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UKIAH, Calif. – The Mendocino College Theatre Department is excited to announce its first ever showing of a production written by the award winning American playwright Tina Howe.
Museum will run for two weekends only, Oct. 19 to 28 in Mendocino College’s Center Theatre at the Ukiah Campus.
Tina Howe’s delightful comedy takes place in a major American museum of art. Over the course of the play, 40 people walk through the closing day of a modern exhibit. These characters include art lovers, skeptics, tourists, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and a very frustrated museum guard.
The play is about the movement and yearning of the people it involves. According to director Reid Edelman, one of the many delights of this farcical play is seeing the talented cast of 22 students and local actors embody the huge and eclectic cast of characters.
The play examines the way people respond to art, often spinning into a wildly zany romp, though there are some serious and touching moments as well.
Edelman explained, “Howe is a playwright who loves quirky and unexpected moments; she creates worlds that are at once absurd and very authentic.”
Howe’s other plays include “The Art of Dining,” “Painting Churches,” “Coastal Disturbances,” “Approaching Zanzibar” and “Pride's Crossing.”
Howe is an Obie Award winner, and has also been nominated for a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
This Mendocino College production and preshow entertainment is a collaboration of the college art, theatre, and music departments and showcases the emerging talents of seven Mendocino College conservatory students as well as other college students and local community actors.
“This talented ensemble cast just bursts with creativity and energy,” said Edelman. “They have embraced Howe’s comedic landscape with gusto!”
The production’s impressive scenery, lighting, costumes, and sound design are also being created by Mendocino College students under the direction of faculty and staff members Steve Decker, Kathy Dingman-Katz, and David Wolf. The production stage manager is Gary Hudson.
Performances are Friday, Oct. 19, and Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Oct. 25, Friday Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m.
Preshow entertainment and activities begin 30 minutes prior to each show. Full of unexpected surprises, the preshow experience will lead audiences into the play in a refreshing manner.
Tickets ($20 general; $15 students and seniors) are available at the Mendocino Book Co., Mendocino College Bookstore and online at www.ArtsMendocino.org.
The performance on Thursday, Oct. 25, is a special discount night, with all tickets costing only $10. Attendees are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.
For information, call 707-468-3172 or visit http://www.mendocino.edu/the-arts/theatre.
The Mendocino College Ukiah campus is located at 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah.
Museum will run for two weekends only, Oct. 19 to 28 in Mendocino College’s Center Theatre at the Ukiah Campus.
Tina Howe’s delightful comedy takes place in a major American museum of art. Over the course of the play, 40 people walk through the closing day of a modern exhibit. These characters include art lovers, skeptics, tourists, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and a very frustrated museum guard.
The play is about the movement and yearning of the people it involves. According to director Reid Edelman, one of the many delights of this farcical play is seeing the talented cast of 22 students and local actors embody the huge and eclectic cast of characters.
The play examines the way people respond to art, often spinning into a wildly zany romp, though there are some serious and touching moments as well.
Edelman explained, “Howe is a playwright who loves quirky and unexpected moments; she creates worlds that are at once absurd and very authentic.”
Howe’s other plays include “The Art of Dining,” “Painting Churches,” “Coastal Disturbances,” “Approaching Zanzibar” and “Pride's Crossing.”
Howe is an Obie Award winner, and has also been nominated for a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
This Mendocino College production and preshow entertainment is a collaboration of the college art, theatre, and music departments and showcases the emerging talents of seven Mendocino College conservatory students as well as other college students and local community actors.
“This talented ensemble cast just bursts with creativity and energy,” said Edelman. “They have embraced Howe’s comedic landscape with gusto!”
The production’s impressive scenery, lighting, costumes, and sound design are also being created by Mendocino College students under the direction of faculty and staff members Steve Decker, Kathy Dingman-Katz, and David Wolf. The production stage manager is Gary Hudson.
Performances are Friday, Oct. 19, and Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Oct. 25, Friday Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m.
Preshow entertainment and activities begin 30 minutes prior to each show. Full of unexpected surprises, the preshow experience will lead audiences into the play in a refreshing manner.
Tickets ($20 general; $15 students and seniors) are available at the Mendocino Book Co., Mendocino College Bookstore and online at www.ArtsMendocino.org.
The performance on Thursday, Oct. 25, is a special discount night, with all tickets costing only $10. Attendees are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.
For information, call 707-468-3172 or visit http://www.mendocino.edu/the-arts/theatre.
The Mendocino College Ukiah campus is located at 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Mark your calendar for a “Harmonica Slapdown” at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12.
This WWF wrestling style battle will include lots of audience participation in a mock World Championship boasting 4 master harmonica players.
Headliner Mitch Kashmar has shared the stage with some of the most influential rock and blues giants such as Albert Collins, Charlie Musselwhite, Pinetop Perkins, William Clarke, Kim Wilson and Roy Gaines. Kashmar also toured with the classic 70's funk-rock band “War,” and appeared with Eric Burdon & War for their reunion concert in 2008 at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Aki Kumar is a blues harmonica star and vocalist with a number of successful tours throughout the United States and Europe. Recently Kumar made a big splash in the blues world with his record Aki Goes To Bollywood , a fusion of Aki’s Hindi roots and Chicago and West Coast blues.
Gary Smith has been part of the blues tradition in the Bay Area since the 1970s, and is a featured guest at festivals and venues from Europe to Brazil. He is considered to be one of the rare "big tone" harmonica players delivering world class blues no matter whether in a smoky bar or a large festival.
Andy Santana is a Delta Groove recording artist known at most of the major blues and jazz festivals in California, as well as in Seattle and Belgium. This past week he was inducted into the Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame.
Get your tickets now at The Travel Center in Lakeport or online at www.soperreesetheatre.com.
Advance tickets cost $25. Tickets at the door cost $30.
Proceeds will be donated to survivors of the Mendocino Complex fires.
This WWF wrestling style battle will include lots of audience participation in a mock World Championship boasting 4 master harmonica players.
Headliner Mitch Kashmar has shared the stage with some of the most influential rock and blues giants such as Albert Collins, Charlie Musselwhite, Pinetop Perkins, William Clarke, Kim Wilson and Roy Gaines. Kashmar also toured with the classic 70's funk-rock band “War,” and appeared with Eric Burdon & War for their reunion concert in 2008 at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Aki Kumar is a blues harmonica star and vocalist with a number of successful tours throughout the United States and Europe. Recently Kumar made a big splash in the blues world with his record Aki Goes To Bollywood , a fusion of Aki’s Hindi roots and Chicago and West Coast blues.
Gary Smith has been part of the blues tradition in the Bay Area since the 1970s, and is a featured guest at festivals and venues from Europe to Brazil. He is considered to be one of the rare "big tone" harmonica players delivering world class blues no matter whether in a smoky bar or a large festival.
Andy Santana is a Delta Groove recording artist known at most of the major blues and jazz festivals in California, as well as in Seattle and Belgium. This past week he was inducted into the Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame.
Get your tickets now at The Travel Center in Lakeport or online at www.soperreesetheatre.com.
Advance tickets cost $25. Tickets at the door cost $30.
Proceeds will be donated to survivors of the Mendocino Complex fires.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
In September of 2017 we had hundreds of thousands of Painted Lady butterflies passing through Nebraska, and at times the air was so full of them it looked as if all the leaves were falling at once.
Samuel Green is the former Washington State Poet Laureate, and a very fine writer whose most recent collection of poems is All That Might Be Done, (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2014).
He and his wife live on Waldron Island and pay close attention to the life around them.
This poem is a wealth of butterflies.
Butterflies
Some days her main job seems to be
to welcome back the Red Admiral
as it lights on a leaf of the yellow
forsythia. It is her duty to stop & lean
over to take in how it folds & opens
its wings. Then, too, there is the common
Tiger Swallowtail, which seems to her
entirely uncommon in how it moves
about the boundaries of this clearing
we made so many years ago. If she leaves
the compost bucket unwashed to rescue
a single tattered wing from under the winter
jasmine or the blue flowers of the periwinkle
& then spends a whole afternoon at our round
oak table surrounded by field guides
& tea until she is sure—yes—that it belongs to
a Lorquin's Admiral, or that singular
mark is one of the great cat's eyes
of a Milbert's Tortoiseshell, then she is
simply practicing her true vocation
learning the story behind the blue beads
of the Mourning Cloak, the silver commas
of the Satyr Anglewing, the complex shades
of the Spring Azure, moving through this life
letting her sweet, light attention land
on one luminous thing after another.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2017 by Samuel Green, "Butterflies." Poem reprinted by permission of Samuel Green. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Ely Stage Stop is back in action.
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