“Horrors of Dr. Moreau” is my latest directorial project at Your Theatre, Inc. This production is staged in-the-round for the first production of the 69th Season. “Horrors of Dr. Moreau”, based on the H.G. Wells story, is an entrancing opening to the Spine-Tingling Season, and will have you wiggling in your seat.
As an audience member, it all starts Read more »
My next project is an American play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Fuddy Meers explores a day in the life of an amnesiac who wakes up each morning remembering Read more »
Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, the third of the ‘Eugene’ trilogy, and what some believe is the best play in the series, opens September 11, 2014 at Your Theatre, Inc. in New Bedford. The cast is amazing, and several Read more »
That’s right, I’m heading and bound to my next project, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, the third of the trilogy many believe is somewhat auto-biographical. Two years ago I directed Brighton Beach Memoirs, and last year Biloxi Blues. Both had Read more »
Biloxi Blues is certainly not “blue”, unless you believe mild sex references and a visit to a prostitute are “blue”. This comedy rocks! The cast is fabulous, the crew works hard, and the experience will take you away from your daily grind and back in time to 1943, where Eugene Jerome and his new friends and enemies (other recruits) navigate the uncertain waters of boot camp.
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My next project is directing Biloxi Blues in September for Your Theatre. It’s a humorous show about some young men at boot camp during World War II. Auditions are April 24 and 25 at 7:30.
Your Theatre in New Bedford is presenting “Denial” this November 8 through 18 (2012) . The show is about a contest of intellect and will. A tenacious civil liberties attorney is chosen to defend a right-wing Holocaust denier. She argues her case against a young, committed Jewish federal prosecutor. It’s very interesting in that “proof” for and against the Holocaust is presented, but the pendulum swings back an forth on whom you believe, and what is truth and the desire to see justice served.
I portray the young, committed Jewish federal prosecutor. Don’t miss it!
More information at Your Theatre – Denial.
My latest directorial adventure opens Thursday, September 13, 2012 at Your Theatre (508-993-0772). The cast is comprised of two YTI regulars and five actors new to the YTI stage. The set design by Mark Fuller is wonderful, cramming two bedrooms, dining room, living room, hallway and porch onto the 20-foot wide stage. The costumes are period (mid-1930’s) and even the props are right on. (Thank you Suzanne and David!)
I hope to see you there! Ask for me. Say hi!
I will be participating in this Civil War Cemetery Tour, portraying Captain James M. Willis, sailing master of the Whaling Ship Rebecca Sims that ended it’s duty as a member of the Stone Fleet. You can see me there, in full costume!
Call the New Bedford Preservation Society at 508-997-7425 or visit www.nbpreservationsociety.org for further information.
This was originated by YTI:
WUMD Radio’s “Show Tunes In The afternoon” host ‘Lectric Lar’ is directing Paul Rudnick’s hilarious comedy I Hate Hamlet, the first major production of Your Theatre, Inc.’s 65th continuous season which opens on Thursday September 15 for an eight performance run at The YTI Playhouse.
The play will run Thursdays through Saturdays September 15–17 and 22-24 with Sunday Matinees on September 18 and 25. Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. for all performances except for 2:30 p.m. Sunday matinees.
The cast for I Hate Hamlet features Peter Ashworth and Elizabeth Rapoza of New Bedford, Cheryl Day and Linda Landry Pires of Fairhaven, Robert Duquette of Somerset and Michael McGill of Tiverton. Scenic and lighting design are by Lawrence R. Houbre, Jr., set dressing is by Mark Fuller, both of New Bedford, with David Pelletier of Fairhaven as Stage Manager.
The play revolves about Andrew Rally who seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series, a rich beautiful girlfriend, a glamorous, devoted agent, the perfect New York apartment, and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. There are, however, a couple of glitches in paradise. Andrew’s series has been canceled, his girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction, and he has no desire to play Hamlet. When Andrew’s agent visits him, she reminisces about her brief romance with John Barrymore many years ago, in Andrew’s apartment. This prompts a séance to summon his ghost. From the moment Barrymore returns, dressed in high Shakespearean garb, Andrew’s life is no longer his own.
I Hate Hamlet was successfully produced on Broadway in 1991 garnering such notices as: “…unapologetically silly and at times hilarious… affectionately amusing about the theatre…” -The New York Times; “… fast-mouthed and funny…It has the old-fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretensions and sentimentality without morals” -The Village Voice
For non-subscribers, ticket prices are $15.00 for all performances. Discounts are available for senior citizens, students, and military personnel.
Ticket and other information about the production are available by calling YTI at 508-993-0772, or E-mail ytinc@verizon.net. The theatre is located in St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Auditorium, 136 Rivet St. (at County St.), New Bedford, MA.
