by The Editors on July 24, 2009
Carlsbadistan’s New Village Arts Theater’s next mainstage production will be David Ives’ “hysterical and philosophically clever” Time Flies, directed by Associate Artistic Director Joshua Everett Johnson. The play is actually a series of short plays, with a cast of eight actors who make quick changes between being mayflies, a washing machine and a famous french painter, to name a few. This summertime comedy will reportedly have you rolling in the aisles!
For tickets please click the link or call the box office at (760) 433-3245.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on May 12, 2009
Brendan Sheppard Missett, the son of Jazzersize founder Judi Sheppard Missett, is kicking off his new collection of “new works and documentation of his latest installations” at The Paul Bartl Gallery at New Village Arts Theatre on May 21, 2009 with an artists reception and walkthrough on June 5, 2009 from 5:30 to 7 PM.
Brendan Sheppard-Missett’s sprawling, inviting, and highly-stylized installations often function much more like clubhouses than gallery/art shows and his use of material has a bag-of-tricks approach that proves narcotic. Whether you are standing next to a pile of bananas and pineapples under a neon sign that reads “No Warning–Free Fruit”, or you bump into a scraggly, Old West-style outlaw who raves and rambles about being from the future, the impact of Sheppard-Missett’s coltish magnum will reveal itself with an unusual frivolity.
The show opens in conjunction with the New Village Arts Theatre’s production of Four Dogs and a Bone by John Patrick Shanley. We’re not going to miss any of this.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
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by The Editors on March 25, 2009
A new play about cheerleaders opens at the New Village Arts Theatre on April 4, 2009. Be Aggressive, by Annie Weisman, is the story of Laura, a 17-year-old cheerleader whose life turns around when her mother is killed in a car accident, according to Dramatists.com.
. . . she is thrust into the role of caregiver for her precocious younger sister, Hannah, and her brittle father, Phil. Escape comes in the form of a ferocious fellow cheerleader. Leslie has a brochure about the Spirit Institute of the South, a two-week intensive where they can learn real cheer, the kind with Bible belt intensity. All they need is two weeks and a thousand bucks.
We won’t tell you the rest except to say that the story takes place in “Vista Del Sol” which most will recognize as San Diego. The play is directed by Kristianne Kurner and features NVA ensemble members Dana Case, Amanda Morrow, Daren Scott, Amanda Sitton and Rachael VanWormer with Caitlin Kunkle, Rachel Robinson and Alyssa Schindler.
Be Agressive runs April 4 to 26, 2009 nightly at 8 PM Thursday through Sunday with a matinee on Saturday at 3 PM click here for tickets. (Pay what you want previews are April 2 and 3)
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on March 6, 2009
The Carlsbad Playreaders will be performing The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh on Monday March 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Schulman Auditoriam at the Carlsbad City LIbrary. The play takes place in Connemara in County Galway.
Join in for the dark comedy, melodrama and tragedy of the Folan family, mother Mag and daughter Maureen, and the Dooley brothers, Ray and Pato. It’s the last chance for romance for spinster Maureen, with Mom doing her best to torpedo the love boat. It’s love, hate and passion as only the Irish can live it.
The playreading is directed by and featuring Joshua Everett Johnson with Kristianne Kurner, Annie Hinton and Darren Scott.
[Link: The Carlsbad Playreaders via San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on February 5, 2009
For a sneak peek at this 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play by Eisa Davis there are “pay-what-you-can” previews tonight February 5, 2009 and tomorrow February 6, 2009 at 8 PM.
[Link: New Village Arts Theater]
by The Editors on February 5, 2009
The Paul Bartl Gallery at New Village Arts Theatre presents the work of Mireille Des Rosiers. The show is presented in conjunction with the regional premiere of the Pulitzer-nominated play Bulrusher by Eisa Davis on the theatre’s main stage and opens tomorrow February 6, 2009 with an artist’s reception and walkthrough from 5:30–7 p.m., the exhibition runs through March 12, 2009.
Gallery hours are 1:30-5:30 Tuesday through Saturday, and Sundays from 12 – 4:30. For information call 760/433.3245 or visit www.NewVillageArts.org. For more info on Des Rosiers follow the jump.
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by The Editors on December 10, 2008
by The Editors on November 10, 2008
Economic depression humor comes to Carlsbadistan as The After 5 Club presents Thank You For Firing Me at the Carlsbad Village Theatre on November 22, 2008. According to the press release:
The show features a line up of side-splitting comedians—some who were former executives and who have made a career out of comedy —- as well as Malibu Mike, who plays “Dick Tator” the idiot boss in the lobby who will fire theater-goers as they enter the venue. Headlining the show is Vickie Barbolak, a San Diego comedian voted on network TV as America’s Funniest Mom.
This one-time show is Saturday, November 22, 2008 at the Carlsbad Village Theatre 2822 State Street. Tickets are available online for $18 or by calling (800) 754-9737.
[Link: After 5 Club]
by The Editors on August 25, 2008
If you haven’t seen it already, you have only five more chances to check out the New Village Arts Theatre’s hilarious production of The Compete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) featuring the world’s fastest performance of Hamlet on record, “clocking in at 43 seconds. We’re thinking we can beat the record,” they say.
The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) was written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1987. Within the span of the evening every single Shakespeare play is covered as well as a nod given to the sonnets.
Shows are free to subscribers and “pay-what-you-can” for everyone else. The show closes on Aug. 21, however, there are still show this Thursday through Saturday night at 8 PM with a matinee on Saturday at 3 PM and Sunday at 2 PM.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
by The Editors on June 26, 2008
North County Times staff writer Pam Kragen was surprised to find that the New Village Arts Theatre presentation of Clifford Odets‘ “nearly three-hour long” boxing/violin/love story drama Golden Boy actually works, even though there are “huge casting demands, thick, ethnic accents, dated dialogue where women characters practically beg to be smacked around.”
Yet somehow, scrappy little New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad has made this play work, thanks to a smartly designed two-story set that keeps the action always in motion, and Joshua Everett Johnson’s thoughtful direction that holds the play firmly in period.
Golden Boy runs Thursday through Sunday at 8 PM (a 3 PM matinee on Saturdays) from June 21st – July 13th. For more information or to buy tickets please visit the New Village Arts Theatre website.
[Link: North County Times]
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