03-08-12 – Phoenix, AZ>Las Vegas, NV – Description:
Pandemonium Theatre Group, launching its inaugural season this June, is seeking energetic and versatile talent to create our ensemble. These actors will be the pool from which Pandemonium producers will cast Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, Second from Suicide, an original ensemble production and Welcome Home John both written by Chicago playwright Cheryl Thomas.
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03-05-12 – Seattle, WA – Synopsis:
The Trip to Bountiful by prolific playwright Horton Foote (also acclaimed for the film adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird), tells the tale of widow Carrie Watts slipping away from her son’s cramped Houston apartment to return to the rural Gulf Coast town of her upbringing. As she escapes the stifling confines of city life with her only son and controlling daughter-in-law, she faces obstacles and encounters grace in the form of station clerks, a young woman returning home, and a small-town sheriff. Rehearsals
Rehearsals will begin the week of April 2nd.
Rehearsals will be scheduled between the hours of 6-9:00 p.m., Monday-Thursday.
A written schedule will be provided.
Weekend days will be added only if necessary.
Not every actor will be required to be at every rehearsal (you will know in advance).
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01-12-12 – Boise, ID>Seattle, WA – Noises Off
Performing March 15-April 1, 2012
Rehearsals will begin January 30, 2012.
Noises Off plays on the concept of a play within a play, in this case a dreadful sex comedy titled Nothing On—the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually open and shut. Nothing On is set in “a delightful 16th-century posset mill” that has been converted to a modern dwelling for which renters are solicited; the fictional playwright is appropriately named Robin Housemonger. Each of the three acts of Noises Off contains a performance of the first act of Nothing On.
Act One is set at the dress rehearsal, the night before opening at the (fictional) Grand Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, with the cast still fumbling with entrances and exits, missed cues, misspoken lines, and bothersome props, most notably several plates of sardines.
Act Two portrays a Wednesday matinee performance one month later, at the (again fictional) Theatre Royal in Ashton-under-Lyne. In this act, the play is seen from backstage, providing a view that reveals the deteriorating personal relationships among the cast that have led to offstage shenanigans and onstage bedlam. Also, there appears to be no true resolution. The play simply falls into turmoil and disorder before the curtain is pulled.
In Act Three, we see a performance near the end of the ten-week run, at the (still fictional) Municipal Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees, when personal friction has continued to increase and everyone is bored and anxious to be done with the play. The actors attempt to cover up a series of mishaps but only compound the problems and draw attention to the bungling performance.
Much of the comedy emerges from the subtle variations in each version as off-stage chaos affects on-stage performance, with a great deal of slapstick. The contrast between players’ on-stage and off-stage personalities is also a source of comic dissonance. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event
12-24-11 – Detroit, MI>Cleveland, OH – Stanford & Son Stage Play Casting
Detroit Playwright Craig A. Davis Sr. is casting an actor for a lead role who can portray Fred Sanford for our hit stage play “Stanford & Son”. This play is a spin off from the original television hit comedy “Sanford & Son”. So if you feel you got it, please bring it! Serious inquiries only!
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12-14-11 – Dallas, TX>Oklahoma City, OK – Often called the best comedy-drama-hit ever written by master playwright Neil Simon, this is the story of two boys in 1942, living in Yonkers, New York, with their stern immigrant grandmother and her grown daughter Bella. Bella appears to be mentally challenged, but her simple wisdom and kind nature are often what get the family through tough times. Life is made even crazier when Uncle Louie, a small-time hood on the lam, comes to hide out in the family candy store. Full of laughs, the story will suddenly tug at your heart, and you may be laughing and crying at the same time. A Pulitzer Prize winner.
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12-10-11 – Portland, OR>Seattle, WA – This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy’s father. The town doesn’t have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, a tragedy occurs.
“A splendid drama by a playwright… with poetic as well as human feeling.” — Variety
“‘The Diviners’, which would be meritorious from anyone, is astounding from so young a writer… Renders the humor and horror of the hinterlands with staggering accuracy… Compelling.” — New York Magazine
Production dates: March 23, 24, 30, 31, 2012. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event
11-09-11 – Portland, OR>Seattle, WA – Auditions For “the Diviners”
This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy’s father. The town doesn’t have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, a tragedy occurs.
“A splendid drama by a playwright… with poetic as well as human feeling.” — Variety
“‘The Diviners’, which would be meritorious from anyone, is astounding from so young a writer… Renders the humor and horror of the hinterlands with staggering accuracy… Compelling.” — New York Magazine
Production dates: March 23, 24, 30, 31, 2012. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event
11-08-11 – Chicago, IL>Milwaukee, WI – Last month we opened our sixth season, our first full season in our own, new theater, to very favourable reviews with the psychological thriller The Deadly Game by James Yaffe. And now, just days before the theater’s official grand opening gala, we are holding auditions for the comedy-drama Jake’s Women by popular, award-winning, American playwright Neil Simon.
Simon’s story centers around Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life. Jake, facing a marital crisis and a bout of writer’s block, submerges himself in daydreams about the women in his life. His wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks, fantasies and delusions are played out on the stage and are frequently interrupted by visitations from women in the real world. The persistence of the women of his mind, who seem to have been given a will of their own by his writer’s imagination, eventually put Jake in the position of trying to deal with them at the same time as he is carrying on a conversation with the real women, all the while desperately trying to avoid having the appearance of someone who has completely lost his mind.
Jake’s women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but in reality, is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving him for another man, and a prospective third wife.
Audiences will find themselves in for a rare treat as they watch Jake sort out his problems (and his women!) in an attempt to make his life work in the real world, fighting off the fear that he can only survive in a world of fiction and fantasy…
A cast of 8 is required including 1 role for a man (character age range: 40-60), and 7 roles for women (characters’ age range: 10-70). (Characters’ ages do not have to be actors’ actual ages, and all ethnicities are encouraged to apply). More detailed character information is below.
Rehearsals (3 per week) and performances are at our theatre in New Lenox, IL. Rehearsal schedule T.B.A. after auditions. The performance dates are January 20th–22nd & 27th–29th (with the possibility of an extension). Actors will be paid a small stipend.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Monologues are welcomed but not required. Auditions will be held on Monday, November 14th and Tuesday, November 15th from 6:30-10:00 P.M. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event
11-03-11 – Hartford, CT>New York City, NY – The Importance of Being Earnest
Performances will be February 3-18, 2012
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde’s classic high-farce comedy written in 1895, is ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’. This is a story where the main protagonists maintain fictitious personae, allowing them to escape from burdensome social and personal obligations, whilst finding unexpected love. Reflecting, and at the same time undermining and trivializing, the social conventions of late Victorian British society – with themes that resonate down the ages – Wilde’s story is full of wit, intricate wordplay and handbags (!); showing the playwright at the height of his brilliant career. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event
11-01-11 – New York City, NY>Philadelphia, PA – Experienced playwright looking for talented, trained actors for new play.
Need professional, talented, responsible actors who can handle drama as well as dark comedy.
Play is slated for a reading this fall, with festival and/or full production to follow.
Must include pic as well as resume for consideration.
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