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reviewed or updated 6/16/2009 (Return to Home Page)
Forest Theater Guild presents its annual Films in the Forest. Tickets are available at the door for $7.00 per adult/child. Films scheduled for the outdoor theatre begin at dusk. Bring warm clothing, blankets and a picnic to enjoy under the stars. Movies listed are subject to change without notice. Concessions are open during screenings and offer guests snacks, drinks and treats that are extremely enjoyable with your movie and benefit the Forest Theatre Guild, a non-profit community theatre group that supports our treasured theatre. For more information call 831-626-1681. For a schedule of films go to: http://www.foresttheaterguild.org/index.cfm/films.htm.
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel will the presenting LEFTY O'DOUL'S BASEBALL SHOW with the Boys of Summer: Taelan Lefty Thomas, Steve Crash Mortensen and Nathan Dirt Trosky. A celebration of the literature and songs of baseball. Many of our greatest writers, poets and thinkers have turned to the game of baseball for inspiration. From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Walt Whitman to Ernest Hemingway to Philip Roth, they use the game to express something fundamental about America, and to examine what the sport's metaphors and images have to tell us about ourselves. Join them at the Carl Cherry in a lively mix of songs, stories and verse. Thursday, June 18th. Pre-game party includes beer and hot dogs: 6:30 pm. Performance: 7:30 pm. Tickets: $20 to benefit the Cherry Center for the Arts.

Can We Talk? The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is seeking unproduced, non-traditional, high quality monologue plays from 5 to 30 minutes in length by established and emerging writers for its Fourth Annual Monologue Playwriting Contest. TALK TO ME, a weekend devoted to the format of monologue plays. Each play, ranging from one-acts and ten minute plays to longer works, creates a rich and specific world -- all performed by one actor. Original pieces chosen are character-driven, rich and vital theater creations with interesting stories to tell. Coming this Fall, Talk To Me includes a wide range of short one-of-a-kind monologue plays from established storytellers and playwrights working in the monologue formal and the winning monologues from One On One Competition. SUBMISSION must include:

For prospectus and more information, call (831) 624-7491, or yblnwj7965@sbcglobal.net. Send submissions to: Attention: Robert Reese, the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, PO Box 863, Carmel, CA, 93921.
The Rotary Club of Carmel Valley fill be holding a fundraiser for Pacific Repertory Theatre. Come see LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR on June 26. The Rotary Club contact to buy tickets for this 7:30 pm performance is Paul Smist at 372-4753. Tickets are $45 each. Tickets must be purchased but the week of June 8 and made payable to The Rotary Club of Carmel Valley.

PacRep Theatre is still accepting entries for The Hyperion Project III Playwriting Competition that is open to playwrights writing in English, who reside in California. PacRep is accepting entries of non-published or produced original plays, either amateur or professional, from April 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009. As the winning entry, the play will be given either a fully staged reading or a workshop production in November of 2010 at PacRep's Circle Theatre in Carmel. Contest information is available at www.pacrep.org.

In a new fundraising effort, Pacific Repertory Theatre is promoting a cell phone collection effort to benefit its School of Dramatic Arts (SoDA), a unique musical and theatre arts program for children of all ages. By donating your idle cell phones to PacRep, you will be keeping the cell phones and batteries out of landfills, and helping to improve communication throughout the world. Unused cell phones can be dropped off at the Golden Bough Playhouse, Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm or at any performance time at the Golden Bough Theatre or Circle Theatre. Collection boxes will also be stationed at the outdoor Forest Theatre, during PacRep's performances of OLIVER! and AS YOU LIKE IT this summer. For more information, call 831 622 0700 or visit our website at www.pacrep.org.

Lance Roger Axt of “Play it by Ear Productions” here; I still need of four (count 'em four) female actresses for a live show taking place in August in Big Sur. On August 15, 2009, the off-Broadway science-fiction comedy STARSTRUCK by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet Lee, and Dale Place, basis for the 1980s comic book series by Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta (who provided set and costume designs for the original production), will be presented for the first time in 25 years as an audio theatre-style live benefit reading at the famed Henry Miller Library in Big Sur with a 6:30 cast call and a 7:30 showtime. All proceeds will help comics legend Gene Colan with his medical expenses stemming from a bout with liver failure in 2007 and 2008. Colan is best known for his work on Iron Man, Daredevil, Batman, and Tomb of Dracula (from which the character Blade was introduced). The reading will employ pre-recorded sound effects and live effects performed by a team of foley artists, coupled with composer Dwight Dixon's music from the original production. Steve Kane of KAZU fame will MC the evening, and there will be a silent auction to boot. The creator of STARSTRUCK, Emmy-nominated actress and comic book writer Elaine Lee will be flying in from New York to see this show! The piece is sci-fantasy high camp, and will be a blast to do. I'm not one for auditions (I hate auditions and auditioning with every fiber of my being) so casting will be based on experience (and hearing their voices over he phone) with a series of sit-down rehearsals in July and early August. This will be a reading, so its script in hand all the way. To contact Lance, email him at playitbyearproductions@yahoo.com or phone: 831-641-0265.
MCTA offers a NEW membership category for actors, dancers, singers, back-stage crew, directors and designers. The "Stage Society" brings with it all the benefits of regular membership (2-for-1 tickets, the Back Stage newsletter, discounts at MCTA sponsored events and admission to social gatherings) but at a discounted price -- only $10 per year! The only requirement is that you must be part of at least one production, per membership year, with one of the MCTA-member production companies. Join now!
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