Friday, September 28, 2012

Play Readers will meet Oct. 2

Play Readers of Denton will meet Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Campus Theatre at 7 pm to read a play out loud. We're planning to read Fences by August Wilson. Last week, we read A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Playwrights of Denton will be meeting Tuesday, October 16, at 7 pm, and we should have a couple of plays by members to read, so Play Readers are welcome, too.

We're starting to receive submissions for the Method and Madness competition, so the Second Saturday Seminar on Oct. 13 (1-3 pm at the Campus Theatre) will be on Reading and Evaluating New Scripts. Potential adjudicators are encouraged to attend.


Congratulations to Play Readers Bryan Patrick, Wes Porter, Fred Cassell, and Carol Howdeshell, who have all been cast in DCT's holiday production of It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Play Reader John Evarts. The production runs Dec. 7-16.

Auditions for Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, directed by Sharon Veselic, will be Oct.7, 8 at 7:30 pm at the POINTBank Black Box Theatre. For more information, visit http://www.dentoncommunitytheatre.com/#!auditions. Break a leg, everyone!

Would we like to have a Play Readers and Writers of Denton tile at the POINTBank Black Box? Tiles start at $100, so if there are 10 of us who would chip in $10 each, or 20 of us who would chip in $5, we could be permanently commemorated. If you'd be interested, email Julie at thedctteam@campustheatre.com and tell her your pledge.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Play Readers will meet Sept. 25

Play Readers of Denton will meet Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Campus Theatre at 7 pm to read a play out loud. We're planning to read A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Playwrights of Denton will be meeting Tuesday, October 16, at 7 pm, and we should have a couple of plays by members to read, so Play Readers are welcome, too.

We're starting to receive submissions for the Method and Madness competition, so the Second Saturday Seminar on Oct. 13 (1-3 pm at the Campus Theatre) will be on Reading and Evaluating New Scripts. Potential adjudicators are encouraged to attend.

Upcoming auditions to plan for: It's a Wonderful Life, directed by John Evarts, on Sept. 24 and 25 at 7 pm at the Campus Theatre, and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, directed by Sharon Veselic, on Oct.7, 8 at 7:30 pm at the POINTBank Black Box Theatre. For more information, visit http://www.dentoncommunitytheatre.com/#!auditions. Break a leg, everyone!

Would we like to have a Play Readers and Writers of Denton tile at the POINTBank Black Box? Tiles start at $100, so if there are 10 of us who would chip in $10 each, or 20 of us who would chip in $5, we could be permanently commemorated. If you'd be interested, email Julie at thedctteam@campustheatre.com and tell her your pledge.


Friday, September 14, 2012

Playwrights will NOT meet Sept. 18

Playwrights of Denton is on hiatus for one more month, and will not meet Sept. 18; the next meeting will be Oct. 16 at 7 pm at the Campus Theatre.

Play Readers of Denton will next meet Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm to read a play out loud. We're planning to read Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Last week, we read Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba

The next Second Saturdays Seminar will be Oct. 13 from 1-3 pm at the Campus Theatre.  Julie Brinker, DCT Outreach Director, will lead a workshop on Reading and Evaluating New Scripts. Ms. Brinker, who recently adapted and directed DCT's production of Macbeth, also teaches as an adjunct at North Central Texas College and Texas Woman's University. She holds an MFA in Theatre and is national-award-winning playwright of Rachel's Night, a play for family audiences. She is coordinating the adjudication process of DCT's Method and Madness Playwriting Competition and Festival; participants from this workshop will be trained to adjudicate scripts for the competition, if they wish.

Pygmalion opens this weekend and runs through Sept. 23. Come to London with us in the timeless tale of Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle, who is transformed into a perfect lady by Professor Henry Higgins and his sidekick, Colonel Pickering. Play Readers Buster Maloney, Johnny Williams, Mark Jadrych, John Evarts, Amber Bryant, Julie Brinker, Susanne Coffey, Damon Wadyko, Elsie Barrow, Jessica Phillips, Pete Kelly, and Betsy Deiterman are all involved onstage or offstage, under the able direction of Play Reader Dennis Welch. Proof positive that Play Readers ROCK!

Friday, September 7, 2012

Play Readers will meet Sept. 11

Play Readers of Denton will next meet Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 7 pm to read a play out loud. We're planning to read Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Last week, we read Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

Playwrights of Denton is on hiatus for the summer; the next meeting will be Tuesday, Oct. 16. And Second Saturdays Seminar is also on hiatus until Oct. 13.

We're gearing up for our opening production of DCT's 43rd consecutive season, Pygmalion, which runs Sept. 14-23. Come to London with us in the timeless tale of Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle, who is transformed into a perfect lady by Professor Henry Higgins and his sidekick, Colonel Pickering. Play Readers Buster Maloney, Johnny Williams, Mark Jadrych, John Evarts, Amber Bryant, Julie Brinker, Susanne Coffey, Damon Wadyko, Elsie Barrow, Jessica Phillips, Pete Kelly, and Betsy Deiterman are all involved onstage or offstage, under the able direction of Play Reader Dennis Welch. Proof positive that Play Readers ROCK!