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Posted by:	Richard Connema 04:17 pm EDT 04/26/15

The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF) presents a special One Night Only Benefit Cabaret With Company Members from the National Touring Cast of the Tony Award-winning show THE BOOK OF MORMON "Come Together" - Music of the Beatles and Special Guest Star Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy / cabaret, comedy star Monday, May 18, 2015 - 7:30 pm Marines’ Memorial Theater 609 Sutter Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco 94102 https://www.reaf-sf.org/hilanthropy and stellar entertainment take center stage as the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation presents a special one-night-only benefit cabaret to raise funds for The Richmond /Ermet Aid Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Songs from The Book of Mormon will not be performed. The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation has worked with over 40 touring casts to date to produce "One Night Only Cabaret" events. To date, REAF has distributed over $3 million to AIDS service agencies. Tickets for this "One Night Only Cabaret" are $80 – VIP Orchestra (includes the dessert party with the cast after the show) $50 – Rear or side orchestra $35 – Balcony Tickets are available by phone by calling 415-273-1620 or online at www.ono-BookofMormon.eventbrite.com ############################## 42ND STREET MOON PRESENTS INVENTING CHAMPAGNE THE ALAN JAY LERNER SALON WITH SPECIAL GUEST STAR NANCY DUSSAULT 7pm, May 11 and 12, 2015 – 42nd Street Moon presents INVENTING CHAMPAGNE, a two-night-only engagement celebrating legendary film and Broadway lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, starring two-time Tony-nominated actress Nancy Dussault (The Sound of Music, Do Re Mi). This effervescent evening will focus on songs by Lerner, who collaborated with composer Frederick Loewe on the iconic hits My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi, and Paint Your Wagon. Ms. Dussault will be joined by a stellar cast of 42nd Street Moon singers including Kelly Britt, Ryan Drummond, Anil Margsahayam, Darlene Popovic, and Allison F. Rich. The evening will be directed and narrated by Artistic Director Greg MacKellan, and musical direction will be provided by Dave Dobrusky. INVENTING CHAMPAGNE will be presented 7pm, May 11 and May 12, 2015 at the Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson St., San Francisco. For tickets ($50-$70) and information the public may call (415) 255-8207 or visit 42ndStMoon.org. #################### CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER OPENS ITS 41ST SEASON WITH SHAKESPEARE’S BRILLIANTLY FUNNY, ROMANTIC MASTERPIECE TWELFTH NIGHT Performances run May 27-June 21 at the solar-powered Bruns Amphitheater Tickets on sale now; call 510.548.9666 or visit www.calshakes.org – California Shakespeare Theater opens its 2015 season with Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece, Twelfth Night, directed by Christopher Liam Moore. Twelfth Night plays at the Bruns Amphitheater from May 27 through June 21. Christopher Liam Moore returns to Cal Shakes after his wildly popular production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (2013). For his second production at Cal Shakes, Moore has assembled a cast of seven women and one man to play all the roles in Shakespeare’s masterful comedy of the beauty and madness of love. “I’m thrilled that this cast is filled with some of the Bay Area’s most extraordinary female actors—Julie, Stacy, Catherine, Lisa, Margo, Domenique, and Rami,” says Moore. “I’m also delighted to have Ted Deasy in his Cal Shakes debut as Feste; as the only male actor in the cast, he’ll serve as a kind of stage manager to the proceedings and help to reinforce the idea that life is fleeting and love is to be embraced when it comes your way.” “I’ve always loved Chris’ work on the classics – he brings such humanity and elegance to the work and reveals new meanings that make these plays from the past seem so fresh and relevant,” says Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone. “I was inspired to bring to Chris the idea of populating most of the company with female actors after producing Michelle Hensley’s community tour production of Twelfth Night last year. Although this production bears no thematic connection to Michelle’s interpretation, it gave me the inspiration to turn the historical traditional of all-male Shakespeare casts almost entirely on its head by providing women the opportunity to play both men and women on the magical island of Illyria, searching for, running from, be driven mad by, and finding true happiness through, love.” The company of Twelfth Night includes seven of the Bay Area’s finest actresses: Julie Eccles, whose Cal Shakes credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Candida, and Pygmalion, as the perpetually mourning Olivia; Stacy Ross, most recently seen at Cal Shakes in Lady Windermere’s Fan and Titus Andronicus, as the puritanical, power-hungry Malvolio; Margo Hall, last seen as Lena in A Raisin in the Sun and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as the foppish Sir Andrew Aguecheek; Catherine Castellanos, as the reprobate Sir Toby Belch; Domenique Lozano, as plot instigator extraordinaire, Maria; Rami Margron as the love-sick Duke Orsino; Lisa Anne Porter, whose work has been seen at A.C.T., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Marin Theatre Company, and Magic Theatre, as the twins Viola/Sebastian; and Ted Deasy, making his Cal Shakes debut as Olivia’s fool, Feste ( among other roles); Mr. Deasy appeared in the national tour of The 39 Steps, and his work has been seen at many regional theaters around the US, including six seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and in the world-premiere production of Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone’s Ghost Light. The creative team for Twelfth Night includes set designer Nina Ball, whose designs have been seen throughout the Bay Area, including last season’s The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; costume designer Meg Neville, who designed Cal Shakes’ Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Happy Days, and An Ideal Husband; lighting designer Burke Brown; whose work for theaters, dance and opera companies has been seen around the country and internationally, including The Joseph Papp Public Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Asolo Rep, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Alvin Ailey, and Yale Baroque Opera Company; and sound designer Andre J. Pluess, who designed Cal Shakes’ The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and has provided numerous soundscapes at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, and Berkeley Rep, among others. Single tickets for Twelfth Night range from $20 to $72, with discounts available for seniors, students, military families, persons age 30 and under, and groups. Prices, dates, titles, and artists are subject to change. For information or to charge tickets by phone with VISA, MasterCard, or American Express, call the Cal Shakes Box Office at 510.548.9666. Additional information and online ticketing are available at www.calshakes.org. California Shakespeare Theater’s 2015 season is supported in part by the generosity of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation; corporate partners include BART, City National Bank, John Muir Health, KBLX, Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa, Meyer Sound, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, and United Airlines. ############################### 2ND STREET MOON ANNOUNCES 23rd SEASON- A WORLD PREMIERE, WORKS BY LOESSER, RODGERS AND HART, OTHERS – 42nd Street Moon announces its 23rd season of classic and rarely produced musicals, featuring work by some of America’s greatest composers and lyricists. The 2015-16 season includes a World Premiere, classic productions from Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hart, and a Noel Coward musical never before seen in California, as well as a special two-night-only composer Salon. The season will kick-off with the California premiere of Noel Coward’s penultimate musical, the sparkling high-seas comedy SAIL AWAY (October 28-November 15, 2015). Next up, and just in time for the holidays, 42nd Street Moon will present a new work by the composer of Minnie’s Boys and Snoopy!!!, the World Premiere of SCROOGE IN LOVE! (November 25–December 13, 2015) a fun, heartwarming follow-up to A Christmas Carol that will star Broadway’s Jason Graae (last seen at 42nd Street Moon in Little Me) in the title role. 42nd Street Moon will return in the spring with a company favorite, Rodgers and Hart’s jovial The Comedy of Errors adaptation, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (March 23-April 17, 2016). The 2015-16 season will conclude with Frank Loesser’s endearing Napa Valley romance, the Tony Award-winning THE MOST HAPPY FELLA (April 27-May 15, 2016). 42nd Street Moon will also present a special evening of song honoring legendary composer Jule Styne in COMING UP ROSES: The Jule Styne Salon (May 9 & 10, 2016) . The season runs Oct. 28, 2015 - May 15, 2016, with all shows presented at the Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson Street, San Francisco. Subscriptions ($80-$195) and more information are available at (415) 255-8207 or online at www.42ndStMoon.org. ###################### Three Cities. Two Shows. One Spectacular Pride on Tour. As SF’s premier LGBT& Allied performing arts institution, NCTC is honored to bring our work to rural and suburban communities across California as part of Pride on Tour. This touring program uses theatre as a vehicle to promote diversity and enhance cross-cultural understanding in regions where acceptance, inclusiveness and equality struggle against the regional status quo. We will present the gripping and suspenseful GLAAD award-winning drama, From White Plains, in Modesto and bring an evening of song, story and vodka stingers to Fresno and Grass Valley with Katya...A One Night Stand. From White Plains in Modesto – May 1st Katya...A One Night Stand in Fresno – June 13th Katya...A One Night Stand in Grass Valley – June 20th ############################ MARIN THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2015-16 MAINSTAGE SEASON Features six productions of bold new plays, including the West Coast premieres of The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl and Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton, Bay Area premieres The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar and My Mañana Comes by Elizabeth Irwin, world premiere of Swimmers by Rachel Bonds, and thecontinuation of MTC’s award-winning exploration of August Wilson’s Century Cycle with Gem of the Ocean —Today, Marin Theatre Company’s artistic director Jasson Minadakis and managing director Michael Barker announced the 49-year-old professional nonprofit theater’s 2015-16 season. Featuring six bold new plays for its intimate 231-seat mainstage Boyer Theatre, the program includes: “I am delighted to announce our audacious 2015-16 season that will introduce the Bay Area to five extraordinary new plays by some of today’s most innovative and adventuresome playwrights,” said Minadakis. “We will also continue our award-winning exploration of August Wilson’s Century Cycle with Gem of the Ocean, the visually arresting, deeply allegorical start to his ten-play masterpiece. It is a great honor for us to open our 49th season with the second production and West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl's newest play The Oldest Boy. We’ll also stage the Bay Area premieres of two Lucille Lortel Award-nominated plays – My Mañana Comes by Elizabeth Irwin and The Invisible Hand by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar. The 2015-16 season also includes two epic plays with casts of ten or more actors – the world premiere of Rachel Bonds’s intimate Swimmers and the West Coast premiere of Howard Brenton’s revisionist history Anne Boleyn. I am excited for the conversations these truly original and compelling stories spark with audiences.” MTC opens its 2015-16 season in September with the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy. When two Tibetan Buddhist monks unexpectedly appear on an American woman’s doorstep, she invites them into her home assuming that they are there to see her husband, a Tibetan immigrant and respected chef. However, with the revelation that they are there to see her toddler, who may be a reincarnated lama, the woman is faced with a mother’s greatest fantasy and worst nightmare – her child may be preternaturally special, but she may be separated from him far too soon. “An emotional tsunami,” this “extraordinary story from a singular voice in American theater” (The Hollywood Reporter) stirringly probes the bonds of parents and children, teachers and students, through magic realism and Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies. “Extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful,” The Oldest Boy is “a soothing mystical vision” (Variety). This will be the second production of The Oldest Boy, which premiered off Broadway at the Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in November 2014. The play was a recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s 2014 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, which funds extra time in the development and rehearsal of promising new plays. A recipient of the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a 2006 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship and the 2008 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Playwright in Mid-Career, Sarah Ruhl “aspires to reclaim the audience’s atrophied imagination… Her plays are bold. Her nonlinear form of realism is full of astonishments, surprises and mysteries” (The New Yorker). Ruhl’s work has been frequently produced in the Bay Area including Late: A Cowboy Song in 2015 and Eurydice in 2013 at Custom Made Theatre Co.; an adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando in 2013 by TheatreFIRST; Dear Elizabeth in 2013, an adapation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 2011, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) in 2009 and Eurydice in 2004 at Berkeley Rep; Passion Play in 2011 by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley; and Dead Man's Cell Phone in 2009 at SF Playhouse. The season continues in October and November with the Bay Area premiere of the Elizabeth Irwin’s My Mañana Comes, which the Off-Broadway League nominated for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. This compelling character study with a political edge follows four busboys in an uptown restaurant as they each dream of modest futures: to become a homeowner, to give a daughter a better future, to become an EMT and to have a new start in a new country. When the slow summer season leads to pay cuts and jeopardizes their plans, their dignity and their camaraderie, they learn the hard way that every dream comes with a price tag. “Fast, funny, lived-in… this wistful (but not sugarcoated) portrait of four rich, layered characters” (Time Out New York) “leaves us with a surprisingly complex taste of the American Dream” (Theatermania). My Mañana Comes premiered off Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in September 2014 as a Playwright Realm’s Page One Production. Workshopped at Marin Theatre Company in April 2015, the play will receive its second production at San Diego Rep earlier in October, before MTC’s production. A former New York City public school teacher, Elizabeth Irwin is the 2014-15 Page One Resident Playwright at Playwrights Realm, where she previously was a 2013-14 Writing Fellow, and is a member of the Public Theater’s 2015 Emerging Writer’s Group. In January and February, MTC continues its award-winning exploration of the August Wilson’s Century Cycle – his decade-by-decade exploration of the black experience in 20th century America – with the 1900s entry Gem of the Ocean. Departing from his lyrical naturalism in favor of magical realism and allegory, this is “a fitting prologue for a series of plays that looks at the struggles of African Americans to find a spiritual and material release from – and communion with – the past” (Washington Post). When Citizen Barlow barges into the Pittsburgh home of the 285-year-old mystic Aunt Ester to have his soul washed and his past forgiven, he sets into motion a journey both spiritual and personal that few have ever undertaken. “August Wilson’s crowning achievement” (The Seattle Times), Gem of the Ocean has “a core message that transcends race, time and culture: To truly know ourselves, we must understand where we’ve come from; only then can we begin to move forward in freedom.” (Los Angeles Times). This play is “August Wilson at the top of his form [and] a touchstone for everything else he has written” (The New York Times). Gem of the Ocean premiered in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre in April 2003 and had subsequent runs in Los Angeles at the Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in July 2003 and in Boston at the Huntington Theatre Company in September 2004 before opening on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in December 2004. Five months after the playwright passed at age 60, Gem of the Ocean received its regional premiere at A.C.T. in San Francisco in March 2006. Some Bay Area audiences may also have seen the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production in Ashland in 2007. The recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and the National Humanities Medal, August Wilson is often cited as one of America’s greatest dramatists and was an outspoken leader in American regional and commercial theater, particularly known for promoting and mentoring black theater artists. MTC previously produced his Century Cycle plays Fences (1950s) in 2014, which won the inaugural Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Production, and Seven Guitars (1940s) in 2011, which won the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Award for Ensemble. The world premiere of Rachel Bonds’s Swimmers follows in March. When apocalyptic billboards interrupt the mundanity of the morning commute and the inbox opens to emails warning of coyotes loose in the parking lot, there’s no escaping that it’s going to be a strange day at the office. With subtle sensitivity and compassion, this gentle drama explores the relationships we often take most for granted – those with our co-workers, the people we spend the most time with, but know little about. Featuring a large ensemble cast of 11 characters, this naturalistic new play travels floor-by-floor, from basement to roof, through an office building, finding flashes of universal relevance and gentle wisdom in quiet observations of the everyday. Swimmers will mark the Bay Area debut of playwright Rachel Bonds. This play notably appeared at the top of “THE LIST,” which was developed by L.A.-based Kilroys to highlight the most recommended female-authored plays that are either unproduced or have had only one professional production. Bonds’s career has been meteoric – winning the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award in 2013, receiving two high-profile premieres in 2014 at Studio Theatre in Washington DC (The Wolfe Twins) and South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa (Five Mile Lake), and gaining prominent commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club/Ars Nova’s Writer’s Room and Atlantic Theater Company, both in New York City. Bonds has been compared to canonical playwright Anton Chekhov by the Los Angeles Times because “her writing is a gift for actors,” and to recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker by The Washington Post because she “allows a tale to breathe and find its own unique path.” In April and May, Howard Brenton’s sexy, smart revisionist history Anne Boleyn receives its West Coast premiere and second American production. In this “shrewd, funny, drop-dead inventive [and] captivating new play” (The Telegraph), the worlds of the Tudors and the Stuarts intertwine around the woman who was maligned for centuries as “the whore who changed England.” In 1530, King Henry VIII finds more than love when he courts the beautiful Lady Anne Boleyn. Her incendiary Protestant religious ideas inspire the English Reformation and founding of Church of England. In 1600, her ghost looms large over King James’s effort to unite the English people, deeply divided along religious lines, by writing a definitive English-language version of the Bible. While he created one of the greatest literary achievements of all time, his efforts at unification would ultimately fail, leading to the overthrow of his successor Charles I and the erosion of the monarchy’s power to what it is today. An “easingly intelligent, ticklishly enjoyable, rollicking good drama,” Anne Boleyn is “a big, bold and generous evening” (The Guardian). Commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe in London, Anne Boleyn premiered at the Globe in July 2010 and won Best New Play at the 2011 What’s On Stage Awards. The play was so popular that it was revived the following year, as well as in 2012 for an eight-venue tour of England and Scotland that was jointly produced by the Globe and English Touring Theatre. The large-cast ensemble drama received its US premiere at the Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island in Janury 2013 and has also been performed in New Zealand at the Meteor Theatre in October 2014. With a nearly 50-year-long career in English theater, playwright Howard Brenton has written dozens of plays and enjoyed close relationships the Royal National Theatre and, more recently, the Globe. “Writer Howard Brenton has been a living hit for Shakespeare’s Globe, writing history plays with a verve and revisionist wit surely inspired by the big man himself” (Time Out London). Marin Theatre Company’s 49th Season ends in June, with the Bay Area premiere of The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar, “a gripping clash of cultures [that is] so suspenseful that you may find yourself watching through your fingers” (New York Daily News). Nick was in the wrong car at the wrong time. Kidnapped off the streets of Pakistan, the midlevel American banker waits for a ransom that will never come. To gain his release, he must raise $10 million on his own by teaching his captors how to play the stock market. “A taut, gripping thriller that is so much more than the sum of its parts” (The Seattle Times), The Invisible Hand confounds expectations – “the play is not a captive narrative about pain and torture but a scary (and dreadfully funny) treatise on the universality of human greed” (Variety). The Invisible Hand premiered at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in 2012. Playwright Ayad Akhtar pulled the play for substantial rewrites after two events occurred in 2013. First, a subsequent production was delayed indefinitely because the US State Department denied the work visa applications submitted by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon, for a Pakistani actor. Second, Akhtar’s Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The new version of the play was staged by ACT Theatre in Seattle in September 2014, followed by an off-Broadway production at New York Theater Workshop in December 2014, which the Off-Broadway League nominated for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. A Pakistani American raised in Milwaukee in a non-practicing Muslim household, Akhtar is “a man of many talents and daring insights. As an actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright, he challenges Americans to question their assumptions about race and religion” (The Washington Post). “We’re extraordinarily proud of the plays in our upcoming season and how they reflect the company's commitment to new work,” said Margot Melcon, Marin Theatre Company’s director of new play development. “The diverse talents and stories we’re able to program is just the tip of the iceberg of what is out there. With so many different voices to hear from, this is such an exciting time to be programming a season. Our biggest challenge is in finding balance – in voice, theatrical style and the possibilities presented in the wide range of creative artists we’re able to work with.” In MTC’s 2015-16 season, all six plays are recommended for youth aged 13 and up. For younger children and families, MTC will produce its third annual Theater Series for Young Audiences during the 2015-16 season. This series will be announced in June. Six-play full-season subscriptions and four and six-ticket flex packages are on sale now. Subscription packages offer savings off single ticket prices, exclusive benefits and personalized customer service. Season subscriptions are available for $120-$300 and include free ticket exchanges, lost ticket replacement and priority seating. For more information about subscriptions, visit marintheatre.org or contact MTC’s Box Office, (415) 388-5208. Single tickets go on sale in July. ####################### Custom Made Theatre Co. Presents the San Francisco Premiere of Grey Gardens, the Musical, May 22-June 21 Based on a true story and the famous cult documentary by the Maysle Brothers, Grey Gardens is a musical exploration of the American Dream gone wrong and what it means to become a social pariah. In 1975, filmmakers Albert and David Maysles brought their cameras into the crumbling, palatial estate of Edith Bouvier Beale (the aunt of Jackie Kennedy) and her daughter, Little Edie. There they found two women ostracized from their community, hanging on to reality by a thread, and surrounded by dozens of cats and raccoons. Grey Gardens, the Musical examines both the back-story of this fascinating family and the fate they couldn’t possibly have imagined. It was the first musical on Broadway ever to be adapted from a documentary. Named one of Broadway’s “Best of 2006,” Grey Gardens, the Musical boasts a book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie. The Custom Made production is directed by Stuart Bousel, with musical direction by David Brown. Grey Gardens, the Musical previews May 22-24, opens May 26, and runs through June 21, 2015 at Gough Street Playhouse, 1620 Gough Street, San Francisco. (415) 798-CMTC (2682) www.custommade.org The Cast features David Brown, Nathan Brown, Nandi Drayton Mary Gibboney, Gabrielle Jarvie, Juliana Lustenader, AeJay Mitchell, Heather Orth, CC Sheldon, and Dave Sikula* Creative Staff includes William Campbell – lights, Cat Howser – stage manager, Brooke Jennings* - costumes , Stewart Lyle* - scenic design, Kim Saunders* - choreography #################### Auditions for TIMON! - The Alfresco Musical Adventure Organization: Theatre Rhinoceros Audition Non-Equity Description & Details Playwright: John Fisher & Don Seaver M; F (all ages & ethnicities). Prep a 60 second comedic monologue and one verse of an up tempo song from a musical comedy of your choice. No accompaniment provided. Sides may be sent after email confirmation. AEA & Non-AEA. Auditions 4/27 5-8PM at Theatre Rhinoceros Office, 1 Sansome, #3500, SF. Rehersals 5/2-6/4. Performances 6/5-6/7 at Yerba Buena Gardens, SF. How to Apply / Contact Email: info@therhino.org w/subject line "Timon! auditions." Body of email: "I am requesting an audition slot on 4/27/15 from 3:30-3:35 [or whatever five minute slot you are requesting.] I understand I will be contacted with a confirmation and further information. My phone number is: [ add phone number]." ########################### Young devotees of Horror, Sci-Fi and Suspense have a summer camp to call their own! Thrillpeddlers announces… CREEPSHOW CAMP – 3 Summer Sessions July 6 – August 14, 2015 (in 2-week Sessions) The 10th Year of Unique Summer Theatre Camp Training Young Devotees of Horror, Sci-Fi and Suspense at The Hypnodrome in San Francisco http://creepshowcamp.com Summer is always a favorite time of year at The Hypnodrome because we open our doors to young devotees of horror, sci-fi and suspense. This is the 10th year offering this “one-of-a-kind” performing arts program. In each of the two-week sessions of Creepshow Camps, performers ages 8 - 15 study and participate in workshops led by our dedicated staff of teaching artists as they engage participants, hands-on, in activities that teach and reinforce fundamental skills in monster make-up, special effects, sleight of hand, stage combat and acting. At our theatre venue, campers screen classic horror movies and prepare stage plays culminating in farewell performances featuring horrific one-acts, ghoulish demonstrations, and even a macabre musical production number given for family and friends at the end of every Creepshow Camp session. Each Camp session enrolls approximately 16 campers ensuring that individual attention is given to each participant. Enroll the little monster in your life now! http://creepshowcamp.com/wp/wp content/uploads/2015/04/CREEPCAMP2015.pdf Creepshow Camp 2-week sessions meet Mondays - Fridays from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. Tuition is $475 (per 2 week session). Session 1 (July 6 – 17), Session 2 (July 20 –July 31), Session 3 (August 3 – 14). Aftercare is available from 3:00 – 5:30 pm for an additional fee. Camp located at The Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, in San Francisco 94103. (Bryant & Division Sts.) ######################### Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and THEATRE RHINOCEROS presents Timon! The Musical The Alfresco Musical Adventure Written and Directed by John Fisher Music by Don Seaver Musical-Comedy Music by Don Seaver/Book, Lyrics, Direction by John Fisher Based on William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens Starring: Donald Currie (Timon) Venue: Yerba Buena Gardens Mission & Howard Streets and 3rd & 4th Sts. In SF 94103 (Muni Bus Lines: All Market and Mission Street Lines; BART: Montgomery or Powell Street Stations) San Francisco, CA 94103 Performances are outside – so please dress accordingly. Performances: Friday, June 5 - 7:00 pm; Saturday, June 6 - 7:00 pm; Sunday, June 7 - 1:00 pm (THREE SHOWS ONLY!!!) Opening Night: Friday, June 5 – 7:00 pm Performance Times: Fri. and Sat., June 5 & June 6 – 7:00 PM Sunday matinee, June 7 - 1:00 pm Information: http://ybgfestival.org/event/timon/ ################# BERKELEY REP’S ANNUAL OVATION GALA RAISES $675,000 Une Soirée Magnifique yields strong support for Theatre’s artistic and educational programming – Berkeley Rep is proud to announce that its annual OVATION Gala raised $675,000 for the Theatre’s new play development, arts education, and community engagement programs. Held at the glitzy Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco, the event swept guests up in a masquerade fête filled with theatrical spectacle and surprise entertainment. The Gala was one of the most successful in Berkeley Rep’s history, welcoming 330 attendees. “Art creates meaning and is critical to any society, and thanks to the community’s generous support, Berkeley Rep can continue strengthening the Bay Area and nation’s theatre landscape by bringing bold new stories to our stages,” said Michael Leibert Artistic Director Tony Taccone. “This year’s Gala was an enormous success and will allow us to continue making theatre financially accessible to a wider audience,” remarked Managing Director Susan Medak. “The funds raised allow Berkeley Rep to sustain the programs that will serve more than 20,000 students this year.” Bay Area art enthusiasts – including leading artists and community innovators – donned their finest to celebrate the Theatre. Among the attendees were Mayor Tom Bates and State Senator Loni Hancock; Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson and Maria Carson; General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco Bruce Gorelick; Berkeley City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf; noted philanthropist Sharon Simpson; executive producer of Pixar’s upcoming film Tomorrowland John Walker and Pamela Walker; food and wine personality Narsai David and Venus David; director of Berkeley Rep’s upcoming One Man, Two Guvnors, David Ivers; and Bay Area actors Danny Scheie and Marilee Talkington. The evening began with a reception and silent auction featuring prized wines and unique cultural adventures. As guests settled into the lavish ballroom for dinner, they were welcomed by charismatic Broadway actor Kevin Spirtas, who served as emcee for the evening. A dozen dancers, led by Heath Hunter and Kerah Cottrell of Danceation, along with another 12 circus performers and musicians from Sweet Can Productions transported participants to Carnival in Paris with impressive dance numbers and hula hoop, acrobat, and contortionist acts. Dinner was a sumptuous five-star feast by the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco’s Executive Sous Chef Charles Brunk, featuring braised short ribs as the entrée paired with a 2007 Match Vineyards Butterdragon Hill Cabernet Sauvignon. Before dessert, expert auctioneer DawnMarie Kotsonis led an enthusiastic live auction, raising an impressive $200,000. Guests bid energetically and generously on exclusive packages of once-in-a-lifetime experiences and one-of-a-kind prizes including collectible wines and gift certificates for elegant hotels, restaurants, and arts and sports events. Other spectacular auction items included a South American adventure on The World, the largest privately owned residential yacht on earth; an idyllic seven-night stay at the Maison Dovalle in the heart of the Loire Valley; a seven-night stay at Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris, voted “Best Luxury Hotel” in France by TripAdvisor; a private dinner for eight at the home of Chef Narsai David and his wife, Venus, for an exceptional evening of food, wine, and conversation; and a New York getaway for four with tickets to An American in Paris on Broadway and a weeklong stay in a spectacular Midtown Manhattan condominium.

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