performing Arts Presents Pilobolus (CT)
bulletState Ballet of Rhode Island Celebrates 46th Spring with Giselle (RI)
bulletThe Lexington Players Present The Lexington Women's Dance Ensemble (MA)
bulletGreen Street Studios Community Concert (MA)

Miscellaneous

bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas: Ruminations by Sydelle Pittas

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Reviewed In This Issue

bulletA Little Bit of Ireland (Reagle Players, Waltham, MA)
bulletAbigail's Party (The New Group, NYC)
bulletGrandma Goes to Hollywood (Boston, MA)
bulletThe Maternal Instinct (Boston Playwrights' Theatre, MA)
bulletThe Road Home: Re-Membering America (Huntington Theatre Co., Boston)
bulletSpamalot (Colonial Theatre, Boston)
bulletLittle Willy (Ohio Theatre, NYC)
bulletThe Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Temple Emanu-El, Marblehead, 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
bulletSound Thinking by Jeff Hutton
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas by Sydelle Pittas

 

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