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L.A. Times - RECOMMENDED!
Karen Kondazian, a diva in her own right,
embodies Maria Callas down to her toes...
a wrenchingly cathartic life lesson...
Master Class reaches convincing emotional extremes in
the fearless performance of Kondazian.?
Santa barbara theatre presents:
The Ovation Award Winning Best Production of the Year January 4, 5, 6, 7th, 2007 KAREN KONDAZIAN is Maria Callas  in Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play
MASTER CLASS
at The Lobero Theater
33 East Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara 93101 www.lobero.com Box Office - (805) 963-0761
KABC Radio (Cynthia Citron) -
?As far as I?m concerned, the year ends here.
It seems highly unlikely that in the next 11 months I?ll see a performance to top Karen Kondazian?s dazzling portrayal
of opera diva Maria Callas in MASTER CLASS.
November 13, 14, 15 , Hollywood, CA
@ The Fountain Theater in Hollywood
Simon Levy, playwright and artistic director of the Fountain Theater in Hollywood, has helped curate the ADAA readings for this November. His play What I Heard About Iraq recently won the best Of Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His most recent play Gatsby inaugurated the opening of the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis this summer. ADAA is very fortunate to have made such a good friend and is thankful for Simon's interest in Armenian drama! The readings will be produced by Anahid Shahrik.
Mon. Nov. 13
THE SCENT OF JASMINE Written by Bianca Bagatourian - Directed by Michael Arabian
A Citizen Kane type mystery about an Armenian immigrant who becomes one of the richest men in America and the measures he takes to regain the happiness he felt as a child in the old country. A monologue from this play, "The Strawberry Scene" was published in the book Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann Pub., 2005. Featuring: Karine Chakarian Magda Harout David Hedison Buck Kartalian Karen Kondazian Sona Tatoyan
Tues. Nov. 14
THE BLACKSTONE SESSIONS Featuring:
Bernard Addison Rico Anderson Tene Carter Alex Kalognomos Danielle Holland Iona Morris Anoush NeVart Jerris Poindexter
Wed. Nov. 15
PUSH Featuring:
Andrea Ajemian Michael Goorjian Richard Horvitz Karen Kondazian Salli Saffiotti Anahid Shahrik Greg Zarian
For more info: www.fountaintheatre.com 5060 Fountain Ave., LA 90029
Oct. 22, 29, Nov. 5, 19, 26 and Dec. 3rd Hollywood, CA
Pomegranate Whisky will open on Sunday October 22 @ 6:30 PM and will run on every Sunday through December 3rd *Limited Seating, Reservations are Highly Recommended by contacting Arpy Jahjah at 626-296-0028
The exact dates are Sunday October 22, 29, November 5, 19, 26 and December 3rd. Heartbeat House Studio
Looking for plays to publish in an anthology for Armenian Woman playwrights
Specifications for admissions are as follows: - One play per playwright, which will be chosen by a committee. - Plays should not exceed 30 double-spaced-typed pages on 81/2x11 paper, accompanied by either a floppy or a disc. - No specific genre of the play. - Submitted plays should be either in Armenian or English. If other than Armenian or English, a translation to either Armenian or preferably English should accompany the original. - Playwrights should submit two plays; giving the dates of writing and their preference as which play is to be given priority for publications. - Playwrights should submit a detailed CV and a recent photo. - Deadline for submission of plays is January 31, 2007. - Non-published plays will not be returned. Their playwrights will be recognized with their short bios in the anthology. - Ten copies of the anthology will be awarded to playwrights published in the anthology. - Permission for staged readings or performances should be obtained from the editor.
Address for submission of plays for playwrights from Armenia:
The Writers Union of Armenia - Cultural Desk Outside of Armenia: Dr. Herand Markarian e-mail: hmarkarian@yahoo.com Fax- 845-268-1948
August 24 through August 27th, San Diego
PRESENTING THE NEWEST PLAYS IN THE WORLD! PUSH by Kristen Lazarian directed by Robert May Starring: Sonya Bender Shondra Mirelle Katie Rodda Tim Schubert Anahid Shahrik Brennan Taylor Landon Vaughn Week 1 Aug 24th through Aug 27th Thursday - Saturday 8pm Sunday 3pm 4 Performances Only! At the Lyceum Space Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza -Downtown San Diego $16 General Admission, Box Office at (619) 544 - 1000
September 5, Toronto, Canada
Exile in the Cradle
Lorne Shirinian, author, Seta Keshishian, director,Jolanta Izmirliyan, producer Cast: Eva Yenovkian as Armig Srabian
August 4 - September 3, 2006, Hollywood, Ca LITTLE ARMENIA
Directed by Armina LaManna, Produced by Deborah Lawlor & Armina LaManna starring: Maro Ajemian, Karine Chakarian, RB Dilanchian, Johnny Giacalone, Hunter Lee Hughes, Jade Hykush, Jack Kandel, Ludwig Manukian, Salem Mikhael, Anoush Nevart Associate Producer: Anahid Shahrik, Assistant Director: Loraine Shields, Production Stage Manager: Eleanor Wood, Set Designer: Scott Siedman, Lighting Designer: Henrik Mansourian, Sound Designer: Shahen Hakobian, Prop Designer: Goar Galstyan, Costume Designer: Shon LeBlanc, Photographer/Designer: Yvette Khalafian
Funded in part by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Thursdays - Saturdays, 8pm - Sundays, 2pmLow-cost Previews: August 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 - Opens: August 11th LIMITED RUN. MUST CLOSE September 3rd. Box Office & Group Sales: 323-663-1525 June 15 - September 13, Long Beach, CA, 2006
Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang Ensemble Theatre of Los Angeles present:
by William Shakespeare Directed by Simon AbkarianIn Shakespeare's giddy word-feast, Ferdinand, King of Navarre, and three of his friends give up women and the world to devote themselves to learning. But their foolish vows can't bar Love from their gates or from their hearts. Certainly not when four high-spirited, high-bred ladies arrive on the scene. Their unexpected entrance throws the noble scholars and the pedants and peasants of the neighboring countryside into romantic upheaval. The Actors’ Gang giddy and hilarious production is in the spirit of our recent uproarious sold out production of Moliere's Tartuffe. Will Love's labors be lost or won? Join us for this not to be missed romantic comedy. The Actors' Gang - LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST in Culver City For tickets click on: http://www.theactorsgang.com/tickets.htm Friday, July 14, NY, 2006
Playwrights Horizons Presents: A Staged Reading Presentation of a New Play by Jose Rivera "Brain People" by Jose Rivera Directed by Erica Gould With Karina Arroyave Sona Tatoyan Rebecca Wisocky
@ Playwrights Horizons 416 W 42nd St (bet 9th & 10th) NYC June 11, 2006, 3 PM
Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance Presents...
"HELLO OUT THERE" A Reading of William Saroyan's highly acclaimed short play,"Hello Out There" directed by Zoya Kachadurian
at Armenian Library & Museum of America 65 Main Street, Watertown, MA
April - May, 2006, NY, Marseille, Valence, Lyon, Paris Vahe Berberian
APRIL 2006 May 2006 Wed. April 19, 2006, Los Angeles
Black Angel:
Written and performed by Nouritza Matossian, Directed by Anna Furse & Victoria Harwood Satellite Student Union Sunday, May 7, 2006, 5:00 PM
1635 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95126
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Kissing Fidel (Off-Broadway) Presented by INTAR, the theater where Latino culture thrives. September 6, 2005 — October 30, 2005 |
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Starring Karen Kondazian Written by Eduardo Machado Directed by Michael John Garc? |
The Kirk Theatre 410 West 42nd Street New York - (212) 279-4200. Tuesday-Saturday - 8PM, Saturday & Sunday - 3PM SYNOPSIS: A Miami funeral home. The matriarch is dead. The exiled family is in mourning. Her grandson announces that he is going back home to Cuba to kiss and forgive Fidel Castro. The fun begins.
Sept. 15, 2005, Yerevan
YEREVAN, ARMENIA
ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK
Poster exhibition, video screenings and performances from the 10th to the 15th Sept
"Water and Wine", a performance piece about the role of women in the Armenian Apostolic Church by Nancy Agabian, on September 15th at "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back", a conference on feminism in Yerevan. "Water and Wine" is composed of narrative excerpts from my memoir Me as her again and monologues based on my family history, experiences in the church and conversations with members of the Armenian-American community.
Poster exhibition, video screenings, encounters around the memory and the present of the feminist movement in collaboration with The Club and the NGO Kanayq Hayots. at The Club and exhibition space, Tumanian 40, Yerevan.
Invited artists : N. Agabian (New York), U. Biemann (Zurich), K. Dufour (Copenhagen), A. Sagar, OTOLITH GROUP, (London)
Lectures from the 12th to the 14th Sept. at the Dept. of sociology at Yerevan State University
More information in English http://www.utopiana.am/utopiana05/engl_intro.htm
and Armenian on our web site http://www.utopiana.am/utopiana05/osftsb/armen_intro.htm
For any questions, please call +374 (0) 93 51 81 84 (Anna Barseghian)
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005, San Francisco
Celebrating Saroyan Ninth Program:
William Saroyan and the Stage and Screen
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Emmy-Award winning producer Robert Papazian, CEO of Sunset-Gower Studios formerly Columbia Pictures is the keynote speaker at the Ninth Celebrating Saroyan event.
His subject, "SAROYAN and the STAGE and SCREEN". The program will take place on Saturday, September 17, 2005 in the Main San Francisco Public Library, Larkin at Grove in the Koret Auditorium located on the lower level. The doors will open at 1:30, program starts at 2 pm. Seating is open and limited. The program is Free to the public. David Calonne, Ph.D. will introduce the Saroyan play, Jim Dandy. A recording of William Saroyan will be heard reading and commenting about the play. For information please contact Jacqueline Kazarian at 415 307-4418 www.williamsaroyan.org |
UCLA
Armenian Drama History Class
End of Sept. 2005, UCLA, Boelter Building, MW - 2:00-3:50. Taught by S. Peter Cowe
C152. Modern Armenian Drama as Vehicle for Social Critique. (4)
(Formerly numbered 152.) Lecture, four hours. Readings of selected plays from 1668 to 1992 from three main genres of tragedy, comedy, and serious drama and featuring works by most significant Armenian playwrights, with focus on their role as commentators on contemporary mores and as agents for social reform.
Golden Thread Productions presents:
ReOrient 2005, An Annual Festival of Short Plays
November 11 - December 4, 2005
at the Magic Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:30 pm - Sundays at 7:30
Admission $10 - $30
Info/reservations: 415-626-4061
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Golden Thread Productions is a performing arts organization dedicated to theatre that explores Middle Eastern culture and identity as represented throughout the globe, while provoking thought and promoting dialogue. Contact: Torange Yeghiazarian |
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Playpenn: New Play Development |
 Paul Meshejian |
Paul Meshejian is the Founding Artistic Director of PlayPenn. Since 1989 he has served as a company member at People’s Light and
Theatre (PLTC) outside Philadelphia where he has both acted and directed. In addition to his work at PLTC he has performed with all of Philadelphia’s major theatre
companies. He has been nominated for the Barrymore award numerous times. In the 1980’s he was the founding artistic director of Stage One: Collaboration, a professional
theatre in Minneapolis/St. Paul devoted to new and rarely produced works. He has a long history of new play development work as both actor and director in his 14 year
relationship with The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Theatre Research and is a member of LMDA,
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. www.playpenn.org |
West Coast Dispatch by Aram Kouyoumdjian
The most exciting news about Armenian theater to emanate from the West Coast does not pertain to a specific play or stage production. Rather, it concerns a future home for the development and presentation of theatrical works namely, the Armenian Center for the Arts (ACA).
The ambitious ACA project envisions a physical complex in Los Angeles comprised of a performance hall, an intimate theater, and an exhibit space, along with rehearsal studios and a cafe to serve the arts both in the Armenian community and beyond. The campaign for such a center involving not just artists, but also architects, lawyers, and businesspeople committed to its realization has captured significant media attention, including a prominent story in the Los Angeles Daily News.
As part of its arts programming, ACA has already been organizing monthly theater outings for an ever-growing number of aficionados (now approaching 100). The play selections have always been tinged with a sense of adventure beginning with Sarah Kane's little-known, yet haunting, 4.48 Psychosis, last November. Since then, the picks have alternated between challenging drama (Harold Pinter's The Homecoming) and absurdist comedy (Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play), sampling works from not only established playwrights (Edward Albee's The Goat), but also emerging names (Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman). The group has even braved experimental theater, thanks to an environmental staging of Macbeth in an industrial setting.
In August, 90 of these theater lovers descended on the open-air amphitheater at the Will Geer Botanicum Theatricum (a fitting end to summer) for Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. The choice for September is the West Coast premiere of Radio Golf, the last installment of August Wilson's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience during the 20th century.
While ACA pursues its mammoth undertaking for a permanent structure, the Armenian Theater Company has opted for a more immediate solution to its space needs by leasing a 2,500-square-foot warehouse to be converted into a theater and gallery. The company's most recent production, The Hired Killer scripted by Aramazd Stepanian and helmed by Lilly Thomassian played at Theatre Unlimited Studios in the NoHo Arts District this past spring.
The summer has been a sleeper as far as productions by or about Armenians are concerned. At this point, the fall schedule appears quite sparse as well, but October will bring at least one world premiere: Aram Saroyan's At the Beach House, starring Orson Bean and Alanna Ubach, is slated for a six-week run at The Lost Studio. It marks the younger Saroyan's first play.
Beast on the Moon, NYC, USA, 2005 (photo courtesy Project SAVE)
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