SCR PUTS TOGETHER 46TH SEASON
South Coast Repertory will open its 2009-2010 season with Putting It Together, a celebration of the music of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim and will shine the spotlight later in the season on the up-and-coming musical theatre composer and lyricist, Adam Gwon. The lineup includes World Premieres by Bathsheba Doran, Julie Marie Myatt and Howard Korder, and a West Coast Premiere by Noah Haidle. SCR will also mount revivals of two Pulitzer Prize winners: Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart and August Wilson’s Fences. Read more
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Collecting Stories
Ruth Steiner doesn’t believe writing can be taught. “I’m not going to tell you how to write because I can’t,” she tells graduate student Lisa Morrison in their first tutorial at her Greenwich Village apartment. “I don’t pretend to know myself. ...As far as I’m concerned, the university is taking your money under false pretenses. Talent can’t be learned; it’s innate. Read more
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Tuneful TYA Treat Teaches Tolerance
It’s the first day of school in Miss Kincaid’s second grade class. She’s calling the roll — the same names and the same faces as last year and the year before — until, that is, she comes to Lazlo S. Gasky. What kind of a weirdo name is that? Plus he looks weird, he acts weird, and he talks weird, too. Poor Lazlo. Being the brand new kid at school really stinks! Read more
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SCR Players II, Teen Version
Gold in the Bones, presented by the Junior Players, was the first production of the SCR Players 2008-09 “season.” The young ensemble, directed by Mercy Vasquez, amazed audiences with the scope of their talent as they skillfully dealt with the universal theme of greed in a large production that included pirates, ghosts, grave yards and gold. Read more
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