by The Editors on May 18, 2010
Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 11 AM is the final cut-off for purchasing tickets to the New Village Arts Theatre’s annual gala fundraiser May 22, 2010 New Village Arts Takes Broadway at the Sherton Resort & Spa.
The evening features live swing music by David Patrone, with silent & live auctions, appetizers, dinner, dancing & entertainment. And the best part? All the money raised goes to Carlsbad’s own profession theatre company.
Swing the night away with the New Village Arts Ensemble to the song styling’s of David Patron and his hopping swing band after enjoying cocktails, a New York themed dinner, and Sneak Peak at season 10! All while supporting the most award winning theatre in North County!
Tickets are on sale until 11 AM Wednesday, May 19, 2010 and cost $125 per person. Click here for more information, or follow the jump for the complete event flier.
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by The Editors on April 2, 2010
After two nights of previews the New Villages Arts Theatre is officially opening their production of The Heidi Chronicles on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 8 PM.
The Wendy Wasserstein play features NVA Ensemble Member Kristianne Kurner with John DeCarlo, Kelly Iversen, Brian Mackey, Anthony Phifer, Frances Regal, Sunny Smith and Jacque Wilke, with musical accompaniment by Linda Libby.
Wendy Wasserstein’s groundbreaking play about identity, family, feminism and art follows Heidi Holland from insecure student at a high school dance in the 1960’s to successful art historian promoting female artists in the late 1980’s. Through Heidi’s travels, we are able to peek in on the changing roles of women in our society in the last half of the twentieth century and explore what defines success and how we go about searching for meaning in our lives.
Tonight is the last “pay-what-you-can preview” tonight (Friday April 2, 2010) at 8 PM. The play runs through April 25, 2010. Click here to buy tickets or call the New Village Arts Threatre box office at (760) 433-3245.
[Link: New Village Arts]
by The Editors on March 10, 2010
Lauren McMillen and J. Kieran Naughton bring Grease’s Sandy and Danny to life.
Students from Carlsbadistan’s Pacific Ridge School took audiences back to Rydell High last week with sell-out performances of the musical Grease. The students (grade 7 to 11) performed for more than 1,000 community members during the amazingly well-produced shows.
Follow the jump for more photos and all the details. . .
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by The Editors on February 22, 2010
If you’ve meant to visit New Village Arts Theatre to catch the critically acclaimed play The Man Who, then this week is your last chance. The Man Who closes on Sunday February 28, 2010.
The Man Who is inspired by, but is in no way a conventional stage adaptation of, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks‘ best-selling collection of case histories about the neurologically impaired. Performed by a superb ensemble of four actors and one musician, this series of fables is an adventurous journey through the mind, as well as a demonstration of a very rare kind of dedicated theater craft.
New Village Arts production of the play has been extremely well reviewed in The North County Times, SanDiego.com, and SD City Beat. The play run Thursday and Friday night at 8 PM, Saturday at 3 and 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Click here to purchase tickets online.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on December 16, 2009
With seats selling quickly to David Sedaris‘ one-man holiday comedy The Santaland Diaries, Carlsbadistan’s New Village Arts Theatre has added a Sunday evening show at 7 PM.
Daren Scott is simply amazing as he brings the work of David Sedaris to life. With all of its witty humor and dry sarcasm it is the perfect show to get you through the holidays. Playing now through Dec 23rd and selling out fast so grab your tickets today!
Click the link for more information and to buy tickets.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on December 8, 2009
We knew the acting talent at New Village Arts Theatre ran deep, but we didn’t know how deep. Thanks to a Lillian Cox story in The Coast News, we now know a lot more about the Kurner family.
Kristianne Kurner is executive artistic director of the award-winning New Village Arts Theatre. She founded the theater in 2001 with former husband Francis Gercke who is currently associate artistic director of the Cygnet Theatre in San Diego. Kristianne also teaches the “Study of Filmed Plays” and runs the Actors Academy at MiraCosta College. . . Kristianne’s mother, Laura Kurner, also an actor, manages the new Art Foundry. It is a complex of artist studios with public access in the New Village Arts Theater building, which is owned by the city of Carlsbad. . . Kristianne’s son Jonah Gercke, 11, has already made a name for himself, garnering rave reviews for his performance in “Distracted” at MiraCosta College, a role Kristianne explains he was cast in on his own merit.
Yeah, there’s a lot more, but you should probably read it yourself.
[Link: The Coast News]
by The Editors on December 7, 2009
by The Editors on November 25, 2009
The New Village Arts Theatre is presenting essayist David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries December 10-23, 2009. The hilarious one-man show stars San Diego actor Daren Scott and is based on an Sedaris’ essay about the time he spent working as a Christmas Elf in Santaland at Macy’s department store.
The New York Times called the play, “A delightfully thorny account of working as a Yuletide elf at Macy’s. Priceless observations, both outrageous and subtle. Destined to hold a place in the annals of American humor writing.”
Tickets are only $20 and available online or by calling the box office at (760-433.3245).
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on September 22, 2009
San Diego Union-Tribune writer James Hebert gave Carlsbadistan’s New Village Arts Theatre’s production of Things We Want a good review today.
What really makes “Things We Want” spin, though (under Berger’s deft direction), is the way the brothers end up trading personas and pathologies over the course of the play. They cope with the traumas they’ve been dealt as best they can, and Sherman doesn’t try to pretend they can transcend their past with a snap of the fingers. . . But in this strange (and strangely entertaining play), they do reach some truce in the war within their hearts. . . As Teddy puts it: “I’m not happy. I just have better regrets than most people.”
Things We Want runs through October 11, 2009. Click here for tickets or here for more information.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on September 17, 2009
Tonight, September 17, 2009, Carlsbadistan’s own professional theatre company New Village Arts Theatre kicks of their ninth season with the play Things We Want, by Jonathan Marc Sherman.
Things We Want is young, hip, exciting and a great match for the men in NVA’s Ensemble. Three adult brothers are living together once again in their childhood apartment, struggling to define themselves while pursuing their desires and dreams. A darkly comic look at the illusions we have about what makes us happy – and what is within our power to change.
The Village Arts Theatre is located at 2787 State St, Carlsbad, CA. Click here to buy tickets or call (760) 433-3245.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 11 AM is the final cut-off for purchasing tickets to the New Village Arts Theatre’s annual gala fundraiser May 22, 2010 New Village Arts Takes Broadway at the Sherton Resort & Spa.
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