Posted in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Saint Heaven, Show Boat, Stunt Girl, The Importance of Being Earnest, tagged 2008-2009 Season, Andrea Dymond, David Ira Goldstein, Jerry Dixon, Steve Tomkins on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Village Theatre is pleased to announced the 2008-2009 director line-up. From Chicago to Arizona to right here in the greater Seattle area, we are excited to welcome both new and old to the Mainstage.
Andrea Dymond
Andrea Dymond, Resident Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, will direct the new musical and season opener, Saint Heaven. Dymond [...]
Posted in AIDA, Mainstage on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The reviews are rolling in, and so far there is a sea of folks who have truly enjoyed Steve Tomkins and Brian Yorkey’s vision for this production. Village Theatre couldn’t be more pleased. Feel free to read some of the reviews that are currently available:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (third review down)
Seattle Weekly
Broadway2Seattle.com
TalkinBroadway.com
Woodinville Weekly
Posted in Village Originals, tagged The Last Starfighter on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s great to be back at Village Theatre with The Last Starfighter. Working with now old friends David Bennett, Brian Earp, Jessica Skerritt, Abby Pollard (who also worked on the show in New York City), and Vickielee Wohlback, Jayne Muirhead, John Lowrie, and Brian Lange, who presented the show with them at Village Theatre’s Festival [...]
Posted in Village Originals, tagged Alex Berry, Marliss Amiea, NAACP Awards, Steve Tomkins on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 18th Annual NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Theatre Award nominees were announced on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, and Steve Tomkins, Artistic Director for Village Theatre, was nominated in the 2006-2007 Local Nominees category for Best Director for his work on City Kid in Los Angeles.
City Kid received six nods in [...]
Posted in Village Originals, tagged Iron Curtain, Peter Mills, Stephen Weiner, Susan DiLallo on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Productions of Iron Curtain are on the rise. Not only are we mounting a Workshop Presentation in June, but the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center annnounced that Iron Curtain has been selected for its 2008 National Musical Theater Conference this coming July.
Also, a student production of Iron Curtain at Las Positas College, was just held in [...]
Posted in AIDA, Mainstage, tagged Marliss Amiea on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Village Originals, tagged The Last Starfighter on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s coming! May 23-25, 2008 at Village Theatre’s First Stage in workshop form.
We asked writers Fred Landau and Skip Kennon what first inspired them to create the musical The Last Starfighter?
FRED: The far-back beginnings were when I was just a year out of law school. The film The Last Starfighter came out, with a video [...]
Posted in Mainstage, Village Originals, tagged Auditions on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Village Theatre will hold general auditions for its 2008-2009 Season on May 27, 2008 in downtown Seattle at Theatre Puget Sound (4th floor, Seattle Center House, 305 Harrison, Seattle, Washington), and on May 28-30, 2008 in downtown Issaquah at the Francis J. Gaudette Theatre (303 Front Street North, Issaquah, Washington). Auditions are by appointment only. [...]
Posted in AIDA, Mainstage on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pre-production photos were taken yesterday on the Mainstage. We are so excited that AIDA is almost here. Let’s start the countdown today: 13 more days until opening night!
Marliss Amiea (Aida) and Michael Murnoch (Radames)
