SPRING BENEFIT
Our SPRING BENEFIT is tomorrow evening. It is a very cool event. I have invited the actor, Anne Marie Nest to come to Shepherdstown to read scenes from our 2009 Repertory with local community leaders in a SNEAK PREVIEW. It is a great opportunity to promote our up-coming Festival and raise money at the same time.
On Sunday I will take the train to New York for a week of auditions and meetings with designers etc. While I am in NY I will also see some theater. I am looking forward to seeing Neil LaBute’s new play REASONS TO BE PRETTY on Sunday. On Tuesday I will see ANGELA”S MIXTAPEby 2009 CATF playwright, Eisa Davis. Eisa is an accomplished actor and she is performing in her own play. Liesl Tommy, CATF director, is directing ANGELA’S MIXTAPE. She and Eisa have collaborated on other projects in the past. Liesl is returning to CATF this summer to direct the World Premiere of Eisa’s new play THE HISTORY OF LIGHT.
On Wednesday I am looking forward to seeing LA DIDONE at St Ann’s Warehouse. This is a work that crosses a little-known 17th-century opera (about Dido and Aeneas) with a little-known 1965 movie (about extraterrestrial body snatchers).
On Thursday evening my friends Doug Moss and Roy Hardin are hosting a CATF NY BUZZ PARTY in their Manhattan loft. They are inviting their friends to this event to introduce them to our Festival. I will give a little preview of our 2009 Season.
So in addition to a week of casting…I will see theater and meet with our design team and get together with some friends and Festival supporters.
I return to Shepherdstown on Friday evening.
Sorry to have missed the Spring Benefit, but looking forward to the season with Elly and my season tickets safely ensconsed on our “to do” wall. This looks like it will be a good one.