Press Releases
The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre announces auditions for This is Our Youth.
September 17 - 18 at 7:00 PM at ART
Play written by Kenneth Lonergan and Directed by Kara Winslow
Please bring a one minute prepared monologue
2 males 18 - 28
1 female 18 - 28 needed
Questions contact Kara at 321-356-3116
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Dr. William Eyerly
352-284-2495
Summer Shakespeare Film Festival at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre
On Thursday, July 13th and Saturday July 15th at 7:30 PM, the Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts will present a collection of student-adapted films of five of William Shakespeare's plays. Area middle and high school students wrote, directed, and starred in these films which will be shown these two nights only on the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre main stage. Each film is approximately 20 minutes in length.
The titles include: Romeo & Juliet - The Music Video, Transvestite Twelthnight, Pyramus & Thisby, Shrews Gone Wild, and The Scottish President. The shows were produced as part of this year's annual Shakespeare, Summer, and Kids under the direction of GACA's program director, Dr. William Eyerly, with colleague and Summer Shakespeare founder, UF professor Sidney R. Homan. Dr. Eyerly enlisted the help of UF film student Mike McShane to produce the films for the program.
Don't miss this hilarious and innovative evening of Shakespeare on film presented by GACA at the Acrosstown Theatre. The films are rated between G and PG for mild teen humor, and are generally appropriate for the whole family. Tickets will be just $3 each with proceeds going to GACA's scholarship fund and will be available at the door beginning at about 7 PM. The first film shows at 7:30 sharp and there will be snacks (including fresh popcorn!) and drinks available during the show. For more information, call GACA at 352-378-9166.
For Immediate Release (March 9, 2006)
Contact Person: Ms. Norma Homan (352-378-9166)
The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre (619 South Main Street, Gainesville) announces the long-awaited return of the play SUCKERFISH, the hit a few seasons back at the theatre. With the Los Angeles playwright WT Underwood in town during the run, this surreal comedy, directed by Sidney Homan, will have five performance at the theatre, Thursday through Monday, April 6 through April 10, with an 8 PM curtain.
With echoes of Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and Albee's ZOO STORY, SUCKERFISH stages a wild, intense encounter between a homeless man and a business executive on an isolated street corner in the big city. Throw in a sadistic policeman and a glamorous woman and you are in for an evening of comedy that ranges from farce to the absurd to the existential.
Tickets, just $7 for students, and $9 for the general public are on sale a week before the opening at Omni Book Store (Westgate Shopping Center), Book Gallery West (Millhopper Shopping Center), and at the door the night of performances. For more information, please call 352-378-9166.
For immediate release March 4, 2006
For more information contact Director Jerry Rose at 352-378-8858
Auditions for Six Characters in Search of an Author, classic comedy/drama about the theatre by Luigi Pirandello, will be held at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, 619 S. Main, Gainesville at 2 PM on Sun March 26 and at 7 PM on Mon March 27. The show will be produced at ART on Thursdays through Saturdays May 11-June 3, 2006. A large cast of men, women and children of all ages, including two children around 4-6 years of age, are needed. No audition preparation required, cold readings from scripts. For information contact the director, Jerry Rose, at 352-378-8858.
Announcing the A.R.T.'s 2005-2006 Season
The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre (619 South Main Street, Gainesville, Florida) announces its 2005-2006 season, one that promises to be the most ambitious and most exciting ever. The new season opens with the hilarious spoof of history, historians, and America, The Complete History of America Abridged, produced by Thursday Afternoon Productions from September 1 through October 1. (All main-stage performances run Thursday, Friday and Saturday with an 8 PM curtain). Like its companion piece, The Abridged Shakespeare, this comedy races irreverently through American history and historical figures, with loving but biting humor.
Kevin Mack directs Renee Lucas Wayne's It's a Man Thing, the winner of the theatre's James Sunwal New Play Contest and thus already a proven favorite with audiences. March 2 through April 1, 2006. It's a Man Thing Thing focuses on a rising young African-American professional woman whose well-intentioned Aunt Jelell gives her a potion which causes her to change from female to male and back again randomly-with surprising results.
Kevin Mack directs one of the most exciting plays it has ever staged, described by The Guardian as "like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins," when Stephen Adly Guirgis's JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN opens on Thursday, October 27, and plays Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays (with an 8 PM curtain) through November 19.
The annual Holiday Show, produced through the Gainesville Association of the Creative Arts and directed by its Program Director Dr. William Eyerly runs from December 8 through the 18th. Be prepared for talented young actors, lots of current music, and all sorts of stage jokes as well as heart-moving pieces for the season.
The gifted actor Robert Brown brings The Last of the Red Hot Lovers to the Acrosstown on January 19 and the show runs through February 18. This well-known Neil Simon comedy involves one Barry Cashman, a middle-aged man whose life is dull until he decides to have three extra marital affairs while his mother's apartment is vacant. The results, predictably, are more than he bargained for. Kevin Mack brings his experience with Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre to the ART with Jesus Hopped the A Train, running March 2 through April 1. This gritty, realistic social-political drama takes a hard look at the life about us, especially among those struggling in the inner city. One critic describes it as "hitting below the belt and bracing."
Sidney Homan brings back to the Acrosstown one of the most popular shows in its history, Suckerfish, by the playwright W. T. Underwood. Miraculously, this play manages to combine the cosmic mood and wild humor of Beckett's Waiting for Godot with Albee's Zoo Story. The show runs from APRIL 7 through APRIL 12. Homan will also direct John Cech's adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's short story The Secret River. This charming story, with a musical score, features a young girl whose adventures in the forest mange to restore the town (Cross Creek) to prosperity. Along with performances at the Acrosstown, The Secret River will tour area schools through a grant from the Florida Fine Arts Council.
The regular season ends when Jerry Rose stages Robert Brustein's brilliant adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's classic work Six Characters in Search of an Author. What happens when characters, escaping from an author unable to flesh them out, come upon an acting company in rehearsal and seek the director's support in giving them a full stage life? Brustein's is surely one of the most exhilarating adaptations in theatre history. Six Characters runs from May 11 through June 3. And when the regular season is over, The Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts will bring various drama camps and arts classes to the Acrosstown during the months of June, July, and August, including its popular musical-theatre series and the nationally-know program, "Shakespeare, Summer, and Kids."
For more information about the new season please consult the ART's website at acrosstown.org or call 352-284-2495.