ArtFarm Enterprises will be holding auditions for their inaugural production of Kim & Delia, an original full length play by Islander and ArtFarm co-founder Brian Ditchfield, on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Farm Institute. Most of the roles have already been cast, but producers are still looking for an actress between the ages of 10 and 12 to play the lead role of Kim, and a non-Equity actress to play several ensemble roles.
Audition sides are available online at artfarmenterprises.com.
Two Gentlemen of Verona was young Will Shakespeare’s first-ever romantic comedy. This weekend only, you’ll have a chance to see the Bard’s beginnings, in a script-in-hand performance of a story you simply have to see to believe.
The WIMP/IMPers Get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival Benefit has moved its performance to April 11 at the Grange Hall Theatre in West Tisbury. The show will still feature WIMP originals Jamie Alley, Christopher Brophy and Laura Silber alongside the IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe.
It’s the season of The School Play, the least cynical theatrical event in the business. Behind the curtains — that is, where there are stage curtains — schoolkids across the Island have been cooing over each other’s costumes, sketching each other’s faces with greasepaint, and studying lines and stage directions as well as for their math and science tests. Cue the butterflies, the beaming parents, the misty eyes and the magic that can’t be captured anywhere but on those boards.
The man in black, from his boots to bejewelled beret, was impeccably groomed on Tuesday as he stroked he neatly trimmed white beard and lamented how he’d been type-cast. He is usually the guy who gets beaten up — “the biker, the trucker, the redneck,” in his words. This experience in taking fake fisticuffs was what Broadway combat choreographer David Brimmer was passing on to an enthusiastic group of Vineyard students.
Starting tonight, three directors for Island Theatre Workshop present a festival of five one-act plays in one program at the Katharine Cornell Theatre over two weekends.